Causal Science Conference 2021
On November 17, the newly-launched Stanford Causal Science Center (SC²) held its inaugural, in-person (Stanford-only) one-day conference at the Koret-Taube Conference Center. The program consisted of talks by graduate students broadly working in areas related to causal science, from across the university. The day concluded with a happy hour and reception for attendees. Our intent is that this event can serve as an opportunity for the community to learn more about the breadth of work happening at Stanford, to forge new connections, and ultimately to help shape a shared path for the future success of SC².
Agenda
Welcome 8:45AM - Guido Imbens
| Session 1 | 9:00-10:15AM | |
|---|---|---|
| Gina Li | Economics | Becoming Dual: Measuring the Impact of Gaining Medicaid Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries |
| Xinkun Nie | Computer Science | Perception of wildfire risk lowers appreciation of residential real estate in California » pdf |
| Elisabeth Paulson | Immigration Policy Lab | The Deadline Effect in Dynamic Refugee Matching |
| Bruce Spang | Computer Science | Experimentation in Congested Networks » pdf |
| Session 2 | 10:45 AM - 12 PM | |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Tyler | Political Science | Estimating the Effects of Events without Control Units » pdf |
| Nikos Ignatiadis | Statistics, | Noise-Induced Randomization in Regression Discontinuity Designs » pdf |
| Michael Pollmann | Economics | Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments » pdf |
| Shi Dong | Electrical Engineering |
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent States » pdf |
Lunch: 12 - 1 PM
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Session 3 |
1:00-2:15 PM | |
|---|---|---|
| Apoorva Lal | Political Science | Robinson Regression for Spatial Covariate Adjustment » pdf |
| Dan Kluger | Statistics | Efficiency of kernel estimates for tie-breaker designs » pdf |
| Toby Nowacki | Political Science | Effect Heterogeneity and Causal Attribution in Regression Discontinuity Designs: Introducing the Moderation-in-Discontinuities Framework » pdf |
| Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy | Management Science and Engineering | Quantifying and Optimizing the Bias-Variance trade-off for Contextual Bandits |
| Session 4 | 2:45-4:00 PM | |
|---|---|---|
| Hannah Li | Management Science and Engineering | Interference in Two-Sided Marketplace Experiments » pdf |
| Evan Munro | Economics | Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium » pdf |
| Kevin Guo | Statistics | Some results on matching with replacement |
| Rachael C. (Rocky) Aikens | Biomedical Informatics | Assignment-Control Plots: A Visual Companion for Causal Inference Study Design |
Reception to follow: 4:15pm - 5:30pm