The European Commission's Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation, in collaboration with the University of Mannheim and the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED), is happy to announce the conference: 

COMPIE 2022 conference -  (COunterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation) -  Mannheim (Germany) 4-6 July, 2022 - hybrid conference

Hosted by 

Markus Froelich, University of Mannheim and Center for Evaluation and Development.

Dates

The conference will be held in hybrid mode. It will start at 13:00 on 4 July 2022 and end at 16:00 on 6 July 2022 CET.

Venue

University of Mannheim, Carl-Theodor-Platz, 68159 Mannheim (main entrance of the University)

Keynote speakers

Susan Athey, Stanford University.
"Learning Targeted Treatment Assignment Policies Using Adaptive Experiments"
(slides 2.6Mb)

Guido Imbens, Stanford University.
"Combining experimental and non-experimental data" 
(slides 0.6Mb) 

Conference roundtable

"Current Drivers of change and innovation in Policy Impact Evaluation: Data and Methods" (Panel: B. Cockx, M. Froelich, M. Huber, E. Rettore, G. Mellace, video)

Conference objectives

The aim of COMPIE is to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss developments in the theory and the applications of counterfactual methods for policy impact evaluation. Applications can cover a broad range of interventions, from labor and social policy to regulation and funding programmes, ideally with a focus on EU policies or developing countries. The COMPIE 2022 conference will additionally focus on evaluation of policies in developing countries, in particular Africa and Asia.

Paper submissions

Link to conference maker for submissions.

Important dates

• Paper submissions: from 1 March to 31 March, 2022.
• Acceptance decision: 15 May 2022. Authors of accepted papers need to register by 10 June 2022 to confirm participation.
• Registration: between 20 May and 26 June, 2022. Late registrations at this link.  
• Programme: at this link.

Programme Committee 

• Alexandra Avdeenko, Center for Evaluation and Development, Mannheim
• Antoine Bozio, Paris School of Economics
• Massimiliano Bratti, University of Milan
• Alex Bryson, UCL London
• Marco Caliendo, Potsdam University
• Lorenzo Cappellari, Cattolica University, Milan
• Bart Cockx, University of Ghent
• Maurizio Conti, University of Genoa
• Guido de Blasio, Bank of italy
• Oliver Falck, CES IFO
• Markus Froelich, University of Mannheim
• Martin  Huber, University of Fribourg
• Jochen Kluve, Humboldt-Universitaat zu Berlin
• Michael Lechner, University of St. Gallen
• Claudio Lucifora, Cattolica University, Milan
• Giovanni  Mellace, University of Southern Denmark
• Blaise  Melly, University of Bern
• Hessel Oosterbeek, Amsterdam School of Economics University of Amsterdam
• Paolo  Paruolo, European Commission JRC, Chair
• Guido  Pellegrini, Sapienza University of Rome
• Chiara Pronzato, University of Torino
• Enrico Rettore, University of Padova
• Sylke Schnepf, European Commission JRC
• Bas  van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam
• Jan van-Ours, Tilburg University
• Andrea Weber, Central European University, Budapest Hungary Hungary

Links 

COMPIE conference series