Dr. Thomas Cook Dr. Joshua Angrist
Symposium on Causal Inference
Featuring Guest Speakers
Thomas Cook of Northwestern University and
Josh Angrist of MIT
Sponsored by the Quantitative Methodology Program, Survey Research Center, ISR
In Connection with Sociology 710/Statistics 617
Coordinated by UM Faculty Elizabeth Bruch, Matias Cattaneo, Susan Dynarski, Fred Feinberg,
Richard Gonzalez, Ben Hansen, David Harding, Katherine Hoggatt, Narayan Sastry,
Jeff Smith, Rocio Titiunik, and Yu Xie
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Room 6050 ISR
“Instrumental Variables in Action:
Sometimes You Get What You Need”
Josh Angrist
“Reducing Bias in Observational Studies: The Relative
Importance of Covariate Choice, Reliability of the Covariates
and Mode of Data Analysis”
Thomas Cook
1:00-1:15 Introduction
Session One
1:15-2:00 Angrist Presentation
2:00-2:40 Discussion
2:40-3:00 Coffee Break
Session Two
3:00-3:45 Cook Presentation
3:45-4:30 Discussion