Hi there 👋👋

I'm an PhD student in Economics at the University of Colorado: Boulder.

• 🔩 Working on: Urban Economics and Applied Econometrics
• 📫 How to reach me: kyle.butts@colorado.edu
• 😄 Pronouns: He/Him

Replication Material for Papers

• A Unified Framework for Dynamic Treatment Effect Estimation in Interactive Fixed Effect Models
• Difference-in-Differences via Common Correlated Effects
• Urban Wage Premium in Historical Perspectives
• Difference-in-Differences for Geocoded Microdata
• Difference-in-Differences with Spatial Spillovers
• Geographic Difference-in-Discontinuities

Open Source Projects

• did2s and did2s_stata estimates difference-in-differences models using an imputation estimator.

• ssaggregate converts “location-level” variables in a shift-share IV dataset to a dataset of exposure-weighted “industry-level” aggregates, as described in Borusyak, Hull, and Jaravel (2022).

• jive estimates jackknife instrumental-variables estimation and variants with lightning fast speed.

• vcovSUR allows estimation of the variance-covariance matrix and perform hypotheses tests across multiple regression models.

• fwlplot creates scatter plots of y on x after residualizing by covariates using the fixest package

• My open-source article and slides latex templates

Economics Profession

• Mixtape Sessions is a set of free and open-source course materials for applied economics courses

• RUSH Brownbag is a graduate-student and post-doc brown bag for Regional / Urban / Spatial / Housing economics