Keynote Speakers

Clément de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po) — Lecture on January 22nd

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Clément de Chaisemartin is a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po and a J-PAL Affiliate. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project REALLYCREDIBLE. His research focuses on developing credible methods for impact evaluation, with a particular emphasis on modern differences-in-differences estimators. He is co-author of the forthcoming textbook Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments (with Xavier D’Haultfoeuille). Clément de Chaisemartin also develops widely used open-source tools in Stata and R, including did_multiplegt_dyn and twowayfeweights. His work has been published in leading economic journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, and AEJ: Applied Economics. He earned his PhD in Economics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics (PSE). Prior to joining Sciences Po, Clément de Chaisemartin held permanent faculty positions at the University of Warwick and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Learn more about Clément and his work on his homepage.

Alessandra Casella (Colombia University) — Lecture on January 23rd

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Alessandra Casella is a Professor of Economics and Political Science at Columbia University, where she co-directs the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). She is a fellow of both the NBER and CEPR and founded the Columbia Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (CELSS), which she directed from 2012 to 2022. Her current research focuses on voting behavior and theoretical experimental political economy. She is the author of Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice (Oxford University Press, 2012). Her work has been published in top journals including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and Games and Economic Behavior. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships: she has been a Guggenheim fellow, a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, a Russell Sage fellow, and a Straus fellow at the NYU Law School. Alessandra Casella earned her PhD in Economics from MIT, and she previously served as Directeur d’Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Marseille.

Learn more about Alessandra and her work on her homepage.