Reuniones Científicas en el Área de las Ciencias Sociales

FUNDACION RAMON ARECES
Vitruvio, 5, 28006 Madrid, Spain



CONFERENCE ON THE EVALUATION OF SOCIAL POLICIES
Madrid, 7-8 June 2002
Programme

Organizers:

Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI, Madrid)
 

 
Friday, 7 June
15.30  Introduction by the organizers
15.45 – 17.00 Costas Meghir (University College London)
Instrumental Variables, Local Instrumental Variables and Control Functions
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 18.45 Hidehiko Ichimura (University College London)
Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Acounting for Employment Composition
18.45 – 20.00 Edward J. Vytlacil (Stanford University)
Selection Models without Parametric Restrictions
21.00 Dinner
Saturday, 8 June
10.15 – 11.30 Joshua D. Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Achievement Awards for High School Matriculation: Research Methods and Preliminary Findings
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.15  Richard Blundell (University College London)
The Evaluation of an In-Work Benefit Programme
13.30 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 16.45  James J. Heckman (University of Chicago)
Identification and Estimation of Counterfactual Distributions
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee Break
17.15 – 18.30

Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)
Simple and Bias Corrected Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects

18.30 – 19.45 James M. Robins (Harvard University)
Estimation of Optimal Muti-Period Intervention Strategies from Panel and Time Series Data
21.00  Dinner