⊕ The instruments · Sheet 03
Surveyors make their own instruments. Most of these started the same way: a question we couldn't answer until we built the tool. Everything is open source at github.com/g-vansh.
Estimates which firms benefit from a strategic choice — and which are hurt by it — from high-dimensional observational data. The companion to Guzman's Treatment Effects in Managerial Strategies; propensity scores from out-of-fold random forests, local regressions for the effects, LASSO for the determinants.
Synchronizes research archives between local storage and Zenodo. Started as a side-project while running reproducibility checks for the American Economic Association; the 40-person replication team still uses it.
The measurement engine behind the Brazil state-capacity project: a multi-stage cascade that reads municipal gazettes at scale — cheap models triage, strong models adjudicate, a silver-standard set keeps everyone honest. Code released with the papers.