[Colloquium] Thursday 2/28 | Steven Durlauf at the Computational Social Science Workshop

[Nora Nickels]

THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTSSTEVEN DURLAUFSTEANS
PROFESSOR IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY AT THE HARRIS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICYTHE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO



The Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>at the University
of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:


SOME ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/steven_durlauf>


Summary: Social interactions models represent an effort by economists to
integrate substantive ideas from sociology into the formalism of economic
analysis. In this talk I will give an overview of some theoretical models
of social interactions as well as discuss some of the statistical
challenges that exist in distinguishing social determinants of behavior
from other mechanisms.


THURSDAY, 2/28/201911:00AM-12:20PMKENT 120


A light lunch will be provided by Papa John’s.



Steven Durlauf is the Steans Professor in Educational Policy at the
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Prior to this
appointment, he was William F. Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J.
Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the Society for the
Advancement of Economic Theory and a Research Associate of the National
Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, he was elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is co-director of the Human Capital and
Economic Opportunity Working Group, an international research network
linking scholars across disciplines in the study of inequality and the
sources of human flourishing and destitution. Durlauf is the current Editor
of the Journal of Economic Literature.
Durlauf’s research spans many topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics.
His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty,
inequality and economic growth. Much of his research has attempted to
integrate sociological ideas into economic analysis. His major
methodological contributions include both economic theory and econometrics.
He helped pioneer the application of statistical mechanics techniques to
the modelling of socioeconomic behavior and has also developed
identification analyses for the empirical analogs of these models. Other
research has focused on techniques for policy evaluation and the
econometrics of cross country income differences.


Suggested background:

   - Attached in Repository: Linear Social Interactions Models.
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/steven_durlauf/blob/master/bbdjJPE.pdf>
   - Attached in Repository: Identification of Social Interactions.
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/steven_durlauf/blob/master/bbdiidentificationHSE2011.pdf>




The 2018-2019 Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>meets Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate
students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are
expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues
page
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/steven_durlauf/issues>of
the workshop’s public repository on GitHub.
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/steven_durlauf> Further
instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science
Workshop’s README
on Github. <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README>
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