Workshop
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.
The Workshop meets every other Friday from 1030 am until 1200 noon in the Social Science Research Building, on the Fourth Floor in Room 401, located at 1126 E. 59th Street. The room location is subject to change, so please check specific announcements to confirm workshop location.
Workshop Instructor for the pre-workshop session, 2019-2020: Yudong Zhang yudongzhang@uchicago.edu
The pre-workshop session is designed to prepare students for active participation in intellectual discourse in the workshop. The pre-workshop sessions will be held bi-weekly on Wednesdays beginning October 9, 2019 from 4:30pm-5:30pm in Cobb Hall Room 319.
If you would like to be added to the workshop email list please email Aasha Francis, Administrative Specialist afrancis1@uchicago.edu
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”
November 8, 2019
Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
November 22, 2019
Geoffrey Wodtke, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
December 6, 2019
Jeffrey Lewis, Professor of Political Science, UCLA
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