Past Seminars
Below is a chronological list of past seminars. For recordings, slides, and links to papers, please see the subpages.
Friday, March 27, 2020: Elena Manresa (NYU) [video]
"An Adversarial Approach to Structural Estimation" (with Tetsuya Kaji and Guillaume Pouliot)
Discussants: Áureo de Paula (UCL), Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford), Bernard Salanié (Columbia)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)Friday, April 10, 2020: Tim Armstrong (Yale) [video]
"Robust Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals" (with Michal Kolesár and Mikkel Plagborg-Møller)
Discussants: Bruce Hansen (Wisconsin), Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)Friday, April 24, 2020: Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Princeton) [video]
"Local Projection Inference is Simpler and More Robust Than You Think" (with José Luis Montiel Olea)
Discussants: Anna Mikusheva (MIT), Atsushi Inoue (Vanderbilt)
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)Friday, May 8, 2020: Symposium on Synthetic Control Methods [video]
Introduction: Alberto Abadie (MIT)
Panelists: Susan Athey (Stanford), Bruno Ferman (Sao Paulo School of Economics), Kaspar Wüthrich (UC San Diego)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, May 22, 2020: Maximilian Kasy (Oxford) [video]
"What do we want? And when do we want it? Alternative objectives and their implications for experimental design."
Discussants: David McKenzie (World Bank), Max Tabord-Meehan (Chicago)
Moderator: Martin Weidner (UCL)Friday, June 5, 2020: Christoph Rothe (Mannheim) [video]
"Bias-Aware Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs" (with Claudia Noack)
Discussants: Marinho Bertanha (Notre Dame), Keisuke Hirano (PSU)
Moderator: Xiahong Chen (Yale)Friday, June 26, 2020: Applications of and Methods for Network Analysis [video]
Panelists: Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford), Bryan Graham (Berkeley)
Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)
Friday, September 4, 2020: Symposium on Sensitivity Analyses [video]
Panelists: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard), Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago), Timothy Christensen (NYU)
Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)Friday, September 18, 2020: Max Farrell (Chicago Booth) [video]
"Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference" (with Tengyuan Liang, Sanjog Misra)
Discussants: Tim Armstrong (Yale), Yinchu Zhu (Brandeis)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)Friday, October 2, 2020: Xu Cheng (Penn) [video]
"Robust Model Evaluation with Applications to Asset Pricing Models" (with Winston W. Dou and Zhipeng Liao)
Discussant: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
Panelists: Frank Kleibergen (Amsterdam), Jia Li (Duke), Markus Pelger (Stanford)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)Friday, October 16, 2020: Yuehao Bai (Michigan), Julius Vainora (Cambridge), Andrei Zeleneev (UCL) [video]
Yuehao Bai (Michigan): "Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials"
Julius Vainora (Cambridge): "Network Dependence"
Andrei Zeleneev (UCL): "Identification and Estimation of Network Models with Nonparametric Unobserved Heterogeneity"
Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)Friday, October 30, 2020: Raffaella Giacomini (UCL) [video]
"Identification and Inference under Narrative Restrictions" (with Toru Kitagawa and Matthew Read)
Discussant: José Luis Montiel Olea (Columbia)
Panelists: Christian Wolf (Chicago), Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford), Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Princeton)
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)Friday, November 13, 2020: Jiaying Gu (Toronto) [video]
"Partial Identification in Nonseparable Binary Response Models with Endogenous Regressors" (with Thomas M. Russell)
Discussant: Adam Rosen (Duke)
Panelists: Wayne Gao (Penn), Florian Gunsilius (Michigan), Sukjin Han (Bristol), Takuya Ura (UC Davis)
Moderator: Martin Weidner (UCL)Friday, December 11, 2020: Tutorial on Regression Discontinuity Designs [video]
by Matias D. Cattaneo (Princeton)
Friday, January 15, 2021: Tincho Almuzara (New York Fed), Jonathan Roth (Microsoft Research), Matthew Thirkettle (Rice) [video]
Tincho Almuzara (New York Fed): "Heterogeneity in Transitory Income Risk"
Jonathan Roth (Microsoft Research): "When Is Parallel Trends Sensitive to Functional Form?" (with Pedro Sant’Anna)
Matthew Thirkettle (Rice): "Identification and Estimation of Network Statistics with Missing Link Data"
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)Friday, January 29, 2021: Peter Hull (Chicago) [video]
"Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications" (with Kirill Borusyak)
Discussant: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI)
Panelists: Pedro Sant'Anna (Vanderbilt), Clément de Chaisemartin (UCSB), Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)Friday, February 12, 2021: Denis Chetverikov (UCLA) [video]
"Spectral and post-spectral estimators for grouped panel data models" (with Elena Manresa)
Discussant: Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC)
Panelist: Liangjun Su (SMU)
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)Friday, February 26, 2021: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago) [video]
"Teams: Heterogeneity, Sorting, and Complementarity"
Discussant: Bryan S. Graham (Berkeley)
Panelist: Martin Weidner (UCL), Josh Kinsler (Georgia)
Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)Friday, March 12, 2021: Florian Gunsilius (Michigan) [video]
"Distributional Synthetic Controls"
Discussant: Kaspar Wüthrich (UCSD)
Panelists: Alberto Abadie (MIT), Davide Viviano (UCSD)
Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)Friday, March 26, 2021: Vira Semenova (Berkeley) [video]
"Better Lee Bounds"
Discussant: Jörg Stoye (Cornell)
Panelist: Alexandre Poirier (Georgetown)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)
Friday, April 9, 2021: Alex Torgovitsky (Chicago) [video]
"Instrumental Variables with Multiple Instruments" (with Magne Mogstad and Christopher R. Walters)
Discussant: Guido Imbens (Stanford)
Panelist: Pedro Carneiro (UCL)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, April 23, 2021: Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard) [video]
"Counterfactual Analysis for Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models" (with Yuichi Kitamura, Lucas Lima, and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues)
Discussants: Victor Aguirregabiria (Toronto), Francesca Molinari (Cornell)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)Friday, May 7, 2021: Anna Mikusheva (MIT) [video]
"Inference with Many Weak Instruments" (with Sophie Sun)
Discussant: Mikkel Sølvsten (Wisconsin)
Panelist: Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)Friday, May 21, 2021: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard) [video]
"Optimal Decision Rules for Weak GMM" (with Anna Mikusheva)
Discussant: Keisuke Hirano (PSU)
Panelist: Frank Kleibergen (Amsterdam)
Moderator: Martin Weidner (Oxford)Friday, June 4, 2021: Shu Shen (UC Davis)
"Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Under Treatment Effect Heterogeneity" (with Yu-Chin Hsu)
Discussant: Yingying Dong (UC Irvine), Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (UC Santa Barbara)
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)Friday, June 18, 2021: Tutorial on Synthetic Control Methods [video]
by Alberto Abadie (MIT)
Friday, September 10, 2021: Tutorial on Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products [video]
by Aviv Nevo (Penn)Friday, September 24, 2021: Xiaohong Chen (Yale) [video]
"Multi-layer ANN Efficient Estimation in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables (NPIV): A Case Study" (with Jiafeng Chen and Elie Tamer)
Discussant: Denis Chetverikov (UCLA)
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)Friday, October 8, 2021: Guido Imbens (Stanford) [video]
"Clustering Adjustments to Standard Errors" (with Alberto Abadie, Susan Athey, Jeffrey Wooldridge)
Discussant: Colin Cameron (UC Davis)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)Friday, October 22: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI) [video]
"On Policy Evaluation with Aggregate Time-Series Shocks" (with Vasily Korovkin)
Discussant: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)Friday, November 5: Rachael Meager (LSE) [video]
"An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: When Can Dropping A Little Data Change Conclusions?" (with Tamara Broderick and Ryan Giordano)
Panelists: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard), Guido Imbens (Stanford), Jesse Shapiro (Brown)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, November 19: Anish Agarwal (MIT) [video]
"Synthetic Interventions" (with Devavrat Shah and Dennis Shen)
Discussant: Kaspar Wüthrich (UCSD)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)Friday, December 3: Francesca Molinari (Cornell) [video]
"Information Based Inference in Models with Set-Valued Predictions" (with Hiroaki Kaido)
Discussant: Xiaoxia Shi (Wisconsin)
Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)
Friday, February 4: Whitney Newey (MIT) [video]
"Automatic Debiased Machine Learning via Neural Nets for Generalized Linear Regression" (with Victor Chernozhukov, Victor Quintas-Martinez, Vasilis Syrgkanis)
Panelists: Max Farrell (Booth), Guido Imbens (Stanford), Michal Kolesár (Princeton)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)Friday, February 18: Alexei Onatskiy (Cambridge) [video]
"Uniform asymptotics for weak and strong factors"
Discussant: Markus Pelger (Stanford)
Moderator: Martin Weidner (Oxford)Friday, March 4: Ismael Mourifié (Toronto) [video]
"Causal Effects in Matching Mechanisms with Strategically Reported Preferences" (with Marinho Berthana, Sebastián Gallegos, and Margaux Luflade)
Discussant: YingHua He (Rice)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, March 18: Karun Adusumilli (Penn) [video]
"Risk and optimal policies in bandit experiments"
Discussant: Stefan Wager (Stanford)
Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)Friday, April 1: Carolina Caetano (Georgia) [video]
"Identification and Estimation of Average Marginal Treatment Effects with a Bunching Design" (with Gregorio Caetano and Eric Nielsen)
Discussant: Hugo Jales (Syracuse)
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
Friday, April 15: Guido Imbens (Stanford) [video]
"Fixed Effects in Settings with Clustering" (with Dmitry Arkhangelsky)
Panelists: Jeff Wooldridge (Michigan State)
Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)Friday, April 29: Interview with Dan McFadden [video]
Interviewers: Xiaohong Chen (Yale), Aureo de Paula (UCL)
Moderator: Chunrong Ai (CUHK)Friday, May 13: Tutorial on (Auto) DML based on Riesz Representers [video]
by Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, May 27: Michael Pollmann (Stanford) [video]
"Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments"
Panelists: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Yale), Fredrik Sävje (Yale)
Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)Friday, June 24: Davide Viviano (UCSD) [video]
"Policy Design in Experiments with (Unknown) Interference"
Panelists: Karun Adusumilli (University of Pennsylvania), Toru Kitagawa (Brown)
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
NOTE: video recordings of all seminars in Fall 2022 and beyond are embedded at the links corresponding to each seminar below
Friday, September 2: Anna Bykhovskaya (Duke)
"Cointegration in high-dimensional VARs"
Panelists: Alexei Onatski (Cambridge), Michael Jansson (Berkeley)
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)Friday, September 16: Ashesh Rambachan (Microsoft Research)
"Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data"
Panelists: Ismael Mourifie (Toronto), Peter Hull (Brown)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, September 30: EunYi Chung (UIUC)
"Permutation Inference Under Dependence" (with Ji Hyung Lee)
Panelists: Federico Bugni (Northwestern), Xiaoxia Shi (UW Madison)
Moderator: Aureo de Paula (UCL)Friday, October 14: Charles Manski (Northwestern)
"Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice: with focus on personalized medicine"
Panelists: Aleksey Tetenov (University of Geneva), Arthur Sweetman (McMaster)
Moderators: Guido Imbens (Stanford), Jann Spiess (Stanford)Friday, October 28: Kirill Ponomarev (Chicago)
"Selecting Inequalities for Sharp Identification in Models with Set-Valued Predictions"
Panelists: Adam Rosen (Duke), Thomas Russell (Carleton)
Moderator: Stephane Bonhomme (Chicago)Friday, November 18: Max Cytrynbaum (Yale)
"Designing Representative and Balanced Experiments by Local Randomization"
Panelists: Yuehao Bai (Michigan), Max Tabord-Meehan (Chicago)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)Friday, December 2: Lihua Lei (Stanford)
"Designing Representative and Balanced Experiments by Local Randomization"
Panelists: Dalia Ghanem (UC Davis), David Hirshberg (Emory)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)
Spring 2023
Friday, February 10: Ulrich Mueller (Princeton)
"Spatial Unit Roots"
Panelists: Damian Kozbur, Tim Vogelsang, and Guido Kuersteiner
Moderator: Barbara RossiFriday, February 24: Ben Deaner (UCL)
"Controlling for Latent Confounding with Triple Proxies"
Panelists: Kirill Evdokimov, Daniel Wilhelm, and Kenichi Nagasawa
Moderator: Stéphane BonhommeFriday, March 10: Désiré Kédagni (UNC Chapel Hill)
"Generalized Difference-in-Differences Models: Robust Bounds"
Panelists: Petra Todd, Kaspar Wuthrich, Simon Freyaldenhoven
Moderator: Jann SpiessFriday, March 24: Claudia Noack (Oxford)
"Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
Panelists: Sebastian Calonico, Thomas Lemieux, Stefan Wager
Moderator: Isaiah AndrewsFriday, April 7: Soonwoo Kwon (Brown)
"Optimal Shrinkage Estimation of Fixed Effects in Linear Panel Data Models"
Panelists: Laura Liu, Roger Koenker, Marianne Bitler
Moderator: Michal KolesárFriday, April 21: Christopher Sims (Princeton)
"Sharp Econometrics"
Panelists: Peter Hull, Frank Schorfheide, Christopher Taber
Moderator: Barbara RossiFriday, May 5: Francesca Molinari (Cornell) and Elie Tamer (Harvard)
Partial Identification Tutorial I
Moderator: Jann SpiessFriday, May 19: Kate Ho and Eduardo Morales (Princeton)
Partial Identification Tutorial II
Moderator: Isaiah AndrewsFriday, June 2: Liyang Sun (CEMFI)
"Adapting to Misspecification"
Panelists: Xu Cheng, Bruce Hansen, Max Kasy
Moderator: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Fall 2023
Friday, September 8: Rahul Singh (Harvard)
"Causal Inference with Corrupted Data: Measurement Error, Missing Values, Discretization, and Differential Privacy"
Panelists: Denis Nekipelov and Daniel Wilhelm
Moderator: Xiaohong ChenFriday, September 22: Xiaoxia Shi (Wisconsin)
"Testing Inequalities Linear in Nuisance Parameters" (joint with Gregory Cox and Yuya Shimizu)
Panelists: Hiroaki Kaido and Thomas Russell
Moderator: Francesca MolinariFriday, October 13: Jonathan Roth (Brown)
"Tutorial on Pre-Trends Testing and Sensitivity Analysis for difference-in-Differences"
Moderator: Anna MikushevaFriday, October 20: Kaspar Wuthrich (UCSD)
"Selection and Parallel Trends" (joint with Dalia Ghanem, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna)
Panelists: Manuel Arellano, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Philip Marx
Moderator: Francesca MolinariFriday, November 3: Manuel Arellano (CEMFI)
"Estimating flexible income processes from subjective expectations data"
Panelists: Aureo de Paula, Laura Liu, Wilbert Van Der Klaauw
Moderator: Alberto AbadieFriday, November 17: Roger Koenker (UIUC) and José Luis Montiel Olea (Cornell)
"Empirical Bayes Methods and Applications"
Moderator: Alberto AbadieFriday, December 1: Dalia Ghanem (UC Davis)
"Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Policies on Social Welfare in Difference-in-Difference Settings"
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva