childpen

This package accompanies my job market paper: Leventer, Dor (2025). Identification of Child Penalties.

• 🧪 DID / TD / NTD estimators (single & multiple treatment groups)
• 📄 Paper: arXiv:2602.07486
• 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/dorleventer/childpen
• 🌐 Website: https://dorleventer.github.io/childpen/

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Roadmap

Package functions

• Estimation of single 2×2 — single_treatment_group_analysis()
• Wrapper for multiple 2×2 — multiple_treatment_group_analysis()
• Data simulation — simulate_data()
• Aggregation over multiple groups — aggregate_estimands()

Explainers

• Estimation (DID, TD, NTD) — vignette
• NTD identification — vignette
• Validation tests — vignette
• Aggregate estimands — vignette

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Installation

Install the released version from CRAN:

install.packages("childpen")

Or the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("dorleventer/childpen")