I'm not sure whether you're doing reader requests for papers, but there was a recent synthetic control paper on textual analysis where I was very interested in the subject matter: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/722933?journalCode=jpe. All of the criticisms I could find of it seemed like they were in bad faith, and I don't know how sceptical to be of the results. I was going to discuss it in a recent talk, but in the end, I didn't feel I had enough of a statistics background to be able to opine.
hi Sam! Yeah I remember that paper was talked about a lot, but I also don't know if you *should* be skeptical about the results. It's been 5 years, I think, since it was published as a WP, so if people weren't confident in the results, we would've probably known by now.
I'm not sure whether you're doing reader requests for papers, but there was a recent synthetic control paper on textual analysis where I was very interested in the subject matter: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/722933?journalCode=jpe. All of the criticisms I could find of it seemed like they were in bad faith, and I don't know how sceptical to be of the results. I was going to discuss it in a recent talk, but in the end, I didn't feel I had enough of a statistics background to be able to opine.
hi Sam! Yeah I remember that paper was talked about a lot, but I also don't know if you *should* be skeptical about the results. It's been 5 years, I think, since it was published as a WP, so if people weren't confident in the results, we would've probably known by now.
https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1337/MagnessMakoviMar2025.pdf?mimetype=pdf