
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.
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
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10:45–11:00 | Break |
11:00–12:30 | Presentations session 1Efficient 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
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12:30–1:30 | Lunch |
1:30–2:15 | Training seminarProducing automated tables in Stata using collect
Nick Deschacht
KU Leuven
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2:15–3:45 | Presentations session 2Shapley 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
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3:45–4:15 | Break |
4:15–5:15 | Extend Stata with other programming tools
Hua Peng
StataCorp
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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.
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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 |
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Conference | €45 | €85 |
Visit the official conference page for more information.
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.