Wednesday, October 12, from 7:45am-4:30pm CT
The Methods and Measurement Conference is organized by the IPA-Northwestern Research Methods Initiative to provide a platform to discuss recent advances in measurement, under the Initiative’s three strands: Research Design and Analysis, Fieldwork Implementation and Data Collection, and Questionnaire Design and Measurement.
Panels and schedule are subject to change leading up to the conference.
Agenda
7am-8:45am | Breakfast | Atrium
8:45am-9am | Introductions | 164 Auditorium
Andrew Dillon & Steven Glazerman
9:00am-10:00am | Integrating RCTs Into Panel Data | 164 Auditorium
Yannick Markhof, Samuel Ampaw, Isabel Onate Falomir, & Dean Karlan
Moderator: Andrew Dillon
10:00am-10:30am | Coffee | Lounge
10:30am-12:00pm | Accurately Surveying Women | 164 Auditorium
Sarah Deschenes, "Using List Experiments to Measure Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Evidence from rural Burkina Faso"
Aditi Kadam, "Who is Asking and How? Effects of Enumerator Gender and Survey Methods on Measuring Women’s Life Experience (WLE)"
Winnie Mughogho, "No Clear Evidence Favoring the List Experiment to Measure Intimate Partner Violence in Nairobi City County"
10:30am-12:00pm | Measurement Error & Statistical Power | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Bob Reed, "How Accurate are Ex Ante Power Analyses? An Analysis from 3ie’s Replication Programme"
Rachel Sayers, "Measuring Agricultural Survey Bias Across Couples with GIS and Lab-in-the-Field"
Joshua Deutchman, "Using Validation Data to Correct for Treatment-Induced Measurement Error"
12pm-1:00 pm | Lunch | Atrium Dining Room
12:15pm-1:00pm | Optional Lunch Session | Data Quality Protocols: Are You Doing the “Minimum Must-Dos” in Your Research? | 140 Brownfield Classroom
1:00pm-2:00pm | Integrating Satellite Data with Surveys | 164 Auditorium
Manuel Cardona, "Using Satellite Imagery to Inform Survey Design and Poverty Measurement"
Steven Glazerman, "Impacts of Presurvey Messaging Content on Response Rates in Low-Income Countries"
1:00pm-2:00pm | Survey ParaData & Metadata as Research Infrastructure | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Ardina Hasanbasri, "Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries"
Sarah Kopper, "A Metadata Schema for Data from Experiments in the Social Sciences"
2:00pm-2:30pm | Coffee | Lounge
2:30pm-3:30pm | Survey Data Quality: Survey Inattention & Reliable Measurement of Vaccines | 164 Auditorium
Winnie Mughogho, "Measurement of Survey Inattention in a Low Income Sample"
Philip Wollburg, "Reliability of Survey and Administrative Data on Vaccinations"
2:30pm-3:30pm | Survey Design Issues for Reliability: Dietary Diversity & Retail Productivity | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Thomas Assefa, "Measuring Dietary Diversity with High Frequency Mobile Phone Interviews in Ethiopia"
Ajay Shenoy, "Estimating Retail Productivity"
3:30pm-4:30pm | Survey Mode & Representative Samples | 164 Auditorium
Elliott Collins, "Representativeness of Remote Methods in LMICs: A Cross-National Study of Pandemic-Era Surveys"
Ellen Anderson, "Does Survey Mode Matter? Evidence from Phone and In-Person Agricultural Surveys in India"
3:30pm-4:30pm | Methods for Measuring Violence & Anthropometrics | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Doug Parkerson, "Assessing the Feasibility of Caregiver-Administered Anthropometric Measurements"
Graeme Blair, "Evidence-Based Decision-Making on Research Ethics in the Social Sciences"