Conference in Honor of James L. Powell
On Friday and Saturday March 25th and 26th, 2022 the Center for the Application of Mathematics and Statistics to Economics (CAMSE) will host a conference in Honor of the legendary James L. Powell. Attendence is by invitation only.
The conference will be held in room B100 of the Blum Center. A map with the location of Blum Hall can be found here. Information on transit options from SFO and OAK airports can be found here.
Blum Hall is very close to the North Gate of campus. The nearest BART stop is Downtown Berkeley. The nearest public parking facility is the Lower Hearst / North Gate parking garage at the intersection of Scenic & Hearst (enter from Scenic to access hourly parking spaces). Blum Hall is also about a 10 to 15 minute walk (slightly uphill) from the conference hotel (the Residence Inn by Marriott Berkeley).
Instructions on how to join the conference by Zoom will be sent as we get closer the date.
Campus and the City of Berkeley COVID guidelines evolve regularly. As of March 7th, indoor masking by vaccinnated individuals is no longer required on campus (instead being strongly recommended). However a variety of other COVID related measures remain intact. More information on current campus COVID policies can be found here.
The plan is to set up, weather permitting, coffee breaks and lunch outdoors. Eating outside has a number of advantages, one of which is that formal checking of vaccination status is not required. However all attendees should nevertheless bring proof of vaccination as it will be required to attend the conference dinner (also UC Berkeley has a vaccine mandate, even for conference attendees, so its a good idea to have some sort of proof on hand).
The conference dinner will be held at Agrodolce Berkeley at 7PM (time to be confirmed). This event will be in a large indoor room. In addition to enjoying one anothers company, there will be an opportunity to share stories about, and expressions of gratitude for, Jim. A map with the location of the restuarant can be found here.
A preliminary conference program can be found below (subject to change). Speakers should plan on presenting for approximately 20 minutes, allowing for five minutes of discussion and questions, and an additional five minutes of transition time between speakers.
CAMSE Conference in Honor of James L. Powell Schedule
Organizers
Bryan Graham
Hidehiko Ichimura
Michael Jansson
Shakeeb Khan
Demian Pouzo
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Reception hosted by Dan and Bev McFadden, 6:30 to 9:30PM (by invitation only)
Ashby Room, Residence Inn by Marriott Berkeley
2121 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94704
Friday, March 25th, 2022
B100 Blum Hall
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12:15 PM
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1: Panel Data | ||
| 9:00AM to 9:30AM | Alex Poirier (remote) | Identification and Estimation of Average Partial Effects in a Semiparametric Binary Response Panel Model |
| 9:30AM to 10:00AM | Ariel Pakes | Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices |
| 10:00AM to 10:30AM | Whitney Newey | Panel Estimation of Tax Effects with Endogenous Budget Sets |
| 10:30AM to 10:45AM | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: Instrumental Variables | ||
| 10:45AM to 11:15AM | Marcelo Moreira | Efficiency Loss of Asymptotically Efficient Tests in an Instrumental Variables Regression |
| 11:15AM to 11:45AM | Andrew Chesher | IV Methods for Tobit Models |
| 11:45AM to 12:15PM | Jerry Hausman (remote) | Problems with the Control Variable Approach in Achieving Unbiased Estimates in Nonlinear Models in the Presence of Many Instruments |
| 12:15PM to 1:45PM | Lunch |
Afternoon Session: 1:45 PM to 4:30 PM
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 3: Nonparametric analysis | ||
| 1:45PM to 2:15PM | Matias Cattaneo | Higher-order Refinements of Small Bandwidth Asymptotics for Density-Weighted Average Derivative Estimators |
| 2:15PM to 2:45PM | Ying Zhu | Blessing and Curse of Smoothness and Phase Transitions in Nonparametric Regressions: A Nonasymptotic Perspective |
| 2:45PM to 3:00PM | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Program evaluation | ||
| 3:00PM to 3:30PM | Songnian Chen (remote) | Quantile Regression with Group-Level Treatments |
| 3:30PM to 4:00PM | Carolina Caetano | Partial Identification of Treatment Effects Using Bunching |
| 4:00PM to 4:30PM | Guido Imbens | Fixed Effects and the Propensity Score |
| 4:30 PM | Adjorn |
Conference Dinner (by invitation only): 7PM @ Agrodolce Berkeley 1730 Shattack Avenue (about a 20-25 minute walk from Blum Hall as well as the hotel, or take Taxi/Uber)
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
B100 Blum Hall
Morning Session: 9AM to 12:15PM
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 5: Dynamic Models | ||
| 9:00AM to 9:30AM | Sergio Firpo | Uniform Inference for Value Functions |
| 9:30AM to 10:00AM | Konrad Menzel | Structural Sieves |
| 10:00AM to 10:30AM | Lars Hansen (remote) | Risk, Ambiguity and Misspecification: Implications for Policy |
| 10:30AM to 10:45AM | Coffee Break | |
| Session 6: High-Dimensional Models | ||
| 10:45AM to 11:15AM | Andres Aradillas-Lopez | Inference with Partially Identified Control Variables |
| 11:15AM to 11:45AM | Cheng Hsiao | Statistical Inference for Low Dimensional Parameters in the Presence of High Dimensional Covariates |
| 11:45AM to 12:15PM | Joel Horowitz | Bootstrap Based Asymptotic Refinements for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Models |
| 12:15PM to 1:15PM | Lunch |
Afternoon Session: 1:15PM to 3:30PM
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 7: Experiments | ||
| 1:15PM to 1:45PM | Max Kasy | Rationalizing Pre-Analysis Plans: Statistical Decisions Subject to Implementability |
| 1:45PM to 2:15PM | James Heckman (remote) | Orthogonal Designs for Causal Inference in Social Experiments (tentative) |
| 2:15PM to 2:30PM | Coffee Break | |
| Session 8: Networks | ||
| 2:30PM to 3:00PM | Eric Auerbach | Spectral Regression for Networks, Panels, and Outcome Matrices |
| 3:00PM to 3:30PM | Fengshi Niu | Error Components Models for Dyadic Data |
| 3:30PM | Adjorn |
Attending in Person Bryan Graham, Maximilian Kasy, Ariel Pakes, Carolina Caetano, Demian Pouzo, Matias Cattaneo, Konrad Menzel, Jack Porter, Chris Shannon, Jinyong Hahn, John Rust, Eric Auerbach, Andres Santos, Vira Semenova, Sergio Firpo, Ying Zhu, Whitney Newey, Laura Chioda, Andrew Chesher, Isaiah Andrews, Eric Mbakop, Thomas Rothenberg, Irene Botosaru, Carlos Flores, Hidehiko Ichimura, Antonio Galvao, Chris Muris, Oscar Jorda, Gregorio Caetano, Joel Horowitz, David Card, Sofia Villas-Boas, Cheng Hsiao, Shakeeb Khan, Graham Elliott, James Powell, Fengshi Niu, Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Tiemen Woutersen, Guido Imbens, George Judge, Bo Honore, Fred Finan, Daniel McFadden, Colin Cameron, Hidehiko Ichimura, Michael Jansson, Mikkel Soelvsten, Rosa Matzkin, James Stock, David Ahn, Liyang Sun, Patrick Kline, Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Peng Ding
Attending in Virtually Esfandiar Maasoumi, Yoosoon Chang, Joon Park, Donald Andrews, Xiaohong Chen, Myoung Jae Lee, Gary Solon, Songnian Chen, Ivana Komunjer, Alexandre Poirier, Roger Moon, Elie Tamer, Jerry Hausman, Lars Hansen, Serena Ng, Cristine Pinto, Elena Manresa, Charles Manski, Geert Ridder, James Heckman, Richard Crump, Richard J. Smith, Tomas Rau, Nese Yildiz, Petra Todd