Faculty and invited speakers present current econometrics and statistics research, with particular emphasis on methods and applications relating to business and economic problems. Meetings are open to all interested faculty and MBA and PhD students.

The workshop will be held in-person (in HC 3B), with no virtual options. Please contact Megan Jennings-Quist to be added to the listserv for weekly updates.

When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.

Autumn 2022

Date Time Location Topic Speaker Institution
Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT  Harper 3B Breaking the Winner’s Curse in Mendelian Randomization: Rerandomized Inverse Variance Weighted Estimator Xinwei Ma
University of California San Diego
Thursday, October 6, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B Selecting Inequalities for Sharp Identification in Models with Set-Valued Predictions Kirill Ponomarev
University of Chicago
Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B

Distributed Computational Methods for Healthcare Access Modeling

Papers available HERE and HERE

Nicoleta Serban
Georgia Tech
Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT  Harper 3B Narrative Restrictions and Proxies
Raffaella Giacomini
University College London
Thursday, October 27, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B The Sketched Wasserstein Distance for Mixture Distributions Florentina Bunea
Cornell University 
Thursday, November 3, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B The Transfer Performance of Economic Models
Annie Liang
Northwestern University
Thursday, November 10, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B

High Dimensional Forests: Estimation and Inference

Papers available HERE and HERE

Yingying Fan
University of Southern California
Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B Spectral and Post-spectral Estimators for Grouped Panel Data Models
Denis Chetverikov
UCLA
Thursday, December 1, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B Nonparametric Copula Models for Mixed Data with Informative Missingness Daniel Kowal
Rice University
Thursday, December 8, 2022 1:20 p.m. CT Harper 3B A New BART Prior for Flexible Modeling with Categorical Predictors

Sameer Deshpande

University of Wisconsin

 

Winter 2023

Date Time Location Topic Speaker Institution
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. CT
Harper C03 Responsible Machine Learning through the Lens of Causal Inference
Amanda Coston
Carnegie Mellon
Friday, January 20, 2023
10:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT
Harper C03 Causal Inference with Corrupted Data: Measurement Error, Missing Values, Discretization, and Differential Privacy Rahul Singh
MIT
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. CT Harper C03 Linear Regression with Centrality Measures
Yong Cai
Northwestern
Thursday, February 2, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT  Harper 3B

Inference and Uncertainty Quantification for Low-Rank Models

Yuling Yan
Princeton
Friday, February 3, 2023
10:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT Harper C03
Off-policy Estimation of Linear Functionals: Non-asymptotic Theory for Semi-parametric Efficiency
Wenlong Mou
Berkeley
Friday, February 10, 2023
10:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT Harper C03
Design-based Estimation Theory for Complex Experiments
Haoge Chang
Yale
Monday, February 13, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT Harper C01
Identifiable Deep Generative Models via Sparse Decoding
Gemma Moran
Columbia
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. CT Harper C03
Double Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Off-policy Evaluation in Markov Decision Processes
Masatoshi Uehara
Cornell

 

Spring 2023

Date Time Location Topic Speaker Institution
Thursday, March 23, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT
Harper 3B
Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments
Michael Pollmann
Duke
Thursday, March 30, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT
Harper 3B
A Truthful Owner-Assisted Scoring Mechanism   Weiji Su
UPenn Wharton
Thursday, April 6, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT Harper 3B
TBD
Domenico Giannone
University of Washington
Thursday, April 13, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT  Harper 3B 

Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings with Delayed Outcomes

Co-Authors: Ivan A. Canay, Steve McBride

Federico Bugni
Northwestern
Thursday, April 20, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT
Harper 3B
TBD
Ali Shojaie
University of Washington
Thursday, April 27, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT
Harper 3B 
TBD
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
UPenn Wharton
Thursday, May 4, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT Harper 3B
TBD
Peter Reinhard Hansen
University of North Carolina
Thursday, May 11, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT Harper 3B
TBD
Elias Bareinboim
Columbia DSI
Thursday, May 18, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT Harper 3B
TBD
Andriy Norets
Brown
Thursday, May 25, 2023
1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT Harper 3B
TBD
Ivana Komunjer
Georgetown