Publications

  1. 1.

    The Urban Wage Premium in Historical Perspective

    Kyle Butts, Taylor Jaworski, and Carl Kitchens

    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2026

    Details|Paper|Slides

  2. 2.

    Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects With Time-Varying Covariates

    Nicholas Brown, Kyle Butts, and Joakim Westerlund

    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2026

    Details|Paper|Github

  3. 3.

    Dynamic Treatment Effect Estimation with Interactive Fixed Effects and Short Panels

    Nicholas Brown and Kyle Butts

    Journal of Econometrics, 2025

    Details|Paper|Slides|Github

  4. 4.

    Difference-in-Differences with Geocoded Microdata

    Kyle Butts

    Journal of Urban Economics: Insights, 2023

    Details|Published|arXiv|Slides|Github

  5. 5.

    {did2s}: Two-Stage Difference-in-Differences

    Kyle Butts and John Gardner

    R Journal, 2022

    Details|Published|Slides|R Package|Stata Package

  6. 6.

    Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 2011

    Timothy Komarek, Kyle Butts, and Gary Wagner

    Journal of Urban Economics, 2022

    Details|Published|Paper

  7. 7.

    Geographic Difference-in-Discontinuities

    Kyle Butts

    Applied Economics Letters, 2021

    Details|Published|arXiv|Github

Working Papers

  1. 1.

    Difference-in-Differences with Spatial Spillovers

    Kyle Butts

    Working Paper

    Details|arXiv|Slides|Github

Work in Progress

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    Inference after Machine Learning in Time-Series: Applications to Deep Neural Networks

    Chad Brown and Kyle Butts

    Working Paper

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  2. 2.

    Dynamic Treatment Effect Estimation with Interactive Fixed Effects and Short Panels

    Laurent Berge, Kyle Butts, and Grant McDermott

    Under Review

    Details|arXiv

  3. 3.

    Treatment Effects with Latent Group Factor Models

    Nicholas Brown, Kyle Butts, and Ali Mehrabani

    Work in Progress

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