Seminars

The seminar series is arranged by Ben Deaner, Daniel Lewis, Liyang Sun and Andrei Zeleneev.

Mining Causality: AI-Assisted Search for Instrumental Variables; How Well Do LLMs Predict Human Behavior? A Measure of their Pretrained Knowledge

24 March 2026

Speaker: Sukjin Han (University of Bristol)
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBC

23 March 2026 - 23 March 2027

Speaker: Jing Kong (University of Oxford)
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
On the Irregular Behavior of Regularized Calibration in High Dimensions

17 March 2026

Speaker: Jesper Riis-Vestergaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
On Selecting Valid/Invalid Instruments

10 March 2026

Speaker: Frank Windmeijer (University of Oxford)
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Asymptotic Properties of Empirical Quantile-Based Estimators

3 March 2026

Speaker: Martin Mugnier (PSE)
Venue: Drayton House, B03, Ricardo Lecture Theatre.
Under the null of valid specification, pre-tests cannot make post-test inference liberal

24 February 2026

Speaker: Clément de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po)
Venue: Drayton House, B03, Ricardo Lecture Theatre.