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
Programme
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 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 Botosaru (McMaster University): Correlated Random Coefficient Distributions in Linear Panel Models (joint with James L. Powell) |
| 15:45‑16:15: | Coffee break |
| 16:15‑17:00: | Toru Kitagawa (Brown University): Who With Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies (with Yagan Hazard) |
| Dinner (upon invitation) |
Call for papers
The call for papers for this workshop is closed.
Registration Research Workshop
Contact
See also
- More information
Econometric Institute, phone: +31 (0)10 408 12 59/ 12 64, Email: eb-secr@ese.eur.nl
