Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

nachfolgend möchte ich Sie auf unseren CfP zu Paneldatenanalyse im Rahmen des ISA Weltkongresses 2023 aufmerksam machen:

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Dear colleagues,

the deadline for submitting abstracts to the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is 30th September, 2022. The conference is taking place from the 25th of June until the 1st of July, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia, but it will be possible to take part online (hybrid format).

We are writing to encourage those interested in the application of panel data analysis to submit abstracts to a planned session entitled: “Recent Developments and Current Approaches to the Analysis of Panel Data”, being organized by Jochen Mayerl and Henrik Andersen. Please find the call for abstracts below.

You can submit an abstract to this session via the conference website: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session18293 .html.

We look forward to your abstracts!

Best regards

Jochen Mayerl & Henrik Andersen

Session description:

Recent Developments and Current Approaches to the Analysis of Panel Data

Establishing causal relationships is arguably the most important task of the social sciences. The randomized experiment is the gold standard in causal analysis. However, many interesting questions cannot be examined with experiments. Feasibility and ethics limit the use of randomized experiments in some situations, and retrospective questions require a different approach, as well.

Panel analyses offer a promising way to examine causal questions with non-experimental, i.e., observational data. Panel analyses refer to studies of the same observational unit over time, and are effective at addressing unobserved heterogeneity in the form of time-invariant confounders.

However, panel data are not a silver bullet – many difficult questions and issues plague the investigation of causal effects with panel data. Some of these issues include:

heterogeneous effects,

· the choice between discrete and continuous time models,

· obtaining the optimal lags between treatment and outcome measurement,

· the choice between looking at contemporaneous and lagged effects, and

· the inclusion of lagged dependent variables, the assessment of bidirectional effects

to name a few.

We encourage paper presentations looking at these and other issues related to the use of panel data for causal analysis. Papers can be methodological in nature, or focus on novel applications. We welcome papers looking at traditional (e.g., survey) and intensive (diary studies) longitudinal studies, as well as those focusing on either case studies (e.g., synthetic control) or natural experiments (differences-in-differences). Papers comparing various approaches and modelling strategies are also encouraged.

Session Organizers:

Jochen Mayerl, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, jochen.mayerl@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de mailto:jochen.mayerl@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de

Henrik Andersen, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, henrik.andersen@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de mailto:henrik.andersen@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de

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Prof. Dr. Jochen Mayerl

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Coordinator of RN21 „Quantitative Methods“, European Sociological Association

Chemnitz University of Technology

Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Institute for Sociology

Chair of Sociology with a focus on Empirical Social Research

Thüringer Weg 9

D-09126 Chemnitz

Germany

mailto:Jochen.Mayerl@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de Jochen.Mayerl@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de

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+ 49 (0)371 531-32483