Methods - Global Health Data Laboratory

Do we need to use cluster variance in Difference in Difference models? Revisiting an old paper

Jul 23, 2025 33 min read Stata

In 2002 Bertrand, Duflo and Mullainathan published an influential paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) which argued that difference-in-difference studies have a fundamental problem of under-estimating variance, and proposed some

My laboratory's no AI policy

Feb 24, 2025 11 min read Methods

Yesterday all my lab's PhD students and our Research Assistant gathered for a pre-Ramadan party, and after we had eaten our fill of delicious pilaf and Bengal curry we had a

Scheme Ghibli: How to set a palette in Stata

Sep 29, 2024 10 min read Data visualization

Introduction This is a description of how I prepared a scheme in Stata to set up my environment so that I automatically plot using colours from the Studio Ghibli films. They're