External Validity Conference

April 3–4, 2023

Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building

Background and objective

As scholars in numerous fields have begun to care more about internal validity, causality, and replication, the topic of external validity–how inferences generalize and transport–has gained some visibility. However, scholarly attention on causality has mostly outpaced that on external validity. While the recent economics Nobel prizes for work on experiments (2019) and natural experiments (2021) are undoubtedly well-deserved and important, there needs to be a similar revolution on external validity to ensure that study findings apply beyond the specific contexts at hand. Otherwise, the extent to which humans can truly learn from science will necessarily remain limited. The present conference aims to respond to this necessity and brings together scholars from various fields to present the latest work on external validity.

Organizers: Michael Denly (IAST) and Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (TSE)

List of speakers:

Graeme Blair, UCLA

Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, TSE

Issa Dahabreh, Harvard University

Michael Denly, IAST

Raymond Duch, University of Oxford

Michael Findley, University of Texas at Austin

Dean Karlan, USAID and Northwestern University

Julia Moeller, Leipzig University

Jörg Peters, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Cyrus Samii, New York University

Rebecca Spake, University of Reading

Elizabeth Tipton, Northwestern University

Eva Vivalt, University of Toronto

Anna Wilke, Washington University in St. Louis

Dates: April 3-4, 2023

Location: Toulouse, IAST & TSE building

Contact: For further information, please send an email to the organizers: Michael Denly (IAST) and Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (TSE)

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This event is funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the investissements d'avenir programme reference ANR-17-EURE-0010.