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: Lara Briggs, Department of Political Science
Seminar Coordinator and Contact: Pamela Greene
2025-2026 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER & TITLE |
|---|---|
| SEP 4 | Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Professor of Biostatics, University of Pennsylvania “On Identification in the Binary Instrumental Variable Model: Introducing the NATE” LINK TO RELATED PAPER |
| SEP 25 | Colin Fogarty, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan “Tilted Sensitivity Analysis in Matched Observational Studies” |
| OCT 2 | Jesse Shapiro, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Harvard University “Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of U.S. Elections” Joint workshop with the Leitner Political Economy Seminar Meeting at Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue |
| OCT 9 | Aaron Roth, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer & Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania “Agreement and Alignment for Human-AI Collaboration” Link to related papers: PAPER 1 | PAPER 2 | PAPER 3 Joint workshop with the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY) |
| OCT 23 | Austin Jang, Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics & Data Science and Political Science, Yale University “The Corrosive Covariate: Interpreting Leave-k-Out Diagnostics as Omitted Variable Bias” |
| JAN 22 | Dominik Rothenhäusler, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University |
| JAN 30 FRIDAY |
Ted Enamorando, Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis Joint workshop with the Population Studies Workshop Meeting at ISPS Room A002, 77 Prospect Street |
| FEB 25 WED. |
Michael Gibilisco, Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology Joint workshop with the MacMillan International Relations Seminar Meeting at RKZ 005, 115 Prospect Street |
| APR 23 | Yanhui Wu Joint workshop with the Leitner Political Economy Seminar |
| APR 30 | Fan Li, Professor in the Department of Statistical Science, Duke University |