Agenda
Day One: Thursday January 11, 2024
| Time | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8-8:30am | Breakfast and Registration | A6 Main Foyer |
| 8:30-8:45am | Opening Remarks | A6 Auditorium |
| 9-10:30am | Media and Censorship Discussant: Josh Tucker | |
| "Measuring Media Freedom" — Christopher Barrie | ||
| "How Chinese Censorship Allows Public Discourse on Democracies but Not Their Institutions" — Tony Yang | ||
| 10:30-10:45am | Break | |
| 10:45am-12:15pm | Heterogeneous Effects Discussant: Cyrus Samii | |
| "Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Discovered by Generic Machine Learning in Randomized Experiments" — Kosuke Imai | ||
| "Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects" — Marc Ratkovic | ||
| 12:15-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-3pm | Survey Experiments Discussant: Bob Kubinec | |
| "Democratic Backsliding and Foreign Public Opinion" — Ben Goldsmith | ||
| "Correcting Measurement Error Bias in Conjoint Survey Experiments" — Yusaku Horiuchi | ||
| 3-3:15pm | Break | |
| 3:15-4:30pm | Keynote: Jennifer Hill | |
| 4-6pm | Poster Session | |
| 6-6:30pm | Shuttle to Intercontinental Hotel | |
| 6:30-9pm | Dinner: Byblos Sur Mer |
Day Two: Friday January 12, 2024
| Time | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9am | Breakfast | |
| 9-10:30am | Image Data Discussant: Bryant Moy | Room 1 |
| "Methods for Enhancing the Signal to Noise Ratio Using Raster Data" — Daniel Baissa | ||
| "Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan" — Rachel Sayers | ||
| International Relations Discussant: Sujeong Shim | Room 2 | |
| "Contesting the Liberal Script? The AIIB and the World Bank in Development Finance" — Soo Yeon Kim | ||
| "Bilateral Meetings, Bilateral Emotions: Predicting the Outcomes of Emotional Interactions Between Heads of Governments and States Since the Late 19th Century" — Cantay Caliskan | ||
| 10:30-10:45am | Break | |
| 10:45am-12:15pm | Media and Censhorship II Discussant: Korhan Kocak | Room 1 |
| "Learning Media Quality from Facebook Data" — Tom Paskhalis | ||
| "Effect of Technology on State Ability to Conduct Surveillance and Censorship" — Yuree Noh | ||
| Bayesian Inference Discussants: Marc Ratkovic; Jong Hee Park | Room 2 | |
| "Generalized Ideal Point Models for Time-Varying and Missing-Data Inference" — Bob Kubinec | ||
| "Bridging Prediction and Theory: Introducing the Bayesian Partially-Protected Lasso" — Yasir Atalan | ||
| 12:15-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-3pm | Causal Inference Discussant: TBC | Room 1 |
| "What To Do (and Not to Do) with Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from A Large Reanalysis Study" — Albert Chiu | ||
| "Experimental Evaluation of Individualized Dynamic Treatment Rules" — Jiongyi Cao | ||
| Potpourri Discussant: John Londregan | Room 2 | |
| "How Much Should You Trust Your Power Calculation Results? Power Analysis as an Estimation Problem" — Shiyao Liu | ||
| "Large Language Models as the Last Frontier for Classification Tasks? The CAP Babel Machine as a Blueprint for Practical Comparative Research" — Miklos Sebok | ||
| "Dominance Through Division: Group-based Clientelism in Japan" — Amy Catalinac | ||
| 3-4pm | Snacks and Group Photo |
Day Three: Saturday January 13, 2024
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| Depart at 2pm | Optional Excursion to the Desert |