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 (2024-2025) 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 11:00am until 12:30pm CST unless otherwise noted.
Please Note: The Workshop has resumed in person at 1126 E. 59th street in the Social Sciences Tea Room 201. 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
AUTUMN 2024
Date
Speaker
Title
Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from A Large Reanalysis Study
Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor, Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Placebo Tests Done Right
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Guanglei Hong, Professor; Comparative Human Development; Chair, Committee on Education
Endogenous Confounding in Causal Decomposition Analysis
Probabilistic Tensor Decomposition Model for Measuring Complex Dependence Structure in Sparse Dyadic Event Data
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Jenny Trinitapoli, Professor; Director, Committee for International Social Science Research
Privacy and Third-Party Presence in Survey Research
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WINTER 2025
Date
Speaker
Title
Hyunku Kwon, Advanced Quantitative Methods student, UChicago
Jessica Li, Advanced Quantitative Methods student, UChicago
Hyunku Kwon: “Black Troops and the Return of King Cotton in the Postbellum US South 1865-1880
Jessica Li: “Price and Liquidity in Frictional Markets with Strategic Bargaining”
Ivan A. Canay , Professor Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings
with Delayed Outcomes
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David McMillon, Assistant Professor of Economics, Emory
What Makes Systemic Discrimination, ‘Systemic?’ Exposing the Amplifiers of Inequity
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February 28, 2025
Esfandiar Maasoumi, Professor of Economics, Emory
Sufficient Statistical Measures of Intergenerational
Mobility
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SPRING 2025
Date
Speaker
Title
Salvador Navarro, Professor Department of Economics University of Western Ontario
Estimating Substitution Patterns Between Crimes
Yiang Li, Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Chicago
Siyanda Mohutsiwa, Graduate Student Sociology Department, University of Chicago
“It is not what you weigh, it is how you present it: body size, attractiveness, physical functioning, and access to partnership and sexuality for older men and women” by Yiang Li & Linda Waite
“Manufacturing Corruption: Media Framing, Global Hierarchies, and the Politics of Perception” by Siyanda Mohutsiwa
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Bernard Koch, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UChicago
“Racial Hereditarianism: Trees or Forest?“
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