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2021 Conference on Econometrics

Location
Online Meeting
Date
Jun 03 — Jun 04, 2021
9:00 am — 4:45 pm

June 3-4, 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Edward Vytlacil

Thursday, June 3

SESSION 1
9:00am to 9:45am
"Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization with Imperfect Compliance" (782.92 KB)

*Federico Bugni (Duke University), Mengsi Gao (Duke University)

9:45am to 10:30am
"Balancing Covariates in Randomized Experiments with the Gram-Schmidt Walk Design" (1.29 MB)

Christopher Harshaw (Yale University), *Fredrik Savje (Yale University), Dan Spielman (Yale University), Peng Zhang (Yale University)

10:30am to 11:00am

Coffee Break

SESSION 2
11:00am to 11:45am
"Model Assisted Design of Bipartite Experiments" (560.37 KB)

Edoardo M. Airoldi (Temple University)

11:45am to 12:30pm

"Causal Inference under Network Interference with Noise"

Eric D. Kolaczyk (Boston University)

12:30pm to 1:15pm

Lunch

SESSION 3
1:15pm to 2:00pm
"Randomization Tests in Observational Studies with Staggered Adoption of Treatment" (687.64 KB)

Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago), *Panos Toulis (University of Chicago Booth)

2:00pm to 2:45pm
"Difference-in-Differences Estimators of Intertemporal Treatment Effects" (912.23 KB)

*Clément de Chaisemartin (University of California, Santa Barbara), Xavier D’Haultfoeuille (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics)

2:45pm to 3:15pm

Coffee Break

SESSION 4
3:15pm to 4:00pm
"When Is Parallel Trends Sensitive to Functional Form?"(link is external) (945.46 KB)

*Jonathan Roth (Microsoft Corporation), Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna (Vanderbilt University)

4:00pm to 4:45pm
"Noise-Induced Randomization in Regression Discontinuity Designs" (1007.47 KB)

Dean Eckles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nikolaos Ignatiadis (Stanford University), *Stefan Wager (Stanford University), Han Wu (HEC Paris)

4:45pm to 5:00pm

Coffee Break

SESSION 5
5:00pm to 5:45pm

"Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Experiments"

Kei Hirano (Pennsylvania State University)

Friday, June 4

SESSION 1
9:00am to 9:45am
"Constrained Classification and Policy Learning" (700.35 KB)

*Toru Kitagawa (University College London), Shosei Sakaguchi (University College London), Aleksey Tetenov (University of Geneva)

9:45am to 10:30am

"Bounding Treatment Effects by Pooling Limited Information across Observations"

Simon Lee (Columbia University), *Martin Weidner (University of Oxford)

10:30am to 11:00am

Coffee Break

SESSION 2
11:00am to 11:45am
"Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Partial Welfare Ordering" (636.62 KB)

Sukjin (Vincent) Han (University of Bristol)

11:45am to 12:30pm
"On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making" (461.88 KB)

*Ivan Canay (Northwestern University), Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago), Jack Mountjoy (University of Chicago Booth)

12:30pm to 1:15pm

Lunch

SESSION 3
1:15pm to 2:00pm

"Ranking Treatments Using Instrumental Variables and Alternative Monotonicity Restrictions"

*Yuehao Bai (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor), Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago), Edward Vytlacil (Yale University)

2:00pm to 2:45pm
"Filtered and Unfiltered Treatment Effects with Targeting Instruments" (480.68 KB)

*Simon Lee (Columbia University), Bernard Salanié (Columbia University)

2:45pm to 3:15pm

Coffee Break

SESSION 4
3:15pm to 4:00pm
"Better Lee Bounds" (663.53 KB)

Vira Semenova (Harvard University)

4:00pm to 4:45pm

"Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity"

*Max Farrell (University of Chicago Booth), Tengyuan Liang (University of Chicago Booth), Sanjog Misra (University of Chicago Booth)