Conference in Honor of Gary Chamberlain Organizers Bryan Graham ([email protected]) Kei Hirano ([email protected]) Elie Tamer ([email protected]) Administrative support Eric Unverzagt ([email protected]) Conference participants Anna Mikusheva, Ariel Pakes, Bryan Graham, Charles Manski, Chris Sims, Dale Jorgenson, Ed Leamer, Elie Tamer, George Jakubson, Graham Elliott, Guido Imbens, Guillaume Pouliot, Jack Porter, Jamie Robins, James Heckman, Jim Powell, Jim Stock, Jinyong Hahn, Jose Luis Montiel Olea, Joshua Angrist, Keisuke Hirano, Manuel Arellano, Marcelo Moreira, Max Kasy, Michael Rothschild, Michal Kolesar, Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, Moshe Buchinsky, Neil Shephard, Nicholas Barberis, Parag Pathak, Rajeev Dehejia, Robin Lumsdaine, Roger Koenker, Sadek Wahba, Thomas Knox, Victor Chernozhukov, Whitney Newey Friday-Saturday, May 4-5, 2018 Littauer Center, Hansen-Mason Room Department of Economics Harvard University Time Speaker Title Friday, May 4, 2018 Littauer Center Harvard University Session 1 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM Registration and Lunch at the Following lunch, please Harvard Faculty Club, East proceed to Littauer Center, 3rd Dining Room Floor, Hansen-Mason Room (in the North Yard, next to the Science Center). 1:00-1:30 PM Max Kasy “Estimating Risk” 1:30-2:00 PM Guido Imbens “A Design-based Approach to Inference for Difference-In- Differences Settings with Staggered Adoption” (w/Susan Athey) 2:00-2:30 PM Break Session 2 2:30-3:00 PM Thomas Knox “Uniform Approximation of Sign-Regular Kernals” 3:00-3:30 PM Chris Sims “Likelihood-Based Approaches to Weighted Data” 3:30-4:00 PM Break Session 3 4:00-4:30 PM Michal Kolesár “Sensitivity analysis using approximate moment condition models” (joint with Tim Armstrong) 4:30-5:00 PM Chuck Manski “Minimax-regret sample design in anticipation of missing data” (joint with Jeff Dominitz) 5:00-5:30 PM Manuel Arellano “Recovering Latent Variables by Matching” (joint with Stéphane Bonhomme) 5:30 PM Adjourn 6:00 PM Dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club, Reading Room Saturday, May 5, 2018 Littauer Center Harvard University Session 4 9:00-9:30 AM Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak “Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design” 9:30-10:00 AM Marcelo Moreira “Testing Structural Parameters in IV Models” 10:00-10:30 AM Break Session 5 10:30-11:00 AM Moshe Buchinsky “Estimation and inference of semiparametric models using data from several sources” (with Zhipeng Liao and Fanghua Li) 11:00-11:30 AM Ed Leamer “Regression Analysis with an Infinite Number of Omitted Variables and a Flexible Set of Observable Variables” 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM Whitney Newey “Demand Analysis with Many Prices” (with Victor Chernozhukov and Jerry Hausman) 12:00–1:30 PM Lunch in Littauer Center, Hansen-Mason Room 1:30 PM Adjourn .