| 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) |