Date

Speaker

Title

January 13, 2023

Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics, Columbia University 

Bayesian Methods in Causal Inference and Decision Making

January 20, 2023

Yoosoon Chang, Professor of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington

How Does Economic Activity Interact with Climate? What We Learn from Global Temperature Anomaly Distributions

January 27, 2023

Marc Henry, Professor of Economics, Penn State

Partially Identified Roy Models and Occupational Segregation

February 10, 2023

Jiaying Gu, Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Toronto

Counterfactual Identification and Latent Space Enumeration in Discrete Outcome Models

February 24, 2023

Michael Peress, Associate Professor, Political Science, Stonybrook University 

Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Advertising in Presidential Primary Elections

March 3, 2023

Anna Mikusheva, Professor, Department of Economics, MIT 

Linear Regression with Weak Exogeneity

March 31, 2023

Molly Offer-Westort, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Adaptive experimental designs for policy learning and evaluation, with applications to a Facebook Messenger study on vaccine confidence

April 14, 2023

Stephen Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of Statistics and the College

Learning from the past: What a rigorously randomized social survey from 200 years ago can tell us about attitudes toward risk

April 28, 2023

Xi Song, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

A Mobility Model of Occupations, Opportunities, and Outlook: Linking Administrative and Survey Data

May 12, 2023

Steven Durlauf, Steans Professor in Educational Policy and the Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

“A Trajectories-Based Approach To Measuring Intergenerational Mobility,” coauthored with Yoosoon Chang, Indiana University; Seunghee Lee, and Joon Y. Park

May 26, 2023

2023 Virtual Exhibit of Student Research

Click here for the flyer

January 14, 2022

Siwei Cheng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University

“Changing Contours: The Polarization of the U.S. Wage Distribution”

January 28, 2022

Amos Golan, Professor Economics, American University

“Constructing Prior Information in the Social Sciences: An Information-Theoretic Approach”

February 11, 2022

Andy Eggers, Professor, University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science

“How Pervasive is Strategic Voting?”

February 25, 2022

Isaiah Andrews, Professor of Economics at Harvard University

“Inference on Winners”

March 11, 2022

Gabe Lenz, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Unprotected: How State Failure Led to Violence, Police Brutality, and Mass Incarceration

October 14, 2022

Jinghsu Wang, Assistant Professor Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

Mendelian Randomization for Causal inference of heritable phenotypic risk factors

October 21, 2022

Azeem Shaikh, Professor Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Inference for Ranks with Applications to Mobility across Neighborhoods
and Academic Achievement across Countries

November 4, 2022

Anton Strezhnev, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Decomposing Regression Triple-Differences with Staggered Adoption

November 18, 2022

Monica Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

Building Generalized Models of Attention from Functional Brain Connectivity

December 2, 2022

Veronika Rockova, Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar

Adversarial Bayesian Simulation

April 1, 2022

Chris Holmes, Professor in Biostatistics at the department of Statistics at Oxford University

“Bayesian Predictive Inference”

April 15, 2022

Michael Sobel, Professor, Department of Statistics
Columbia University

Association and Causation: Attributes and Effects of Judges in Equal Opportunity Commission Litigation Outcomes

April 29, 2022

Uri Simonsohn, Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, UPenn

Interactiongate: Testing and Probing Interactions with Linear Models in the Real (Nonlinear) World is Scandalously Invalid

May 6, 2022

Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology, Stanford

“The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health: Research and Data Infrastructure”

May 13, 2022

Robert Gibbons, PhD. Blum-Riese Professor of Biostatistics, University of Chicago

“Item Response Theory: A Tribute to R. Darrell Bock”

May 27, 2022

Student Thesis Presentations

2022 Virtual Poster Exhibit

Date

Speaker

Title

October 8, 2021

Steven Durlauf, Professor of Public Policy

“The Great Gatsby Curve”

October 22, 2021

Francesca Molinari, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University

“Discrete Choice Models with Heterogeneous Preferences and Consideration”

November 5, 2021

Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth

“Algorithmic Behavioral Science“

November 19, 2021

Stephane Bonhomme, Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Economics

“Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters”

December 3, 2021

“Measuring Voting Blocs’ Contributions to Candidate Victories”

Date

Speaker

Title

April 9, 2021 

Donna Coffman, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Temple University

Time-Varying Mediation Analysis with Application to Smoking Cessation Interventions

April 23, 2021 

Peng Ding, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Berkeley

Covariate-adjusted Fisher randomization tests for the average treatment effect

May 7, 2021 

Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health

Host & Discussant: Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH,Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and Vice Provost at the University of Chicago

Panelists:
Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association

C. Hendricks Brown, Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University

Robert Gibbons, Ph.D. Blum Riese Professor of Biostatistics

Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health

Abstract: “Build back fairer: Social justice, health equity, and COVID-19” presented by Sir Michael Marmot

Abstract: “Reversing the Flow:  What if Prevention Research Actually Addressed Social Determinants of Health; What Should Methodologists be Doing Now?” presented by C. Hendricks Brown

Abstract: “Some Statistical Issues in the Measurement of Social Determinants of Health” presented by Robert Gibbons

May 21, 2021 

Yanyan Sheng, Senior Instructional Professor of the Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Abstract: Fully Bayesian estimation of mixture IRT models using NUTS

May 28, 2021 

Concepts & Theory Panel: 10:00am-12:00pm
Feat. Lawrence Blume, Professor of Economics & Information Science, Cornell University
Lawrence Bobo, Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Sonja Starr, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago Law School
Glenn Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences, Economics, Brown University

Measurements & Empirics Panel: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Feat. Rene Flores, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Michael Gaddis, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Elizabeth Paluck, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Peter Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School 

“Prejudice & Stigma” half day Virtual Conference
Co-Hosted by the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group 

Concepts & Theory Panel: 10:00am-12:00pm
Measurements & Empirics Panel: 1:00pm-3:00pm

June 4, 2021 

Speaker

Qianheng Ma, PhD student in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences.

Student Research/Thesis Presentations: 10:00am-12:00pm

“A Negative Binomial Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model for Physical Activity Data Provided by Wearable Devices” presented by Qianheng Ma

Daniel Schwartz, PhD student in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences.

“Fast and Informative Phase 2b Dose-ranging Trials Using Bayesian Uncertainty-Directed Designs with Model Averaging” presented by Daniel Schwartz

Date

Speaker

Title

January 15, 2021 

Petra Todd, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining RCTs with Structural Modeling

January 29, 2021 

Jonathan Mummolo, Assistant Pofessor of Politics and Public Affairs
Princeton University

Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing

February 12, 2021 

Walter Mebane, Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics
University of Michigan

Measuring Election Frauds

February 26, 2021 

Kate Cagney, Professor in Sociology, Director Population Research Center, NORC 
Liang Cai, Doctoral Student in Sociology, University of Chicago

Activity Space, Social Interaction and Health in Later Life

March 12, 2021 

Ismael Mourifie, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, Economics

An empirical framework for matching model with imperfect competition