Mastering ‘Metrics: Empirical Strategies with Chinese Characteristics

Professor Josh Angrist (MIT)

June 3–5, 2019

IESR is pleased to announce a 3-day workshop led by MIT Professor Joshua Angrist (aka “Master Joshway”), author with S. Pischke of Mastering ‘Metrics and Mostly Harmless Econometrics.

The workshop will run all day on June 3-5, 2019 at Jinan University.

Professor Joshua Angrist

Overview:

This workshop includes 8 lectures, “labor lunch” presentations of participants’ empirical projects, and office hours with Master Joshway. Lectures cover contemporary econometric methods and empirical modeling strategies, with a focus on applications to economic policy.

Application:

The workshop is open to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, policy analysts, and data analysts working in the public and private sectors. Participants should have a good knowledge of statistics and probability, experience with econometric applications, and proficiency in English.

Interested participants should apply at https://iesr.jnu.edu.cn/#/wsapplication  by March 29, 2019 (apply by March 5, 2019 for early-bird rates). Accepted applicants will be notified by April 5, 2019. Registered applicants are invited to submit a paper to be considered for presentation during the workshop.

Fees:

Tuition fees are non-refundable. Lunch and coffee breaks during the workshop are provided. Participants are responsible for accommodation and transportation costs. Fees will be charged in RMB. 

Preliminary Program:

Monday, June 3

8:30-9:00: Registration

9:00-9:15: Welcome

9:15-10:45: Lecture 1: Random Assignment & Causal Inference

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Lecture 2: Regression Recap for Empiricists

12:30-13:45: Labor lunch (3 presentations)

13:45-15:00: Afternoon break

15:00-16:30: Lecture 3: Regression vs. Matching/Old-School IV

17:00-18:30: Office hours

Tuesday, June 4

9:00-10:30: Lecture 4: Old School IV (cont.)

10:30-11:45: Coffee break

11:45-12:15: Lecture 5: Instrumental Variables in the 21st Century

12:15-13:30: Labor lunch (3 presentations)

13:30-15:00: Afternoon break

15:00-16:30: Lecture 6: More Modern IV/A Little RD

17:00-18:30: Office hours

Wednesday, June 5

9:00-10:30: Lecture 7: Doing RD

10:30-10:45: Coffee break

10:45-12:15: Lecture 8: Market Design Meets Research Design

12:15-13:30: Labor lunch (3 presentations)

13:30-15:30: Afternoon break

15:30-17:00: Coffee and farewell

Thursday, June 6

16:00: Angrist research seminar (public)

For more information, contact:

Bin Xie, IESR Jinan University, xiebinecon@outlook.com

Xiangyan Qiu, IESR Jinan University, xiangyan020@qq.com

About Joshua Angrist

Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a director of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. A dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, he taught at Harvard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before coming to MIT in 1996. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1982 and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton in 1989. Angrist's research interests include the economics of education and school reform; social programs and the labor market; the effects of immigration, labor market regulation and institutions; and econometric methods for program and policy evaluation. Angrist is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has served on many editorial boards and as a Co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Gallen (Switzerland) in 2007 and is the author (with Steve Pischke) of Mostly Harmless Economics: An Empiricist's Companion and Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect, both published by Princeton University Press. Angrist and Pischke hope to bring undergraduate econometrics instruction out of the Stones Age.