Teaching with the slides

You are welcome to teach with these slides, in whole or in part, and to adapt them for your own course.

License

• The slides, their LaTeX sources, and the author’s own figures are licensed under CC BY 4.0. You may copy, adapt and share them, with credit.
• The R scripts and other code are licensed under the MIT License.
• A few figures come from other people’s papers or slides. They are credited on their slides, listed in SOURCES.md, and remain under their owners’ terms.

Building and adapting the slides

The repository has the LaTeX Beamer source of every deck, every figure, and the R scripts that redraw the figures from data or by simulation. All references sit in one file, references.bib, so each deck’s reference list is rebuilt from it. With TeX Live 2023 or later, make builds the six handouts and make animated the versions with animations. The README has the details, and SOURCES.md records where every figure comes from.

All six decks share one look, set in common/. To change the colors of every deck, edit the four colors at the top of common/theme.tex.

Citing the lectures

Xu, Yiqing. 2026. Lectures on Causal Panel Analysis. Lecture slides, version 1.0.0. https://github.com/xuyiqing/panel-lectures.

Corrections

Comments and corrections are welcome as issues or pull requests on GitHub.