Alex Bell

Software & public materials

Resources

A home for tools and materials designed to be used, adapted, and built upon.

Stata software

aivreg

A Stata command for estimating job and place amenity prices when important differences in opportunities are not fully observed.

Similar to—but opposite in orientation from—IV, the anti-instrumental-variable framework uses observed differences in opportunities as identifying variation rather than treating them only as nuisance variation.

Developed collaboratively with Sophie Calder-Wang, Shusheng Zhong, and Joshua Boyd.

Install in Statassc install aivreg

Official SSC listing GitHub repository Labor application · Practitioner’s manual Urban application · Residential amenities
Archive

Teaching resource · 2013

Python for Economists

An introductory booklet and exercise files created for economists and other social scientists working with text, web, and larger-scale data.

Read booklet Exercise files

Open data · 2013

Patent Data & Parsing Code

Cleaned USPTO patent-grant files, sample datasets, and the original Python and Stata parsing code.

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