Center for Econometrics
About the center
The Center for Econometrics was founded within the Department of Economics in the summer of 2006 to support the research activities and enhance the intellectual life of the community of scholars at Northwestern whose research is related to econometrics.
The Center’s activities include:
- Funding short term visits by faculty from other universities;
- Organizing and supporting conferences at Northwestern related to econometrics;
- Supporting the econometrics seminar;
- Funding for graduate students nearing the completion of their PhDs;
- Promoting research contributed by members of the center.
Key People
Featured Publications
Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings with Delayed Outcomes (Federico Bugni, Ivan Canay, and Steve McBride, Journal of Econometrics, 2026)
Using Total Margin of Error to Account for Non-Sampling Error in Election Polls (Charles Manski and Jeff Dominitz, Journal of the American Statistical Association, October 2025)
Identification and Statistical Decision Theory (Charles Manski, Econometric Theory vol. 41, no. 4, August 2025)
Bootstrap Based Asymptotic Refinements for High-dimensional Nonlinear Models (Joel Horowitz and Ahnaf Rafi, Journal of Econometrics vol. 249, part B, May 2025)
Inference With Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up (Charles Manski, Journal of Labor Economics vol. 43, no. S1, April 2025)
Inference for Cluster Randomized Experiments with Nonignorable Cluster Sizes (Federico Bugni, Ivan Canay, Azeem M. Shaikh, and Max Tabord-Meehan, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics vol. 3, no. 2, April 2025)
Featured News
Prof. Charles Manski receives 2025 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
February 25, 2026 - BBVA Foundation
Prof. Manski receives the award in recognition of his groundbreaking work on uncertainty. The committee describes him as a "foundational figure," describing how his research "has profoundly influenced empirical research across education, health policy, labor markets, industrial policy, and social programs, by encouraging economists to rely on credible, transparent inference."