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Conference

2023 Conference on Econometrics

Wednesday & Thursday, June 7-8, 2023

Topic: Discrimination and Algorithmic Fairness

Organizers: Ed Vytlacil and Ashesh Rambachan (Microsoft Research/MIT)

Navin Kartik (Columbia University) presents “Beyond Unbounded Beliefs: How Preferences and Information Interplay in Social Learning” at the 2023 Economic Theory Conference

Cowles Foundation Hosts 16th Annual Summer Conferences

Agenda

Wednesday, June 7
Time Title Speaker Discussant Chair
8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast      
9:00 - 9:45 AM Counterfactual Risk Assessments under Unmeasured Confounding
(joint with Amanda Coston and Edward Kennedy)
Ashesh Rambachan
(Microsoft Research/MIT)
Jose Montiel-Olea
(Cornell University)
Edward Vytlacil
(Yale University)
9:45 - 10:30 AM “Building Non-Discriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data”
(joint with David Arnold and Will Dobbie)
Peter Hull
(Brown University)
Kaspar Wuthrich
(University of California at San Diego)
Edward Vytlacil
(Yale University)
10:30 - 10:45 AM Coffee Break      
10:45 - 11:30 AM Using Measures of Race to Make Clinical Predictions: Decision Making, Patient Health, and Fairness
(joint with Charles Manski and Atheendar Venkataramani)
John Mullahy
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Talia Gillis
(Columbia University)
John Lafferty
(Yale University)
11:30 - 12:15 PM “Using Machine Learning to Increase Equity in Healthcare and Public Health” Emma Pierson
(Cornell University)
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
(Yale University)
John Lafferty
(Yale University)
12:15 - 1:15 PM Lunch      
1:15 - 2:00 PM “Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier”
(joint with Jay Liu and Xiaosheng Mu)
Annie Liang
(Northwestern University)
Dirk Bergemann
(Yale University)
Max Cytrynbaum
(Yale University)
2:00 - 2:45 PM Fair Policy Targeting” 
(joint with Davide Viviano)
Jelena Bradic
(University of California at San Diego)
Yuehao Bai
(University of Southern California)
Max Cytrynbaum
(Yale University)
2:45 - 3:00 PM Coffee Break      
3:00 - 3:45 PM Constrained Classification and Policy Learning
(joint with Toru Kitagawa and Shosei Sakaguchi)
Aleksey Tetenov
(University of Geneva)
Davide Viviano
(Stanford University, Harvard University)
Yuichi Kitamura
(Yale University)
3:45 - 4:30 PM Policy Learning with Asymmetric Utilities
(joint with Kosuke Imai and Zhichao Jiang)
Eli Ben-Michael
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Kohei Yata
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Yuichi Kitamura
(Yale University)
4:30 - 4:45 PM Coffee Break      
4:45 - 5:30 PM Optimal Discrete Decisions when Payoffs are Partially Identified
(joint with Hyungsik Moon and Frank Schorfheide)
Tim Christensen
(New York University)
Jorg Stoye
(Cornell University)
Xiaohong Chen
(Yale University)
6:30 PM Dinner - The Crandall Room at The Blake Hotel, 9 High Street      
Thursday, June 8
Time Title Speaker Discussant Chair
8:00 - 8:30 AM Breakfast      
8:30 - 9:15 AM Everything but the Kitchen Sink Sharad Goel
(Harvard University)
Jonathan Roth
(Brown University)
Ian Ayres
(Yale University)
9:15 - 10:00 AM “A Discrimination Report Card”
(joint with Evan Rose and Chris Walters)
Pat Kline
(UC Berkeley)
Jiaying Gu
(University of Toronto)
Ian Ayres
(Yale University)
10:00 - 10:15 AM Coffee Break      
10:15 - 11:00 AM On the Fairness of Machine-Assisted Human Decisions
(joint with Talia Gillis and Bryce McLaughlin)
Jann Spiess
(Stanford University)
Hoda Heidari
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Ashesh Rambachan
(Microsoft Research/MIT)
11:00 - 11:45 AM “Multivalid Statistical Estimation, with Applications to Robust and Equitable Uncertainty Estimation” * Aaron Roth
(University of Pennsylvania)
Lihua Lei
(Stanford University)
Ashesh Rambachan
(Microsoft Research/MIT)
11:45 - 12:45 PM Lunch      
12:45 - 1:30 PM STEEL: Singularity-aware Reinforcement Learning
(joint with Zhengling Qi and Runzhe Wan)
Xiaohong Chen
(Yale University)
Max Tabord-Meehan
(University of Chicago)
Ashesh Rambachan
(Microsoft Research/MIT)
1:30 - 2:15 PM Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation
(joint with Sendhil Mullainathan)
Jens Ludwig
(University of Chicago)
Elena Manresa
(New York University)
Ashesh Rambachan
(Microsoft Research/MIT)
2:15 PM Adjourn      


Related Papers:
“Batch Multivalid Conformal Prediction”
(joint with Christopher Jung, Georgy Noarov, Ramya Ramalingam)

“The Scope of Multicalibration: Characterizing Multicalibration via Property Elicitation”
(joint with Georgy Noarov)

Participants

Joseph Altonji
(Yale University)

Timothy Armstrong
(University of Southern California)

P Aronow
(Yale University)

Ian Ayres
(Yale University)

Yuehao Bai
(University of Southern California)

Eli Ben-Michael
(Carnegie Mellon University)

Dirk Bergemann
(Yale University)

Jelena Bradic
(University of California, San Diego)

Guillermo Carranza Jordan
(Yale University)

Xiaohong Chen
(Yale University)

Timothy Christensen
(New York University)

Max Cytrynbaum
(Yale University)

Olivia Ding
(Yale University)

John Geanakoplos
(Yale University)

Talia Gillis
(Columbia University)

Sharad Goel
(Harvard University)

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
(Yale University)

Jiaying Gu
(University of Toronto)

Phil Haile
(Yale University)

Sukjin Han
(University of Bristol)

Hoda Heidari
(Carnegie Mellon University)

Marc Henry
(Pennsylvania State University)

Keisuke Hirano
(Pennsylvania State University)

Peter Hull
(Brown University)

John Eric Humphries
(Yale University)

Hiroaki Kaido
(Boston University)

Tetsuya Kaji
(University of Chicago)

Sid Kankanala
(Yale University)

Amin Karbasi
(Yale University)

Yuichi Kitamura
(Yale University)

Patrick Kline
(University of California, Berkeley)

Amanda Kowalski
(University of Michigan)

Louise Laage
(Georgetown University)

Antonio Henrique Labate Notarangeli
(Yale University)

John Lafferty
(Yale University)

Kyungho Lee
(Yale University)

Lihua Lei
(Stanford University)

Annie Liang
(Northwestern University)

Jens Ludwig
(University of Chicago)

Elena Manresa
(New York University)

Francesca Molinari
(Cornell University)

Jose Luis Montiel Olea
(Cornell University)

John Mullahy
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Argyris Oikonomou
(Yale University)

Emma Pierson
(Cornell University)

Kirill Ponomarev
(University of Chicago)

Chen Qiu
(Cornell University)

Ashesh Rambachan
(Microsoft Research & MIT)

Jonathan Roth
(Brown University)

Aaron Roth
(University of Pennsylvania)

Alejandro Sanchez Becerra
(Emory University)

Vira Semenova
(University of California, Berkeley)

Azeem Shaikh
(University of Chicago)

Xiaoxia Shi

Daniel Spielman
(Yale University)

Jann Spiess
(Stanford University)

Jörg Stoye
(Cornell University)

Max Tabord-Meehan
(University of Chicago)

Elie Tamer
(Harvard University)

Aleksey Tetenov
(University of Geneva)

Davide Viviano
(Stanford University and Harvard University)

Edward Vytlacil
(Yale University)

Jacob Wallace
(Yale University)

Yihong Wu
(Yale University)

Kaspar Wuthrich
(University of California San Diego)

Kai Hao Yang
(Yale University)

Kohei Yata
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Seung Yong Yoo
(Yale University)

Andrei Zeleneev
(University College London)

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I connect to the Yale Wi-Fi network while attending a conference?

Yale provides visitors two Wi-Fi network options:

  • YaleGuest
  • Eduroam

YaleGuest is a public, insecure wireless network available for anyone’s use, but has limited network access. Due to security reasons, certain programs and functionality may not be accessible via the YaleGuest network, e.g., Dropbox, Skype, and Box.

If possible, we recommended you use the Eduroam wireless network. Eduroam (education roaming) is a secure, world-wide roaming access service that allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campuses when visiting other participating institutions.

If your institution is a partner, access the Eduroam network by selecting Eduroam from the Wi-Fi list on your mobile device and sign-in using your home institution’s credentials*. View Eduroam’s complete listing of U.S. participating schools; International visitors can look for institutional listings on this country page.

For additional details, please contact your institution’s IT department or search your institution’s support page.

*Credential format is typically ID@UniversityName.edu, e.g., YaleNetID@yale.edu or SUNetID@win.stanford.edu.

How do I get to the conference location from the Blake Hotel?

The conference will be held at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Evans Hall located at 165 Whitney Ave and is about a 20 minute walk from the Blake Hotel. The easiest route to SOM from the Blake Hotel is to go south-east on George Street and turn left on Temple St. Temaple will merge into Whitney Avenue. SOM will be on the right side of the street across from the Peabody Museum (see map below).

How do I get to the conference location from the Omni Hotel?

The conference will be held at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Evans Hall located at 165 Whitney Ave and is about a 15 minute walk from the Omni Hotel. The easiest route to SOM from the Omni Hotel is to go north on Temple St. which merges into Whitney Avenue. SOM will be on the right side of the street across from the Peabody Museum (see map below).

Is reimbursement offered for my travel expenses?

Yes. Please refer to the Conference Travel Reimbursement page for more information.

     

    Is there a building map of the conference venue?

    Building maps - including session locations and restrooms - will be provided once a venue is finalized.

    What can I do in New Haven during my stay?

    Yale and New Haven offer many attractions to bide your time while in the Elm City. Below is a list of a few:

    Yale Attractions

    New Haven Attractions

    Performing Arts

     

    Where can I find a campus map?

    The Cowles Foundation is located in the heart of Yale’s campus at 30 Hillhouse Avenue. Use the Yale campus map to help find your way around.

    Who do I contact for assistance with Omni Hotel room reservations?

    If you need assistance with an Omni Hotel room reservation, please contact Alyson Perri, Convention Services Manager, Omni Hotels.

    Who do I contact in case of an emergency?

    In cases of emergency, contact the appropriate department listed below:

    You can also report a crime or send an anonymous text tip through our Bulldog Mobile (LiveSafe) app. (To register for Bulldog Mobile please visit the Yale LiveSafe page)

    For addtional emergency information, visit the Yale Emergency Management website.

    Will transportation be provided in case of inclement weather?

    Yes, a shuttle bus will be arranged to drive between the hotel and conference location. Typically, an announcement will be sent out from Darlene Smith the day before with additional information.