Prior Workshops

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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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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Message from David Andrich 

May 27, 2022

Student Thesis Presentations

2022 Virtual Poster Exhibit

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Autumn 2021

Date

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Paper

Winter 2020

Date

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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

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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”

December 6, 2019

Jeffrey Lewis, Professor of Political Science, UCLA

Spring 2012

May 11 Robert Gibbons Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Studies, Center for Health Statistics, University of Chicago Examining the Average and Mediated Effects of Antidepressant Treatments through Meta-Analyses of Longitudinal Person-Level Data
June 1 Stephen Raudenbush Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago Studying the Impact of Program Participation in Multi-Site Trials Using Instrumental Variables
June 15 Don Hedeker Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago Modeling Between- and Within-Subject Mood Variance in Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Data Using Mixed-Effects Location-Scale Models

Fall 2012

Oct 19 Jake Bowers Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An Unorthodox Approach to Interference between Units
Nov 2 Guanglei Hong1, Takako Nomi, Bing Yu 1Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, Committee on Education, University of Chicago Prognostic Score-Based Difference-in-Differences Strategy
Nov 16 Pei-Hua Chen Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan A Sampling-Based Test Assembly Method with Flexible Content Balancing
Nov 30 Dulal Bhaumik Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Psychiatry and Bioenginnering, Biostatistical Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago Meta-Analysis of Binary Rare Events Data

Winter 2013

Feb 1 Kazuo Yamaguchi Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago Causal analysis for linear regression with a latent-class treatment variable
Feb 15 Yu Xie Otis Dudley Duncan University Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Public Policy, and Research Professor at ISR, University of Michigan; Visiting Chair Professor, Peking University Modeling individual-level heterogeneity with agent-based modeling
Feb 22 Yasuo Miyazaki Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Impacts of ignoring nested data structure in Rasch/IRT model
Mar 1 James Heckman1and Rodrigo Pinto2 1 Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, Harris School of Public Policy, School of Law, University of Chicago; Professor of Science and Society, University College Dublin; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation; 2 Doctoral Student, Department of Economics, University of Chicago Causal analysis after Haavelmo: Definitions and a unified analysis of identification

Spring 2013

April 19 Albert Madansky H.G.B. Alexander Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago On sampling design issues when dealing with zeros
May 9 Michael Sobel Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Sociology, Columbia University Causal Inference for fMRI Time Series Data with Systematic Errors of Measurement in a Balanced On/Off Study of Social Evaluative Threat
June 3 Stephen Raudenbush Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago To What Extent Do Student Perceptions of Classroom Quality Predict Teacher Value Added? A Multilevel Variable Selection Model

Fall 2013

Nov 15 Robert Gibbons Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Studies, Center for Health Statistics, University of Chicago The Future of Psychiatric Measurement

Winter 2014

Jan 10 Stephen Raudenbush Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago Random Coefficient Models for Multi-site Trials With Continuous Outcomes
Jan 24 Jens Ludwig McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and the Harris School; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab The Effects of School Desegreegation on Crime
Feb 21 C. Hendricks Brown Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Social Sciences Casual Interpretations Involving Discrete Mixture Modeling: Implicatinos for Interventions for Depression and Suicide
Mar 7 David Meltzer Professor of Medicine; Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy Infrastructure and Methods in Patient Centered Outcomes Research

Spring 2014

April 4 Ron Thisted Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago Random Coefficient Models for Multi-site Trials With Continuous Outcomes
April 18 Guanglei Hong & Xu Qin Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, Committee on Education, University of Chicago Causal Mediation Analysis in Multi-site Trials
May 2 Stephen Stigler Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Statistics and the College Causal Reasoning & Public Policy a Century Ago: A Case Study
May 16 Naihua Duan Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center Small Data and Big Data
May 30 Luke Miratrix Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University Testing for and Characterizing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Under the Neyman-Rubin Potential Outcomes Frameword

Fall 2014

Oct 3 Brian Junker Associate Dean of Dietrich College; Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University Predictive Inference Using Latent Variables with Covariates
Oct 17 Forest Gregg University of Chicago Learning Neighborhoods
Oct 31 Avi Feller Harvard University Compared to What? Variation in the Impacts of Early Childhood Education by Alternative Care-Type Settings
Nov 14 Fan Yang Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Do C-Sections Protest Very Premature Babies? Aporetic Conclusions When testing the Validity of an Instrumental Variable

Winter 2015

Jan 9 Robert Gibbons & Don Hedeker Professor, Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Center for Health Statistics, University of Chicago; Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago Recent Advances in Generalized Mixed-effects Regression Models
Jan 23 Lin Chen Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Mixed effects models for proteomics data with cluster-level non-ignorable missingness
Feb 6 Bruce D. Spencer Professor of Statistics, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Should Society Try to Measure the Accuracy of Verdicts in Criminal Trials? – A Total Survey Error (TSE) Perspective
Feb 20 James Heckman & John Eric Humphries Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
The Effects of Education on Earnings and Health

Spring 2015

May 1 Danny Almirall Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan On the Comparison of Adaptive Interventions Using Repeated Measures Data from a SMART: Applications in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
May 15 Guanglei Hong, Cheng Yang, Xu Qin, & Edward Bein Association Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development and the Committee on Education
research scientist at NORC
Doctoral Student in the Department of Comparative Human Development
Statistician at Abt Associates
Two-Step Estimation in Causal Mediation Analysis
May 29 Bob Mislevy Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics, Educational Testing Service How Advances in Psychology and Technology Challenge Educational Measurement: Statistics Ain’t the Half of It!

Fall 2015

October 30 Sean Reardon, Benhamin Shear, Katherine E. Castellano, & Andrew Ho Stanford University
Educational Testing Service
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Using Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Recover Moments of Coarsened Test Score Distributions
November 13 Xiao-Li Meng Harvard University I Got More Data, My Model is More Refined, but My Estimator is Getting Worse? Am I Just Dumb?

Winter 2016

February 19 Dylan Small Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Case Definition and Design Sensitivity in Case Control Studies

Spring 2016

April 1 Jennifer Hill Professor of Applied Statistics and Data Science, New York University Flexible, Interpretable Framework for Assessing Sensitivity to Unmeasured Confounding
April 15 Matthew Stephens Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetrics, University of Chicago False Discovery Rates – a new deal
April 29 Xi Song Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago Linked Lives, Linked Trajectories: Intergenerational Association of Intragenerational Income Mobility
May 13 Li Cai Professor in Advanced Quantitative Methodology, UCLA Item Response Theory
May 27 Christopher Walters Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation

Fall 2016

October 7 Xu Qin PhD Student, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Assessing Heterogeneity of Causal Mediation Mechanism in Multi-Site Trials
October 21 Jiebiao Wang PhD Student, Public Health Sciences,University of Chicago A High-Dimensional Multivariate Selection Model for Proteomics Data with Batch-Level Missingness
November 4 Tyler VanderWeele Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables
November 18 Elizabeth Maggie Penn Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago Inequality, Social Context, and Value Divergence
December 2 Richard Hahn Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics; Chicago Booth Bayesian Causal Forests

Winter 2017

February 10 Stephen W. Raudenbush & Daniel Schwartz Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, the College, the Harris School of Public Policy and Chair, Committee on Education, University of Chicago Estimation in Multisite Randomized Trials with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
February 24 Azeem Shaikh Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Inference Under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
March 10 Marc Berman Director, Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Member, Grossman Neuroscience Institute, Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago Neural and Environmental Factors Related to Self-Control 

Spring 2017

April 7 Stephane Bonhomme Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Discretizing Unobserved Heterogeneity
April 21 Kazuo Yamaguchi Hanna Holborn Gray Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago Decomposition Analyses of Segregation
May 5 Guanglei Hong & Xu Qin Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
A weighting-based approach to sensitivity analysis in the context of single-level and multilevel mediation analysis

Fall 2017

October 13 – Dulal K. Bhaumik, Director Biostatistical Research Center, Professor of Biostatistics, Psychiatry and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Sample Size Determination for Multilevel Hierarchical
Designs Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models

October 27 – Yongyun Shin, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: Sources of Variance in a Random coefficients Model Given
Data MAR

November 1 – Bradley P. Carlin, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Biostatistics Mayo Professor in Public Health at the University of Minnesota
Title: Academic Industry Government Collborations in Bayesian
Adaptive Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science

November 17 – Andrey Rzhetsky, Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago
Title: Adventures with Large Biomedical Datasets: Diseases,
Medical Record, Environment and Genetics

December 6 – Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Title: Evaluating the Effect of Training on Wages in the Presence of Noncompliance, Nonemployment and Missing Outcome Data

Winter 2018

January 26 – Steven Durlauf, Steans Professor in Educational Policy at the University of Chicago Harris Schol of Public Policy
Title: Identifying Social Influences on Individual Outcomes

February 2 – Dan Black, Professor Harris School of Public Policy with Joonwhi Joo University of Chicago, Bob LaLonde University of Chicago, Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Evan Taylor, University of Chicago
Title: Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables

February 22 – Donald Hedeker, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago
Title: Investigating Mood Regulation and Smoking Applications of Mixed Effects Location-Scale Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data

March 2 – Justin Grimmer, Associate Profesor Department of Political Science University of Chicago
Title: How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts

Spring 2018

April 13 – Luc Anselin, Ph.D. Stien-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago, Chair Committee on Geographical Sciences, Director Center for Spatial Data, Science and Senior Fellow, NORC
Title: More LISA, Multivariate Extensions

April 27 – Michal Kolesar, Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Title: Inference in Instrumental Variable Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

May 11 – Andrew Ho, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Title: Linking Methods for Comparing Group Means Proficiency Cut Scores Across Tests

May 25 – Azeem Shaikh, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics at University of Chicago
Title: Inference Under Covariate Adaptive Randomization

Fall 2018

Oct 12 Anthony Fowler, Associate Professor Harris School of Public Policy
Title: Correcting Point Estimates for Publication Bias
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Oct 26 Hyunseung Kang, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Non-
Compliance

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Nov 9 John Rust, Gallagher Family of Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Title: Has Dynamic Programming Improved Decision Making?
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Nov 16 Kazuo Yamaguchi, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor, Sociology, University of Chicago
Title: A New RCM Approach to Survival Analysis: An Analysis of the Effect on leaving home on Sexual Initiation
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Nov 30 Panagiotis Toulis, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow
Title: Randomization inference of causal effects under interference
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Dec 7 Faculty Retreat (*please reserve date*)

Winter 2019

Jan 11, 2019
Veronika Rockova, Assistant Professor in Econometrics and Statistics and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Dynamic Sparse Factor Analysis
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Jan 25, 2019
Lars Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Structured Uncertainty and Model Misspecification
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Feb 8, 2019
Dan Yurovsky, Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Cognition and Developmental Areas, University of Chicago
Communication as Planning Under Uncertainty 
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Feb 22, 2019
Elizabeth Tipton, Associate Professor in the Statistics Department at Northwestern University
The Role of Sampling and Recruitment in Improving the Policy Relevance of RCTs
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Mar 8, 2019
Rina Foygel Barber, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago
Robust Inference with the Knockoff Filter
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Spring 2019

Apr 4, 2019
Event Co-sponsored by the Computational Social Science Workshop *Please note the special time and location*
Location: Kent room 120
Time: 11:00am-12:20pm
Amos Golan, Professor of Economics, Director of Info-Metric Institute American University
Information, Modeling and Inference: The Info-Metrics Framework
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Apr 12, 2019
*Please note the special time and location*
Location: Saieh Hall Room 021 (lower level)
Sharon-Lise T. Normand, S. James Adelstein Professor of Health Care Policy (biostatistics) in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health
Bayesian Hierarchical Multivariate Poisson Regression for Characterizing the Diffusion of New Anti-psychotic Drugs

Apr 19, 2019
Monika Nalepa, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Identifying the Causal Effect of Transitional Justice on Quality of Democratic Representation
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May 3, 2019
Ken Frank, MSU Foundation Professor of Sociometrics, Measurement and Quantitative Methods Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education at Michigan State Univeristy
Importance of Model Specification for Causal Inference in Social Network Analysis
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Click here for suggested background reading

May 17, 2019
John Brehm, Professor in Political Science, Director Undergraduate Studies, University of Chicago
Classifying Messages by Persuasive Approach using Tweets about the Supreme Court Nominations
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May 24, 2019
Event Co-Sponsored by the
Political Economy Workshop
*Please note the special time and location*
Location: Saieh Hall Room 021 (lower level)

Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics/Political Science, Director of Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University
Multilevel Modeling as a Way of Life

Suggested background Readings:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/gelman.pdf
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/multiple2f.pdf
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/misterp.pdf
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/AOAS1122.pdf

May 31, 2019
Jeffrey Grogger, Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy, Harris School of Public Policy
The Wage of Penalty of Regional Accents