Pedro H.C. Sant'Anna | |
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Occupation | Associate professor at Emory University |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Econometrician |
Sub-discipline | Difference in differences,Causal inference |
Institutions | Emory University,formerly Vanderbilt University |
Pedro H.C. Sant'Anna is an associate professor of economics at Emory University. [1] His areas of research primarily concern difference in differences and other quasi-experimental methods used for causal inference.
In 2009,Sant'Anna received his bachelor's degree in economics from Ibmec,a university in Brazil. [1] He then received a master's degree in 2011,and a PhD in 2015,from Charles III University of Madrid,also in the subject of economics. He then worked at Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor,before becoming an associate professor at Emory University. [2] [3]
Sant'Anna's research spans multiple areas of econometrics. Along with Brantly Callaway,Sant'Anna developed a variation of difference in differences intended to work with multiple time periods,conditioning on observed covariates,and treatment being implemented in different time periods. [4] This paper also includes a discussion of how the Callaway-Sant'Anna estimator finds different results than a two-way fixed effects model of minimum wage policies on teen employment.
Sant'Anna has developed packages for R,including the did package,which implements the Callaway-Sant'Anna estimator for difference-in-difference models. [5] Another of his packages is DRDID,which implements a doubly-robust difference-in-differences estimator that he developed together with Jun Zhao. [6]