James MacKinnon, Queen's University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Queen's University profile.

Latest funding

Improving Cluster-Robust Inference for Improved Difference-in-Differences
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$35,405
Bootstrap Methods for Cluster-Robust Inference
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$47,453
Improving cluster robust inference
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$91,380

All 8 grants and awards

No publications available.

Improving Cluster-Robust Inference for Improved Difference-in-Differences

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Webb, Matthew D.

Keywords: difference-in-differences; cluster-robust inference; causal inference; treatment effects

$35,405

Bootstrap Methods for Cluster-Robust Inference

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Webb, Matthew D.

Keywords: hypothesis testing; statistical inference; bootstrap methods; robust inference; cluster robust inference; binary data; multi-way clustering

$47,453

Improving cluster robust inference

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Webb, Matthew D.

Keywords: CRVE; grouped data; clustered data; panel data; wild cluster bootstrap; bootstrap failure; difference in differences

$91,380

Reliable inference with clustered data

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: MacKinnon, James G.

Keywords: econometrics; clustering; inference; bootstrap; standard errors; covariance matrix

$62,000

Bootstrap methods for more reliable inference

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: MacKinnon, James G.

Keywords: bootstrap; hypothesis test; simulation; inference

$64,583

Bootstrap inference in econometrics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: MacKinnon, James Gordon

Keywords: bootstrap; hypothesis test; bias correction; confidence interval; binary response model

$51,942

High Performance Computing Infrastructure for the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)

Co-investigatorCFI2000Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund (1999-2005)

Principal investigators: Pollard, Andrew

Keywords: high performance computing, computational sciences, numerical modeling, simulations, virtual laboratory

$5,189,000

Bootstrap testing and bias correction

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: MacKinnon, James

Keywords: Specification testing; bootstrapping; simulation; estimation

$44,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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