Past Seminars
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)
Friday, February 10: Ulrich Mueller (Princeton)
"Spatial Unit Roots"
Panelists: Damian Kozbur, Tim Vogelsang, and Guido Kuersteiner
Moderator: Barbara Rossi
Friday, February 24: Ben Deaner (UCL)
"Controlling for Latent Confounding with Triple Proxies"
Panelists: Kirill Evdokimov, Daniel Wilhelm, and Kenichi Nagasawa
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme
Friday, March 10: Désiré Kédagni (UNC Chapel Hill)
"Generalized Difference-in-Differences Models: Robust Bounds"
Panelists: Petra Todd, Kaspar Wuthrich, Simon Freyaldenhoven
Moderator: Jann Spiess
Friday, March 24: Claudia Noack (Oxford)
"Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
Panelists: Sebastian Calonico, Thomas Lemieux, Stefan Wager
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews
Friday, 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 Kolesár
Friday, April 21: Christopher Sims (Princeton)
"Sharp Econometrics"
Panelists: Peter Hull, Frank Schorfheide, Christopher Taber
Moderator: Barbara Rossi
Friday, May 5: Francesca Molinari (Cornell) and Elie Tamer (Harvard)
Partial Identification Tutorial I
Moderator: Jann Spiess
Friday, May 19: Kate Ho and Eduardo Morales (Princeton)
Partial Identification Tutorial II
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews
Friday, June 2: Liyang Sun (CEMFI)
"Adapting to Misspecification"
Panelists: Xu Cheng, Bruce Hansen, Max Kasy
Moderator: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
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 Chen
Friday, 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 Molinari
Friday, October 13: Jonathan Roth (Brown)
"Tutorial on Pre-Trends Testing and Sensitivity Analysis for difference-in-Differences"
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva
Friday, 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 Molinari
Friday, 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 Abadie
Friday, November 17: Roger Koenker (UIUC) and José Luis Montiel Olea (Cornell)
"Empirical Bayes Methods and Applications"
Moderator: Alberto Abadie
Friday, December 1: Dalia Ghanem (UC Davis)
"Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Policies on Social Welfare in Difference-in-Difference Settings"
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva
Friday, February 23: Mikkel Sølvsten (Aarhus University) [video]
"Linear Regression with Weak Exogeneity" (with Anna Mikusheva)
Panelists: Tom Boot (Groningen), Ulrich Müller (Princeton)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)
Friday, March 8, 2024: Serena Ng (Columbia) [video]
"Imputation of Counterfactual Outcomes when the Errors are Predictable" (with Sílvia Gonçalves)
Panel: Jeff Wooldridge (MSU), Pedro Sant'Anna (Emory), Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt)
Moderator: Barbara Rossi (UPF)
Friday, March 22: Ivan Canay (Northwestern) and Alex Imas (Booth) [video]
Discrimination Session
Ivan Canay (Northwestern): "On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making"
Alex Imas (Booth): "Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement"
Panel: Petra Todd (Penn), Arnaud Maurel (Duke), Jason Abaluck (Yale)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)
Friday, April 5, 2024: Alfred Galichon (NYU) [video]
Optimal Transport Tutorial
Moderator: Áureo de Paula (UCL)
Friday, April 19, 2024: Louise Laage (Georgetown) [video]
Estimating Stochastic Block Models in the Presence of Covariates
Moderator: Aureo de Paula (UCL)
Panelists: Andrei Zeleneev (UCL), Bryan Graham (UC Berkeley)
Bootstrapping out-of-sample predictability tests with real-time data
Moderator: Barbara Rossi (UPF)
Panelists: Todd Clark (Cleveland Fed), Valentina Corradi (Surrey), Norman Swanson (Rutgers)
Friday, May 17, 2024: Abhishek Ananth (Emory) [video]
Optimal Treatment Assignment Rules on Networked Populations
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)
Panelists: Stefan Wager (Stanford), Toru Kitagawa (Brown)
Friday, May 31, 2024: Bertille Antoine (Simon Fraser) [video]
Coordinated Testing for Identification Failure and Correct Model Specification
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva
Panelists: Patrik Guggenberger (Penn State), Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)
Friday, March 21: Feedback in Panel Data Models [video]
Remembrances of Gary by Moshe Buchinsky and Charles Manski
"Feedback in Panel Data Models," discussed by Manuel Arellano
"Moment Restrictions in Nonlinear Panel Data Models with Feedback" by Kevin Dano (with Stéphane Bonhomme and Bryan Graham)
Moderators: Jonathan Roth and Dalia Ghanem
Panelists: Liyang (Sophie) Sun and Sylvia Klosin
Friday, March 21: Feedback in Panel Data Models [video]
"Empirical Bayes When Estimation Precision Predicts Parameters" by Kevin Chen (Stanford)
"Predicting Unobserved Individual-level Causal Effects" by Christophe Galliac (Geneva)
Panelists: Jiaying Gu (Toronto), Pat Kline (Berkeley), Chris Walters (Berkeley)
Moderators: Liyang Sun (UCL) and Peter Hull (Brown)