Econometrics at UGA

Past ERG Meetings

Spring 2025 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Wednesday, Feb. 5 12:00--1:30 Terry BLC A400 Boyd Conference Room Brantly Callaway Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-Difference Models
Monday, Feb. 24 11:10--12:30 Orkin Hall D207 Emmanuel Tsyawo A Distance Covariance-based Estimator
Wednesday, Mar. 12 12:00--1:30 Terry BLC A400 Boyd Conference Room Brantly Callaway Instrumented Difference-in-Differences with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Wednesday, Mar. 19 12:00--1:30 Terry BLC A400 Boyd Conference Room Zhongjian Lin Identification of Average Marginal Effects in Fixed Effects Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

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

Summer 2024 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Monday, May. 13 11:00--12:30 More-Rooker A400 Stroud Payne Calculating Semiparametric Efficiency Bounds (Sant'Anna and Zhao, JE 2020)

Spring 2024 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Thursday, Feb. 8 11:00--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Hugo Sant'Anna Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions (Chen and Roth, QJE 2023)
Thursday, Mar. 14 11:00--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Derek Dyal An IV Model of Quantile Treatment Effects (Chernozhukov and Hansen, ECMA 2005)
Thursday, Apr. 11 11:00--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Michael Kotrous Difference-in-Differences in Equilibrium: Evidence from Place-Based Policies
Thursday, Apr. 25 11:00--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Hugo Sant'Anna Introduction to AKM Models (Card, Heining, and Kline, QJE 2013)

Fall 2023 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Thursday, Sep. 21 11:30--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Carol Caetano, Brant Callaway When is TSLS Actually LATE?
Thursday, Sep. 28 11:30--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Brant Callaway Simple Approaches to Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences with Panel Data
Thursday, Oct. 26 12:45--1:45 Benson Hall C400 Carol Caetano Empirical Bayes Deconvolution Estimates.

Spring 2023 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Wednesday, Apr. 26 11:30--12:30 Ivester E227 Michael Kotrous Cluster-robust inference: A guide to empirical practice
Thursday, Apr. 27 11:30--12:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Brant Callaway Interpreting regression under treatment effect heterogeneity

Fall 2022 Schedule

Date Time Location Leader Title
Friday, Sep. 16 10:30--11:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis Evaluating the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic
Thursday, Sep. 22 14:30--15:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Hugo Sant'Anna Synthetic difference-in-differences
Thursday, Oct. 20 14:30--15:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Brant Callaway On the implied weights of linear regression for causal inference
Thursday, Nov. 10 14:30--15:30 Moore-Rooker A400 Carol Caetano Primer on Bunching Methods for Causal Inference