The Quantitative Research Methods Workshop features cutting-edge research engaged in developing and employing quantitative methods in the social sciences. The workshop will host prominent and up-and-coming scholars in a variety of disciplines, who will present work on a range of topics including experimental design, causal identification in observational studies, text analysis, and election forensics. The series is being sponsored by the ISPS Center for the Study of American Politics and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale with support from The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund.
The workshop usually meets on selected Thursdays from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in ISPS Room A002 at 77 Prospect Street. Lunch will be provided.
This workshop is open to the Yale community only. To receive regular announcements and invitations, please use this link to subscribe with your Yale NetID.
Faculty Organizers: P Aronow, Associate Professor of Political Science, of Biostatistics, of Economics, and of Statistics & Data Science; Josh Kalla, Associate Professor of Political Science and of Statistics & Data Science; and Melody Huang, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of Statistics & Data Science
Graduate Student Coordinator: Raphaëlle Soffe, Department of Political Science
Seminar Coordinator and Contact: Nicole Hunter
Schedule 2024-2025
| DATE | SPEAKER & TITLE |
|---|---|
| SEP 19 | Sergio Montero, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of Economics, University of Rochester “Are Women Better Politicians? Discrimination, Gender Quotas, and Electoral Accountability” Cosponsored with the Leitner Political Economy Seminar Series |
| DEC 5 | Jowei Chen, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan “How Does Partisan Gerrymandering Affect Voter Participation? Evidence from a Randomized Redistricting Lottery in North Carolina” |
| DEC 12 | Rocío Titiunik, Professor of Politics, Princeton University “A Measure of Party Strength Based on Politicians’ Careers” |
| JAN 30 | Dylan Small, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania “Exploratory Data Analysis, Confirmatory Data Analysis and Replication in the Same Observational Study: A Two Team Cross-Screening Approach to Studying the Effect of Unwanted Pregnancy on Mothers’ Later Life Outcomes” |
| FEB 6 | Karun Adusumilli, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania “Empirical Bayes for Adaptive Experiments” |
| MAR 3* Monday |
In Song Kim, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT “The Effects of Firms’ Lobbying on Resource Misallocation” *Being held on a Monday date |
| MAR 27 | Yuan Liao, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University - New Brunswick “Does Noise Hurt Economic Forecasts?” |
| MAY 1** | Elizabeth A. Stuart, Professor of Biostatistics at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University **To be rescheduled |