Adaptive Testing on a Regression Function at a Point
Timothy B. Armstrong considers the problem of inference on a regression function at a point when the entire function satisfies a sign or shape restriction under the null. He proposes a test that achieves the optimal minimax rate adaptively over a range...
Fuzzy Changes-in-Changes
The changes-in-changes model extends the widely used difference-in-differences technique to measure the effects of a treatment within situations where outcomes may evolve heterogeneously. Contrary to difference-in-differences, this model is unaffected...
Who Wins, Who Loses? Tools for Distributional Policy Evaluation
Most policy changes generate winners and losers. For example, price changes resulting from trade liberalization either benefit producers while hurting consumers or vice versa. Optimal policy evaluation demands an answer to questions of who wins, who l...
Large Matching Markets as Two-Sided Demand Systems
Konrad Menzel studies two-sided matching markets with non-transferable utility as the number of market participants grows large. He develops a model in which each agent has a random preference ordering of individual potential matching partners, and ag...
Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms
Estimates of agent preferences are often essential for economic analysis, allowing economists to determine incentives and thus predict actions, as well as allowing policy evaluators to determine the efficiency and distributional consequences of counte...
Aims of Education Address 2015
Every year since 1961, a University of Chicago faculty member has been invited to address students in the College regarding his or her view on the aims of a liberal education. In 1962, the Aims of Education Address was added to Orientation Week and off...
Orientation 2014 Opening Convocation
This long-standing tradition includes a welcome by Elizabeth Davenport, Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel; music from the University's Motet Choir; the presentation of the Class of 2018 by James Nondorf, Vice President for Enrollment and Student Adva...
Navigating College Opportunities
Learn more about programming and planning opportunities that support student development at the University of Chicago.
International Parent Orientation
Information session for parents of international students at the University of Chicago.