3 papers
econ.GN2026
Good Guys With Guns? The Relationship Between Legal Firearm Ownership and Firearm Deaths and Crime in Canada
Derek Mikola, Matthew D. Webb
Civilian firearm ownership is politically contentious, yet most evidence linking guns to crime and death comes from the U.S. Canada offers a unique case: strict national regulation…
econ.EM2026
Improved Inference for CSDID Using the Cluster Jackknife
Sunny R. Karim, Morten Ørregaard Nielsen, James G. MacKinnon +1
Obtaining reliable inferences with traditional difference-in-differences (DiD) methods can be difficult. Problems can arise when both outcomes and errors are serially correlated, w…
econ.EM2022
Cluster-Robust Inference: A Guide to Empirical Practice
James G. MacKinnon, Morten Ørregaard Nielsen, Matthew D. Webb
Methods for cluster-robust inference are routinely used in economics and many other disciplines. However, it is only recently that theoretical foundations for the use of these meth…