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The Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, CeMMAP, is an ESRC funded Research Centre, a joint venture by UCL and IFS, founded in 2000 with a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. ESRC took over funding of CeMMAP with a 10 year grant in 2007. This year we bid for a further 5 years of funding.
The Centre’s research develops and applies methods for modelling individual behaviour, the influences on it and the impact of policy interventions. In the Department 13 faculty are directly involved with CeMMAP, along with 36 International Fellows and 8 UK Fellows. CeMMAP supports a group of 11 Associates based at UK universities.
CeMMAP is the world’s leading microeconometrics research centre. Its working paper series publishes around 70 papers a year. Many of these papers are eventually published in top 5 journals.
CeMMAP is closely involved in international networking and organizes many conferences each year. Upcoming this year in London is a workshop on Econometrics for Public Policy, methods and applications (with Guido Imbens and Chuck Manski among the speakers) and a workshop on Housing, Microdata and Macro Problems. In July we sponsor a conference in at Warsaw University, in August we co-organise a conference on Advances in Microeconometrics in Kyoto (funded by a British Academy grant), directly after the Asia Meetings of the Econometric Society and in November we sponsor a conference with a networks theme at UC Berkeley.
CeMMAP has teamed up with the Cowles Foundation to organise biannual conferences attached as satellite meetings to regional meetings of the Econometric Society. The first is this November in Medellin, Colombia, with Aureo de Paula and Sanjeev Goyal as program chairs for a conference on the theme – Networks.
CeMMAP has an extensive educational programme. It organises around 12 Training Courses each year, most held in the Drayton House laboratory but some at regional centres. Tutors include Bill Greene and Jeff Wooldridge. The courses have long waiting lists and attract professional as well as academic researchers. They are a major element in UCL’s programme of outreach. Nirusha Vigi does a tremendous job keeping this programme on track and delivering.
The CeMMAP Masterclasses are a key element of the Centre’s education programme. Taught over 2-3 days by a leading contributor to a corpus of knowledge, these classes attract audiences of from 40 to 200+ academic and professional researchers from the UK, mainland Europe and sometimes further afield. CeMMAP has so far staged over 50 Masterclasses with multiple classes from Charles Manski, Joel Horowittz, Roger Koenker, and James Powell, and classes from others including: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Steven Berry, Xiaohong Chen, Pierre-André Chiappori, Vincent Crawford, David Easley, Philip Haile, Jerry Hausman, Bo Honore, Matt Jackson, Francesca Molinari, Ilya Molchanov, Dale Mortensen, Maureen O’Hara, Whitney Newey, Ariel Pakes, Isabelle Perrigne, Robert Porter, Ya’acov Ritov, Tom Sargent, Susanne Schennach, Elie Tamer, Quang Vuong, Jon Wellner, and Yoram Weiss.
In the remainder of 2017 we have masterclasses from Victor Chernozhukov, Guido Imbens and Susan Athey, James Heckman and George Malaith.
Many of the notes and slides for the Masterclasses can be found at the Resources section of the CeMMAP website. At the website you can find news and information about upcoming events. In delivering this web site, and at the administrative heart of CeMMAP, we are fortunate to have the excellent services of Kylie Groves, Eliza Judd and Emma Hyman and their team at IFS who, with Nirusha Vigi at UCL, efficiently deliver a complex programme of events with style and aplomb.
We are developing new cooperations in Australia, Brazil, China and the U.S.A. Already at Georgetown University, Frank Vella, and at Sydney University, Colm Harmon, are running some of our courses and masterclasses.
CeMMAP masterclasses and conferences are free for UCL students and staff but please register. There is a Tuesday lunch seminar at IFS which everyone is welcome to attend.