Upcoming
Spring 2023
Frederico Finan, University of California - Berkeley
February 23 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
When Democracies Refuse to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
March 2 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
Labor Market Anatomy of a Macroeconomic Crisis
Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University
March 16 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers
Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik, Emory University
March 23 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
Southeastern Micro Labor Workshop
March 30
John Cawley, Cornell University
April 4 (Note: Tuesday Seminar) | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
The Role of Repugnance in Markets: How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway
Claudio Lucarelli, The Wharton School
April 13 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
Firm Learning in a Selection Market
Suraj Malladi, Cornell University
April 20 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
Searching in the Dark and Learning Where to Look
Matthew Grennan, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
April 27 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Correll Hall 0218
No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries
Past
Fall 2022
Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
August 25 | It Takes a Village? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development
Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
August 30 (*Tuesday seminar*) | Computerization of White Collar Jobs
Christopher Hansman, Imperial College Business School
September 8 | Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England*
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
September 15 | Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village
Evan Riehl, Cornell University
September 22 | Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action
Conference: Market Power and the Global Supply Chain
Benjamin Golub, Northwestern University
October 6 | Taxes and Market Power: A Principal Components Approach
Peter Kuhn, UC Santa Barbara
October 20 | When is Discrimination Unfair?
Jonathan Leganza, Clemson University
October 27 | Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark
Derek Neal, University of Chicago
November 3 | Heterogeneous Impact of Sentencing Decisions
Simon Mongey, University of Chicago and FRB Minneapolis
November 10 | Pricing Inequality
Katja Mann, Copenhagen Business School
November 15 (*Tuesday seminar*) | Automation and Low-skill Labor
Morris Davis, Rutgers Business School
November 17 | Preferences over Race and the Inherent Instability of Neighborhoods in the United States
Irene Botosaru, McMaster University
December 1 | "Identification of time-varying counterfactual parameters in nonlinear panel models"
Sean Nicholson, Cornell University
December 8 | Elevated End-of-Life Spending: A New Measure of Potentially Wasteful Healthcare Spending at End of Life
Spring 2022
Désiré Kédagni, Iowa State University
February 24 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Marginal Treatment Effects with Misclassified Treatment
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
March 1 (*Tuesday seminar*) | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States Over Time
Stephen Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis (Olin School of Business)
March 3 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan School of Management
March 24 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | A Model of the Data Economy
Daniel Kreisman, Georgia State University
March 31 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Distinctively Black Names and Educational Outcomes
Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University
April 7 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Market Structure and Distributional Implications of Product Bans
Cormac O'Dea, Yale University
April 21 | 4:00pm to 5:15pm | Efficiency in Household Decision Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples
Fall 2021
Andrew Johnston, University of California at Merced
August 26, 4-5:15pm | Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay
Breyon Williams, Mathematica Policy Research
September 16, 4-5:15pm | The Effects of Partisan Elections on Political and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina School Boards
Christopher Taber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christian Hansen, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan School of Management
Joseph Altonji, Yale University
Stephen Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis
Nageeb Ali, Pennsylvania State University
Fernando Luco, Texas A&M
Joseph Hotz, Duke University
Spring 2021
Ming Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Yale University
January 19, 4-5:15pm | A Time-Varying Endogenous Random Coefficient Model with an Application to Production Functions
Soonwoo Kwon, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Yale University
January 20, 4-5:15pm | Optimal Shrinkage Estimation of Fixed Effects in Linear Panel Data Models
Jianfei Cao, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
January 22, 4-5:15pm | Robust IV Inference with Clustering Dependence
Diwakar Raisingh, University of Wisconsin
January 25, 4-5:15pm | The Effect of Pre-announcements on Participation and Bidding in Dynamic Auctions
Amy Handlan, University of Minnesota
January 26, 4-5:15pm | Text Shocks and Monetary Surprises: Text Analysis of FOMC Statements with Machine Learning
Conor Ryan, University of Minnesota
January 28, 4-5:15pm | How does Insurance Competition Affect Medical Consumption
Joanna Venator, University of Wisconsin
February 1, 4-5:15pm | Dual Earner Migration Decisions, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance
Peter B. McCrory, University of California, Berkeley
February 2, 4-5:15pm | Tradable Spillovers of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from the 2009 Recovery Act
Francisco Costa, University of Delaware/FGV EPGE
February 9, 4-5:15 pm | Efficient Forestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Evidence from a Dynamic Model
Stephen O'Connell, Emory University
February 10, 4-5:15 pm | Unconditional Cash-Based Assistance to the Poor: What Do at Scale Programs Achieve?
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona
February 11, 4-5:15 pm | What Were the Odds? Estimating the Market’s Probability of Uncertain Events
C. Justin Cook, University of California-Merced
February 15, 4-5:15pm | Was India's Demonetization Redistributive? Insights from Satellites and Surveys
Teevrat Garg, University of California - San Diego
February 16, 4-5:15pm | Agricultural Labor Exits Increase Crop Fires
Umberto Muratori, Georgetown University
February 17, 4-5:15pm | Knowledge Diffusion, Markups, and Cohorts of Firms
Akhil Vohra, Stanford University
February 18, 4-5:15pm | Unraveling and Inefficient Matching
Emily Cuddy, Princeton University
March 18, 4-5:15pm | Competition and Collusion in the Generic Drug Market
Adrien Bilal, University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute
March 25, 4-5:15pm | Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output
Stefania Albanesi, University of Pittsburgh
April 1, 4-5:15pm | Predicting Consumer Default
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan
April 8, 4-5:15pm | Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health
Tuba Tuncel, HEC Montréal
April 15, 4-5:15pm | Should We Prevent Off-Label Drug Prescriptions? Empirical Evidence from France
Eduardo Perez-Richet, Sciences Pro
April 22, 11:00am-12:15pm (Time Change)| Test Design Under Falsification
Bruno Ferman, Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV
April 29, 4-5:15pm | A Simple Way to Assess Inference Methods
Fall 2020
Rachel Heath, University of Washington
September 10, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm | The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Mariana Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransisco
September 17, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm | Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics
Paulo Somaini, Stanford University
September 24, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm | Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
Matthew Johnson, Duke University
October 1, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm | Complaint-Driven Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Dmitry Arkhangelsky, CEMFI
October 8, 2020, 11:00am to 12:30pm (please note the time change) | Double-Robust Identification for Casual Panel Data Models
Melissa R Banzhaf, Federal Statistical Research Data Centers - Atlanta
October 15, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm | Restricted Data in the FSRDCs - New Developments
Milena Almagro, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (and Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)
October 29, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
November 12, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Spring 2020
Peter Newberry, Penn State
January 9, 2020
Jeff Thurk, Notre Dame
January 14, 2020
Daniel Mangrum, Vanderbilt
January 15, 2020
Lorenzo, Lagos, Columbia
January 16, 2020
Scott Cunningham, Baylor
January 21, 2020
Krista Ruffini, Berkeley
January 22, 2020
Francisco Garrido, Georgetown
January 23, 2020
Brantly Callaway, University of Mississippi
January 27, 2020
Yiqun Chen, Stanford
January 28. 2020
Matt Knepper, Bureau of Economic Analysis
January 30, 2020
Matt Harris, Knoxville
February 3, 2020
Daniel Kreisman, Georgia State University
April 23, 2020
Fall 2019
Jeff Thurk, Notre Dame
August 22, 2019 | Welfare Consequences of Nominal Excise Taxation
Heather Royer, USCB
August 29, 2019 | Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers
Alex Monge, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
September 12, 2019 | On the Dynamics of Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Inequality
John Hatfield, University of Texas - Austin
September 19, 2019 | Collusion In Brokered Markets
George Borjas, Harvard University
September 26, 2019 | Job Vacancies, Beveridge Curve, and Immigration
Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
October 1, 2019 (Tuesday Seminar) | Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Behavior of Shorts
Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
October 3, 2019 | Input Prices, Productivity and Trade Dynamics: Long-run Effects of Liberalization on Chinese Paint Manufacturers
Matt Wiswall, University of Wisconsin - Madison
October 10, 2019 | Childcare and Early Childhood Skills
Joel Waldfogel, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
October 17, 2019 | Digitization and Product Discovery
Emanuel Ornelas, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV
October 22, 2019 (Tuesday Seminar) | The Impact of Tariff Hikes on Firm Exports
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University
October 24, 2019 | Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Corina Boar, New York University
October 31, 2019 | Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?
Joseph Hotz, Duke University
November 7, 2019 (CANCELED)
Jose Miguel Abito, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
November 14, 2019 | The Role of Output Reallocation and Investment in Coordinating Externality Markets
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago
November 21, 2019 | Reservation Wages and Workers' Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Mark Shepard, Harvard University
December 5, 2019 (Time 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm) | The Two Margin Problem in Insurance Markets
Spring 2019
Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
February 14, 2019 | Two Perspectives on Commuting: A Comparison of Home to Work Flows Across Job-Linked Survey and Administrative Files
Chris Conlon, New York University
February 21, 2019 | Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University
February 28, 2019
Stephen O’Connell, Emory University
March 7, 2019 | Making Public Job Training Work: Evidence from Decentralized Targeting Using Firm Input
Esteban Aucejo, Arizona State University
March 21, 2019 | The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills
Aubhik Khan, Ohio State University
March 28, 2019
Sandra Black, University of Texas - Austin
April 4, 2019
Thomas DeLeire, Georgetown University
April 11, 2019
Kosali Simon, Indiana University
April 18, 2019
Tom Holmes, University of Minnesota
April 25, 2019
Fall 2018
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin
August 23, 2018 | Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates
Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University
August 30, 2018 | Firm Networks in the Great Depression
Bumin Yenmez, Boston College
September 13, 2018
Liran Einav, Stanford University
September 20, 2018 | Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets: Risk Adjustment vs. Subsidies
Christopher Phelan, University of Minnesota
September 27, 2018 | Reputation and Sovereign Default
Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia
September 28, 2018 | Drivers of the Fatal Drug Epidemic
Christian Moser, Columbia University
October 4, 2018 | Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil
Thomas Buchmueller, University of Michigan
October 11, 2018 | The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion and Unemployment
Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research
October 18, 2018
Tim Kehoe, University of Minnesota
October 25, 2018 | Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth
Laura Liu, Federal Reserve Board
November 1, 2018 | Monetary Policy across Space and Time
Rusty Tchernis, Georgia State University
November 8, 2018 | On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting
David Rivers, Western University
November 13, 2018 | The ABCs of Firm Heterogeneity: The Effects of Demand and Cost Differences on Exporting
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
November 15, 2018 | Transitory Shocks, Limited Attention, and a Firm’s Decision to Exit
Thomas Wiesen, University of Georgia
November 27, 2018 | Practice Job Market Talk
Sebastian Calonico, University of Miami
November 29, 2018 | Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Meghan Esson, University of Georgia
November 30, 2018 | Practice Job Market Talk
Hector Chade, Arizona State University
December 6, 2018 | Screening in Vertical Oligopolies
