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 generally on Fridays at noon ET (5 pm London / 11 am CT / 9 am PT).
November 20, 2026 - Livestreamed Session from the 2026 California Econometrics Conference in Honor of Guido Imbens
Note that this session will be held at 1:30 pm ET (6:30 pm London / 12:30 am CT / 10:30 am PT).
Presenters:
Alberto Abadie (MIT): Generalized TWFE Estimation of Average Treatment Effects
Raj Chetty (Harvard): Experimentally Validated Digital Twins: Evaluating Workforce Training Programs in the Age of Big Data
Discussants:
Jonathan Roth (Brown)
Rajeev Dehejia (NYU)
December 11, 2026 - Tutorial: Structural Estimation for Labor and Public Economics
Presenter:
Richard Blundell (UCL)
Moderator:
Liyang Sun (UCL and CEMFI)
Note: Start times of future seminars may appear shifted on some devices due to daylight saving time. We recommend adding the Chamberlain Seminar schedule to your online calendar, using this link.
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), Laura Liu (Pittsburgh), Matt Masten (Duke), Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Chicago), 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), Peter Hull (Brown), 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), Pedro Sant'Anna (Emory), Jann Spiess (Stanford), Martin Weidner (Oxford)