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Presentation Schedule (Fall 2001)

9/12 Organizational Meeting
9/19 Presentation: Elizabeth Stuart (Statistics)
``Using Administrative Records to Predict Census Day Residency." by Elizabeth Stuart and Alan Zaslavsky.

Discussants: Kosuke Imai
9/26 Presentation: Federico Girosi (CBRSS)
`` Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis with Different Explanatory Variables in Each cross-Section." by Frederico Girosi and Gary King.

Discussant: Kevin Karty
10/3 Presentation: Will Lowe (CBRSS)
`` An Automated Information Extraction Tool For International Conflict Data with Performance as Good as Human Coders: A Rare Events Evaluation Design." by Gary King and Will Lowe.

Discussant: TBA
10/10 Presentation: Kevin Karty (MIT)
`` Transparency and Capture in Federal Advisory Committees."
`` Testing the Limits of Democracy: Participation, Openness and Effectiveness in Federal Advisory Committees."
Discussant: TBA
10/17 Presentation: Per Pettersson(CBRSS)
`` Do Parties Matter for Fiscal Policy Choices ? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach."

Discussant: Christopher Adolph
10/24 Presentation: Guido Kuersteiner (MIT)
``Bias Corrected Instrumental Variables Estimation for Dynamic Panel Models with Fixed Effects" by Jinyong Hahn, Jerry Hausman, and Guido Kuersteiner.

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10/31 Presentation: Jonathan Wand (Cornell/CBRSS)
`` Dynamics and Convergence of Investor PAC Campaign Contributions." by Jonathan Wand and Walter R. Mebane, Jr.
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11/7 Presentation: Sean Carey (HMDC)
`` The Impact of Political Parties on Public Support for European Integration" Figures. By Sean Carey (HMDC)
Discussant: Barry Burden
11/14 Presentation: Alberto Abadie (KSG)
``The Economic Cost of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country" by Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal
Discussant: Jonathan Wand
11/21 Presentation: Donald Rubin

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11/28 Presentation: Mitali Das (Columbia/CBRSS)
"Estimation of Models with Endogenous Covariates, without Instrumental Variables"
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12/5 Presentation: Felix Elwert (Sociology)
"Revisiting the Effect of Rising Incarceration on the Unemployment Rate: US and Europe"
Discussant: Liz Stuart
12/12 Presentation: Alan Zaslavsky (HSPH)
``Quality Measurement for Health Plans Using Survey Data."
Alan M. Zaslavsky. Using hierarchical models to attribute sources of variation in consumer rating of health plans. In Proceedings, Sections on Epidemiology and Health Policy Staistics. American Statistical Association, 2000. In Press. Tables.

Alan M. Zaslavsky. Issues in case-mix adjustment of measures of the quality of health plans. In Proceedings, Government and Social Statistics Sections, pages 56-64. American Statistical Association, 1998.

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