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About Jan

Jan Sauermann is a professor at the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) in Uppsala, Sweden. He is the founder of StataTeX Blog, one of the leading blogs for Stata code and applied econometrics. Jan has extensive teaching experience in labor economics and applied econometrics at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and is known for his clear, hands-on approach to data analysis.

His research focuses on learning and incentives in the workplace, gender differences in the labor market, and the evaluation of public policy. He uses state-of-the-art empirical methods, including field experiments, difference-in-differences estimation, regression discontinuity designs, and survey experiments. He is affiliated with several research institutions, including the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University, and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn.

For more information, please visit his personal website.

Recent StataTex Blog posts

• Automatically integrate your SCOPUS citations
• Retrieving the file name of current dataset
• Optimize Your Stata Workflows with Temporary Files
• Dialog boxes in Stata
• Reverse counting in LaTeX
• Stata condition batch/interactive mode
• Separate axis labels in Stata
• Add normal distribution to kernel density plot in Stata
• #LaTeXTip: ignore slide for calculating total number of slides (handy for, e.g., appendix slides): \begin{frame}[noframenumbering]
• Information about Stata macros: number of elements and order within locals and globals