Last Two Mixtape Sessions Workshops for Spring 2023
Rocío Titiunik on RDD; Brigham Frandsen on estimating individual treatment effects with machine learning
Before I introduce the last two speakers of the spring 2023 season of Mixtape Sessions, I wanted to briefly summarize the year so far. All the workshops are up. The average econometrics workshops in 2022 was probably around 120 people, but this year they’re up to almost 220 people per workshop. Mark and Dan’s innovative hidden curriculum workshop on “doing applied research” averaged around 50 people last year and this year is also up to around 65. It’s exciting because we’ve been able to use Zoom, scale, Vimeo password protected videos for participants with steep cuts in price along demand using price discrimination to encourage the best and the brightest to come to the platform and teach. Our vision of being a bridge that takes econometrics off the top shelf, taught by the econometricians themselves, and delivering this material to people all over the world, from all walks of life, with needs and wants to learn these tools but who can’t come to MIT, Brown or Princeton otherwise …
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