Announcing 2025 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops
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2025 Northwestern Main and Advanced
Causal Inference Workshops
[please recirculate to others who might be interested]
We are excited to be holding our 14th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL. We invite you to attend.
Main Workshop: Monday – Friday, July 28 - August 1, 2025
Advanced Workshop: Sunday – Wednesday, August 3-6, 2025
What’s special about these workshops are the world-class speakers, who are experts in the topics they will discuss. See the link below for speaker details.
Target audience for the workshops: Quantitative empirical researchers (including faculty, graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers) in social science, including law, political science, economics, many business-school areas (finance, accounting, management, marketing, etc.), medicine, sociology, education, psychology, etc. –anywhere that causal inference is important.
In person-registration is limited to 125 participants for each workshop. There will also be a Zoom option, but come in person if you can; the online experience is not the same.
For information and to register:
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/events/conferences/causalinference/
Main Workshop Outline
Monday, July 28 (Donald Rubin; Harvard University)
Introduction to Modern Methods for Causal Inference
Tuesday, July 29 (Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University)
Matching and Reweighting Designs for “Pure” Observational Studies
Wednesday, July 30 (Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University)
Panel Data and Difference-in-Differences
Thursday, July 31 (Heather Royer, UC Santa Barbara)
Regression Discontinuity
Friday, August 1 Morning: (Tymon Sloczynski, Brandeis University)
Instrumental variable methods
Friday, August 1 Afternoon: Feedback on your own research
Advanced Workshop Outline
Sunday afternoon, August 3 (optional) (Christian Hansen, Univ. of Chicago)
Primer on machine learning approaches to prediction
Monday, August 4: Christian Hansen
Applications of machine learning to causal inference
Tuesday, August 5: Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Board)
Advanced Difference-in Differences
Wednesday, August 6: Peter Hull (Brown University)
Advanced Instrumental Variables
Stata and R coding: On selected days after the lectures, we will run parallel Stata and R sessions to illustrate code for the research designs discussed in the lectures.
Workshop Organizers
Bernie Black (Northwestern University)
Scott Cunningham (Baylor University)
Questions: Please email Bernie Black (bbl...@northwestern.edu) or Scott Cunningham (scun...@gmail.com) for questions or fee waiver requests, and Sebastian Bujak (sebasti...@law.northwestern.edu) for logistics and registration questions.