Guest Lecturer- Ben Hansen

Talk title: "Title: Limitless regression discontinuity"

Dr. Hansen is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, as well as a faculty affiliate of the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center.  He holds an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Logic and the Methodology of Science, both from the University of California-Berkeley. His research interests include matching, sensitivity analysis and distribution-free methods for quasi-experiments and experiments, and applications in education, health and social science.