Title: “Difference-in-Differences: Recent Methodological Advances and their Relevance for Empirical Work”

Biography: Brantly Callaway is the P. George Benson Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. His primary research area is econometrics, with a particular interest in causal inference using panel data. Dr. Callaway has published a number of articles in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His work on difference-in-differences methodology has been cited over 10,000 times. He has also taught numerous short courses on difference-in-differences and is an author 12 R packages, many of them related to causal inference with panel data.