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2009 German Stata Users Group Meeting

Organizers: Nikos Askitas (IZA), Johannes Giesecke (WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin), Ulrich Kohler (WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin)
Location:IZA, Bonn
Date:June 26, 2009

Submission Deadline:March 30, 2009

Event Manager:

Ulrike Maurer
Participants who do not present should just write an email to Anke Mrosek (anke.mrosek@dpc.de).
 

About the Conference

The 7th German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held at the IDSC of IZA at the IZA Bonn on Friday, June 26, 2009. Anyone interested in Stata is invited to attend.
We are very delighted that Nicholas J. Cox, and Austin Nichols have accepted our invitation to attend the meeting as international guest speaker. Nick Cox is Editor of the Stata Journal, author of a regular column on "Speaking Stata" and well known to Stata users as a programmer for many Stata programs. Austin Nichols is an economist at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC who has made important contributions to the problem of causal inference with observational data. The presentations of the international key note speakers will be on:
  • Between tables and graphs: A tutorial (N. Cox)
  • Causal inference with observational data: Regression Discontinuity and other methods in Stata (A. Nichols)
Among the other presentations is a introduction to programming with Mata by Christopher Baum, author of the forthcoming book "An introduction to Stata programming".
We still seek presentations are sought on topics that include
  • User-written Stata programs,
  • case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
  • discussions of data management problems,
  • reviews of analytical issues, and
  • surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields.
The conference language will be English because of the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. (See www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html for the proceedings of other user group meetings.)
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract by email to one of the scientific organizers, or by using the online submission system at the IZA. The deadline for submissions is March 30, 2009. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.
 

Registration and Accomodation

Please travel at your own expense. The conference fee will be 35€ (Students 15€) to cover costs for coffee, teas, and luncheons. There will also be an optional informal meal at a restaurant in Bonn on Friday evening at additional cost.
You can enroll by contacting Anke Mrosek (anke.mrosek@dpc.de) by email or by writing, phoning, or faxing

Anke Mrosek
Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
Kieler Str. 17
42697 Solingen
Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 212 260 66 24
Fax:+49 (0) 212 260 66 66
 

Scientific Organizers

Nikos Askitas (askitas@iza.org), Johannes Giesecke (johannes.giesecke@wzb.eu, and Ulrich Kohler (kohler@wzb.eu) are organizing the academic program of the meeting.
 

Logistics Organizers

The logistics are being organized by Dittrich and Partner (www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries including Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary.