Practicum

Every lecture has one practicum with three coordinated parts. The replication lab reproduces a bounded published result from its original package and traces the decisions behind it. The Stata problem set asks you to construct, estimate, diagnose, and interpret the method yourself. The browser lab exposes a misconception through a prediction you commit to before moving a control, and ends by handing an object to Stata.

Each practicum page contains the replication target, the problem set, the lab handoff, and the submission package. The lab project is a self-contained folder with starter do-files, data with provenance, automated checks, and a README; the instructor build is the executed version with its Stata output.

# Practicum Replication target Lecture Status
P01 Recover the basic LP estimator Levels-LP component of Jordà–Taylor’s Example 1 simulation 1 in development
P02 Complete the levels / long-differences comparison Both persistence settings of Example 1 2 in development
P03 Reconstruct an empirical specification Cumulative shelter-price response, Inoue–Jordà–Kuersteiner Figure 4, August 2024 author archive 3 in development
P04 A baseline fiscal multiplier Ramey–Zubairy linear cumulative multipliers 4 in development
P05 Compare coverage procedures Newey–West versus lag-augmented bands, Inoue–Jordà–Kuersteiner Figure 2 5 in development
P06 Pointwise versus simultaneous bands Inoue–Jordà–Kuersteiner Figure 3 6 in development
P07 A bounded bias–variance study Selected Li–Plagborg-Møller–Wolf designs, ported to Stata 7 in development
P08 Raw versus restricted responses Jordà–Taylor Figure 6 unrestricted versus Gaussian-basis 8 in development
P09 Fiscal responses across states Ramey–Zubairy slack versus non-slack multipliers 9 in development
P10 Recover causal weights Kolesár–Plagborg-Møller shock-weight figure 10 in development
P11 Reconstruct historical response paths Normal versus financial recessions, When Credit Bites Back 11 in development
P12 Banking deregulation and the labor share Dube–Girardi–Jordà–Taylor application 12 in development
P13 Reproduce and scrutinize a counterfactual Jordà–Taylor Example 8 13 in development
P14 Independent reproduction audit A course teaching package built on the Ramey–Zubairy benchmark, then another team’s capstone 14 in development
★ Capstone A published result, one extension, a peer audit 4–14 spec live

Fixed conventions across all practica.