9:00–9:30 Welcome and Introductions
9:30–10:30 Noah Dasanaike (Harvard), Jacob Montgomery (WashU), Bryant Moy (WashU) , and Santiago Olivella (UNC),
“Small-area estimation using Gaussian Process grouped IRT regression and post-stratification”
10:45–11:15 Graduate student lightning talks with host Dominique Lockett
11:15–12:15 Taylor Damann (WashU), Dean Knox (Penn/Wharton), and Chris Lucas (WashU)
“More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters’ Affect and Evaluation.”
12:15–1:15 Lunch
1:15–2:15 Cassy Dorff (Vanderbilt University) and Shahryar Minhas (Michigan State)
“Which Way to Peace? Estimating Directionality in Conflict Event Data”
2:30–3:00 Graduate student lightning talks with host Dominique Lockett:
3:15–4:30 Anton Strezhnev (NYU / Chicago)
“A decomposition of fixed effects estimators with many fixed effects”
4:30–5:00; Happy Hour! (Note: Neither that happy nor an hour)