Applied Statistics - Imbens and Ridder 

 This week the Applied Statistics Workshop will present a talk by Guido Imbens, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Geert Ridder, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California.   

 Professor Imbens has recently rejoined the Department of Economics at Harvard and is one of the faculty sponsors of the Applied Statistics Workshop, so we are delighted that he will be speaking at the Workshop.  He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and served on the faculties of Harvard, UCLA, and Berkeley before returning to Harvard. He has published widely, with a particular focus on questions relating to causal inference. Professor Imbens has been the recipient of numerous National Science Foundation grants and teaching awards.  His work has appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Biostatistics among many others.   

 Geert Ridder is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. Before coming to the United States he was Professor of Econometrics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In the United States he was Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University and visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Iowa, and Brown University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.  Professor Ridder’s research area is econometrics, in particular microeconometrics, and its applications in labor economics, public finance, economic development, economic demography, transportation research, and the economics of sports.  His methodological interests are the (nonparametric) identification of statistical and economic structures from observed distributions (mainly in duration data and discrete choice data), models and estimation methods for duration data and panel data, (selectively) missing data, causal inference, and errors-in-variables.   His work has appeared in Econometric, Economics of Education Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Journal of Econometrics among others.    

 Professors Imbens and Ridder will present a talk entitled " Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching: A Nonparametric Analysis ." The presentation will be at noon on Wednesday, December 6, in Room N354, CGIS North, 1737 Cambridge St. Lunch will be provided.