All events (except the Conference Dinner on Thursday, July 21) will take place in the Bioscience Research Collaborative building. Room locations refer to locations in the BRC building.
The schedule of events is as follows:
Thursday, July 21
7:30 AM: Registration and Breakfast (BRC pre-function area)
8:15-8:45 AM: Opening Remarks (BRC auditorium)
- Justin Esarey, Chair of the Program Committee and Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Antonio Merlo, Dean of Social Sciences and George A. Peterkin Professor of Economics
- Ashley Leeds, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science
9:00-10:20 AM: Panel Session 1 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Jamie Monogan and Jeff Gill
Slicing Public Opinion for State and National Research
Discussant: Stephen Jessee - BRC 282: Alexander Tahk
A Dirichlet-Process Ideal-Point Model
Discussant: Michael Higgins
10:40 AM-12:00 PM: Panel Session 2 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Walter R. Mebane, Jr., and Diogo Ferrari
Developments in Positive Empirical Models of Election Frauds
Discussant: Yuki Shiraito - BRC 282: Kosuke Imai and In Song Kim
When Should We Use Linear Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Data?
Discussant: Neal Beck
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Lunch (BRC Event/Exhibition Area)
1:30-2:50 PM: Panel Session 3 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Christian Fong and Justin Grimmer
Discovery of Treatments from Text Corpora
Discussant: Nazita Lajevardi - BRC 282: Luke Keele, Dylan S. Small, and Jesse Y. Hsu
Patterns of Effects and Sensitivity Analysis for Difference-in-Differences
Discussant: Patrick Brandt
3:10-4:30 PM: Panel Session 4 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Jowei Chen
Black Electoral Geography and Congressional Districting: The Effect of Racial Redistricting on Partisan Gerrymandering
Discussant: Emily Schilling - BRC 282: Rima S. Tanash, Abdullah Aydogan, Zhouhan Chen, Dan Wallach, Melissa Marschall, Devika Subramanian, Chris Bronk
Detecting Sensitive User-Communities in Censored Tweets Using Data-Flow Graphs
Discussant: Margaret Roberts
4:30-6:00 PM: Faculty Poster Session/Reception (BRC Event/Exhibition Hall)
6:00-6:30 PM: Transport from BRC to Rice Student Center
6:30-8:00 PM: Conference Dinner (Grand Ballroom, Rice Student Center)
8:00-8:30 PM: Transport from Rice Student Center to BRC
8:30 PM – 12:30 AM: After Conference Socializing at The Ginger Man Pub
Shuttle Buses will run continuously between BRC and The Ginger Man between 8:30 PM – 12:30 AM
Friday, July 22
8:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast (BRC pre-function area)
9:00-10:20 AM: Panel Session 5 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Jason Radford and Betsy Sinclair
Electronic Homestyle: Tweeting Ideology
Discussant: Nick Beauchamp - BRC 282: Jens Hainmueller, Jonathan Mummolo, and Yiqing Xu
How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice [appendix]
Discussant: Carlisle Rainey
10:40 AM-12:00 PM: Panel Session 6 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Adam Bonica
Inferring Roll Call Scores from Campaign Contributions Using Supervised Machine Learning
Discussant: Scott Basinger - BRC 282: Devin Caughey, Allan Dafoe, and Luke Miratrix
Beyond the Sharp Null: Permutation Tests Actually Test Heterogeneous Effects
Discussant: Brandon Stewart
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Lunch (BRC Event/Exhibition Area)
1:30-2:50 PM: Panel Session 7 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Jacob M. Montgomery and David Carlson
Funneling the Wisdom of Crowds: A Human Computation Approach for Sentiment Analysis of Political Texts
Discussant: Burt Monroe - BRC 282: L. Jason Anastasopoulos, Dhruvil Badani, Shiry Ginosar, Crystal Lee and Jake Williams
Visible Partisanship: Convolutional Neural Networks and Deep Learning for Analyzing Political Images
Discussant: Jeffrey Arnold
3:10-4:30 PM: Panel Session 8 (BRC auditorium)
- Melanie Goodrich, Ryan Baird, Natalie Jackson, Phil Schrodt, and Erin Hartman
Panel Discussion: Jobs for Methodologists Outside Academia
Moderator: Justin Esarey
4:40-5:20 PM: Business Meeting (BRC auditorium)
5:30-7:00 PM: GS Poster Session/Reception (BRC Event/Exhibition Hall)
7:30 PM – 12:30 AM: After Conference Socializing at The Ginger Man Pub
Shuttle Buses will run continuously between BRC and The Ginger Man between 7:30 PM – 12:30 AM
Saturday, July 23
8:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast (BRC pre-function area)
9:00-10:20 AM: Panel Session 9 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Brendan Nyhan, Christopher Skovron, and Rocio Titiunik
Differential Registration Bias in Voter File Data: A Sensitivity Analysis Approach
Discussant: Christopher Lucas - BRC 282: Hanna Wallach
Bayesian Poisson Tucker Decomposition for International Relations
Discussant: Rob Franzese
10:40 AM-12:00 PM: Panel Session 10 (BRC 280 and BRC 282)
- BRC 280: Scott J. Cook, Betsabe Blas, Raymond J. Carroll, and Samiran Sinha
Two Wrongs Make a Right: Addressing Underreporting in Binary Data from Multiple Sources
Discussant: Chad Hazlett - BRC 282: Olga Chyzh
Introducing a Local Structure Model for Network Analysis
Discussant: Cassy Dorff
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Lunch and Closing Remarks (BRC Event/Exhibition Area)
