Aaron Wolf

I am an Economics PhD student at Northwestern University conducting research in labor and development economics.

I write Stata packages for use in common data cleaning workflows for field projects in development economics. These include integrations for SurveyCTO as well as general purpose algorithms.

I also develop TeXtra, a LaTeX desktop app with source and visual editing, PDF preview, and optional AI assistance.

I have also written multiple Stata schemes to provide a conhesive design set for Stata-generated visualizations for organizations I have/am worked/working for.

If you have any questions about package functionality, feel free to email me at aaron [dot] wolf [at] u [dot] northwestern [dot] edu.

Featured Projects

wildcat Modern, customizable beamer and Stata/Python/R themes.

TeXtra A LaTeX desktop workspace with source and visual editing, PDF preview, and optional AI assistance.

slidegraph Automate stepped, layered figures for slide presentations (such as LaTeX Beamer or PowerPoint builds) in Stata using opacity modulation.

Stata Projects

SurveyCTO Integration

ctometa A Stata command to pull apply metadata from a SurveyCTO XLSForm file to a Stata dataset.

cto2file A Stata user-written command to convert SurveyCTO XLSforms to readable .docx and .xlsx files.

Data Visualization

catcibar A Stata program to create bar charts with confidence intervals for multiple variables.

Data Cleaning

tabgen Generate new variables from categorical variable, with appropriate suffixes and labels.

splitrename Rename a series of indicators from a categorical variable and re-label each according to the original variable's value label.

wrap A simple Stata program to wrap text for titles and labels.

Data Analysis

difftab Create triple difference tables with estout

Schemes

yalescheme A modern Stata scheme for Yale University-branded data visualizations.

pihschemeA Partners in Health-branded Stata scheme for graphs.

Other

compile Quickly compile a minimal Tex document from Stata.

labstore Preserve, restore, and print variable labels and notes.

High Performance Computing Projects

EGC High Performance Computing Manual A guide to using the HPC cluster at Yale for EGC affiliates.

Translating RAIS Stata Variable and Value Labels Labels and code for translating Stata .dta labels to another language.