Workshops meet on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:20 p.m. at the Harris School - Keller Center, Room 1022, with select meetings via Zoom.  The faculty organizers are Dmitri Koustas and Zarek Brot-Goldberg.  To receive regular updates about the workshops, please email Cynthia Taylor (cmtaylo@uchicago.edu).

Spring 2022 Workshops

March 23

Liran Einav - Stanford University

"Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening"

March 30

Dmitri Koustas - Harris Public Policy/University of Chicago

"Unemployment Insurance Incentives and Platform Gig Work"

 

April 6

Ithai Lurie - U.S. Department of the Treasury*

"Medicaid-ing Uninsurance? Reducing the Duration of Uninsurance Spells"

April 13

Marika Cabral - University of Texas, Austin*

"The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid"

April 20

Yana Gallen - Harris Public Policy/University of Chicago

"Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy"

 

April 27

Daphne Skandalis - University of Copenhagen

"Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System"

 

May 4

Melissa Kearney - University of Maryland

"The Family Gap: How Inequality in Family Structure is Contributing to Class Gaps in Society"

 

May 11

Jesse Rothstein - University of California, Berkeley**

"Location, Location, Location"

May 18

Anna Aizer - Brown University

"The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being"

 

May 25

Janet Currie - Princeton University*

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

 

June 1

Jeffrey 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 Business

 

 

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Koichiro Ito

Faculty Spotlight

Koichiro Ito
Associate Professor

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.