SI 2026 Frontier Econometric Methods
Organized by Isaiah Andrews, Susan Athey, and Christopher R. Walters
July 30, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 30
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Selecting Experimental Sites for External Validity

Michael Gechter, University of Arkansas
Keisuke Hirano, Pennsylvania State University
Jean Nahrae Lee, The World Bank
Mahreen Mahmud, University of Exeter
Orville Mondal, Bates White Economic Consulting
Jonathan Morduch, New York University
Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore
Abu S. Shonchoy, Florida International University

Discussant:
TBA
9:15 am

Experimental Design when Combining Experimental with Observational Evidence

Aristotelis Epanomeritakis, Harvard University
Davide Viviano, Harvard University

Discussant:
TBA
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

One Instrument, Many Treatments: Instrumental Variables Identification of Multiple Causal Effects

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andres Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
Otávio Tecchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
TBA
11:00 am

Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach

Jiafeng Chen, Stanford University
Lihua Lei, Stanford University
Timothy Sudijono, Stanford University
Liyang Sun, University College London
Tian Xie, University College London

Discussant:
TBA
11:45 am
Lunch
12:45 pm

Inference for Regression with Variables Generated by AI or Machine Learning

Laura Battaglia, Oxford University
Timothy Christensen, Yale University
Stephen Hansen, University College London
Szymon K. Sacher, Stanford University

Discussant:
TBA
1:30 pm
Break
1:45 pm

Generative-AI Powered Inference

Junting Duan, Stanford University
Markus Pelger, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
TBA
2:30 pm
Adjourn