Ivan A. Canay

Professor
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
Director
Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program

Contact Information

3353 in Kellogg Global Hub
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
2211 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Phone: 847-491-2929
e-mail: iacanay | northwestern.edu

I am a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and the Director of the Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program (MMSS). I am also a former editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (2022-24). I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and before that I did my undergrad in Economics at Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. My research interests lie broadly in econometric theory and its applications. A large part of my research in econometrics has been about inference in partially identified models, inference with approximate randomization tests, inference in randomized controlled experiments involving covariate-adaptive randomization, and inference in models with a small number of clustered data. I have also worked on a number of other problems, including empirical likelihood, selection of instruments in GMM settings, testability of completeness conditions, and quantile regression, among others. My most recent work has been on developing new tools for the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and on identification of racial bias through outcome tests in Roy models. For additional details go to my research page, take a look at some of the software packages I have developed, watch some of the video lectures I recorded, or glance at my vita.