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.
Due to covid restrictions, all workshops for the 2022-2023 academic year will be held virtually via Zoom until further notice.
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 (2022-2023) 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.
If you would like to be added to the workshop email list please email Aasha Francis, Administrative Specialist afrancis1@uchicago.edu
Autumn 2022
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
October 14, 2022
Jinghsu Wang, Assistant Professor Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
Mendelian Randomization for Causal inference of heritable phenotypic risk factors
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
December 2, 2022
Veronika Rockova, Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar
Adversarial Bayesian Simulation
Winter 2023
January 13, 2023
Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics, Columbia University
Bayesian Methods in Causal Inference and Decision Making
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Click here for the Paper
Click here for Recommended Reading
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
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February 24, 2023
Michael Peress, Associate Professor, Political Science, Stonybrook University
TBD
March 3, 2023
Anna Mikusheva, Professor, Department of Economics, MIT
TBD
Spring 2023
March 31, 2023
Molly Offer-Westort, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
TBD
April 14, 2023
Stephen Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of Statistics and the College
TBD
April 28, 2023
Xi Song, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
TBD
May 12, 2023
TBD
TBD
May 26, 2023
Student Presentations
TBD