Karim Chalak

PERSONAL

Born: March 26, 1982
Citizenship: Lebanon
Webpage: http://www2.bc.edu/~chalak
Email: chalak@bc.edu

Department of Economics
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Phone: 1-617-552-6026
Fax: 1-617-552-2308

EDUCATION

B.A. Economics (major)/Mathematics (minor)
(1999 − 2002), with High Distinction

M.A. in Economics
(2002 − 2004)

Ph.D. in Economics
(2002 − 2007)

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

   Thesis title: “Essays on the Definition, Identification, and Estimation of Causal Effects”
   Thesis committee: Halbert White (Chair), Julian Betts, Graham Elliott, Clive Granger, Mark Machina,
                               Dimitris Politis, and Ruth Williams

EMPLOYMENT

07/07 − present:

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Causal Inference

RESEARCH PAPERS

Chalak, K. and H. White, “An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables for the Estimation of Causal Effects,” UCSD Department of Economics Discussion Paper.

White, H. and K. Chalak, “Settable Systems: An Extension of Pearl’s Causal Model with Optimization, Equilibrium, and Learning,” UCSD Department of Economics Discussion Paper.

Schennach, S. M., H. White, and K. Chalak, “Estimating Average Marginal Effects in Nonseparable Structural Systems,” Boston College Department of Economics Working Paper.

White, H. and K. Chalak, “Identifying Structural Effects in Nonseparable Systems Using Covariates,” UCSD Department of Economics Discussion Paper.

Chalak, K. and H. White, “Independence and Conditional Independence in Structural Systems,” Boston College Department of Economics Working Paper.

Chalak, K. and H. White, “Identification with Conditioning Instruments in Causal Systems,” UCSD Department of Economics Discussion Paper.

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

09/03 – 06/07:
08/06 and 08/05:
05/06:
04/06:
10/05:

09/01 – 06/02:

Tuition scholarship, Department of Economics, UCSD.
Travel Grant, Department of Economics, UCSD.
Sigmond Schwartz Scholarship, UCSD Friends of the International Center.
Dean of Social Sciences Travel Grant, UCSD.
Walter P. Heller Graduate Award for Outstanding Third-Year Paper 2004-2005, Department of Economics, UCSD.
Tuition scholarship, American University of Beirut.

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Econometrics Seminar, New York University, October, 31, 2008.
Econometrics Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, October, 21, 2008.
Econometrics Seminar, Yale University, May, 7, 2008.
Econometrics Seminar, Syracuse University, February, 8, 2008.
Econometrics Workshop, Harvard/MIT, September, 20, 2007.
Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February, 16, 2007.
Seminar, University of Montréal, February, 14, 2007.
Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles, February, 12, 2007.
Seminar, University of Maryland, February, 2, 2007.
Seminar, Georgetown University, February, 1, 2007.
Seminar, University of Texas, Austin, January, 30, 2007.
Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, January, 26, 2007.
Seminar, Boston University, January, 25, 2007.
Seminar, Boston College, January, 24, 2007.
Seminar, New York University, January, 22, 2007.
Econometrics Seminar, University of California, San Diego, November, 14, 2006.
Econometrics Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, September, 21, 2006.
Econometrics Workshop, University of California, Los Angeles, May, 04, 2006.
Econometrics Seminar, University of California, San Diego, April, 11, 2006.
Applied lunch seminar, University of California, San Diego, May, 06, 2005.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

The 2008 European Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Università Bocconi, August, 30, 2008.

The 2008 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 19, 2008.

The 61^st European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, August, 27, 2006.

The 2006 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 23, 2006.

The 4^th Annual Advances in Econometrics Conference, Volume XXI, “Modeling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics”, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, October, 30, 2005.

ATTENDED CONFERENCES

The 9^th World Congress of the Econometric Society, University College London, London, August, 19 – 24, 2005.

Royal Economic Society’s Summer School in Econometrics: Causality, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, August, 15 – 18, 2005.

Handbook of Economic Forecasting Conference, University of California, San Diego, April 16 – 17, 2004.

The 2004 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, San Diego, California, January 3 – 5, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Journal referee: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The Econometric Society, The American Economic Association, The Royal Economic Society.

LANGUAGES

English (fluent), French (fluent), Arabic (fluent).

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