Winter 2023 Workshop March 1 Philip 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 Workshops March 22 Daniel Reck - University of Maryland "The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence" March 29 Benjamin Handel - University of California, Berkeley "Middlemen or Innovators? The Role of Insurers in Cost and Productivity in Health Care" April 5 Daniel Waldinger - New York University "Market Design in Single-Payer Healthcare: Evidence from a GP Allocation System" April 12 Linh To - Boston University "Rightly Transforming Right-Skewed Data" April 19 Jamein Cunningham - Cornell University "The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians" April 26 Katharine Abraham - University of Maryland "Where Are the Missing Workers?" May 3 Tatiana Homonoff - New York University "Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials: Experimental Evidence from SNAP" May 10 Francis Wong - LMU Munich "Taxing Homeowners Who Won't Borrow" May 17 Alexandre Mas - Princeton University "Work Hours Mismatch" May 24 John Friedman - Brown University "Diversifying America's Leaders: The Role of Admissions Policies at Selective Colleges" Fall 2022 Workshops September 28 Nicolas Gendron-Carrier - McGill University "Local Productivity Spillovers" October 5 Nikhil Agarwal - Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology" October 12 Katherine Meckel - University of California, San Diego "Dependent Coverage and Parental "Job Lock": Evidence from the Affordable Care Act" October 19 Mark Duggan - Stanford University "The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector" October 26 Robert Fairlie - University of California, Santa Cruz "Affirmative Action, Caste, and Quality of Instruction: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India" November 2 Claudia Olivetti - Dartmouth College "When the Kids Grow Up: Women's Employment and Earnings Across the Family Cycle" November 9 Alisa Tazhitdinova - University of California, Santa Barbara "Understanding the Nature of Capital Gains Responses to Taxes using Transaction-Level Data" November 16 Juliana Londono-Velez - University of California, Los Angeles "Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga" November 23 No Workshop - Thanksgiving break November 30 Adam Looney - University of Utah "Falsification Tests for Identifying Assumptions: An Analysis of the EITC and Welfare Policies in the 1990s" December 7 Jesse Shapiro - Harvard University "Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence" 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 Autumn 2021 Workshops September 29 Ilyana Kuziemko - Princeton University "Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century" October 6 Amanda Agan - Rutgers University* "Misdemeanor Prosecution" October 13 Arindrajit Dube - University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers" October 20 Martin Rotemberg - New York University "Opposing the Civil Rights Movement" October 27 David Cutler - Harvard University "Socioeconomic Status and the Experience of Pain: An Example from Knees" November 3 David Chan - Stanford University* "Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans" November 10 Heather Royer - University of California, Santa Barbara* "Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?" November 17 Christopher Walters - University of California, Berkeley "Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers" November 24 No Workshop - Thanksgiving Week Break December 1 Randall Akee - University of California, Los Angeles "Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the Age of Modern Mass Migration" *Tentatively in person Spring 2021 Workshops April 7 Conrad Miller - University of California, Berkeley "Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil" April 14 Jonathan Gruber - Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The Impact of a Private Supplement to Public Health Care: The Mexico Diabetes Experiment" April 21 Marit Rehavi - University of British Columbia “Closing the Gender Pay Gap in the US Federal Service: The Role of New Managers” April 28 Clement de Chaisemartin - University of California, Santa Barbara "Difference-in-Differences Estimators of Intertemporal Treatment Effects" May 5 Amitabh Chandra - Harvard University "The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing" May 12 Rebecca Diamond - Stanford University "Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption" May 19 Michael Mueller-Smith - University of Michigan "Modernizing Person-Level Entity Resolution with Biometrically Linked Records" May 26 Adriana Lleras-Muney - University of California, Los Angeles "Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal" June 2 Jonathan Zinman - Dartmouth College "How (not) to Elicit Probabilistic Beliefs: Preliminary Evidence from Stock Forecasts" Fall 2020 Workshops October 7 Sam Norris - University of Chicago, Harris School "Estimating the Welfare Effects of School Vouchers" October 14 Fiona Burlig - University of Chicago, Harris School "Groundwater, energy, and crop choice" October 21 Damon Jones - University of Chicago, Harris School "Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks" October 28 Soren Leth-Petersen - Copenhagen University "Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects with Survey Instruments" November 4 No Seminar November 11 Youssef Benzarti - University of California, Santa Barbara "Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production" November 18 Thomas Fujiwara - Princeton University "Party Nominations and Female Electoral Performance: Evidence from Germany" November 25 Will Dobbie - Harvard University "Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions" December 2 Luigi Pistaferri - Stanford University "Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences" Fall 2019 Workshops Oct 2 Adam Kapor (Princeton University) "Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment" Oct 9 Benjamin Faber (University of California-Berkeley) "Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda" Oct 16 Danny Yagan (University of California-Berkeley) "Place-Based Redistribution" Oct 23 Till von Wachter (University of California-Los Angeles) "The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources: Evidence from Germany" Oct 30 Maria Polyakova (Stanford University) "Subsidy Targeting with Market Power" Nov 6 Katrine Loken (Norwegian School of Economics) "Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions" Nov 13 Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern University) "What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output" Nov 20 Louis Kaplow (Harvard University) "Market Power and Income Taxation" Dec 4 Reed Walker (University of California-Berkeley) "The Causes and Consequences of Racial Convergence in Pollution Exposure in the United States" Dec 11 Barbara Biasi (Yale University) "Higher Salaries or Higher Pensions? Inferring Preferences from Teachers' Retirement Behavior Spring 2019 Workshops Apr 3 Attila Lindner (University College London) "Reallocation and the Minimum Wage - Evidence from Germany" Apr 10 Richard Blundell (University College London) "Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle" Apr 17 V. Joseph Hotz (Duke University) "The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and its Consequences" Apr 24 Amanda Pallais (Harvard University) "College Aid and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Randomized Trial" May 1 Nicholas Sanders (Cornell University) "Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time: Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet" May 8 Fabian Lange (McGill University) "Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments" May 15 Emi Nakamura (University of California-Berkeley) "Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View" May 22 Henrik Kleven (Princeton University) "The EITC and the Extensive Margin: A Reappraisal" May 29 Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University) "Welfare Tax Rates, Redistribution, and Optimality" Jun 5 Patrick Kline (University of California-Berkeley) "Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement" Jun 12 David Atkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption" Autumn 2018 Workshops Oct 3 Atif Mian (Princeton University) "Credit Supply and Housing Speculation" Oct 10 Jacob Bastian (University of Chicago) "The Cost of the EITC in Equilibrium: Accounting for Changes in Tax Revenue and Public Assistance Spending" Oct 17 Justine Hastings (Brown University) "The Social Value of Targeting Interventions: Evidence From Reemployment Services" Oct 24 Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia) "Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects" Oct 31 Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore) "The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?" Nov 7 Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Long-Term Care Hospitals: A Case Study in Waste" Nov 14 Mel Stephens (University of Michigan) "Correcting for Misclassified Binary Regressors Using Instrumental Variables" Nov 28 Judy Hellerstein (University of Maryland) "Have the Returns to Cognitive Ability Really Declined?" Dec 5 Lint Barrage (Brown University) "Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?" Dec 12 Ben Hyman (Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics) "Can Displaced Labor Be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance" Spring 2018 Workshops Mar 28 Jon Guryan (Northwestern University) "The Economics of Scale-Up." Apr 4 Chris Taber (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "Skills, Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men" Apr 11 Basit Zafar (W.P. Carey School of Business) "Labor Market Search with Imperfect Information and Learning" Apr 18 Gaston Illanes (Northwestern University) "Competition, Asymmetric Information, and the Annuity Puzzle: Evidence from a Government-run Exchange in Chile" Apr 25 Sandra 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 2 Josh Graff Zivin (UC - San Diego) "Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes" May 9 Benjamin Feigenberg (University of Illinois - Chicago) "Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts." May 16 Claudia Goldin (Harvard) "A Long Road: The Quest for Career and Family" May 23 David Autor (MIT) "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents" May 30 Timothy Bond (Purdue University) "Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s." 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