Public Policy & Economics PPE Workshop Archive Autumn 2024 WorkshopsOctober 1Nicola Bianchi - Northwestern University"One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap"October 8Marcus Casey - University of Illinois, Chicago"Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest Neighbor Design"October 15Claudia Persico - American University"Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes"October 22Daniel Tannenbaum - University of Nebraska, Lincoln"The Effects of Eviction on Children"October 29 Martha Bailey - University of California, Los Angeles"How Subsidies Affect Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S.: A Randomized Control Trial"November 5Alexander W. Bartik - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Household Balance Sheets: Experimental Evidence from Two US States"November 12Zoe B. Cullen - Harvard University"Pushing the Envelope: Effects of Salary Negotiations"November 19Erzo F. P. Luttmer - Dartmouth College"Living Large or Long? Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories"November 26 No Workshop - Thanksgiving holiday breakDecember 3Abi Adams - University of Oxford"The Economic Impacts of Rape"December 10Hamish Low - University of Oxford"Fertility and Family Labor Supply"Spring 2024 WorkshopsMarch 5Corinne Low - University of Pennsylvania*"Winning the Bread and Baking it Too: Women's Excess Home Production Time and Household Inefficiency"March 19Cormac O'Dea - Yale University"Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.? Evidence on Racial Gaps in Retirement Wealth Accumulation"March 26Matthew Gentzkow - Stanford University "The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election: A Deactivation Experiment" (paper not available)April 2Benjamin 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 16Judith A. Chevalier - Yale University"Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape"April 23Jonathan Kolstad - University of California-Berkeley"Cognitive Capacity, Fatigue and Decision Making: Evidence from the Practice of Medicine"April 30Brian Phelan - DePaul University"The Labor Market Effects of Competing and Non-Competing High-Skill Immigrants: Evidence from College Majors"May 7Raffaele Saggio - University of British Columbia"Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data"May 14Sandra E. Black - Columbia University"Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan in the US"May 21Jonathan Skinner - Dartmouth College"Geography, Education, and the Widening Divide in US Midlife Mortality"Fall 2023 WorkshopsSeptember 26Neale Mahoney - Stanford University'Selling Subscriptions"October 3Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez - Yale University"Women and the Econometrics of Family Trees"October 10Corina Boar - New York University"Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?"October 17Emily Nix - University of Southern California"We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson"October 24Oriana Bandiera - London School of Economics"Meritocracy" (paper not available)October 31Peter Blair - Harvard University"Does the United States Spend Enough on Public Schools and Teachers?"November 7Amy Finkelstein - Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare"November 14Crystal Yang - Harvard University"Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion"November 21No Meeting - Holiday WeekNovember 28Martin Fiszbein - Boston University"The Confederate Diaspora"December 5Peter Ganong - The University of Chicago*"The Anatomy of Monthly Earnings Volatility: Evidence From Paycheck Microdata"* This meeting will be held in the Keller Center Sky Suite on the 4th Floor.Winter 2023 WorkshopMarch 1Philip Oreopoulos - University of Toronto*"Teaching Teachers to Use Computer Assisted Learning for Facilitating Personalized Learning at Scale: Experimental and Non-Experimental Evidence" (PDF)Spring 2023 WorkshopsMarch 22Daniel Reck - University of Maryland"The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence"March 29Benjamin Handel - University of California, Berkeley"Middlemen or Innovators? The Role of Insurers in Cost and Productivity in Health Care"April 5Daniel Waldinger - New York University"Market Design in Single-Payer Healthcare: Evidence from a GP Allocation System"April 12Linh To - Boston University"Rightly Transforming Right-Skewed Data"April 19Jamein Cunningham - Cornell University"The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians"April 26Katharine Abraham - University of Maryland"Where Are the Missing Workers?"May 3Tatiana Homonoff - New York University"Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials: Experimental Evidence from SNAP"May 10Francis Wong - LMU Munich"Taxing Homeowners Who Won't Borrow"May 17Alexandre Mas - Princeton University"Work Hours Mismatch"May 24John Friedman - Brown University"Diversifying America's Leaders: The Role of Admissions Policies at Selective Colleges"Fall 2022 WorkshopsSeptember 28Nicolas Gendron-Carrier - McGill University"Local Productivity Spillovers"October 5Nikhil Agarwal - Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology"October 12Katherine Meckel - University of California, San Diego"Dependent Coverage and Parental "Job Lock": Evidence from the Affordable Care Act"October 19Mark Duggan - Stanford University"The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector"October 26Robert Fairlie - University of California, Santa Cruz"Affirmative Action, Caste, and Quality of Instruction: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India"November 2Claudia Olivetti - Dartmouth College"When the Kids Grow Up: Women's Employment and Earnings Across the Family Cycle"November 9Alisa Tazhitdinova - University of California, Santa Barbara"Understanding the Nature of Capital Gains Responses to Taxes using Transaction-Level Data"November 16Juliana Londono-Velez - University of California, Los Angeles"Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga"November 23No Workshop - Thanksgiving breakNovember 30Adam Looney - University of Utah"Falsification Tests for Identifying Assumptions: An Analysis of the EITC and Welfare Policies in the 1990s"December 7Jesse Shapiro - Harvard University"Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence"Spring 2022 WorkshopsMarch 23Liran Einav - Stanford University"Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening"March 30Dmitri Koustas - Harris Public Policy/University of Chicago"Unemployment Insurance Incentives and Platform Gig Work"April 6Ithai Lurie - U.S. Department of the Treasury*"Medicaid-ing Uninsurance? Reducing the Duration of Uninsurance Spells"April 13Marika Cabral - University of Texas, Austin*"The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid"April 20Yana Gallen - Harris Public Policy/University of Chicago"Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy"April 27Daphne Skandalis - University of Copenhagen"Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System"May 4Melissa Kearney - University of Maryland"The Family Gap: How Inequality in Family Structure is Contributing to Class Gaps in Society"May 11Jesse Rothstein - University of California, Berkeley**"Location, Location, Location"May 18Anna Aizer - Brown University"The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being"May 25Janet Currie - Princeton University*"The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court:Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program"June 1Jeffrey Wooldridge - Michigan State University"Two-Way Fixed Effects, the Two-Way Mundlak Regression, and Difference-in-Differences Estimators"* Seminar will be held via Zoom** Joint seminar with the Booth School of BusinessAutumn 2021 WorkshopsSeptember 29Ilyana Kuziemko - Princeton University"Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century"October 6Amanda Agan - Rutgers University*"Misdemeanor Prosecution"October 13Arindrajit Dube - University of Massachusetts, Amherst"Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers"October 20Martin Rotemberg - New York University"Opposing the Civil Rights Movement"October 27David Cutler - Harvard University"Socioeconomic Status and the Experience of Pain: An Example from Knees"November 3David Chan - Stanford University*"Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans"November 10Heather Royer - University of California, Santa Barbara*"Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?"November 17Christopher Walters - University of California, Berkeley"Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers"November 24No Workshop - Thanksgiving Week BreakDecember 1Randall Akee - University of California, Los Angeles"Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the Age of Modern Mass Migration"*Tentatively in personSpring 2021 WorkshopsApril 7Conrad Miller - University of California, Berkeley"Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil"April 14Jonathan Gruber - Massachusetts Institute of Technology"The Impact of a Private Supplement to Public Health Care: The Mexico Diabetes Experiment"April 21Marit Rehavi - University of British Columbia“Closing the Gender Pay Gap in the US Federal Service: The Role of New Managers”April 28Clement de Chaisemartin - University of California, Santa Barbara"Difference-in-Differences Estimators of Intertemporal Treatment Effects"May 5Amitabh Chandra - Harvard University"The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing"May 12Rebecca Diamond - Stanford University"Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption"May 19Michael Mueller-Smith - University of Michigan"Modernizing Person-Level Entity Resolution with Biometrically Linked Records"May 26Adriana Lleras-Muney - University of California, Los Angeles"Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal"June 2Jonathan Zinman - Dartmouth College"How (not) to Elicit Probabilistic Beliefs: Preliminary Evidence from Stock Forecasts"Fall 2020 WorkshopsOctober 7Sam Norris - University of Chicago, Harris School"Estimating the Welfare Effects of School Vouchers"October 14Fiona Burlig - University of Chicago, Harris School"Groundwater, energy, and crop choice"October 21Damon Jones - University of Chicago, Harris School"Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks"October 28Soren Leth-Petersen - Copenhagen University"Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects with Survey Instruments"November 4No SeminarNovember 11Youssef Benzarti - University of California, Santa Barbara"Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production" November 18Thomas Fujiwara - Princeton University"Party Nominations and Female Electoral Performance: Evidence from Germany"November 25Will Dobbie - Harvard University"Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions"December 2Luigi Pistaferri - Stanford University"Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences"Fall 2019 WorkshopsOct 2Adam Kapor (Princeton University)"Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment"Oct 9Benjamin Faber (University of California-Berkeley)"Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda"Oct 16Danny Yagan (University of California-Berkeley)"Place-Based Redistribution"Oct 23Till von Wachter (University of California-Los Angeles)"The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources: Evidence from Germany"Oct 30Maria Polyakova (Stanford University)"Subsidy Targeting with Market Power"Nov 6Katrine Loken (Norwegian School of Economics)"Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions"Nov 13Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern University)"What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output"Nov 20Louis Kaplow (Harvard University)"Market Power and Income Taxation"Dec 4Reed Walker (University of California-Berkeley)"The Causes and Consequences of Racial Convergence in Pollution Exposure in the United States"Dec 11Barbara Biasi (Yale University)"Higher Salaries or Higher Pensions? Inferring Preferences from Teachers' Retirement BehaviorSpring 2019 WorkshopsApr 3Attila Lindner (University College London)"Reallocation and the Minimum Wage - Evidence from Germany"Apr 10Richard Blundell (University College London)"Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle"Apr 17V. Joseph Hotz (Duke University)"The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and its Consequences"Apr 24Amanda Pallais (Harvard University)"College Aid and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Randomized Trial"May 1Nicholas Sanders(Cornell University)"Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time: Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet"May 8Fabian Lange (McGill University)"Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments"May 15Emi Nakamura (University of California-Berkeley)"Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View"May 22Henrik Kleven (Princeton University)"The EITC and the Extensive Margin: A Reappraisal"May 29Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)"Welfare Tax Rates, Redistribution, and Optimality" Jun 5Patrick Kline (University of California-Berkeley)"Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement" Jun 12David Atkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption" Autumn 2018 WorkshopsOct 3Atif Mian (Princeton University)"Credit Supply and Housing Speculation"Oct 10Jacob Bastian (University of Chicago)"The Cost of the EITC in Equilibrium: Accounting for Changes in Tax Revenue and Public Assistance Spending"Oct 17Justine Hastings (Brown University)"The Social Value of Targeting Interventions: Evidence From Reemployment Services"Oct 24Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia)"Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects"Oct 31Jessica Pan(National University of Singapore)"The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?"Nov 7Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"Long-Term Care Hospitals: A Case Study in Waste"Nov 14Mel Stephens (University of Michigan)"Correcting for Misclassified Binary Regressors Using Instrumental Variables"Nov 28Judy Hellerstein(University of Maryland)"Have the Returns to Cognitive Ability Really Declined?"Dec 5Lint Barrage (Brown University)"Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?" Dec 12Ben Hyman (Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics)"Can Displaced Labor Be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance"Spring 2018 WorkshopsMar 28Jon Guryan (Northwestern University)"The Economics of Scale-Up." Apr 4Chris Taber (University of Wisconsin - Madison)"Skills, Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men"Apr 11Basit Zafar (W.P. Carey School of Business)"Labor Market Search with Imperfect Information and Learning"Apr 18Gaston Illanes (Northwestern University)"Competition, Asymmetric Information, and the Annuity Puzzle: Evidence from a Government-run Exchange in Chile" Apr 25Sandra Black(University of Texas - Austin) - Special Seminar time of 12-1:20pm"Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth"May 2Josh Graff Zivin(UC - San Diego)"Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes" May 9Benjamin Feigenberg(University of Illinois - Chicago)"Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts." May 16Claudia Goldin(Harvard)"A Long Road: The Quest for Career and Family" May 23David Autor (MIT)"Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents" May 30Timothy Bond (Purdue University)"Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s."Jun 6Stefano Dellavigna (UC-Berkeley)"Uniform Pricing in US Retail Chains"