2016 Latin American Workshop in Econometrics
Econometric Society
11 - 12 March, 2016
Workshop Program
Friday, March 11th
8:00 – 8:15: Registration
8:15 – 8:30: Opening Ceremony
8:30 – 9:25: Contributed 1: Tymon Sloczynski (Warsaw School of Economics & IZA), “New Evidence on
Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity ”
9:25 – 10:20: Contributed 2: Tomás Rau (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), “A Covariate
Balancing Kernel Matching Estimator”
10:20 – 11:15: Contributed 3: Vitor Possebom (Sao Paulo School of Economics FGV) “Synthetic Control
Estimator: A Generalized Inference Procedure and Confidence Sets”
11:15 – 11:35: Coffee break
11:35 – 1:00: Keynote speaker 1: Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago), “Models and estimators
for matched panel data”
1:00 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 – 3:25: Contributed 4: Federico H. Gutierrez (Vanderbilt University) “Difference-in-Differences when
the Treatment Status is Observed in Only One Period”
3:25 – 4:20: Contributed 5: Cristine Pinto (Sao Paulo School of Economics – FGV) “Inference in
Differences-in-Differences with Few Treated Groups and Heteroskedasticity”
4:20 – 4:40: Coffee break
4:40 – 5:35: Contributed 6: Carlos Cañón (Banco de México) “Distributional Policy Effects with Many
Treatment Outcomes: The Assessment of a Government Intervention in Mexico”
5:35 – 6:30: Contributed 7: Gregorio Caetano (University of Rochester) “Identifying Dynamic Spillovers
of Crime: An Empirical Approach to Model Selection”
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Saturday, March 12th
8:00 – 8:55: Contributed 8: Antonio F. Galvao (University of Iowa) “Measurement Errors in Quantile
Regression Models”
8:55 – 9:50: Contributed 9: Hugo Jales (Syracuse University) “Measuring the Effects of the Minimum
Wage on Employment, Formality and the Wage Distribution: A Structural Econometric Approach”
9:50 – 10:45: Contributed 10: Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt University) “Treatment Effects with
Duration Outcomes”
10:45 – 11:05: Coffee break
11:05 – 12:00: Contributed 11: Carolina Caetano (University of Rochester) “Identifying Multiple Marginal
Effects with a Single Binary Instrumentor by Regression Discontinuity”
12:00 – 1:25: Keynote Speaker 2: Matías Cattaneo (University of Michigan) “Recent Developments in the
Analysis and Interpretation of Regression Discontinuity Designs”
1:25 – 1:30: Closing remarks