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 meets on selected Thursdays from 12:00-1:15 p.m. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, workshop sessions will be held virtually on Zoom during Fall 2021.
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Faculty Organizers: Peter Aronow, Associate Professor (Tenured) of Political Science and of Public Health (Biostatistics); and Fredrik Sävje, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of Statistics & Data Science
Graduate Student Coordinator: David Cerero Guerra, Department of Political Science
Coordinator & Contact for Guest Travel: Pamela Greene
Fall 2021 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER & TITLE |
|---|---|
| SEP 23 | Yusuke Narita, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University Paper 1: “Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules” Paper 2: “Curse of Democracy: Evidence from the 21st Century” |
| OCT 28 | Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management “On Estimating Multiple Treatment Effects with Regression” |
| DEC 9 | Peng Ding, Associate Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley |