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. 

If you would like to be added to the workshop email list please email Aasha Francis, Administrative Specialist afrancis1@uchicago.edu

Autumn 2023

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

October 3, 2023

Scott de Marchi, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Decision Science program at Duke University

“Making and Breaking Governments 2.0: Using Computation for Theoretical Models”
Co-Sponsored  with Comparative Politics Workshop

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October 6, 2023

Xiao Li Meng, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy

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Click here and here for Recommended Background Reading

October 20, 2023

Simon DeDeo, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Carnegie Mellon University

Uh-huh, Mhm, Wow: surprise, meta-information, and the problem of common ground

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November 3, 2023

Shuyang Sheng, Department of Economics, University of California at Los Angeles

Social Interactions with Endogenous Group Formation

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November 17, 2023

Elizabeth Ogburn, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Nonsense associations in dependent data
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December 1, 2023

Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University

Disparity Analysis: A Tale of Two Approaches

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Winter 2024

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

Friday January 5, 2024

Soojin Park, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, UC Riverside

TBD

TBD

Friday January 19, 2024

Dalton Conley, Professor in Sociology, Princeton University

TBD

TBD

Friday February 2, 2024

Dennis Feehan, Assistant Professor, Department of Demography, UC Berkeley

TBD

TBD

Friday February 16, 2024

TBD

TBD

TBD

Friday March 1, 2024

TBD

TBD

TBD

Spring 2024