ECONOMETRICS. WITH A LITTLE MISCHIEF.Good judgment.
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 GAMEIdentification
Identification
Tinder.
Looks convincing. Has an instrument.
But is it really your type?
Choose your trouble.
A little practice. A little academic chaos.
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.
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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.