The Gary Chamberlain Online Seminar in Econometrics

A regular open online international inter-institutional econometrics seminar in honor of Gary Chamberlain (1948–2020).
You can find Gary Chamberlain's doctoral dissertation here, as well as a set of lecture notes here for a graduate econometrics class taught at Harvard in 2010, courtesy of Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham. Here is a link to a paper by Gary recently published in the Journal of Econometrics.

Mailing List

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Upcoming Seminar Presentations

  • Friday, May 13: Tutorial on (Auto) DML based on Riesz Representers
    by Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
    Click here to register for the seminar and receive the Zoom link for Friday

  • Friday, May 27: Michael Pollmann (Stanford)
    "Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments"

  • Friday, June 10: Davide Viviano (UCSD)
    "Policy Design in Experiments with (Unknown) Interference"

Summer break

  • Friday, September 2: Anna Bykhovskaya (Duke)

  • Friday, September 16: Ashesh Rambachan (MIT)

  • Friday, September 30: EunYi Chung (UIUC)

  • Friday, October 14: Xiaohong Chen (Yale), Costas Arkolakis (Yale)

  • Friday, October 28: Kirill Ponomarev (Chicago)

  • Friday, November 18:

  • Friday, November 25: no seminar

  • Friday, December 2: Jessie Li (UC Santa Cruz)

All seminars are Fridays at noon ET (5pm London / 11am CT / 9am PT).

Seminar Calendar

Format and Rules

The seminars are held on Zoom and last 90 minutes:

  • 60 minutes of presentation

  • 15 minutes total of comments and questions by two or three designated discussants

  • 15 minutes of audience comments and questions

A moderator collects audience questions in chat. Please stay muted until called by the moderator.

Seminars will be recorded and available on the webpage a few days after. Please note that you may be recorded if you activate your video or speak during the seminar.

This is an experiment and you are part of the treatment group – all these details are subject to change.

Contact

If you want to get in touch, have feedback or suggestions, want to propose a speaker or volunteer as a discussant, please e-mail us at chamberlainseminar@gmail.com or fill out the feedback form. If you are hosting your own seminar, we would like to hear from you, list your seminar, and we invite you to share your best practices and sign up for the "online seminar organizers" e-mail list.

Organizers

Alberto Abadie (MIT), Chunrong Ai (CUHK), Isaiah Andrews (Harvard), Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago), Xiaohong Chen (Yale), Xavier D’Haultfoeuille (CREST), Raffaella Giocomini (UCL), Guido Imbens (Stanford), Michal Kolesár (Princeton), Anna Mikusheva (MIT), Francesca Molinari (Cornell), Áureo de Paula (UCL), Michael Pollmann (Stanford), Barbara Rossi (Pompeu Fabra), Christoph Rothe (Mannheim), Jann Spiess (Stanford), Martin Weidner (Oxford)