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Graduate Mini Course
Every year, a visiting professor is invited to the SFU Burnaby campus to teach a short course on a specialized subject in their field of expertise. It is a unique opportunity for graduate students to learn from some of the world's top scholars.
Spring 2022
"Machine Learning for Microeconometrics" by Colin Cameron, University of California - Davis
Colin Cameron is professor of economics at the University of California, Davis. He is also a member of the UCD Graduate Group in Statistics, a faculty member of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at UC Davis, serves on several university committees, and is a Visiting Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney. He is associate editor of The Stata Journal. Dr. Cameron is the co-author of three graduate-level books in microeconometrics methods (Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications, Microeconometrics using Stata, and Regression Analysis of Count Data) and has presented many short courses around the world.
Slides and materials: http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/sfu2022/
Spring 2022 Schedule
- Tuesday, May 10th: 10:30am - 12:30pm
- Wednesday, May 11th: 10:30am - 12:30pm
- Thursday, May 12th: 10:30am - 12:30pm
- Friday, May 13th: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Location: WMC 3611
Contact
The mini course is open to all economics graduate students.
Graduate students outside the Economics Department are welcome to attend (space permitting). Contact the Graduate Chair at econ_gradchair@sfu.ca.
Past mini courses
2019 - Ian Crawford (University of Oxford)
"Empirical Revealed Preference"
2018 - Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
"The Identification Zoom - Meanings of Identification in Econometrics"
2016 - Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
"Liquidity: A New Monetarist Perspective"
2015 - Robert Feenstra (UC Davis)
"International Economics and Trade"
2014 - David Figlio (Northwestern University)
2012 - Jeff Smith (University of Michigan)
2010 - Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
"Nonparametrics for Noneconometricians"
2009 - Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich)
2009 - Kevin Milligan (UBC)
2008 - John Abowd (Cornell University)
2007 - Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)
2006 - Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)