The 13th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL.
Main Workshop: Monday – Friday, July 29 - August 2, 2024
Advanced Workshop: Sunday - Wednesday, August 4-7, 2024
What's special about these workshops are the world-class speakers, who are experts in the topics they will discuss. See the link below for speaker details.
In person-registration is limited to 125 participants for each workshop. There will also be a Zoom option, but please come in person if you can.
For information and to register:
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/events/conferences/causalinference/
Main Workshop Outline
Monday, July 29 (Donald Rubin; Harvard University)
Introduction to Modern Methods for Causal Inference
Tuesday, July 30 (Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University)
Matching and Reweighting Designs for "Pure" Observational Studies
Wednesday, July 31 (Yiqing Xu, Stanford University)
Panel Data and Difference-in-Differences
Thursday, August 1 (Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare, UC Santa Barbara)
Regression Discontinuity
Friday, August 2: Morning (Eric French, Cambridge University)
Instrumental variable methods
Friday, August 2: Afternoon: Feedback on your own research
Advanced Workshop Outline
Sunday afternoon, August 4 (optional) (Christian Hansen, Univ. of Chicago)
Primer on machine learning approaches to prediction
Monday, August 5: Christian Hansen
Applications of machine learning to causal inference
Tuesday, August 6: Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Board)
Advanced Difference-in Differences
Wednesday, August 7: Peter Hull (Brown University)
Advanced Instrumental Variables
Stata and R coding: On selected days, we will run parallel Stata and R sessions to illustrate code for the research designs discussed in the lectures.
Workshop Organizers
Bernie Black (Northwestern University)
Scott Cunningham (Baylor University)
Questions: Please email Bernie Black (bblack@northwestern.edu) or Scott Cunningham (scunning@gmail.com) for questions or fee waiver requests, and Sebastian Bujak (sebastian.bujak@law.northwestern.edu) for logistics and registration questions.
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Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Vice President for the Wisconsin Chapter of the ASA
Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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