Biography:Matias D. Cattaneo

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Matias D. Cattaneo
Born (1978-05-16) May 16, 1978 (age 45)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
InstitutionPrinceton University
FieldEconometrics
Statistics
Causal inference
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Economics, M.A. in Statistics)
UTDT
UBA
Doctoral
advisor
James L. Powell
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Matias Damian Cattaneo (born May 16, 1978)[1] is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.[2] His research focuses on statistics, econometrics, data science and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. He is best known for his work on Regression discontinuity designs.[3]

Cattaneo is a co-editor of Econometric Theory and an associate editor with the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, and Operations Research.[4][5][6][7]

Education and academic career

Cattaneo received his Licentiate from UBA in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, under supervision of James L. Powell.[8] From 2008 to 2019, Cattaneo taught at the University of Michigan. In 2019, Cattaneo joined Princeton University as a Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.[9]

Honors and awards

  • Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2023.[10]
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2022.[11]
  • Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics, 2022.[12]
  • Stata Journal Editors’ Prize, 2019.[13]

Publications

  • Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Titiunik, Rocio (2014). "Robust nonparametric confidence intervals for regression-discontinuity designs". Econometrica 82 (6): 2295–2326. doi:10.3982/ECTA11757. 
  • Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Farrell, Max H.; Titiunik, Rocio (2019). "Regression discontinuity designs using covariates". Review of Economics and Statistics 101 (3): 442–451. doi:10.1162/rest_a_00760. 

References

  1. "Cattaneo's Curriculum Vitae". https://mdcattaneo.github.io/cv/cattaneo-cv.pdf. 
  2. "List of ORFE Faculty". https://orfe.princeton.edu/people/faculty. 
  3. "Most cited papers in Google Scholar profile". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TNdmZVEAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  4. "Official list of Econometric Theory co-Editors". https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/econometric-theory/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board. 
  5. "Journal of the American Statistical Association's official editorial board list". https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=uasa20. 
  6. "Econometrica's official editorial board list". https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica/editorial-board. 
  7. "Operations Research's official editorial board list". https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/opre/editorial-board. 
  8. Cattaneo, Matias D. (2008). Essays in semiparametric and nonparametric microeconometrics (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
  9. "Trustees approve two faculty appointments". January 31, 2019. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/01/31/trustees-approve-two-faculty-appointments. 
  10. "2023 ASA fellows announcement". https://www.amstat.org/docs/default-source/amstat-documents/pdfs/fellows/Fellows2023.pdf. 
  11. "2022 IMS fellows announced". April 22, 2022. https://imstat.org/2022/04/22/2022-ims-fellows-announced/. 
  12. "IAAE List of Fellows". https://appliedeconometrics.org/about/fellows. 
  13. "The Stata Journal Editors’ Prize 2019: Matias D. Cattaneo". Stata Journal 19 (4): 753-756. doi:10.1177/1536867X19893613. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867X19893613. 

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