Workshops PhD Political Economy Political Economy Workshop Archive Public Policy & Economics PPE Workshop Archive Thursday, April 18th, Keller 000112:30pm - Smriti GanapathiPolicing Intimate Partner Violence: Curbing Abuse or Shifting it?Abstract: Policing is frequently posited to be an effective tool to deter perpetrators of intimate partner violence from repeating their abuse. However, abuse in intimate relationships often involves psychological violence and coercive control, which can be difficult to detect as compared to physical violence, but potentially just as harmful. Do criminal sanctions actually deter abusers? Or do perpetrators merely shift from using physical violence to more subtle forms of abuse like coercive control? I study this using granular incident-level police data from the United Kingdom. Results indicate that, on aggregate, charges reduce both physical violence and coercive control, driven largely by pairs of partners who do not file further complaints with the police. However, there is a shift from violence to coercive control among pairs that do return. The severity of the violence experienced, along with police officer characteristics, appear to be instrumental in this shift.1:10pm - Michael McKelligottHousehold Hygienic Infrastructure and Infectious Disease Mortality: Evidence from the 'New Public Health' and the Spanish FluAbstract: Do modern household amenities play a role in reducing infectious disease risk? We highlight the first quarter of 20th century America during which a profound progression in understanding occurred concerning implications from the newly fledged “Germ Theory of Disease”. We interact corresponding temporal variation in the dissemination of critical contemporary health information amplified by the onset of the Spanish Flu Pandemic which stressed regular personal hygiene (e.g., hand washing) as a primary means of prevention with cross-city differences in measures of household access to hygienic infrastructure. Estimating the relationship between this interaction and infectious disease mortality will shed light on the importance of private investment and the role of personal health behaviors during the urban mortality transition. Upcoming PresentersApr 25, 12:30pmFelicity Zhang Keller 0001Apr 25, 1:10pmPeizan ShengKeller 0001May 2, 12:30pmBrian Curran Keller 0001May 2, 1:10pmMatthew StadnickiKeller 0001May 9, 12:30pmNeila KerkebaneKeller 0001May 9, 1:10pmSofia GalloKeller 0001May 16, 12:30pmOskar HouckKeller 0001May 16, 1:10pmDaisy LuKeller 0001May 23, 12:30pmSushant BanjaraVirtualMay 23, 1:10pmLucas MationVirtualPast PresentersOct 5Ruochen Yi, Political structure and Balance of power, evidence from mid-level officials' promotion in ChinaOct 12Angela Wyse, Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income AdultsNov 9Mythili Vinnakota, Levees: Infrastructure and Insurance as Adaptation to Flood RiskNov 30Wendy Wong, Optimal Monitoring and Bureaucrat AdjustmentsDec 7Elena Ziege, Educational Spillovers: The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Siblings' EducationJan 11Maya Lozinski, Knowledge Growth and SpecializationJan 18Steve Kim, Industrial Policy: When Does It Work?Jan 18Gina Eckhoff, Putting Simplicity Back into New Economic GeographyJan 25Ari Anisfeld, "Remind me to go to back to college": The impact of government communications on FAFSA renewal and re-enrollmentJan 25Predrag Pandiloski, Social Learning in Diverse SocietiesFeb 1Daniel Sonnenstuhl, The Causes and Implications of the Pentecostal Movement: Evidence from NigeriaFeb 8José Miguel Pascual Moreno, Bargaining at the FirmFeb 15Danielle Nemschoff, Family Bonds and RecidivismFeb 22Goya Razavi Ebrahimi, Who Benefits From Free Colleges?Feb 29Haoran Gao, Competition, Market, Supply Chain, and (Dis)engagement: Determinants and Consequences of American Business Community's Lobbying on US-China EngagementMar 7Claire Fan, Dam thy neighbor: Spillovers and coordination on transboundary riversMar 21Emileigh Harrison, Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School TextbooksMar 21Rohen Shah, When The Student Becomes the Master: Learning by Creating Math Tutoring VideosMar 28Kisoo Kim , Lame Duck by Primary: Effects of Electoral Incentives on U.S. House RepresentativesMar 28Keisuke Ito, Is the Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies Too Fast and Too Much?: Evidence from Solar SystemsApr 4Rubina Hundal, From Learning to Earning: Effects of Financial Literacy, Career Information, and Social Learning on Youth Wage PreferencesApr 11Alison Doxey, How Much Do Cash Transfers Compensate Children for the Loss of a Father? Evidence from Mining Accidents and Workers' CompensationApr 11Nathan Ausubel, A National Study of the Effect of School Quality on Housing PricesBarbara WilliamsEmail barbaraw@uchicago.eduSteans Professor in Educational PolicySteven Durlauf Steven Durlauf’s research spans many topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics. His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty, inequality and economic growth.