Workshops
The Workshop on Quantitative Research Methods in Education, Health, and Social Sciences (QMEHSS) serves as an important venue on the University of Chicago campus for building an intellectual community of colleagues who share methodological interests. Workshop participants meet biweekly to discuss working papers and brainstorm solutions to methodological problems encountered in ongoing research. Participants have included faculty members, researchers, and students from the Social Sciences Division, Health Studies, Statistics, Public Policy, the National Opinion Research Center, the Consortium for Chicago School Research, and colleagues from the University of Illinois in Chicago. In addition, we have invited speakers from other major universities to share with us their latest work.
A pre-workshop session is designed to prepare students for active participation in intellectual discourse in the workshop. The pre-workshop sessions will be held in a hybrid format this year (2024-2025) before each workshop session, and will be scheduled at the beginning of each quarter based on MAPSS QMSA students’ schedules. Please contact Yanyan Sheng (y.sheng@uchicago.edu) for specific information about attending pre-workshop session. Our workshops meet bi-weekly on Fridays from 11:00am until 12:30pm CST unless otherwise noted.
Please Note: The Workshop has resumed in person at 1126 E. 59th street in the Social Sciences Tea Room 201. For those who wish to attend virtually, there is a Zoom backup option that can be accessed by emailing Aasha Francis afrancis1@uchicago.edu or by subscribing to our email list.
If you would like to be added to the workshop email list please email Aasha Francis, Administrative Specialist afrancis1@uchicago.edu
AUTUMN 2024
Date
Speaker
Title
Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from A Large Reanalysis Study
Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor, Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Placebo Tests Done Right
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Guanglei Hong, Professor; Comparative Human Development; Chair, Committee on Education
Endogenous Confounding in Causal Decomposition Analysis
Probabilistic Tensor Decomposition Model for Measuring Complex Dependence Structure in Sparse Dyadic Event Data
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Jenny Trinitapoli, Professor; Director, Committee for International Social Science Research
WINTER 2025
Date
Speaker
Title
Hyunku Kwon, Advanced Quantitative Methods student, UChicago
Jessica Li, Advanced Quantitative Methods student, UChicago
SPRING 2025
Date
Speaker
Title
March 28, 2025
Bernard Koch, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Steven Durlauf, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor and the Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Chair Committee on Quantitative Methods
Salvador Navarro, Professor Department of Economics University of Western Ontario