BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-1702@hmc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T173000 DTSTAMP:20251118T235058Z URL:https://www.hmc.edu/calendar/events/mathematical-connections-seminar-p rofessor-harrison-li/ SUMMARY:Mathematical Connections Seminar: Professor Harrison Li DESCRIPTION:Analyzing Blocked Randomized Experiments\n\nI recently finished a multi-year project with collaborators analyzing an experiment to evalua te the effectiveness of a government job training program for unemployment insurance (UI) recipients in Rhode Island. In presenting the results\, I will talk about some methodological considerations that arose organically in this context. Specifically\, I will provide an introduction to the pote ntial outcomes framework and show how it enables us to formulate a precise mathematical description of what exactly it is we want to estimate when r unning a randomized experiment. Then\, we will see some principled and les s principled methods for performing this estimation. Some directions for f uture research\, including opportunities for students to get involved\, wi ll be discussed at the end. CATEGORIES:Faculty,Students LOCATION:Shanahan Center\, 320 E. Foothill Blvd.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=320 E. Foothill Blvd.\, Cla remont\, CA\, 91711\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shanahan Ce nter:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR