Apoorva Lal

ding_causalInference_python. python implementation of Peng Ding's "First Course in Causal Inference"

trex. econometrics in pytorch

historical_data_extraction. ocr for historical data

TestingInEventStudies. tests for cohort-level heterogeneity in panel regression

ivDiag. IV diagnostics package accompanying Lal, Lockhart, Xu, and Zu (2023).

pyensmallen. python bindings for the ensmallen c++ library for numerical optimization

CVXSynth. Implementation of the original synthetic control (Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller 2010) and elastic-net synthetic control (Doudchenko and Imbens 2016) in CVXR.

bsky_paperbot. source for bsky arxiv paperboy bot.

claude_paper_digester. programmatic generation of paper digests using claude API

synthdid. Synthetic difference in differences

AnimatedMaps_US_CDs. Example of animated maps in matplotlib + geopandas using entire time series of congressional district maps from UCLA archive. rendered, interactive version below

aipwML. Regression adjustment, IPW, and AIPW estimators for causal effects using various ML methods

llm-ocr-tex. ocr using llm to typeset old books

minimal_website. pandoc powered personal/project website

richcli. python CLI for interacting with unix tools built for people who haven't committed manpages to memory

LalRUtils. Misc utility functions in R for personal use.

cbpys. CBPS via exponential tilting for ATE/ATT

aipyw. minimal, fast, object-oriented implementation of the AIPW and related estimators for many discrete treatments. Implemented with scikitlearners and cross-fitting.

randomization_inference_neyman. randomization inference for the average treatment effect with covariates

sp2DID. semiparametric 2-period DiD estimators for the ATT

alal-paper-template. pandoc / rmarkdown paper template + folder structure for empirical papers. Spits out sensible looking working paper pdf without having to set everything up in latex (but keeps tex file for subsequent tinkering).

whaleapi. experimental class to call deepseek API

ebal. entropy balancing (v2)

python-symbolic-math-notebooks. jupyter notebooks with sympy commands for calculus and linear algebra problems

typst_paper. typst paper boilerplate. wget zip into projects

MCPanel. Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models

mostly-harmless-replication. Replication of tables and figures from "Mostly Harmless Econometrics" in Stata, R, Python and Julia.

gha_blog. blogging with github actions

pyGIS-notes. brief introduction spatial data analysis in python

lludens. llms for playing games

powercalc. power calculator for binary outcomes in streamlit

india_pesa_forests. cleaned up version of forests paper codebase

CATEs. wrapper package for multiple CATE estimator routines

nepal_civ_war_victims_insec. Scraper and processing code for INSEC reports of 15,000 victims of the Nepalese civil war. Produces tabular individual victim level data.

linear_surrogate_index. source for linear surrogate index with many proxies project

estimatr. estimatr: Fast Estimators for Design-Based Inference

arxivdiff. a python cli tool to diff arxiv papers

KnockoffEntropyBalancing. Entropy balancing with knockoff-selection constraints

fasthtml_regression. quick demo of interactive python web application for data science in fasthtml

admin_boundaries. processes gadm