Panel: Improving Tools of Analysis in Policy Research
(Scientific Research, Complex Systems, and Tools of Analysis)

Monday, July 29, 2019: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
40.047C - Level 0 (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

*Names in bold indicate Presenter

Panel Chair:  Stephen H Bell, Westat

Improving Tools of Analysis in Policy Research


Using Machine Learning to Collect Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
Christine Chen, Pardee RAND Graduate School



Estimation in the Presence of Selection on Unobservables: An Approach Using Econometric and Machine Learning Methods
Zoe M. McLaren, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Rulof P. Burger, Stellenbosch University and Tyler McCormick, University of Washington



Using Propensity Score Matching and Variation in Student Participation (Dosage) to Estimate Lower and Upper Bounds on Program Impacts
Eishi Adachi, Eric Rolfhus, Stephen H Bell, Emily Diaz, Sadeq Sohrabie, Gay Lynn Lamey and Lauren Woodrow, Westat



Deriving Intervention Effects with Unambiguous Policy Implications Based on Lower and Upper Bound Impact Estimates
Stephen H Bell1, Daniel Litwok2 and Laura Peck2, (1)Westat, (2)Abt Associates, Inc.




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