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.
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Seminars are on Fridays at noon ET (5 pm London / 11 am CT / 9 am PT).
April 24, 2026 - Advances in Panel Data
Presenters:
Sylvia Klosin (UC Davis): Dynamic Biases of Static Panel Data Estimators
Jaume Vives-i-Bastida (Stanford/NYU): Synthetic IV Estimation in Panels
Moderators:
Brantly Callaway (University of Georgia)
Pedro H.C. Sant'Anna (Emory University)
May 29, 2026 - Measuring Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Presenters:
Pietro Emilio Spini (University of Bristol): Robustness, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Covariate Shifts
Alejandro Sanchez Becerra (Emory): Robust Inference for the Treatment Effect Variance in Experiments using Machine Learning
Panelists:
Juan Carlos Escanciano (UC3M)
Ben Deaner (UCL)
Whitney Newey (MIT)
Moderator:
Liyang Sun (UCL and CEMFI)
September 11, 2026 - Advances in Econometrics for Development Economics and Randomized Trials
Presenters:
Michael Gechter (University of Arkansas): Selecting Experimental Sites for External Validity
José Luis Montiel Olea (Cornell): Externally Valid Selection of Sites via the k-Median Problem
Davide Viviano (Harvard): Evidence Aggregation with Ignorance in Mind: Learning what we do not know for archetypes discovery
December 11, 2026 - Tutorial: Structural Estimation for Labor and Public Economics
Presenter:
Richard Blundell (UCL)
Moderator:
Liyang Sun (UCL and CEMFI)
The seminars are held on Zoom and last 90 minutes.
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.
Many of these details are subject to change
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.
Dalia Ghanem (Davis), Peter Hull (Brown), Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Chicago), Pedro Sant'Anna (Emory), Liyang Sun (UCL and CEMFI), Kaspar Wüthrich (Michigan)
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), Marcelo Moreira (FGV/EPGE), Áureo de Paula (UCL), Michael Pollmann (Duke), Barbara Rossi (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra Univ.), Jonathan Roth (Brown), Christoph Rothe (Mannheim), Jann Spiess (Stanford), Martin Weidner (Oxford)