9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Welcome (light breakfast will be provided for all attendees)
9:30-11:00 Session 1A (Chair: Ben Williams)
Xu Lin (Virginia Tech), “Network Structures and Economic Behaviors”
Ali Habibnia (Virginia Tech), “A Time-varying Causal Inference Framework for Modeling Systemic Risk in High-Dimensional Financial Networks” (joint with Jalal Etesami and Negar Kiyavash)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Session 1B (Chair: Ben Williams)
Lixiong Li (Johns Hopkins), “Finite Sample Inference in Incomplete Models” (joint with Marc Henry)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (catered lunch will be provided for all attendees)
1:30-3:00 Session 2 (Chair: Nicholas Li)
Fangzhu Yang (Johns Hopkins), “The Effect of China’s Universal Two-Child Policy on Gender Inequality”
Shervin S. Tehrani (UT-Dallas), “Estimating Position and Social Influence Effects in Online Search: An Empirical Generalized Weitzman Model” (joint with Andrew T. Ching, Ata Jameei Osgouie, and Brian Ratchford)
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 Session 3 (Chair: Robert Phillips)
Eric Nielsen (Federal Reserve Board), “Identification and Estimation of Average Marginal Treatment Effects with a Bunching Design” (joint with Carolina Caetano and Gregorio Caetano)
Nicholas Li (George Washington), “Bunching as Quantile Differences with Implications for Welfare Analyses”