Economic Seminar Series

2024-25

September 9, 2024

Chloe Gibbs, Notre Dame

Paper: A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families’ Constraints

September 16, 2024

Jim MacGee, Bank of Canada

Paper: The Distributional Origins of the Canada-US GDP and Labour Productivity Gaps

October 11, 2024

Rich Patterson, BYU

Paper: TBA

November 4, 2024

Angela Wyse, Dartmouth

Paper: TBA

2023-24 Academic Year

August 25, 2023

Juan Pantano, University of Arizona

Paper: TBA

October 20, 2023

Ingrid Haegele, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Paper: TBA

February 23, 2024

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 204

Brittany Street, University of Missouri

Paper: TBA

April 19, 2024

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 204

Jorge De la Roca, University of Southern California

Paper: TBA

September 8, 2023

Andrew Johnston, University of California Merced

Paper: TBA

November 13, 2023

Joseph Mullins, University of Minnesota

Paper: TBA

March 22, 2024

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 211

Kai (Jackie) Zhao, University of Connecticut

Paper: TBA

September 18, 2023

Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago

Paper: TBA

December 1, 2023

Sarah Miller, University of Michigan

Paper: TBA

March 29, 2024

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 204

Mallika Thomas, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Paper: TBA

September 25, 2023

Kwok Hao Lee, National University of Singapore

Paper: TBA

December 8, 2023

Danila Serra, Texas A&M

Paper: TBA

April 5, 2024

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 204

Robert (Bob) Millard, Stony Brook University

Paper: TBA

2022-23 Academic Year

September 12, 2022

Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University

Paper: Can Monetary Policy Create Fiscal Capacity?

November 18, 2022

Marta Golin, University of Zurich

Paper: Not Available

March 31, 2023

Esteban Aucejo, Arizona State University

Paper: “Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities: The Gig Economy Meets Online Education” (with Spencer Perry and Basit Zafar)

October 7, 2022

Na’ama Shenhav, Dartmouth College

Paper: "The Impact of Education on Jobs: A New Channel For Intergenerational Effects."

December 2, 2022

Raffaele Saggio, University of British Columbia

Paper: Not Available

April 28, 2023

Eric Chyn, University of Texas - Austin

Paper: The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux

November 4, 2022

Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland

Paper: Not Available

February 27, 2023

John Friedman, Brown University

Paper: "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data"

November 11, 2022

Francesca Molinari, Cornell University

Paper: Not Available

March 3, 2023

Alessandra Voena, Stanford University

Paper: "Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate"

2021-22 Academic Year

September 10, 2021

Arnaud Maurel, Duke University

Paper: "Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models” (joint with P. Arcidiacono, A. Gyetvai and E. Jardim)

November 5, 2021

Daniel Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper: Not Available

April 1, 2022

Janet Currie, Princeton

Paper: "The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program"

September 24, 2021

Thomas Prusa, Rutgers University

Paper: "The Impact of PTAs on the Duration of Antidumping Protection"

November 19, 2021

Andrii Parkhomenko, University of Southern California

Paper: Not Available

April 15, 2022

Heather Sarsons, University of Chicago

Paper: "National Wages"

October 15, 2021

Donna Ginther, University of Kansas

Paper: Not Available

February 25, 2022

Manisha Padi, Berkeley Law

Paper: "Fiduciary Duty and the Market for Financial Advice"

April 22, 2022

David Novgorodsky, University of Chicago

Paper: "How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income"

October 28, 2021

Matthew Gentry, Florida State University

Paper: Not Available

March 25, 2022

Conrad Miller, Berkeley

Paper: "The Dynamics of Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil"

April 25, 2022

Heather Royer, UCSB

Paper: "Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?"

2020-21 Academic Year

August 28, 2020

Nathalie Gimenes, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC)

Paper: Semiparametric Quantile Models for Ascending Auctions with Asymmetric Bidders

October 9, 2020

Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago

Paper: Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

February 19, 2021

Pengpeng Xiao, Duke University

Paper: Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium

April 9, 2021

Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth

Paper: Opening the Door: Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime

September 18, 2020

Mike Zabek, Federal Reserve Board

Paper: Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium

October 23, 2020

Chloe East, UC-Denver

Paper: Income Around Job Loss: Efficacy of the Public and Private Safety Nets

March 5, 2021

Basit Zafar, University of Michigan

Paper: Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap

September 25, 2020

Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University

Paper: Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession

November 13, 2020

Sarah Bana, Standford Digital Economy Lab

Paper: job2vec: Learning the Representation of Jobs

March 12, 2021

Uta Schoenberg, University College London

Paper: Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply*

October 2, 2020

Carol Caetano, University of Georgia

Paper: Correcting Endogeneity in Models with Bunching

February 12, 2021

David Deming, Harvard Kennedy School

Paper: Decision-Making as Human Capital

April 2, 2021

Melanie Wasserman, UCLA

Paper: Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice∗

2019-20 Academic Year

September 26, 2019

Peter Blair, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Paper: Is Spending on Schools Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes

November 15, 2019

Mike Belsky, UChicago Harris

Paper: An Overview of the Municipal Bond Market and Some Contemporary Issues

Cancelled

Jonathan Davis, U Oregon

Paper: Not Available

October 10, 2019

Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford

Paper: When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health

March 5, 2020

Pat Bayer, Duke

Paper: Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble

November 1, 2019

Julie Cullen, UCSD

Paper: Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector: The Case of School Principals

Cancelled

Heather Royer, UCSB

Paper: Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?

November 8, 2019

Lisa Kahn, Rochester

Paper: Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading

Cancelled

Conrad Miller, Berkeley

Paper: Profiling in Motor Vehicle Searches: Is There An Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff?

2018-19 Academic Year

September 28, 2018

Jesse Shapiro, Brown University

Paper: The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications

November 2, 2018

Byung-Cheol Kim, University of Alabama

Paper: The Impact of Uber and Lyft on Taxi Service Quality: Evidence from New York City

March 1, 2019

Tilman Börgers, University of Michigan

Paper: Strategically Simple Mechanisms

October 5, 2018

Karam Kang, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business

Paper: Understanding Disparities in Punishment: Regulator Preferences and Expertise

November 30, 2018

Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University Kellogg School

Paper: The Strategy and Technology of Conflict

April 18, 2019

Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University

Presentation: Coordinated Equilibrium

October 12, 2018

Damon Jones, University of Chicago Harris School

Paper: What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study

January 9, 2019

Philip I. Levy, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

Paper: Pressing Trade Questions and the Research Disconnect

April 26, 2019

Sukjin Han, University of Texas-Austin

Paper: Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Imperfect Compliance

October 26, 2018

Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago Harris School

Paper: The Wage Penalty of Regional Accents

January 18, 2019

Russell H. Hillberry, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Paper: Trade Effects of Customs Reform: Evidence from Albania

2017-18 Academic Year

August 25, 2017

Alexander Frankel, University of Chicago

Paper: Selecting Applicants

October 5, 2017

Carol Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder

Paper: Social Mobility in the Long-Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300-1900

December 12, 2017

Georg Schaur, University of Tennessee

Paper: Border Processing, Trade Costs and New Trade Policy

April 13, 2018

Stefano Carattini, Yale University

Paper: Social Interactions and the Adoption of Solar PV: Evidence from Cultural Borders

September 15, 2017

Dean Karlan, Yale University

Paper: Randomizing Religion

October 20, 2017

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Paper: Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

February 23, 2018

William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame

Paper: Guns and Violence: The Enduring Legacy of Crack Cocaine Markets

April 20, 2018

Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Texas at Dallas

Paper: Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation

September 21, 2017

Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder

Paper: Globalization and Executive Compensation

October 27, 2017

Richard van Weelden, University of Pittsburgh

Paper: Crashing the Party? Elites, Outsiders, and Elections

March 2, 2018

Kristy Buzard, Syracuse University

Paper: Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Institutions

September 29, 2017

Hugh Macartney, Duke University

Paper: Incentive Design in Education: An Empirical Approach

November 10, 2017

Sally Hudson, University of Virginia

Paper: Evaluating Post-Secondary Aid: Enrollment, Persistence, and Projected Completion Effects

April 6, 2018

Lars A. Stole, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Paper: Menu Auctions and Influence Games with Private Information

2016-17 Academic Year

February 9, 2017

Sebastian Sotelo, University of Michigan

Paper: Trade-Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium (joint with Javier Cravino)

April 27, 2017

Jeffrey Lin, Philadelphia Federal Reserve

Paper: Freeway Revolts!

March 2, 2017

Hanzhe Zhang, Michigan State University

Paper: Pre-Matching Gambles

March 30, 2017

Shafiun Shimul, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Paper: Uneven Obstacles for the Mid-Size Firms and the Missing Middles in the Developing Countries: Can Corruption and Tax Regulation explain it?

April 13, 2017

Richard van Weelden, University of Chicago

Paper: Crashing the Party? Elites, Outsiders, and Elections (joint with Peter Buisseret)