Panel Event Study in Education Research
The panel event study is a causal-inference design that tracks outcomes for a panel of educational units — students, teachers, schools, or districts — across relative time periods around a well-defined event such as a policy change, school reform, or staffing transition. By estimating period-by-period treatment effects, it reveals not only whether an intervention mattered but also when effects appeared and how long they persisted, making it especially valued in education economics.
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- Jacobson, L. S., LaLonde, R. J., & Sullivan, D. G. (1993). Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers. American Economic Review, 83(4), 685-709. · URL
- Freyaldenhoven, S., Hansen, C., Pérez, J. P. M., & Shapiro, J. M. (2021). Visualization, Identification, and Estimation in the Linear Panel Event-Study Design. NBER Working Paper No. 29170. · URL
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