Prior Workshops 2021 - 2022
Winter 2022
January 14, 2022
Siwei Cheng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University
“Changing Contours: The Polarization of the U.S. Wage Distribution”
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January 28, 2022
Amos Golan, Professor Economics, American University
“Constructing Prior Information in the Social Sciences: An Information-Theoretic Approach”
February 11, 2022
Andy Eggers, Professor, University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science
“How Pervasive is Strategic Voting?”
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February 25, 2022
Isaiah Andrews, Professor of Economics at Harvard University
“Inference on Winners”
March 11, 2022
Gabe Lenz, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Unprotected: How State Failure Led to Violence, Police Brutality, and Mass Incarceration
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Autumn 2022
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
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
Spring 2022
April 1, 2022
Chris Holmes, Professor in Biostatistics at the department of Statistics at Oxford University
“Bayesian Predictive Inference”
April 15, 2022
Association and Causation: Attributes and Effects of Judges in Equal Opportunity Commission Litigation Outcomes
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April 29, 2022
Uri Simonsohn, Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, UPenn
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May 6, 2022
Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology, Stanford
“The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health: Research and Data Infrastructure”
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May 13, 2022
“Item Response Theory: A Tribute to R. Darrell Bock”
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Autumn 2021
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
October 8, 2021
Steven Durlauf, Professor of Public Policy
“The Great Gatsby Curve”
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October 22, 2021
Francesca Molinari, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University
“Discrete Choice Models with Heterogeneous Preferences and Consideration”
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November 5, 2021
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth
“Algorithmic Behavioral Science“
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November 19, 2021
Stephane Bonhomme, Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Economics
“Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters”
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December 3, 2021
Justin Grimmer, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Spring 2021
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
April 9, 2021
Donna Coffman, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Temple University
Temple University
April 23, 2021
Peng Ding, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Berkeley
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May 7, 2021
Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health
Host & Discussant: Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH,Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and Vice Provost at the University of Chicago
Panelists:
Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association
C. Hendricks Brown, Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University
Robert Gibbons, Ph.D. Blum Riese Professor of Biostatistics
Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health
Abstract: “Build back fairer: Social justice, health equity, and COVID-19” presented by Sir Michael Marmot
Abstract: “Reversing the Flow: What if Prevention Research Actually Addressed Social Determinants of Health; What Should Methodologists be Doing Now?” presented by C. Hendricks Brown
Abstract: “Some Statistical Issues in the Measurement of Social Determinants of Health” presented by Robert Gibbons
May 21, 2021
Yanyan Sheng, Senior Instructional Professor of the Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
May 28, 2021
Concepts & Theory Panel: 10:00am-12:00pm
Feat. Lawrence Blume, Professor of Economics & Information Science, Cornell University
Lawrence Bobo, Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Sonja Starr, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago Law School
Glenn Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences, Economics, Brown University
Feat. Lawrence Blume, Professor of Economics & Information Science, Cornell University
Lawrence Bobo, Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Sonja Starr, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago Law School
Glenn Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences, Economics, Brown University
Measurements & Empirics Panel: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Feat. Rene Flores, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Michael Gaddis, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Elizabeth Paluck, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Peter Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School
“Prejudice & Stigma” half day Virtual Conference
Co-Hosted by the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group
Co-Hosted by the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group
Concepts & Theory Panel: 10:00am-12:00pm
Measurements & Empirics Panel: 1:00pm-3:00pm
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June 4, 2021
Speaker
Qianheng Ma, PhD student in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences.
Student Research/Thesis Presentations: 10:00am-12:00pm
Daniel Schwartz, PhD student in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences.
“Fast and Informative Phase 2b Dose-ranging Trials Using Bayesian Uncertainty-Directed Designs with Model Averaging” presented by Daniel Schwartz
Winter 2021
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
January 15, 2021
Petra Todd, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining RCTs with Structural Modeling
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January 29, 2021
Jonathan Mummolo, Assistant Pofessor of Politics and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Princeton University
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February 12, 2021
Walter Mebane, Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
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February 26, 2021
Kate Cagney, Professor in Sociology, Director Population Research Center, NORC
Liang Cai, Doctoral Student in Sociology, University of Chicago
Liang Cai, Doctoral Student in Sociology, University of Chicago
Activity Space, Social Interaction and Health in Later Life
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March 12, 2021
Ismael Mourifie, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, Economics
An empirical framework for matching model with imperfect competition
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