Chicago Causal Inference Student Conference
The Chicago Causal Inference Student Conference
Thursday, March 21 to Friday, March 22, 2024
Location: Saieh Hall for Economics | 5757 S University Ave, Chicago IL 60637
Organizers: Magne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky
The Chicago Causal Inference Student Conference, sponsored by the Griffin Applied Economics Incubator at the University of Chicago, gathers a selected group of graduate students working at the intersection of empirical microeconomics and applied econometrics.
We are pleased to announce the list of selected participants and their papers for the 2024 Chicago Causal Inference Student Conference:
If you have any questions, please email chicagocausalinference@gmail.com.
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Day 1: March 21, 2024
9:30 – 10:20 a.m.
Opening Reception
10:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Session #1: Information Provision Experiments
Dylan Balla-Elliott (University of Chicago) – Identifying Causal Effects in Information Provision Experiments
Grady Killeen (University of California Berkeley) – Are Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Unbiased? Experimental and Observational Estimates in a Low-Income Setting
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Keynote Speech by Evan Rose
1:30 – 3:10 p.m.
Session #2: Household Location
Benjamin Goldman (Harvard University) – Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class
Daniel Agness (University of California Berkeley) – Housing and Human Capital: Condominiums in Ethiopia
3:10 – 3:40 p.m.
Break
3:40 – 5:20 p.m.
Session #3: Urban Policies
Anna Ziff (Duke University) – Beyond the Local Impacts of Place-Based Policies: Spillovers through Latent Housing Markets
Alison Lodermeier (Brown University) – Racial Discrimination in Eviction Filing
Day 2: March 22, 2024
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:40 a.m.
Session #4: Partial Identification
Atom Vayalinkal (University of Toronto) – Sharp Identification Regions in General Selection Models with (Un)ordered Treatments and Discrete Instruments
Samuel Higbee (University of Chicago) – Policy Learning with New Treatments
10:40 – 11:10 a.m.
Break
11:10 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Session #5: School Choice
Viola Corradini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Information and Access in School Choice Systems: Evidence from New York City
Evan Munro (Stanford University) – Causal Inference under Interference through Designed Markets