January 6 (Thursday)

Session 1: Welcome Address (9:00–10:30 am) Zoom
9:00 am- Welcome Address by SPM President Betsy Sinclair
9:45 am-

Round Table: Past, Present, and Future of Political Methodology.

Panelist: Kosuke Imai, Molly Roberts, Betsy Sinclair, Yiqing Xu
Break (10:30-10:40 am) Zoom
Break
Session 2: Causal Inference and Big Data (10:40-12:10 pm) Zoom
10:40 am-

Chad Hazlett and Yiqing Xu.

Trajectory Balancing: A kernel based weighting approach to causal inference with time-series cross-sectional data. (paper)
11:10 am-

Daniel J. Hopkins, Yphtach Lelkes, Samuel Wolken.

Which News Goes Viral? Measuring Identity Threats and Engagement with News Media Posts on Twitter and Facebook. (paper)
11:40 am- Discussant: Xun Pang (Tsinghua University)
Break (12:10–1:00 pm) Zoom
Lunch Break
Section 3: Causal Inference in Time Series Cross Sectional Data (1:00–2:30 pm) Zoom
1:00 pm-

Ye Wang, Yiqing Xu, Junlong Aaron Zhou.

Regression Discontinuity Designs for High-frequency Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data. (paper)
1:30 pm-

Licheng Liu and Xun Pang.

Causal Inferences with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data under Spatial Interference and Interdependence: A Model-based Approach. (paper)
2:00 pm- Discussant: Joon Seok Yang (Sungkyunkwan University)
Break (2:30-2:45 pm) Zoom
Break
Section 4: Text Analysis (2:45-4:15 pm) Zoom
2:45 pm-

Fang-Yi Chiou and Max Goplerud.

Measuring and Theorizing the Legislative Records of Members of the United States Congress, 1873-2010. (paper)
3:30 pm- Discussant: Yunkyu Sohn (Seoul National University)