Econometrics at UGA

Seminars

The UGA Econ department will host the following econometrics seminars during the Fall 2024 semester. For Fall 2024, seminars are held from 4:00–5:15 in Benson Hall C101.

Economics faculty in the greater Atlanta/Athens area are welcome to attend. Often, we are able to hold one or two meeting slots with the seminar speaker for external faculty—just get in touch with the host several days before the seminar date to request a meeting slot.

Fall 2024 Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliaton Host Paper
Tuesday, Sep. 24 Yulong Wang Syracuse University Carol Caetano On the Inconsistency of Cluster-Robust Inference and How Subsampling Can Fix It
Tuesday, Oct. 1 Davide Viviano Harvard University Brant Callaway A Model of Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Tuesday, Oct. 8 Xiaoxia Shi University of Wisconsin-Madison Zhongjian Lin Testing Inequalities Linear in Nuisance Parameters
Tuesday, Oct. 15 Rodrigo Pinto UCLA Greg Caetano The Economics of Monotonicity Conditions: Exploring Choice Incentives in IV Models
Tuesday, Oct. 29 Shakeeb Khan Boston College Brant Callaway Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models

[Past Seminars]

Reading Group

The Econometrics Reading Group is our internal reading group. Please see below for our current and upcoming schedules.

The organizers for this semester is Hugo Sant’Anna and Derek Dyal. If you would like to present or be added to our mailing list, please contact them.

Fall 2024 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Friday, Sep. 13 1:30--2:30 Orkin D207 Derek Dyal Aggregated Treatment
Friday, Sep. 27 2:00--3:30 Orkin D207 Hurricane Helene NA
Tuesday, Oct. 15 4:00--5:30 Benson C101 Brantly Callaway Treatment Effects in Staggered Adoption Designs with Non-Parallel Trends
Friday, Nov. 8 2:00--3:30 Orkin D207 Derek Dyal Models of Heterogeneity for Factorial Data I
Friday, Nov. 8 2:00--3:30 Orkin D207 Derek Dyal Models of Heterogeneity for Factorial Data II
Thursday, Dec. 5 2:00--3:30 Correll 442 DeVore Conference Room TBD TBD

[Past ERG Meetings]