Fall 2024
Julie Mortimer, University of Virginia
Estimating Preferences and Substitution Patterns from Second-Choice Data Alone
Thursday, August 22, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Ce Liu, Michigan State University
Coalitions in Repeated Games
Thursday, August 29, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
John Bailey Jones, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Marriage and Work among Prime-Age Men
Thursday, September 5 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Colleen Carey, Cornell University
Why Does Disability Increase During Recessions? Evidence from Medicare
Thursday, September 12 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Ashvin Gandhi, UCLA
Tunneling and Hidden Profits in Health Care
Tuesday, September 17 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Hamish Low, University of Oxford
Fertility and Family Labor Supply
Thursday, September 19 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Yulong Wang, Syracuse University
On the Inconsistency of Cluster-Robust Inference and How Subsampling Can Fix It
Tuesday, September 24 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Davide Viviano, Harvard University
A Model of (multiple) Hypothesis Testing
Tuesday, October 1 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Xiaoxia Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Testing Inequalities Linear in Nuisance Parameters
Tuesday, October 8 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Jihye Jeon, Boston University
Investment and Usage of the Subsea Internet Cable Network
Thursday, October 10 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Rodrigo Pinto, UCLA
The Economics of Monotonicity Conditions: Exploring Choice Incentives in IV Models
Tuesday, October 15 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Shakeeb Khan, Boston College
Tuesday, October 22 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
TBA
Tuesday, October 29 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Lukas Mann, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Spatial Sorting and the Rise of Geographic Inequality
Thursday, October 31 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Jorge Luis Garcia, Texas A&M University
Targeting Rural Poverty through Guaranteed Basic Income: Initial Results from an Experiment in South Carolina
Tuesday, November 5 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Patrick Warren, Clemson University
Tuesday, November 12 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Jonathan Zhang, Duke University
Intergenerational Effects of Opioid Exposure and Child Health, Human Capital, and Well-being Using Linked Microdata
Tuesday, November 19 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Itay Fainmesser, Johns Hopkins University
Consumer Profiling via Information Design
Thursday, November 21 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Benson Hall C101
Spring 2024
Liran Einav, Stanford University
Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets: Risk Adjustment vs. Subsidies
February 15, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky
Quantile Regression with an Endogenous One-Sided Misclassified Binary Regressor
February 22, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
Leila Agha, Harvard University
Productivity After Childbirth: Evidence from Physicians
February 29, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
Vitor Possebom, São Paulo School of Economics
Was Javert right to be suspicious? Unpacking Treatment Effect Heterogeneity of alternative sentences on time-to-recidivism in Brazil
March 14, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
Marcus Dillender, Vanderbilt University
Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health
March 21, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
Whitney Newey, MIT
Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects in Non-Separable Panel Data
March 28, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
No Seminar
April 4, 2024
Eric Nielsen, Federal Reserve Board
The Variance of Achievement Increases During Childhood
April 11, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
UGA Macroeconomics Workshop
April 12, 2024 | 9 am–5 p.m. | Correll Hall 315
Tal Gross, Boston University
Social Defaults and Plan Choice: The Case of Spousal Following
April 18, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
Jonathan Kolstad, University of California – Berkeley
April 25, 2024 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Orkin Hall D107
The Inaugural Godfrey Conference
April 26–27, 2024 | Moore-Rooker Hall A220 (Stelling Study)
Fall 2023
Brian Wheaton, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Are Preconceptions Post-conceptions? Evidence on Motivated political Reasoning
August 24, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University
Legal Representation in Disability Claims
September 7, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Christopher Cronin, University of Notre Dame
The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes: Evidence from Public School Teachers
September 14, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Jacob Kohlhepp, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
The Inner Beauty of Firms
September 21, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Daniel Fershtman, Emory University
Search, Dating, and Segregation in Marriage
September 28, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Ernesto Mora, University of Colorado-Boulder
Mechanism Design with Belief-Dependent Preferences
October 5, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Inertia and Market Power in Health Insurance: Evidence from the ACA Exchanges
October 12, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Mitsuru Igami, Yale University
Collusion and Innovation: The Case of LCD Cartel, 2001-2006
October 19, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Robert Town, University of Texas at Austin
The Power of Exclusion: Pharmacy Networks and Bargaining in Medicare Part D
October 26, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Lucas Coffman, Boston College
Keeping our Minds on Task
November 2, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Matt Masten, Duke University
November 9, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Michael Leung, University of California-Santa Cruz
Design of Geographical Cluster-Randomized Trails
November 16, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania
Labor Union and Social Insurance
November 30, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Ivester Hall E101
Spring 2023
Frederico Finan, University of California-Berkeley
When Democracies Refuse to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
February 23, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Labor Market Anatomy of a Macroeconomic Crisis
March 2, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University
Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers
March 16, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik, Emory University
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
March 23, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Southeastern Micro Labor Workshop
March 30, 2023
John Cawley, Cornell University
The Role of Repugnance in Markets: How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway
April 4, 2023 (Note: Tuesday Seminar) | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Claudio Lucarelli, The Wharton School
Firm Learning in a Selection Market
April 13, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Suraj Malladi, Cornell University
Searching in the Dark and Learning Where to Look
April 20, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Matthew Grennan, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries
April 27, 2023 | 4–5:15 p.m. | Correll Hall 0218
Fall 2022
Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
It Takes a Village? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development
August 25, 2022
Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computerization of White Collar Jobs
August 30, 2022
Christopher Hansman, Imperial College Business School
Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England*
September 8, 2022
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village
September 15, 2022
Evan Riehl, Cornell University
Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action
September 22, 2022
Spring 2022
Désiré Kédagni, Iowa State University
Marginal Treatment Effects with Misclassified Treatment
February 24, 2022 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States Over Time
March 1, 2022 (*Tuesday seminar*) | 4–5:15 p.m.
Stephen Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis (Olin School of Business)
Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
March 3, 2022 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan School of Management
A Model of the Data Economy
March 24, 2022 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Daniel Kreisman, Georgia State University
Distinctively Black Names and Educational Outcomes
March 31, 2022 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University
Market Structure and Distributional Implications of Product Bans
April 7, 2022 | 4–5:15pm
Cormac O’Dea, Yale University
Efficiency in Household Decision Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples
April 21, 2022 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Fall 2021
Andrew Johnston, University of California at Merced
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay
August 26, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Breyon Williams, Mathematica Policy Research
The Effects of Partisan Elections on Political and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina School Boards
September 16, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Christopher Taber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 30, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Christian Hansen, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
October 14, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan School of Management
October 21, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Joseph Altonji, Yale University
October 28, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Stephen Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis
November 4, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Nageeb Ali, Pennsylvania State University
November 11, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Fernando Luco, Texas A&M
November 18, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Joseph Hotz, Duke University
December 2, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Spring 2021
Ming Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Yale University
A Time-Varying Endogenous Random Coefficient Model with an Application to Production Functions
January 19, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Soonwoo Kwon, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Yale University
Optimal Shrinkage Estimation of Fixed Effects in Linear Panel Data Models
January 20, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Jianfei Cao, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Robust IV Inference with Clustering Dependence
January 22, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Diwakar Raisingh, University of Wisconsin
The Effect of Pre-announcements on Participation and Bidding in Dynamic Auctions
January 25, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Amy Handlan, University of Minnesota
Text Shocks and Monetary Surprises: Text Analysis of FOMC Statements with Machine Learning
January 26, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Conor Ryan, University of Minnesota
How does Insurance Competition Affect Medical Consumption
January 28, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Joanna Venator, University of Wisconsin
Dual Earner Migration Decisions, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance
February 1, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Peter B. McCrory, University of California, Berkeley
Tradable Spillovers of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from the 2009 Recovery Act
February 2, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Francisco Costa, University of Delaware/FGV EPGE
Efficient Forestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Evidence from a Dynamic Model
February 9, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Stephen O’Connell, Emory University
Unconditional Cash-Based Assistance to the Poor: What Do at Scale Programs Achieve?
February 10, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona
What Were the Odds? Estimating the Market’s Probability of Uncertain Events
February 11, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
C. Justin Cook, University of California-Merced
Was India’s Demonetization Redistributive? Insights from Satellites and Surveys
February 15, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Teevrat Garg, University of California-San Diego
Agricultural Labor Exits Increase Crop Fires
February 16, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Umberto Muratori, Georgetown University
Knowledge Diffusion, Markups, and Cohorts of Firms
February 17, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Akhil Vohra, Stanford University
Unraveling and Inefficient Matching
February 18, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Emily Cuddy, Princeton University
Competition and Collusion in the Generic Drug Market
March 18, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Adrien Bilal, University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute
Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output
March 25, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Stefania Albanesi, University of Pittsburgh
Predicting Consumer Default
April 1, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan
Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health
April 8, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Tuba Tuncel, HEC Montréal
Should We Prevent Off-Label Drug Prescriptions? Empirical Evidence from France
April 15, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Eduardo Perez-Richet, Sciences Pro
Test Design Under Falsification
April 22, 2021 | 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Bruno Ferman, Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV
A Simple Way to Assess Inference Methods
April 29, 2021 | 4–5:15 p.m.
Fall 2020
Rachel Heath, University of Washington
The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
September 10, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
Mariana Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransisco
Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics
September 17, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
Paulo Somaini, Stanford University
Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
September 24, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
Matthew Johnson, Duke University
Complaint-Driven Enforcement of Labor Regulations
October 1, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
Dmitry Arkhangelsky, CEMFI
Double-Robust Identification for Casual Panel Data Models
October 8, 2020 | 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Melissa R. Banzhaf, Federal Statistical Research Data Centers-Atlanta
Restricted Data in the FSRDCs-New Developments
October 15, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
Milena Almagro, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (and Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)
October 29, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
November 12, 2020 | 4–5:30 p.m.
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
Welfare Consequences of Nominal Excise Taxation
August 22, 2019
Heather Royer, USCB
Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers
August 29, 2019
Alex Monge, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
On the Dynamics of Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Inequality
September 12, 2019
John Hatfield, University of Texas-Austin
Collusion In Brokered Markets
September 19, 2019
George Borjas, Harvard University
Job Vacancies, Beveridge Curve, and Immigration
September 26, 2019
Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Behavior of Shorts
October 1, 2019
Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
Input Prices, Productivity and Trade Dynamics: Long-run Effects of Liberalization on Chinese Paint Manufacturers
October 3, 2019
Matt Wiswall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Childcare and Early Childhood Skills
October 10, 2019
Joel Waldfogel, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Digitization and Product Discovery
October 17, 2019
Emanuel Ornelas, Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV
The Impact of Tariff Hikes on Firm Exports
October 22, 2019
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University
Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
October 24, 2019
Corina Boar, New York University
Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?
October 31, 2019
Joseph Hotz, Duke University
November 7, 2019 (CANCELED)
Jose Miguel Abito, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
The Role of Output Reallocation and Investment in Coordinating Externality Markets
November 14, 2019
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago
Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
November 21, 2019
Mark Shepard, Harvard University
The Two Margin Problem in Insurance Markets
December 5, 2019 | 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Spring 2019
Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
Two Perspectives on Commuting: A Comparison of Home to Work Flows Across Job-Linked Survey and Administrative Files
February 14, 2019
Chris Conlon, New York University
Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017
February 21, 2019
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University
February 28, 2019
Stephen O’Connell, Emory University
Making Public Job Training Work: Evidence from Decentralized Targeting Using Firm Input
March 7, 2019
Esteban Aucejo, Arizona State University
The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills
March 21, 2019
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
Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates
August 23, 2018
Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University
Firm Networks in the Great Depression
August 30, 2018
Bumin Yenmez, Boston College
September 13, 2018
Liran Einav, Stanford University
Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets: Risk Adjustment vs. Subsidies
September 20, 2018
Christopher Phelan, University of Minnesota
Reputation and Sovereign Default
September 27, 2018
Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia
Drivers of the Fatal Drug Epidemic
September 28, 2018
Christian Moser, Columbia University
Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil
October 4, 2018
Thomas Buchmueller, University of Michigan
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion and Unemployment
October 11, 2018
Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research
October 18, 2018
Tim Kehoe, University of Minnesota
Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth
October 25, 2018
Laura Liu, Federal Reserve Board
Monetary Policy Across Space and Time
November 1, 2018
Rusty Tchernis, Georgia State University
On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting
November 8, 2018
David Rivers, Western University
The ABCs of Firm Heterogeneity: The Effects of Demand and Cost Differences on Exporting
November 13, 2018
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
Transitory Shocks, Limited Attention, and a Firm’s Decision to Exit
November 15, 2018
Thomas Wiesen, University of Georgia
Practice Job Market Talk
November 27, 2018
Sebastian Calonico, University of Miami
Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs
November 29, 2018
Meghan Esson, University of Georgia
Practice Job Market Talk
November 30, 2018
Hector Chade, Arizona State University
Screening in Vertical Oligopolies
December 6, 2018
Conference: Market Power and the Global Supply Chain
Benjamin Golub, Northwestern University
Taxes and Market Power: A Principal Components Approach
October 6
Peter Kuhn, UC Santa Barbara
When is Discrimination Unfair?
October 20
Jonathan Leganza, Clemson University
Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark
October 27
Derek Neal, University of Chicago
Heterogeneous Impact of Sentencing Decisions
November 3
Simon Mongey, University of Chicago and FRB Minneapolis
Pricing Inequality
November 10
Katja Mann, Copenhagen Business School
Automation and Low-skill Labor
November 15 (*Tuesday seminar*)
Morris Davis, Rutgers Business School
Preferences over Race and the Inherent Instability of Neighborhoods in the United States
November 17
Irene Botosaru, McMaster University
Identification of Time-Varying Counterfactual Parameters in Nonlinear Panel Models
December 1
Sean Nicholson, Cornell University
Elevated End-of-Life Spending: A New Measure of Potentially Wasteful Healthcare Spending at End of Life
December 8