Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference

Announcing MLESC '24!

We are excited to welcome this year's presenter's for the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference, which will be held in Chicago, August 6-7, 2024. Submit your paper for the 2024 Conference here.

Program Description:

Sanjog Misra of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Sendhil Mullainathan of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Annie Liang of Northwestern University, Jann Spiess of Stanford University, and Ashesh Rambachan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology are organizing the first Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference (MLESC).

The MLESC conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and economics. It will focus on research studying how machine learning methods (e.g., supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, machine vision, text analysis) may be used to tackle existing questions and open new directions in fields like behavioral economics, applied microeconomics, development, and macroeconomics. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.

Application:

The MLESC conference will be held at the University of Chicago on August 6–7, 2024.

Please submit papers here. Submission of full drafts is encouraged, but extended abstracts of manuscripts that will be available by the time of the conference are possible. The submission deadline is April 12th, 2024. Please contact Lauren Doan if you have any questions.

The conference will take place after this year’s Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, which will be held on August 1–5 and consist of workshops and tutorials for graduate students.

Graduate students admitted to MLESI will be in attendance at the conference.
Graduate students interested in applying for MLESI can find application materials here.

Schedule

Tuesday

08:00am-09:00am	Breakfast
09:00am-09:45am	Jacob Conway \| Journalist Ideology and the Production of News: Evidence from Movers
09:45am-10:30am	Hadar Avivi \| Are Patent Examiners Gender Neutral?
10:30am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-11:45am	Roshni Sahoo \| Learning Targeted Transfers
11:45am-12:30pm	Lindsey Raymond \| The Market Effects of Algorithms
12:30pm-01:30pm	Lunch
01:30pm-02:15pm	Szymon Sacher \| Inference for Regression with Variables Generated from Unstructured Data
02:15pm-03:00pm	Jose Montiel Olea \| On the Testability of the Anchor-Words Assumption in Topic Models
03:00pm-03:30pm	Break
03:30pm-04:15pm	Daniel Martin \| AI Oversight and Human Mistakes: Evidence from Centre Court
04:15pm-05:00pm	Keaton Ellis \| The Productivity of Theories of Choice Under Uncertainty

Wednesday

08:00am-09:00am	Breakfast
09:00am-09:45am	Joseph Leland Bybee \| The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models
09:45am-10:30am	Carlos Cinelli \| Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Casual Machine Learning
10:30am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-11:45am	Christopher Mills \| The Impact of Algorithmic Tools on Child Protection: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
11:45am-12:30pm	Max Tabord-Meehan \| Testing Fairness-Improvability of Algorithms
12:30pm-01:30pm	Lunch

Conference Organizers

Sanjog Misra

Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI

Sendhil Mullainathan

Distinguished Fellow

Annie Liang

Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

Jann Spiess

Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Ashesh Rambachan

Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FAQ

Is there a recommended hotel?

The Summer Conference has reserved a hotel block at The Study. This hotel is a four minute walk to the conference building and a preferred rate has been set aside from 8/5 to 8/8. There are three ways to make a reservation.

Reservations through direct link
Reservations by call in: 773-643-1600
Reservations by e-mail: reservations.chicago@studyhotels.com
When calling or e-mailing they should reference the group name: Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference

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Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference (MLESC24)

August 6-7, 2024