Workshops meet on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:20 p.m. at the Harris School - Keller Center, Room 1022, also available via Zoom.  The faculty organizers are Yana Gallen and Zarek Brot-Goldberg.  For questions regarding the workshops, please contact Cynthia Taylor (cmtaylo@uchicago.edu).

Spring 2024 Workshops

March 5
Corinne Low - University of Pennsylvania*
"Winning the Bread and Baking it Too: Women's Excess Home
Production Time and Household Inefficiency"

March 19
Cormac O'Dea - Yale University
"Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.?
Evidence on Racial Gaps in Retirement Wealth Accumulation"

March 26
Matthew Gentzkow - Stanford University
"The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election:
A Deactivation Experiment"  (paper not available)

April 2
Benjamin Feigenberg - University of Illinois-Chicago
"Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches"

April 9
Marta Lachowska - Upjohn Institute
"The Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women Across Countries"

April 16
Judith A. Chevalier - Yale University
"Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape"

April 23
Jonathan Kolstad - University of California-Berkeley
"Cognitive Capacity, Fatigue and Decision Making:
Evidence from the Practice of Medicine"

April 30
Brian Phelan - DePaul University
"The Labor Market Effects of Competing and Non-Competing
High-Skill Immigrants: Evidence from College Majors"

May 7
Raffaele Saggio - University of British Columbia
"Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from
Matched Employer-Employee Data"

May 14
Sandra E. Black - Columbia University

May 21
Jonathan Skinner - Dartmouth College

*Note:  This seminar will be held in the Harris School-Keller Center Sky Suite (4th Floor).

Workshop Archive

 

Koichiro Ito

Associate Professor

Koichiro Ito

Koichiro Ito's research interests lie at the intersection of environmental and energy economics, industrial organization, and public economics. His research uses randomized field experiments and quasi-experimental designs to address policy relevant questions in energy and environmental policy.