Dr. Christopher Winship  Dr. Stephen Raudenbush Dr. Guanglei Hong

Symposium on Causal Inference

(http://www.qmp.isr.umich.edu/symposium-2007/)

Featuring Guest Speakers

Christopher Winship of Harvard University and

Steve Raudenbush of the University of Chicago

Sponsored by the Quantitative Methodology Program, Survey Research Center, ISR

In Connection with Sociology 710 and Statistics 617

Co-sponsored by the Frontiers in Social Sciences and Statistics Research, Theme Year 2006-2007

Coordinated by UM Faculty Ben Hansen, Elizabeth Bruch, David Harding,
Katherine Hoggatt, Jeff Smith, and Yu Xie 

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Room 6050 ISR

Endogenous Selection, Presented by Dr. Winship

(Abstract available at http://www.qmp.isr.umich.edu/symposium-2007/)

Evaluating Kindergarten Retention Policy:

A Case Study of Causal Inference for Multi-Level Observational Data, Presented by Dr. Hong

(Abstract available at http://www.qmp.isr.umich.edu/symposium-2007/)

Session One

12:10-12:30 Opening remarks by Chris Winship

12:30-12:50 Opening remarks by Steve Raudenbush

12:50-1:00 Questions and answers

1:00-1:45 Lunch and break. If you wish to stay for the second and third sessions, please contact Rhonda Moats at rmoats@umich.edu to request that

lunch is provided for you.

Session Two

1:45-2:15 Additional presentation by Chris Winship.

2:15-2:45 Student discussion of Chris Winship’s paper

2:45-3:00 General discussion on Chris Winship’s paper

3:00-3:15 Coffee break

Session Three

3:15-3:45 Presentation by Guanglei Hong on "Evaluating Kindergarten Rention Policy", Hong, Guanglei & Stephen Raudenbush, 2006. JASA 101:901-910

3:45-4:15 Student discussion of Hong and Raudenbush paper

4:15-4:30 General discussion on Hong and Raudenbush paper