Conference Program

May 2, 2025

8:30am

Registration

8:55am

Opening Remarks

9:00am	Alberto Abadie (MIT) Doubly Robust Inference in Causal Latent Factor Models
	with Anish Agarwal, Raaz Dwivedi, and Abhin Shah

9:40am	Timothy Sudijono (Stanford GSB) Inference for Synthetic Controls via Refined Placebo Tests
	with Lihua Lei

10:20am

Coffee Break

10:50am	Keynote: Guido Imbens (Stanford GSB) Nonparametric Factor Models for Average Treatment Effects
	with Susan Athey

11:50am	Peter Hull (Brown University) Estimating Structural Models of Demand with Recentered Instruments
	with Kirill Borusyak

12:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm	Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna (Emory University) Efficient Difference-in-Differences and Event-Study Estimators
	with Xiaohong Chen and Haitian Xie

2:10pm	Sokbae (Simon) Lee (Columbia) Learning the Effect of Persuasion via Difference-In-Differences
	with Sung Jae Jun

2:50pm	Florian Gunsilius (Emory) Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution
	with David Van Dijcke and Austin Wright

3:30pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm	Apoorva Lal (Netflix) Large-scale Longitudinal Experiments: Estimation and Inference
	with Alex Fischer and Matthew Wardrop

4:35pm	David Arbour (Adobe Research) On the Implicit Regularization of the Simplex Constraint and its Role in Causal Panel Data Models
	with Avi Feller, Pratik Patil, and Anup Rao

5:10pm

David Arbour (Adobe Research), Apoorva Lal (Netflix), Enrique Pinzón (Stata), Maggie Wang (YouTube), and Qing Wu (Google)
Panel Discussion: Econometrics in the Private Sector

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

11:30am	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

12:50pm

Closing Remarks + Box Lunch

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