SI 2025 Frontier Econometric Methods
Organized by Isaiah Andrews, Susan Athey, and Christopher R. Walters
July 24, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 24

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Testing Mechanisms

Soonwoo Kwon, Brown University
Jonathan Roth, Brown University

Discussant:
Ismael Mourifié, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

9:15 am

Program Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes (slides)

Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rahul Singh, Harvard University
Davide Viviano, Harvard University

Discussant:
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Causal Inference on Outcomes Learned from Text

Iman Modarressi, University of Cambridge
Jann Spiess, Stanford University
Amar Venugopal, Stanford University

Discussant:
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

11:00 am

Identification of Long-Term Treatment Effects via Temporal Links, Observational, and Experimental Data

Filip Obradovic, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER

11:45 am

Lunch

12:45 pm

Investigating Instruments with Meta-Regressions

Aaron Pancost, University of Texas at Austin
Garrett Schaller, Colorado State University

Discussant:
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

1:30 pm

Break

1:45 pm

Estimating Demand with Recentered Instruments (slides)

Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Mauricio M. Caceres Bravo, Brown University
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER

Discussant:
Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER

2:30 pm

Adjourn