Due to ongoing concerns and public safety and health restrictions associated with COVID-19, this workshop has been postponed. Additional details will be provided at a later date.
Synthetic Control Methods: Program
Day 1
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Welcome and Registration
Welcome and Registration
- 2:30pm - 3:50pm | Tutorial on SC Methods: Part I
Alberto Abadie (MIT)
- 3:50pm - 4:10pm | Break
Coffee and tea will be provided
- 4:10pm - 5:30pm | Tutorial on SC Methods: Part II
Devavrat Shah (MIT)
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Reception and Networking
Reception and networking
Day 2
- 8:00am - 8:50am | Registration and Breakfast
Coffee and light breakfast will be served
- 8:50am - 9:00am | Conference Opening Remarks
Alberto Abadie and Devavrat Shah
- 9:00am - 9:30am | On Robustness of Principal Component Regression
Devarat Shah (MIT)
- 9:30am - 10:00am | Matrix Completion, Counterfactuals, and Factor Analysis of Missing Data
Serena Ng (Columbia)
- 10:00am - 10:30am | Break
Coffee and tea will be provided
- 10:30am - 11:00am | Synthetic Difference in Differences
Stefan Wager (Standford)
- 11:00am - 11:30am | Combining Matching and Synthetic Control to Trade off Biases from Extrapolation and Interpolation
Alex Torgovitsky (Chicago)
- 11:30am - 12:00pm | A Penalized Synthetic Control Estimator for Disaggregated Data
Alberto Abadie (MIT)
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch
Lunch will be provided
- 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Prediction Intervals for Synthetic Control Methods
Yingjie Feng (Princeton)
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Inference for Factor Model Based Average Treatment Effects
Kathleen Li (UT Austin)
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Synthetic Learner: Model-Free Inference on Treatments Over Time
Jelena Bradic (UCSD)
- 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Break
Coffee and tea will be provided
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm | A negative control view of synthetic controls: identification, robustness and semiparametric efficiency
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (UPenn)
- 4:-00pm - 4:30pm | Non-Parametric Gaussian Process in Fourier Space for Estimating Counterfactual and Treatment Impact
Uros Seljak (Berkeley)
- 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Multiple Control Outcomes and the Synthetic Control Method
David Blei (Columbia)
- 5:00pm - 5:10pm | Closing Remarks
- 5:10pm - 6:30pm | Closing Reception and Networking
Light snacks will be provided