THURSDAY, JUNE 2 |
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| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Registration | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Tutorial on SC Methods: Part I |
Alberto Abadie (MIT) |
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | Coffee Break | |
| 2:50 pm - 3:50 pm | Tutorial on SC Methods: Part II | Devavrat Shah (MIT) |
| 3:50 pm - 4:05 pm | Coffee Break | |
| 4:05 pm - 4:10 pm | Conference Opening Remarks |
| SESSION 1: Regina Liu (Rutgers), Session Chair | ||
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| 4:10 pm - 4:40 pm | A Design Based Perspective on Synthetic Control Methods | Guido Imbens (Stanford) |
| 4:40 pm - 5:10 pm | Synthetic Control Methods: A Generative Machine Learning Perspective | Uros Seljak (Berkeley) |
| 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | General reception with participants | |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Conference dinner (by invitation only) | |
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 |
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| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| SESSION 2: Hongyu Zhao (Yale), Session Chair | ||
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| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Causal Matrix Completion (virtual session) | Anish Agarwal (MIT) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Statistical Inference for the Factor Model Approach to Estimate Causal Effects in Quasi-Experimental Settings (virtual session) |
Kathleen Li (UT Austin) |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Uncertainty Quantification in Synthetic Controls with Staggered Treatment Adoption (virtual session) |
Yingjie Feng (Tsinghua) |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break | |
| SESSION 3: Rocio Titiunik (Princeton), Session Chair | ||
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| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Theory for Identification and Inference with Synthetic Controls: A Proximal Causal Inference Framework |
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (UPenn) |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Information Criteria and Degrees of Freedom for the Synthetic Control Method (with Zhen Xie) | Guillaume Pouliot (Chicago) |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Randomization-Based Inference for Synthetic Control Estimators (joint with David Hirshberg) |
Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI) |
| SESSION 4: Xu Cheng (UPenn), Session Chair | ||
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| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Synthetic learner: model-free inference on treatments over time | Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego) |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Synthetic Interventions | Dennis Shen (Berkeley) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Synthetic Controls for Experimental Design Slides |
Jinglong Zhao (BU) |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break | |
| SESSION 5: Matias Cattaneo (Princeton), Session Chair | ||
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| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Off-Policy Evaluation in Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes | Stefan Wager (Stanford) |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | On the Assumptions of Synthetic Control Methods | David Blei (Columbia) |
| Conference Closing Remarks | ||