Friday 3/23
3pm - 5pm: Crash course on causal mechanisms, Hall B, Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
7pm: Dinner for invited guests only, Russell House Tavern
Saturday 3/24, Conference, CGIS-South Basement
8:15am-8:45am: Breakfast
8:45am - 9am: Opening Remarks and Introduction, Dustin Tingley
9:00 - 10:25: Panel 1
Experimental Verification and the Pure (aka Natural) Direct Effect, Thomas Richardson
Causality, Mechanisms, and Statistics, Jamie Robins
Inverse Odds Ratio-Weighted Estimation for Causal Mediation Analysis, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
Discussant: Ilya Shpitser
10:25 - 10:40: Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:30: Panel 2
A Three-way Decomposition of a Total Effect into Direct, Indirect, and Interactive Effects, Tyler VanderWeele
Identifying Causal Mechanisms in Experiments (primarily) based on Inverse Probability Weighting, Martin Huber
Compliance Mixture Modelling with a Zero Effect Complier Class and Missing Data, Michael Sobel
Accomodating Missingness When Assessing Surrogacy Via Principal Stratification, Michael Elliot
Discussant: Elizabeth Ogburn
12:30 - 1:30: Lunch
1:30 - 3:00: Panel 3
Identification and Sensitivity Analysis for Multiple Causal Mechanisms: Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experiments, Kosuke Imai and Teppei Yamamoto
Using Post-Treatment Variables to Establish Upper Bounds on Causal Effects: Assessing Executive Selection Procedures in New Democracies, Adam Glynn and Nahomi Ichino
An Experimental Investigation of the Democratic Peace, Michael Tomz
Discussant: Matthew Blackwell
3:00 - 3:15: Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45: Panel 4
Analyzing Causal Mechanisms: A Formal Approach Using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), Carly Knight and Chris Winship
Methods to Assess Confounder Bias Applied to an Anabolic Steroid Prevention Program, David MacKinnon
Discussant: Samir Soneji
4:45 - 5:00: Closing Remarks
7pm: Dinner, Grafton Street