# Matias D. Cattaneo

Matias Damian Cattaneo (born May 16, 1978) is an Argentine scientist, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on econometrics, statistics, data science and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. He is best known for his work on Regression discontinuity designs.
Cattaneo is a co-editor of Econometric Theory and an associate editor with the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, and Operations Research.

## Education and academic career

Cattaneo received his Licentiate from UBA in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, under supervision of James L. Powell. From 2008 to 2019, Cattaneo taught at the University of Michigan. In 2019, Cattaneo joined Princeton University as a Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

## Honors and awards

* Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2023.
* Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2022.
* Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics, 2022.
* Stata Journal Editors’ Prize, 2019.

## Publications

* Abadie, Alberto; Cattaneo, Matias D. (2018). "Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation". Annual Review of Economics. 10: 465–503. doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-080217-053402. hdl:1721.1/129481. S2CID 13815235.
* Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Titiunik, Rocio (2014). "Robust nonparametric confidence intervals for regression-discontinuity designs". Econometrica. 82 (6): 2295–2326. doi:10.3982/ECTA11757. hdl:2027.42/109857.
* Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Titiunik, Rocio (2015). "Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 110 (512): 1753–1769. doi:10.1080/01621459.2015.1017578. S2CID 13813472.
* Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Farrell, Max H. (2018). "On the effect of bias estimation on coverage accuracy in nonparametric inference". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 113 (522): 767–779. arXiv:1508.02973. doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1285776. S2CID 13887146.
* Calonico, Sebastian; Cattaneo, Matias D.; Farrell, Max H.; Titiunik, Rocio (2019). "Regression discontinuity designs using covariates". Review of Economics and Statistics. 101 (3): 442–451. arXiv:1809.03904. doi:10.1162/rest_a_00760. S2CID 30717555.
* Cattaneo, Matias D. (2010). "Efficient semiparametric estimation of multi-valued treatment effects under ignorability". Journal of Econometrics. 155 (2): 138–154. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.023.
* Cattaneo, Matias D.; Jansson, Michael; Ma, Xinwei (2020). "Simple Local Polynomial Density Estimators". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 115 (531): 1449–1455. arXiv:1811.11512. doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1635480. S2CID 85528533.
* Cattaneo, Matias D.; Idrobo, Nicolas; Titiunik, Rocio (2020). A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations. Cambridge University Press. arXiv:1911.09511. doi:10.1017/9781108684606. ISBN 9781108684606. S2CID 208201961.
* Cattaneo, Matias D.; Idrobo, Nicolas; Titiunik, Rocio (2020). A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions. Cambridge University Press. arXiv:2301.08958. doi:10.1017/9781009441896. ISBN 9781009441896. S2CID 256105360.
* Cattaneo, Matias D.; Titiunik, Rocio (2022). "Regression Discontinuity Designs". Annual Review of Economics. 14: 821–851. arXiv:2108.09400. doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-051520-021409. S2CID 125763727.