Matias D. Cattaneo

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Matias D. Cattaneo
Born	(1978-05-16) May 16, 1978 (age 47) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse	Rocío Titiunik
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Economics, M.A. in Statistics) UTDT UBA
Doctoral advisor	James L. Powell

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

Cattaneo is a co-editor of Econometric Theory, and has served in editorial boards of leading academic journals across various disciplines, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, and Operations Research.

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. ^[1] 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. ^[2]

Honors and awards

• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2025.
• Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2023. ^[3]
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2022. ^[4]
• Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics, 2022. ^[5]
• Stata Journal Editors’ Prize, 2019. ^[6]

Publications

• Abadie, Alberto; Cattaneo, Matias D. (2018). "Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation". Annual Review of Economics . 10: 465–503. doi: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080217-053402 . hdl:1721.1/129481. S2CID   13815235.
• 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. hdl: 2027.42/109857 .
• Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Titiunik, Rocio (2015). "Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots". Journal of the American Statistical Association . 110 (512): 1753–1769. doi:10.1080/01621459.2015.1017578. S2CID   13813472.
• Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Farrell, Max H. (2018). "On the effect of bias estimation on coverage accuracy in nonparametric inference". Journal of the American Statistical Association . 113 (522): 767–779. arXiv: 1508.02973 . doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1285776. S2CID   13887146.
• 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. arXiv: 1809.03904 . doi:10.1162/rest_a_00760. S2CID   30717555.
• Cattaneo, Matias D. (2010). "Efficient semiparametric estimation of multi-valued treatment effects under ignorability". Journal of Econometrics . 155 (2): 138–154. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.023.
• Cattaneo, Matias D.; Jansson, Michael; Ma, Xinwei (2020). "Simple Local Polynomial Density Estimators". Journal of the American Statistical Association . 115 (531): 1449–1455. arXiv: 1811.11512 . doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1635480. S2CID   85528533.
• Cattaneo, Matias D.; Idrobo, Nicolas; Titiunik, Rocio (2020). A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations. Cambridge University Press. arXiv: 1911.09511 . doi:10.1017/9781108684606. ISBN   9781108684606. S2CID   208201961.
• Cattaneo, Matias D.; Idrobo, Nicolas; Titiunik, Rocio (2020). A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions. Cambridge University Press. arXiv: 2301.08958 . doi:10.1017/9781009441896. ISBN   9781009441896. S2CID   256105360.
• Cattaneo, Matias D.; Titiunik, Rocio (2022). "Regression Discontinuity Designs". Annual Review of Economics . 14: 821–851. arXiv: 2108.09400 . doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-051520-021409. S2CID   125763727.

References

1. Cattaneo, Matias D. (2008). Essays in semiparametric and nonparametric microeconometrics (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley. ProQuest   304694326.
2. "Trustees approve two faculty appointments". January 31, 2019. Retrieved 23 Oct 2023.
3. "2023 ASA fellows announcement" (PDF). Retrieved 23 Oct 2023.
4. "2022 IMS fellows announced". April 22, 2022. Retrieved 23 Oct 2023.
5. "IAAE List of Fellows" . Retrieved 23 Oct 2023.
6. Newton, H. Joseph; Cox, Nicholas J. (2019). "The Stata Journal Editors' Prize 2019: Matias D. Cattaneo". Stata Journal. 19 (4): 753–756. doi: 10.1177/1536867X19893613 .

External links

• Cattaneo's faculty page at Princeton University
• Cattaneo's Google Scholar profile