2016 Latin American Workshop in Econometrics
THE 2016 LATIN AMERICAN WORKSHOP IN ECONOMETRICS of the Econometric Society will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on March 11-12 of 2016 at DECON-UDELAR and Universidad de Montevideo. The topic of the workshop will be "Contributions to Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs." Keynote speakers will be Matias Cattaneo (https://sites.google.com/site/matiasdcattaneo/), and Stéphane Bonhomme (https://economics.uchicago.edu/facstaff/bonhomme.shtml). There will be no parallel sessions, and 10 speakers of contributed papers will have 55 minutes for their presentations (including discussion).
The program committee invites submissions of papers (either complete, or also work in progress to benefit from the discussion with attendees). Each person may submit only one paper and only present one paper. However, each person is allowed to be the co-author of several papers submitted to the conference. At least one co-author must be a member of the Society or must join prior to submission. You may join the Econometric Society at http://www.econometricsociety.org.
Prospective contributors are invited to submit their papers by Sunday, November 1, 2015 to Graciela Sanroman (graciela.sanroman@gmail.com).
The following information should also be provided at the time of submission: the authors' names, affiliations, email addresses and web sites (if any) of the submitters; and the paper title.
Program Committee Chairs:
Ana Balsa (Universidad de Montevideo)
Sergio Firpo (Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV)
Graciela Sanroman (DECON-UDELAR)
