Conference Program

May 2, 2025

8:30am Registration
8:55am Opening Remarks
9:00am Lihua Lei (Stanford GSB)
Inference for Synthetic Controls via Refined Placebo Tests
with Timothy Sudijono
9:40am Alberto Abadie (MIT)
Doubly Robust Inference in Causal Latent Factor Models
with Anish Agarwal, Raaz Dwivedi, and Abhin Shah
10:20am Coffee Break
10:50am Keynote: Guido Imbens (Stanford GSB)
Nonparametric Factor Models for Average Treatment Effects
with Susan Athey
11:50pm Peter Hull (Brown University)
Estimating Structural Models of Demand with Recentered Instruments
with Kirill Borusyak
12:30am Lunch
11:00am Apoorva Lal (Netflix)
Large-scale Longitudinal Experiments: Estimation and Inference
with Alex Fischer and Matthew Wardrop
2:10pm David Arbour (Adobe Research)
On the Implicit Regularization of the Simplex Constraint and its Role in Causal Panel Data Models
2:50pm David Arbour (Adobe Research), Apoorva Lal (Netflix), Enrique Pinzón (Stata), Maggie Wang (YouTube), and Qing Wu (Google)
Panel Discussion: Econometrics in the Private Sector
3:30pm Coffee Break
4:10pm Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna (Emory University)
Efficient Difference-in-Differences and Event-Study Estimators
with Xiaohong Chen and Haitian Xie
4:50pm Sokbae (Simon) Lee (Columbia)
Learning the Effect of Persuasion via Difference-In-Differences
with Sung Jae Jun
6:00pm Dinner - By Invitation Only

May 3, 2025

9:00am Liyang Sun (UCL & CEMFI)
Addressing Limited Overlap Using Limited Heterogeneity
with Soonwoo Kwon
9:40am Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI)
Using Event Studies as an Outcome in Causal Analysis
with Kazuharu Yanagimoto and Tom Zohar
10:20am Coffee Break
10:50am Ismael Mourifié (Washington University)
Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Policies on Social Welfare in Difference-in-Difference Settings
with Dalia Ghanem and Désiré Kédagni
11:30pm Brantly Callaway (University of Georgia)
Difference-in-Differences with Continuous Treatments
with Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna
12:10pm Davide Viviano (Harvard University)
Dynamic Covariate Balancing: Estimating Treatment Effects over Time
with Jelena Bradic
12:50am Closing Remarks + Box Lunch

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