September 2, 2021 -
Synthetic Controls for Applied Economists
Keynote Speaker: Jesse Rothstein (UC Berkeley), Chief Moderator: Stacey Chen (UTokyo)
9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "The Augmented Synthetic Control Method" & "Synthetic Controls with Staggered Adoption" by Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, and Jesse Rothstein. (Slides)
11:00 am Tokyo Time (10:00 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion:Â "Desegregating Schools: Evidence from Middle School Closing Down in Deprived Neighborhoods" by Nina Guyon (NUS).