CodeChella Mexico City, January 11–14, 2027
I wanted to shoot up a flare telling people about our upcoming CodeChella in Mexico City coming up at the launch of 2027. I think it’s the perfect time to ask your department chair to throw some money your way so you can come down and spend a week with the CodeChella team to learn about some modern panel econometrics!
From January 11th through 14th, 2027, we will be at ITAM (Santa Teresa Campus) in Mexico City for a conference/workshop lasting four days covering panel methods in modern causal inference. The goal is to get everyone up to speed on this literature such that you are proficient on important topics in difference-in-differences such as staggered adoption, weighting, and when and why to use covariates in the design. I’ll be teaching the difference-in-differences material and then Kyle Butts and I will be splitting the synthetic control and newer imputation estimators. The emphasis throughout is on actually coding these methods up and using them, not just reading about them. And I think another thing that distinguishes this workshop is that our goal is understanding, careful exposition, literacy and application. We are not interested in blinding you with theory that goes by too fast. We want you to have the kind of literacy that creates excitement and curiosity in doing this in your own research.
Is this a class for you? Well, are you reading this? Then yes it is for you. There are no prerequisites. I teach my parts assuming no background, get everyone on the same page, and then we go through it together. Ever since diff-in-diff underwent a credibility revolution starting around 2016, the new diff-in-diff literature has become the only diff-in-diff literature, so this is for anyone who has been meaning to get solid on it.
But CodeChella is also trying to impart practical knowledge in all regards. So, on Friday, January 15th, Mark Anderson (Montana State) and Dan Rees (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) will run The Hidden Curriculum workshop which is an optional one-day workshop on the skills that decide whether a project becomes a published paper: finding strong research questions, writing introductions, presenting results, responding to editors and referees, choosing journals, and managing a research agenda. It’s designed for PhD students and early-career researchers, and the people who took it in Madrid loved it, as have the students who took it online from Mark and Dan for years at Mixtape Sessions.
So while distinct, the two fit together and fit the holistic philosophy of Mixtape Sessions as well. At the CodeChella conferences, our goal is to give you the methods and The Hidden Curriculum helps you turn them into published article in a research career.
We’ve done CodeChella in Madrid for three years, and the thing you can’t get from a recorded lecture is sitting next to someone, going to dinner, and learning together. Mexico City in January is a pretty great place to do that.
Register for both here.
Questions: [email protected]
See everyone there!
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