Drawing accurate causal inference estimates from observational data is a central challenge in impact evaluation studies of public policies and social programs. Matching estimators are one of the techniques which allow investigators to compare treated and untreated groups that are similar in all relevant characteristics except for the treatment itself. Their simplicity and relatively easy […]
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How to estimate and interpret marginal effects from the logit model with STATA?
margins in STATA. This allows getting the point estimates interpretable as probabilities or margins and, are easier to interpret.
First steps with pandas (Python): importing datasets and how they look
Recently I started to learn Python and, especially, how to manage datasets with it. Pandas is one of the well-known libraries for data management in Python. So, I would like to share my notes and my first steps with Pandas.
Tips for managing large-scale datasets efficiently in Stata
Computations in Stata might take an essential amount of time due to enormous datasets. In this post, I share some tips that I have learned over many hours in front of Stata.
List of open source books about R
This is a list of free/open source books about R. These books teach different topics: tha basics of R, how to do graphs, data science, econometrics… I will be updating this list.
How to compute distances between geolocations with QGIS?
This post offers a brief and easy explanation on how to compute distances between geolocations with the open source and user-friendly app QGIS.
Merging and appending datasets with dplyr (R)
This post aims at explaining how to merge and append datasets with the package dplyr in R.
The influence of the Bilingual Program on school segregation by socioeconomic origin in Madrid
Published in REICE – Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación On September 21, 2020, our paper titled “The Influence of the Bilingual Program on the School Segregation by Socioeconomic Origin in the Autonomous Community of Madrid: Evidence from PISA” was published in the Spanish educational journal REICE. Co-authored with Lucas Gortazar, the […]
Why students perform worse when stakes are high?
We all have been students some time ago. We remember the stress we used to feel some minutes before starting an exam and the increasing pressure when the examinations were important for our final grade or to achieve a specific goal such as university entrance exams or finish some educational stage. Then, after the exam […]