Course Leaders: SCOTT CUNNINGHAM
COURSE ID: SUG_2026
LANGUAGE:
- Working knowledge of linear regression and basic familiarity with panel data concepts (fixed effects, clustering)
- Prior experience with Stata is expected
- No prior exposure to the new DiD literature is assumed — the workshop builds from the ground up
SESSION I: SIMPLE DID DESIGNS
- The 2×2 design
- 2×T event studies
- Parallel trends
- Interpreting ATT parameters as estimands
- Clustering and standard errors
SESSION II: VIOLATIONS OF PARALLEL TRENDS
- Covariates
- Triple differences
- Compositional changes over time
- Addressing weak overlap
SESSION III: DIFFERENTIAL TIMING
- Two-way fixed effects problems
- Goodman-Bacon decomposition, Callaway and Sant’Anna, Sun and Abraham, Borusyak et al., Wooldridge
- Imputation vs. weighting estimators
SESSION IV: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
- Bounding parallel trends violations
- Sensitivity of results across packages and languages
SESSION V: CONTINUOUS DID AND DOSAGE DESIGNS
- Extending difference-in-differences to continuous treatments and dosage frameworks
SESSION VI: A MODEST SUGGESTION OF CHECKS
- Walk-throughs using several empirical examples, all in Stata
- Practical guidance on reporting and diagnostics
This Workshop is being offered on the second day of the Italian Stata Users Conference that will take place in Milan, on the 17th-18th September 2026.
Scott Cunningham – Ben H. Williams Professor of Economics, Baylor University
| Conference | Conference and Workshop | |
| Students and PhD Students*
full-time |
€ 60.00 | € 195.00 |
| Other | € 110.00 | € 420.00 |
All participation fees are subject to VAT (applied at the current Italian rate of 22%);
*To be eligible for student prices, participants must provide proof of their full-time student status for the current academic year.
Individuals interested in participating should return their duly completed registration forms to the conference organizers by the 10.09.2026 at the very latest.
This Workshop is being offered on the second day of the Italian Stata Users Conference that will take place in Milan, on the 17th-18th September 2026.