Public Policy & Economics Workshop

Workshops meet on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:20 p.m. at the Harris School - Keller Center, Sky Suite - 4th floor, also available via Zoom. The faculty organizers are Yana Gallen, Dmitri Koustas, and Maggie Shi. For questions regarding the workshops, please contact Cynthia Taylor (cmtaylo@uchicago.edu).

Spring 2025 Workshops

March 25
Elira Kuka - George Washington University
"Anomalous Unemployment Insurance Payments During the Pandemic"

April 1
Bruce I. Sacerdote - Dartmouth College
"How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately
Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds"
and
"On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes: Impacts of Randomly
Assigned Neighborhoods For Children in Military Families"

April 8*
David H. Autor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment
to Globalization"

April 15
Naomi Feldman - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Phantom Notches and Real Constraints: How Japan's Tax System
Shapes Female Labor Supply"

April 22**
Kory Kroft - University of Toronto
"Horowitz-Manski-Lee Bounds With Multilayered Sample Selection"

April 29
Sydnee Caldwell - University of California, Berkeley
"Firm Pay and Worker Search"

May 6
Kelli Marquardt - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"The Role of Information in Pharmaceutical Advertising:
Theory and Evidence"

May 13
Johannes Spinnewijn - London School of Economics
"Private Health Insurance under Universal Coverage:
Balancing Efficiency and Equity"

May 20
Cailin Ryan Slattery - University of California, Berkeley
"The Political Economy of Subsidy-Giving"

*Joint with Chicago Booth, this seminar will meet from 1:45 - 3:05 p.m.
** Keller Boardroom (Room 4009) via Zoom

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