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What's Logs Got to do With it: On the Perils of log Dependent Variables and Difference-in-Differences

Brendon McConnell

The log transformation of the dependent variable is not innocuous when using a difference-in-differences (DD) model. With a dependent variable in logs, the DD term captures an appr…