Workshops PhD Political Economy Political Economy Workshop Archive Public Policy & Economics PPE Workshop Archive 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 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 9Marta 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" *Note: This seminar will be held in the Harris School-Keller Center Sky Suite (4th Floor).Workshop Archive Cynthia Taylor, Administrative Assistant for the Faculty and Special ProjectsEmail cmtaylo@uchicago.edu773.834.0628Associate ProfessorKoichiro 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.
Cynthia Taylor, Administrative Assistant for the Faculty and Special ProjectsEmail cmtaylo@uchicago.edu773.834.0628