How to Conference

See this excellent thread with tips on how to conference (thank you, Ben Harrell!). You can think of that as the gold standard for conferencing. You don't have to do it all of it, at least not all of the time. Resting is also important. 

But I can tell you what not to do: Spend the entire time in your hotel room fixing your slides (or writing your discussion) and not participating in the conference at all. A conference is--or at least can be---so much more than your talks. And I'd say try to have fun if you can. Conference travel is one of the big perks of our job. Enjoy them! 

Pedro Sant’Anna’s Difference-in-Differences Checklist

 

Pedro provided the checklist. Scott Cunningham shows us how to go through the checklist, step by step, with Stata code! These guys sure do make it easier for us to do the right thing. Here Scott shows us Step 1. And here is Step 2. Oh, and there's Step 3, too! 

And just this morning, Step 4. 

Cool Data Alert: National Study of Caregiving (NSOC) and More

Here is the information. 

UConn PhD students (and honors students writing theses, etc.)---if you want to work with these data, I'd be interested in serving as your advisor. 

To prospective PhD students--if you want to work with these data, consider applying to the UConn PhD program. I'd love to work with you. 

And I just found more interesting data sets on these issues: 

National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS)National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS)

which can be linked with CMS data can be linked with CMS data!