Prior Workshops

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

Winter 2023

January 13, 2023

Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics, Columbia University 

Bayesian Methods in Causal Inference and Decision Making

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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

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January 27, 2023

Marc Henry, Professor of Economics, Penn State

Partially Identified Roy Models and Occupational Segregation

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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

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March 3, 2023

Anna Mikusheva, Professor, Department of Economics, MIT 

Linear Regression with Weak Exogeneity

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Spring 2023

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

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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

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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

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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

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Winter 2022

January 14, 2022

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

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

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January 28, 2022

Amos Golan, Professor Economics, American University

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

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February 11, 2022

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

“How Pervasive is Strategic Voting?”

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February 25, 2022

Isaiah Andrews, Professor of Economics at Harvard University

“Inference on Winners”

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March 11, 2022

Gabe Lenz, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

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

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Autumn 2022

October 14, 2022

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

Mendelian Randomization for Causal inference of heritable phenotypic risk factors

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Recommended reading here

 

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

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November 4, 2022

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

Decomposing Regression Triple-Differences with Staggered Adoption

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November 18, 2022

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

Building Generalized Models of Attention from Functional Brain Connectivity

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December 2, 2022

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

 

 

Adversarial Bayesian Simulation

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Spring 2022

April 1, 2022

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

“Bayesian Predictive Inference”

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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

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April 29, 2022

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

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May 6, 2022

Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology, Stanford

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

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May 13, 2022

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

 

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

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Watch the Video
Read the papers here and here
Message from David Andrich 

May 27, 2022

Student Thesis Presentations

2022 Virtual Poster Exhibit

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Autumn 2021

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

October 8, 2021

Steven Durlauf, Professor of Public Policy

“The Great Gatsby Curve”

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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”

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November 5, 2021

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

Algorithmic Behavioral Science

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November 19, 2021

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

“Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters”

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December 3, 2021

Justin Grimmer, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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Spring 2021

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

April 9, 2021 

Donna Coffman, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Temple University

April 23, 2021 

Peng Ding, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Berkeley

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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

 

 

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May 21, 2021 

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

 

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

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June 4, 2021 

Speaker

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

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

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

Winter 2021

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

January 15, 2021 

Petra Todd, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining RCTs with Structural Modeling

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January 29, 2021 

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

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February 12, 2021 

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

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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

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March 12, 2021 

Ismael Mourifie, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, Economics

An empirical framework for matching model with imperfect competition

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Fall 2020

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

October 9, 2020

Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy

October 23, 2020

David Banks, Ph.D. Statistics Duke University

Adversarial Risk Analysis: Auctions and Beyond

November 6, 2020

Paul Gustafson, Professor and Head Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

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December 4, 2020 

Panel Discussion: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Discrimination
Hosted by Professor Steven Durlauf, Harris School of Public Policy
Featured Speakers: Mario Small, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor of computer Science at Cornell Tech
Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton

“Conceptualizing and Measuring Discrimination” Panel 

Spring 2020                                  

Date

Postponed 

Speaker

David Banks, Professor of the Practice of Statistics, Duke University

Paper

Postponed
Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy

Title

Paper

Postponed
Kathleen Cagney, Director Population Research Center, NORC at University of Chicago

Title

Paper

Postponed
Christian Hansen, Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago

Title

Paper

Postponed
Yanyan Sheng, Senior Lecturer, Quantitative Methods Committee, University of Chicago

Title

Paper

Winter 2020

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

January 10, 2020

Charles Manski, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

January 24, 2020

Adam Glynn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University

February 7, 2020

Konrad Menzel, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, New York University

February 21, 2020

Christopher Berry, Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Theory and Credibility

Fall 2019

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

October 11, 2019

Ross “Rafe” Stolzenberg, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

“Preferential Credentials: Institutional Limits and Academic Effects of Preferential Treatment in College Admissions”

October 25, 2019

Bryon Aragam, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar

“Identifiability of Non-parametric mixture models, Clustering, and Semi-supervised Learning”

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