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 (2023-2024) 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 10:30am until 12:00pm CST unless otherwise noted.
Please Note: The Workshop has resumed in person at 1155 E. 60th street Room 295B for the Spring quarter. 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
Winter 2024
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
Friday January 5, 2024
Soojin Park, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, UC Riverside
Causal Decomposition Analysis with Time-Varying Mediation and Outcomes: Designing Individualized Interventions to Reduce Social Disparities
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Friday January 19, 2024
Dalton Conley, Professor in Sociology, Princeton University
How Genetics Can Help Social Science
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Friday February 16, 2024
Dennis Feehan, Assistant Professor, Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Validating Social Network-based estimates of adult mortality with high-quality vital records: Evidence from 27 cities
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Friday March 1, 2024
Felix Elwert, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“A New Approach to the Causal Decomposition of Group-Based Disparities”
a joint work with graduate student Ang Yu
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Spring 2024
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
March 29, 2024
Xinran Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College
University of Chicago
Randomization inference and sensitivity analysis for quantiles of individual treatment effects
April 12, 2024
Robert Vargas, Associate Professor; Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences
Propositions on the Politics of Randomized Control Trials in Policing
April 19, 2024
Ethan Fosse, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Scarborough
“Norman Ryder’s Lost Legacy? The Promises and Pitfalls of Cohort Analysis in Social Research”
April 26, 2024
Genevieve Bates, Assistant Professor of Political Science
University Wisconsin-Madison
Exploring Public Perspectives: The Power of Free-Write Responses in Understanding ‘Defund the Police’ Discourse
May 10, 2024
Bruno Ferman, Associate Professor, Sao Paolo School of Economics
Inference with Few Treated Units
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May 24, 2024
Student Presentations
TBD
TBD