Dear Polmeth list members,
The preliminary program of 2015 Asian Political Methodology Conference is available at http://asiapolmeth.princeton.edu/online-program (also pasted below). We welcome your participation, including attending without presenting. While no registration fees are required, all attendees must register before Dec 20. If you are interested in serving as a discussant, please contact the program committee chair (Fang-Yi Chiou, [log in to unmask]) by Nov 31. We have reserved a block of hotel rooms with affordable rates, with detailed travel information available at http://asiapolmeth.princeton.edu/book/travelers-information . Once the reserved block of rooms is filled up, prices may increase. We look forward to your participation.
The Program Committee
Fang-Yi Chiou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (committee chair)
Kentaro Fukumoto, Gakushuin University, Japan
Benjamin Goldsmith, University of Sydney, Australia
Kosuke Imai, Princeton University, U.S.A.
Xun Pang, Tsinghua University, China
Jong Hee Park, Seoul National University, Korea
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Preliminary Program
Jan 9 (Friday)
8:50 a.m. Registration
9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:20 a.m. Session 1: Invited Talk
Survey Research in the 21st Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Open Questions
*Simon Jackman, Stanford University
10:20 a.m. Coffee Break
10:40 a.m. Session 2: Computation
Bicoordinate Descent for the LASSO
*John Londregan, Princeton University
In Song Kim, MIT
Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University
Discussant: TBA
Fast Estimation of Ideal Points with Massive Data Sets
*Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
*James Lo, Princeton University
Jonathan Olmsted, Princeton University
Discussant: TBA
Estimating Binary Spatial Autoregressive Models for Rare Events
Raffaella Calabrese, University of Essex
*Johan A. Elkink, University College Dublin
Discussant: TBA
12:40 p.m. Lunch
1:40 p.m. Session 3: Measurement
Beyond Ideology: the Intensity of Government-Opposition Divide within a Legislature and its political consequences. An application to Japanese Parliamentary Debates, 1953-2013
*Luigi Curini, University of Milan
Airo Hino, Waseda University
Atsushi Osaki, Waseda University
Discussant: TBA
Voter Ideology, Political Enthusiasm, and Candidate Positions
*Fang-Yi Chiou, Academia Sinica
*Mao-Ting Lin, National Taipei University
Discussant: TBA
Modeling Guessing Behaviors in the Measurement of Political Knowledge
*Chang-chih Lin National Chengchi University
*Tsung-han Tsai, National Chengchi University
Discussant: TBA
3:40 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00 a.m. Session 4: Posters
Jan 10 (Saturday)
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:20 a.m. Session 5: Invited Talk
Bounds on Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design
*Chi Huang, National Chengchi University
10:20 a.m. Coffee Break
10:40 a.m. Session 6: Bayesian Analysis
Changepoint Analysis of Multiplex Network Data
*Jong Hee Park, Seoul National University
*Yunkyu Sohn, University of California San Diego
Discussant: TBA
Estimating the Number of Latent Classes
*Shawn Treier, Australian National University
Discussant: TBA
Spike and Slab Prior for Variable Selection and Bayesian Model Averaging with Discrete Outcomes
*Xun Pang, Tsinghua University
Discussant: TBA
12:40 p.m. Lunch
1:40 p.m. Session 7: Invited talk
Does Encouragement Matter in Improving Gender Imbalance in Technical Fields
*Kevin Quinn, University of California, Berkeley
2:40 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 a.m. Session 8: Causal Inference
Design, Identification, and Sensitivity Analysis for Patient Preference Trials
Matthew Baum, Harvard University
Adam Berinsky, MIT
*Dean Knox, MIT
*Teppei Yamamoto, MIT
Discussant: TBA
The Agricultural Origins of Developmental States
*Ji Yeon Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yuhua WANG, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: TBA
Identifying Peer Effects under Homophily with an Instrumental Variable: Patronage and Promotions in the Chinese Bureaucracy
*Dean Knox, MIT
Discussant: TBA
5:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks
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