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ECONOMETRICS. WITH A LITTLE MISCHIEF.

Good judgment.
Questionable fun.

Keep your econometrics sharp, one bad control, broken assumption, and suspicious instrument at a time.

Eight games. One curious researcher. Pick your trouble.

★ AUBREY’S FAVORITE · FEATURED GAME

Identification
Tinder.

Looks convincing. Has an instrument.
But is it really your type?

6 designs · Inspect. Judge. Reveal.
YOUR NEXT MATCHred flag?ZDYDistance, 28

“I only affect you through treatment.”

INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLEIT’S COMPLICATED
×?♡
check the assumptionsa strong first stage ≠ love

Choose your trouble.

A little practice. A little academic chaos.

THE COLLECTION / 08
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For the days you miss thinking like an econometrician.

A learning playground by Aubrey Jolex, now at RA Commons. All eight games are ready to play.

Completed game and case-pack IDs are remembered on this device only. No member data or scores are stored.

· LAB
The reading shelf · sources behind the games

The methods are real. The quiz studies and lab data are teaching examples, not empirical findings.

  • J-PAL · The elements of a randomized evaluation ↗
  • J-PAL · Implementation monitoring ↗
  • J-PAL · Power calculations ↗
  • Nick Huntington-Klein · The Effect, ch. 13: Regression ↗
  • Nick Huntington-Klein · The Effect, ch. 18: Difference-in-Differences ↗
  • Nick Huntington-Klein · The Effect, ch. 19: Instrumental Variables ↗
  • Nick Huntington-Klein · The Effect, ch. 20: Regression Discontinuity ↗
  • American Statistical Association · Statement on p-values (2016) ↗
  • Cameron & Miller · A Practitioner’s Guide to Cluster-Robust Inference (2015) ↗
  • J-PAL · Data analysis ↗
  • J-PAL · Randomization ↗
  • Andrew Goodman-Bacon · Difference-in-Differences with Variation in Treatment Timing (2021; working paper 2018) ↗

Sources checked 14 October 2026. Every judgment includes its method source. New rounds are labelled only when a newer case pack is published.

Econometrics After Dark · RA Commons

Concept by Aubrey Jolex ↗

Original teaching exercises, grounded in the sources cited. Simulated numbers are labelled. No account needed.

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