Causal Inference and Policy Evaluation

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On Tuesday, 26 May 2026 the Econometric Institute will organise a Research Workshop on Causal Inference and Policy Evaluation with Professor Alberto Abadie as keynote speaker. Other confirmed presenters are Toru Kitagawa (Brown University), Mikkel Sølvsten (Aarhus University), Irene Botosaru (McMaster University), Florian Gunsilius (Emory University), Claudia Noack (University of Bonn).

Date
Tuesday 26 May 2026, 09:00 - 17:30
Type
Workshop
Spoken Language
English
Room
CB-4
Building
Theil Building
Location
Campus Woudestein
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Programme

TimeSpeaker
09:00‑09:30:Registration (welcome coffee)
09:30‑09:35:Opening remarks
09:35‑10:30:Alberto Abadie (MIT): Estimating the Value of Evidence-Based Decision Making 
(with A. Agarwal, G. Imbens, S. Jia, J. McQueen, S. Stepaniants, and S. Torres)
10:30‑11:00:Coffee break
11:00‑11:45:Mikkel Sølvsten (Aarhus University): Approximately Parallel Trends: Event Study Inference under Trend Violations
(with Nikolaj A. Harmon and Timo Schenk)
11:45‑12:30:Claudia Noack (University of Bonn): Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with Clustered Data
(with Tomasz Olma and Christoph Rothe)
12:30‑14:15;Lunch & Posters
14:15‑15:00:Florian Gunsilius (Emory University): Incremental Difference-in-Differences with Negative Controls 
(with Gonzalo Mena, Tristan Saidi, Kyle Schindl, and Larry Wasserman)
15:00‑15:45:Irene Botosary (McMaster University): An Adversarial Approach to Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Panel Models
(with Isaac Loh and Chris Muris)
15:45‑16:15:Coffee break
16:15‑17:00:Toru Kitagawa (Brown University): TBA
 Dinner (upon invitation)

Call for papers

The call for papers for this workshop is closed.

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Econometric Institute, phone: +31 (0)10 408 12 59/ 12 64, Email: eb-secr@ese.eur.nl

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