Econometrician's Corner
Announcing the Aigner and Zellner Awards for 2022
The Aigner Award was given to THREE papers this year:
Difference-in-differences with variation in treatment timing by Andrew Goodman-Bacon.
Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects by Liyang Sun and Sarah Abraham
Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods by Brantly Callaway and Pedro Sant’Anna.
Congratulations Andrew, Liyang, Sarah, Brantly and Pedro!
The Zellner Award was given to the paper
Testing continuity of a density via g-order statistics in the regression discontinuity design
by Federico Bugni and Ivan Canay. Congratulations Federico and Ivan!
Congratulations to our New Fellows for 2022:
Giuseppe Cavaliere
Abhimanyu Gupta
Peter Reingard Hansen
Guido Imbens
Toru Kitagawa
Jia Li
Franco Peracchi
Christoph Rothe
The JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS SESSION AT
The 2023 ASSA MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS!
"What is a standard error"
will take place on Jan 6 (Saturday), 2:30-4:30 (CST), at Hilton Riverside, New Orleans.
Confirmed Speakers:
Andrew Gelman
Patrick Kline
James Powell
Jeff Wooldridge
Bin Yu
Hope to see you there!
We thank the Econometric Society for hosting this session.
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS SESSION AT THE (VIRTUAL) 2022 ASSA ON DATA PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN ITS RELATION TO ECONOMETRICS AND EMPIRICAL WORK.
HERE IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND LINK
Journal of Econometrics Session: Econometrics and Data in the 21st Century: Reproducibility and Transparency versus Privacy and Confidentiality
Panel Session
Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
John Friedman, Brown University
Topic: The Value of Differential Privacy Techniques in Economic Research: Small-Area Estimates of Long-Term Childrens' Outcomes
Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin
Topic: The State of Replicability in Econometrics
James G. MacKinnon, Queen’s University
Topic: Is Replication Feasible?
Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
Topic: Data Privacy and Data Collection
John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau
Topic: Data Privacy and the 2020 Census
We thank the Econometric Society for hosting this session.
Announcement: Aigner and Zellner Awards 2021:
The Editorial board is happy to announce the winners for the Aigner (best applied paper) and Zellner (best theory paper) Awards for 2021.
The 2021 Dennis J. Aigner Award for best empirical paper is awarded to
ESTIMATING LATENT ASSET PRICING FACTORS
by Martin Lettau and Markus Pelger, published in 2020, vol. 218.
The selection committee consisted of Giuseppe Cavaliere, Jun Yu and Yacine Ait-Sahalia
The 2021 Arnold Zellner Award for best theory paper published in 2019-2020 is awarded to
NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION IN INDEX MODELS OF LINK INFORMATION
by Wayne Gao, published in 2020, vol. 215.
The selection committee consisted of James Powell (chair), Graham Elliott and Arthur Lewbel.
We would like to congratulate the award winners and express our thanks and appreciation to the members of the 2021 Award committees for their service. Please see the official Announcement on the JOE website here.
Turnaround Time:
We would like to announce our turnaround time for the March 2020 - March 2021 period. This includes all submissions.
Median Time till First Decision: 87 days; Mean Time: 95 days.
News, etc.
A Special Annals Issue in honor of Gary Chamberlain was just published. Check this issue here.
We are happy to provide a video link from our recent Journal of Econometrics Panel Session "Econometrics in the 21st Century, Challenges and Opportunities" at the ASSA meetings in San Diego. The panelists are: Gary Chamberlain, Angus Deaton, Lars Hansen, Guido Imbens, Dan McFadden, Rosa Matzkin, and Chris Sims. We thank the Econometric Society for hosting this session at the meetings.