September 2021
Designing Equitable Algorithms for Criminal Justice and Beyond
Sharad Goel (Harvard University)
E18-304
Please join us on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 4:00pm for the Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Sharad Goel (Harvard University).
Find out more »May 2021
Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
Online
Please join us on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 3:00pm for the Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University).
Find out more »April 2021
How Can Governments Facilitate the Integration of Newcomers? Building an Evidence and Innovation Agenda for Migration Research
Jens Hainmueller (Stanford University)
Online
Please join us on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 3:00pm for the Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Jens Hainmueller (Stanford University).
Find out more »March 2021
Thinking Outside Disciplinary Boundaries: Applying Behavioral Insights to the Design of Public Policy
Brigitte Madrian (Brigham Young University)
Online
Please join us on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 3:00pm for the Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Brigitte Madrian (Brigham Young University).
Find out more »February 2021
Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Online
Please join us on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 3:00pm for the Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Nathan Nunn, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Find out more »December 2020
Mass Incarceration and the Challenge of Social Research
Bruce Western (Columbia University)
online
IDSS will host Prof. Bruce Western as part of the Distinguished Speaker Seminar series. Prof. Westerns research has examined the causes, scope, and consequences of the historic growth in U.S. prison populations. He is Co-Director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University.
Find out more »November 2020
An Introduction to Proximal Causal Learning
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
online
Please join us on November 2, 2020 at 4pm for the Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor and Professor of Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Find out more »October 2020
Social Networks and the Market for News
Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
online
Please join us on October 5, 2020 at 4pm for the IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Rachel Kranton, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University.
Find out more »May 2020
The Ethical Algorithm
Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)
online
https://youtu.be/IATv0m5U5z8 Title: The Ethical Algorithm Abstract: Many recent mainstream media articles and popular books have raised alarms over anti-social algorithmic behavior, especially regarding machine learning and artificial intelligence. The concerns include leaks of sensitive personal data by predictive models, algorithmic discrimination as a side-effect of machine learning, and inscrutable decisions made by complex models. While standard and legitimate responses to these phenomena include calls for stronger and better laws and regulations, researchers in machine learning, statistics and related areas are…
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[POSTPONED] The Blessings of Multiple Causes
David Blei (Columbia University)
E18-304
*Please note: this event has been POSTPONED until Fall 2020* See MIT’s COVID-19 policies for more details. Title: The Blessings of Multiple Causes Abstract: Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods require that we observe all confounders, variables that affect both the causal variables and the outcome variables. But whether we have observed all confounders is a famously untestable assumption. We describe the deconfounder, a way to do causal…
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