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
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
Winter 2024
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
Friday January 5, 2024
Soojin Park, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, UC Riverside
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