Event·Aug 9, 2019, 9:00 AM·University of Chicago, Saieh Hall for Economics, Rm 146
From Theory to Statistics to Empirics: An Econometrics Conference in Honor of James Heckman
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James Heckman’s research elucidates many of the most fundamental questions in social science through the systematic integration of econometrics and economic theory into empirical work. This conference honored his 75th birthday by bringing together scholars whose approach to economics has been inspired by his vision.
Agenda
Friday, August 9, 2019
09:00:00–09:40:00
Registration and Breakfast
09:40:00–09:50:00
Opening Remarks
Session 1
09:50:00–10:30:00
Sample Selection, Parameter Heterogeneity, Exclusion Restrictions, and Partial Identification
10:30:00–10:50:00
Break
Session 2
10:50:00–11:30:00
You Are What Your Parents Think: Height and Local Reference Points
11:30:00–12:10:00
Actors in the Child Development Process
12:10:00–13:10:00
Lunch
Session 3
13:10:00–13:50:00
Beyond Treatment: Identifying Causal Effects Among Outcomes in Instrumental Variable Models
13:50:00–14:30:00
Some Children Left Behind
14:30:00–14:50:00
Break
Session 4
14:50:00–15:30:00
Measuring Belief Distortions from Asset Prices
15:30:00–16:10:00
Constructive Identification in Multivariate Nonseparable Hedonic Models
16:10:00
Conference Adjourns for the Day
Saturday, August 10, 2019
08:30:00–09:30:00
Breakfast
Session 5
09:30:00–10:10:00
Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill
10:10:00–10:50:00
Personality Traits and Job Search
10:50:00–11:10:00
Break
Session 6
11:10:00–11:50:00
Causality and Econometrics
12:00:00–13:00:00
Lunch
13:00:00