Towards a common language in statistical methodology: examples from current applications
Date:
23/04/2014
Organised by:
PATHWAYS (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and PEPA (Institute for Fiscal Studies).
Presenter:
Bianca De Stavola (LSHTM and PATHWAYS), Monica Costa Dias (IFS and PEPA), Richard Grieve (LSHTM), Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL, IFS and PEPA).
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Kavita Patel
020 7927 2053
kavita.patel@lshtm.ac.uk
Description:
There are many common challenges in empirical economics and health research, including issues to do with missing data, clustering, measurement error, mediation, censoring or selection. But these problems are often described and addressed in different ways, according to the disciplinary perspective.
This workshop is a first move to bring together researchers in applied economics and health. It aims to stimulate the interaction between researchers in the two disciplines, promoting the discussion of alternative approaches to common problems and the interchange of ideas and experiences. The focus will be on some of the methods commonly adopted by the two disciplines and their implications in practice for the measurement of causal relationships.
Confirmed speakers:
“A comparison of multiple imputation methods for bivariate hierarchical data”.
Presenting author: Karla Diaz-Ordaz (LSHTM)
Discussant: Michael Webb (IFS)
“Nutrition, information, and household behaviour: experimental evidence from Malawi”.
Presenting author: Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL, IFS and PEPA)
Discussant: Bianca De Stavola (LSHTM and PATHWAYS)
“Inference with difference-in-differences revisited”.
Presenting author: Mike Brewer (Essex and IFS)
Discussant: Mike Kenward (LSHTM)
“The synthetic control method compared to difference-in-differences for evaluating pay-for-performance schemes in health care”
Presenting author: Noemi Kreif (LSHTM)
Discussant: Monica Costa-Dias (IFS)
Cost:
Free
Website and registration:
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/booking/index.php?user=PATH
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Explanatory Research and Causal analysis, Comparative and Cross National Research, Survey and Questionnaire Design, Data Collection (other), Quantitative Approaches (other), Mixed Methods Approaches (other)
Related publications and presentations:
Explanatory Research and Causal analysis
Comparative and Cross National Research
Survey and Questionnaire Design
Data Collection (other)
Quantitative Approaches (other)
Mixed Methods Approaches (other)