Instrumental Variables (IV)

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.

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.

Replicate Hodler and Raschky (2014) to estimate the causal effect of economic shocks on civil conflict using 2SLS instrumental variables with panel data from 5,689 African regions