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Yiqing Xu

@yiqingxu.bsky.social

Stanford researcher. Work on applied stats, AI (?), China.

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Yiqing Xu@yiqingxu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/ Happy to share that "Factorial Difference-in-Differences" (FDID), with Anqi Zhao and @pengding00 , is out in JASA - ACS. doi.org/10.1080/0162... It has been a truly thrilling experience working with Anqi and Peng.

Factorial Difference-in-Differences

We formulate factorial difference-in-differences (FDID), a research design that extends canonical difference-in-differences (DID) to settings in which an event affects all units. In many panel data...

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Yiqing Xu@yiqingxu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

1/2 Important caveat: Computational reproducibility does not imply credibility, especially w.r.t. to research design. In the scientific literature, *reproducibility* means reproducing results using authors’ code and data, whereas *replication* goes beyond what was originally done or provided.

Cyrus Samii@cdsamii.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

Survey experiments and the credibility revolution – Cyrus Samii

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Cyrus Samii@cdsamii.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is an impressive project. My reaction to what it shows though is that survey experiments have gotten out of hand in polisci. I will blog more on this, but I do not think survey experiments are emblematic of the credibility revolution. Some are already interpreting as such, which is a problem.

Yiqing Xu@yiqingxu.bsky.social · 2y ago

As a Chinese immigrant living in the U.S., I have witnessed declines in optimism purely due to the drastic erosion of existing institutions—first around 2015 in my home country, and now, in 2025, in the United States. It's devastating.

Yiqing Xu@yiqingxu.bsky.social · 2y ago

I woke up at 5:30 a.m. today, and the first thing on my mind was Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European, a book I loved as a child. His despair stuck with me and feels especially relevant now.