development

Do Institutions Cause Prosperity? An IV Tutorial in Python

Replicate Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) in Python with pyfixest and linearmodels: instrument modern institutions with settler mortality across 64 ex-colonies and learn how IV recovers a causal effect that OLS understates by 80 percent.

Do Institutions Cause Prosperity? An IV Tutorial in Stata

Replicate Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) in Stata: instrument modern institutions with settler mortality across 64 ex-colonies and learn how IV recovers a causal effect that OLS understates by 80 percent.

Converging to Convergence: Understanding the Main Ideas of the Convergence Literature

Reproduce the key findings of Kremer, Willis, and You (2021) to understand why unconditional convergence emerged since 2000 and how the convergence of growth correlates explains this shift