Can we evaluate cultural, social, environmental and research policies?
If you missed the event, you can now view and download the video of the seminar held at Fondazione Cariplo HQ featuring among others a presentation by Harvard Professor Donald B. Rubin, one of the world’s leading experts in the field of statistics. The focus of the seminar titled ‘Can we evaluate the effect of cultural, environmental, research and social policies?’ was on discussing whether it is possible to apply rigorous counterfactual analysis to evaluate cultural, social, environmental and research policies. In his presentation, Professor Rubin focused in particular on the potential outcomes approach as the framework for using different experimental or other methods to estimate the effects of policies. To evaluate the outcome of its actions, Fondazione Cariplo has long been collaborating with domestic and international philanthropic organizations, scholars and policy makers for the purpose of identifying, using and circulating best practices to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and projects.
View the video of the seminar at youtube.com/FondazioneCariplo
Donald B. Rubin
Donald B. Rubin is Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, where he has been professor since 1984, and Department Chair for 13 of those years. He is a Fellow/Member/Honorary Member of a number of organizations, including the Woodrow Wilson Society, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Statistical Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, European Association of Methodology, British Academy, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
He has authored/coauthored nearly 400 publications (including ten books), has four joint patents, and has made important contributions to statistical theory and methodology, particularly in causal inference, design and analysis of experiments and sample surveys, treatment of missing data, and Bayesian data analysis. Among his awards and honors, Professor Rubin has received the Samuel S. Wilks Medal from the American Statistical Association, the Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation, the Fisher Lectureship, and the George W. Snedecor Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. He was named Statistician of the Year, American Statistical Association, Boston and Chicago Chapters.
He has served on the editorial boards of many journals, including: Journal of Educational Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Survey Methodology, and Statistica Sinica.
Professor Rubin has been, for many years, one of the most highly cited authors in mathematics in the world (ISI Science Watch), as well as in economics (Highly Cited Economists), with nearly 172,000 citations by June 2015, and over 16,600 in 2014 (according to Google Scholar).
For decades he has given keynote lectures and short courses in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has also received honorary doctorate degrees from prestigious universities including the Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany; the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia; as well as honorary professorships from University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, China; Xian University of Technology, Xian, China; and Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai, China.