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The 4th Belgian Stata Conference takes place on 9 September 2025 at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven in Brussels.

Have you developed skills with Stata, or would you like to share your results and findings with the community of users? Or do you simply want to meet fellow researchers and StataCorp developers? This conference provides Stata users from across Belgium and the world the opportunity to share experiences with the software, present their applied research, and share information on new commands. Anyone interested in Stata is welcome. The conference language will be English.


Program

All times are CEST (UTC +2)

9:00–9:30 Registration
9:30–9:45 Opening
9:45–10:45 Drawing maps using Stata: The geoplot command

Ben Jann
Universität Bern
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30
Presentations session 1

Efficient estimation of regression models with spillovers: Flexible parametric and semiparametric approaches

Nicolas Debarsy
Université de Lille

Effect of destination grammatical gender on perceived destination masculinity and femininity

Nicolas Gerardy
UC Louvain

Profiling users and nonusers of meal-delivery services in Belgium using latent class analysis

Laure Oostenbach
Universiteit Antwerpen
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:15
Training seminar

Producing automated tables in Stata using collect

Nick Deschacht
KU Leuven
2:15–3:45
Presentations session 2

Shapley value calculations: Implementation and illustrations

Philippe Van Kerm
Université du Luxembourg

Anchors aweigh? Early cognitive biases in Flemish classrooms

Diogo Conceição
KU Leuven

The effect of a school district consolidation policy on student achievement and staff absenteeism

Letizia Gambi
KU Leuven
3:45–4:15 Break
4:15–5:15 Extend Stata with other programming tools

Hua Peng
StataCorp
5:15–5:30 Open panel discussion with Stata developers
Contribute to the Stata community by sharing your feedback with StataCorp's developers. From feature improvements to bug fixes and new ways to analyze data, we want to hear how Stata can be made better for our users.

Scientific committee

Guido Pepermans
KU Leuven
Ilse Ruyssen
Universiteit Gent
Jef Hendrickx
KU Leuven
Kristien Coucke
KU Leuven
Nick Deschacht
KU Leuven
Sébastien Fontenay
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Simon De Jaeger
KU Leuven
Stijn Vanormelingen
KU Leuven
Sunčica Vujić
Universiteit Antwerpen
Vincent Vandenberghe
Université catholique de Louvain
Vincenzo Verardi
Université catholique de Louvain

Registration and venue

Participants are asked to travel at their own expense. The conference fee covers costs for conference materials, refreshments, and lunch.

Conference fee
VAT incl.
Student Other
Conference €45 €85

Register online

Visit the official conference page for more information.


Logistics organizer

The 2025 Belgian Stata Conference is jointly organized by Ritme, scientific solutions, the official distributor of Stata in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and the Department of Economics of KU Leuven.

View the proceedings of previous Stata Conferences and international meetings.