| Friday, 19 September 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Xiaoming Wei (University of Toronto) | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 3 October 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gary Solon (University of Michigan) | |
| Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Friday, 10 October 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Esther Duflo (MIT) | |
| Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India | |
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(joint with A. Banerjee, S. Cole, and L. Linden)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 17 October 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Christopher Taber (Northwestern University) | |
| An Empirical Equilibrium Model of the US Labor Market 1972-2000 | |
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(joint with James Heckman, Lance Lochner)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 24 October 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Louise Grogan (University of Guelph) | |
| Becker in Russia: Explaining the post-transition fertility decline | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 31 October 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Leo Teng Wah (MIT) | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 7 November 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Julie Cullen (University of Michigan) | |
| The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries | |
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(joint with Brian Jacob and Steven Levitt)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 14 November 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Individual perceptions of the criminal justice system | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 21 November 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley) | |
| Incentives to Learn | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Mark Stabile |
| Friday, 28 November 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Veall (McMaster University) | |
| The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000 | |
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(joint with Emmanuel Saez, UC-Berkeley)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 5 March 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Imran Rasul (University of Chicago) | |
| Relative and absolute incentives: Evidence on worker productivity | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Thursday, 11 March 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Lee (University of California at Berkeley) | |
| Deterrence and Punishment Effects of Criminal Sanctions | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 12 March 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Terra McKinnish (University of Colorado) | |
| Evidence on cross border welfare migration | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 19 March 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Winnie Chan (University of Toronto) | |
| Competition and Public School Performance: Evidence from Ontario's Tuition Tax Credit | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 26 March 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Timothy Halliday (Princeton University) | |
| Migration and Self-Insurance in Rural El Salvador | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 26 March 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ken Chay (UC-Berkeley) | |
| CANCELLED | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 2 April 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Nathan Nunn (University of Toronto) | |
| The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa, 1400-2000 | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 17 September 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ray Fisman (Columbia University) | |
| Searching for a Mate: Theory and Experimental Evidence | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Mark Stabile |
| Friday, 24 September 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Figlio (University of Florida) | |
| Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 24 September 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Figlio (University of Florida) | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 1 October 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Paul Dolan (University of Sheffield) | |
| Inequality aversion and health-related social welfare functions | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Mark Stabile |
| Friday, 8 October 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jia-Zhueng Fan (University of Toronto) | |
| Who Benefits from Public Pensions? - Evidence from Taiwan | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 15 October 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Claudia Olivetti (Boston University) | |
| Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from WWII, | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 22 October 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Christine Neill (University of Toronto) | |
| Tuition Fees and the Post-Secondary Education/Employment Decision in Canada | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 29 October 2004 | 1:30– 2:50 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Chris Robinson (Western) | |
| Technological Change in the Production of Human Capital: Implications for Human Capital Stocks, Wages, and Skill Differentials | |
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(joint with Audra Bowlus, Western)
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| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Stéphane Mechoulan |
| Wednesday, 3 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Chris Jepsen (Public Policy Institute of California) | |
| Earnings History and the Schooling Decisions of Older Workers | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 5 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Louis-Phillipe Morin (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 12 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Richard Blundell (University College London) | |
| Consumption Inequality, Income Inequality and Partial Insurance | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Friday, 19 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) | |
| School Decentralization: helping the good get better but leaving the rest behind | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Mark Stabile |
| Friday, 26 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Yee-Fei Chia (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 3 December 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University) | |
| Bounds in Competing Risk Models and the War on Cancer | |
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(joint with Bo Honore)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Mark Stabile |
| Friday, 4 March 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gordon Dahl (University of Rochester) | |
| The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement | |
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(joint with Lance Lochner, Western Ontario)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 11 March 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Lee (UC-Berkeley) | |
| Deterrence and Punishment Effects of Criminal Sanctions | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 18 March 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Mel Stephens (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| The Consumption Response to Predictable Changes in Discretionary Income: Evidence from the Repayment of Vehicle Loans | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Friday, 1 April 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Bjerk (McMaster University) | |
| The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across Occupational Sectors | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 15 April 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kurt Schmidheiny (Tufts) | |
| Residential Income Sorting in Federal Systems. The Role of Taxes, Housing Costs and Social Interactions. | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Michael Smart |
| Friday, 22 April 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jean-Yves Duclos (University of Laval) | |
| Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting | |
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(joint with Sami Bibi)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Friday, 29 April 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Emily Hanna (University of Toronto) | |
| Headship and Marital Status Effects of Canadian Welfare Legislation: From mate dependence to state dependence? | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Friday, 23 September 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Green (UBC) | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 23 September 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Green (UBC) | |
| Racing to the Middle: Minimum Wage Setting and Standards of Fairness | |
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(joint with Kathryn Harrison)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 30 September 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Autor (MIT) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 14 October 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Justin McCrary (University of Michigan) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 21 October 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Todd Stinebrickner (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 28 October 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Leo Teng Wah (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 4 November 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Philippe Morin (University of Toronto) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 11 November 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Fang Hanming (Yale University) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 18 November 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 25 November 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Enrico Moretti (University of California) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Thursday, 1 December 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Raj Chetty (UC Berkeley) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 9 December 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Steve Lehrers (Queens University) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 16 December 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marcelin Joanis (University of Toronto) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 13 January 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Courtney Ward (University of Toronto) | |
| Public Automobile Insurance and Motor Vehicle Collisions in Canada | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 3 March 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago) | |
| Estimating Matching Games with Transfers | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Johannes Van Biesebroeck |
| Friday, 10 March 2006 | 17:00–18:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tim Besley (LSE) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 24 March 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Florian Hoffman (LSE) | |
| Social Networks and Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 7 April 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Abhijit V. Banerjee (MIT) | |
| Long run impact of income shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th century | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 15 September 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth College) | |
| Trade Policy, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from Indian Districts | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 22 September 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| John B. Jones (SUNY) | |
| Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles | |
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(joint with others)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 29 September 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Winnie Chan (University of Toronto) | |
| School Choice and Public School Performance | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 6 October 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Philippe Morin (University of Toronto) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 13 October 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Emily Oster (University of Chicago) | |
| HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa? | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 20 October 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 27 October 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Greenstone (MIT) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 3 November 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 10 November 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Justin Wolfers (Wharton School) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 17 November 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Till von Wachter (Columbia University) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 24 November 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) | |
| Offering Incentives and Services for Improving Undergraduate Achievement | |
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(joint with Joshua Angrist, Daniel Lang)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Martin J. Osborne |
| Friday, 1 December 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Bernard Fortin (Laval University) | |
| Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks | |
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(joint with Yann Bramoulle, Habiba Djebbari)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Eugene Choo |
| Friday, 1 December 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Bernard Fortin (Universite Laval) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Eugene Choo |
| Friday, 15 December 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Max Rempel (University of Toronto) | |
| Do New Goods Drive Labor Supply? Evidence from Video Consoles | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 16 February 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hui Wang (University of Toronto) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 2 March 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Susan Dynarski (Harvard) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 9 March 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Abdurrahman Aydemir (Statistics Canada) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 16 March 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rohini Pande (Yale University) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 23 March 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joe Altonji (Yale University) | |
| Modeling Earnings Dynamics | |
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(joint with Anthony A. Smith and Ivan Vidangos)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 30 March 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Leah Brooks (McGill University) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 13 April 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Phillip Decicca (McMaster University) | |
| Local labor market fluctuations and health: Is there a connection and for whom? | |
|
(joint with Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 20 April 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Betsy Caucutt (University of Western Ontario) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 14 September 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Brian Krauth (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Set estimation of linear causal effects using relative correlation restrictions | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizers: Dwayne Benjamin and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 21 September 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Abigail Payne (McMaster University) | |
| TBA | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 21 September 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Abigail Payne (McMaster) | |
| School Competition with Publicly-Funded Catholic Schools: Evidence on Student Mobility and Achievement | |
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(joint with David Card and Martin Dooley)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 28 September 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Dan Silverman (University of Michigan) | |
| Factions and Political Competition | |
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(joint with Nicola Persico and Jose Carlos Rodriguez-Pueblita)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 12 October 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sandra Black (UCLA) | |
| Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change And The Skill Content Of Women's Work | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 19 October 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Brian Knight (Brown University) | |
| Momentum in Presidential Primaries | |
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(joint with Nathan Schiff)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 26 October 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jesse Rothstein (Princeton) | |
| On the Identification of Teacher Effects on Student Achievement: Do Value-Added Models Add Value? | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 2 November 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Brian McCaig (University of Toronto) | |
| Exporting out of poverty: Poverty in Vietnam and U.S. market access | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 9 November 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marcelin Joanis (University of Toronto) | |
| The Road to Power: Partisan Loyalty and the Centralized Provision of Local Infrastructure | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 16 November 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| John Ham (USC) | |
| Correcting for Seam Bias when Estimating Discrete Variable Models, with an Application to Analyzing the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women in the SIPP | |
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(joint with Xianghong Li (York U.) and Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams))
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 23 November 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tat-kei Lai (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA (second-year paper presentation) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 30 November 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hugh Macartney (University of Toronto) | |
| Educational Accountability and Teacher Behaviour | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 7 December 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sacha Kapoor (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA (second-year paper presentation) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 11 January 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ioana Dan (University of Toronto) | |
| Occupational Mobility in Transition Economies: the case of Hungary | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 1 February 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jeanne Lafortune (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Making yourself attractive: Pre-marital investments and the returns to education in the marriage mar | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 8 February 2008 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Trang V Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 7 March 2008 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Leah Brooks (McGill University) | |
| Inside the Gift Horse's Mouth: City Spending, Political Institutions, and the ... Block Grant | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 7 March 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Duncan Thomas (Duke University) | |
| Preferences: Experimental and survey evidence | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 7 March 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Duncan Thomas (Duke University) | |
| Preferences: Experimental and survey evidence | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 14 March 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) | |
| The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Productivity | |
| Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis | |
| Friday, 28 March 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kenneth Chay (Brown University) | |
| The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Hospital Desegregation and Black Infant Mortality in Mississippi | |
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(joint with Douglas V. Almond, Michael Greenstone)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 4 April 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kaivan Munshi (Brown University) | |
| Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Career Decisions: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest | |
|
(joint with Nicholas Wilson)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 18 April 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hilary W. Hoynes (University of California - Davis) | |
| Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform Effects? Evidence from Connecticut's Jobs First Experiment | |
|
(joint with Marianne P. Bitler and Jonah B. Gelbach)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 19 September 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jacob Vigdor (Duke University) | |
| Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement | |
|
(joint with Charles Clotfelter and Helen Ladd)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 26 September 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Erzo F. P. Luttmer (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) | |
| What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption | |
| School of Public Policy, room 361 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Thursday, 9 October 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Macroeconomics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Emanuela Cardia (University of Montreal) | |
| Household Technology: Was it the Engine of Liberation? | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Diego Restuccia |
| Friday, 10 October 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jackie Wang (University of Toronto) | |
| Substitution Effects in Parental Investments | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 17 October 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Courtney Ward (University of Toronto) | |
| Flu Shots, Work Absences and Hospitalizations: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? (job market paper) | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Wednesday, 22 October 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alexandre Debs (University of Rochester) | |
| War! Who is it Good For? The Relationship between Regime Type, the Fate of Leaders and War | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 31 October 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jim Levinsohn (University of Michigan) | |
| The Impact of AIDS/HIV on Labor Markets in South Africa | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 7 November 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alex Mas (UC Berkeley (visiting Princeton)) | |
| CANCELLED: Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999 | |
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(joint with David Lee)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 14 November 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Christian Dippel (University of Toronto) | |
| Vote Buying as a Determinant of Foreign Aid -- Evidence from the International Whaling Commission | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 21 November 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto) | |
| Large Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market for Famine-Born Cohorts in China | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 28 November 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Mike Elsby (University of Michigan) | |
| Stepping off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 5 December 2008 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hugh Macartney (University of Toronto) | |
| Educational Accountability and School Performance | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 13 March 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alexandre Mas (University of California - Berkeley) | |
| Long Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999 | |
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(joint with David S. Lee)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 20 March 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Erica Field (Harvard University) | |
| Does Group Lending Increase Social Capital? Evidence from a Field Experiment in India | |
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(joint with Benjamin Feigenberg and Rohini Pande)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Thursday, 26 March 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| International trade/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego) | |
| CANCELLED | |
| Rotman, room 142 | Organizers: Bernardo Blum, Gustavo Bobonis, and Peter Morrow |
| Friday, 3 April 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (Princeton University) | |
| Do Newspapers Matter? Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post | |
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(joint with Miguel Garrido)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Tuesday, 5 May 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Chikako Yamauchi (Australian National University) | |
| The Effect of Child Care Center Availability on Child Care Arrangements and Maternal Labor Supply | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 18 September 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Phil Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) | |
| The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment | |
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(joint with Eric P. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long, Lisa Sanbonmatsu)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 25 September 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine) | |
| Public-Private Partnerships and Efficiency: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways | |
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(joint with Latika Chaudary)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gillian C. Hamilton and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 2 October 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Weili Ding (Queen's) | |
| Estimating Psychological Biases in Education Experiments | |
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(joint with Steven Lehrer)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 9 October 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eik Leong Swee (University of Toronto) | |
| Together or Separate? Post-Conflict Partition, Ethnic Homogenization, and The Provision of Public Schooling | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 16 October 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Leah Platt Boustan (UCLA) | |
| "Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration." | |
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(joint with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 23 October 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto) | |
| Testing Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Robert McMillan and Matthew Turner |
| Friday, 30 October 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Florian Hoffmann (University of Toronto) | |
| Earnings and Mobility Dynamics in a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model: Estimation and Applications | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 13 November 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Damon Clark (University of Florida) | |
| How Important is Labor Market Signaling? New Evidence from High School Exit Exams | |
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(joint with Paco Martorell)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 20 November 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joshua Lewis (University of Toronto) | |
| The Impact of Smoking Bans: Evidence from Canada | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 27 November 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Andrew Bird (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 4 December 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Thomas Lemieux (UBC) | |
| Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure | |
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(joint with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 11 December 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Parag Pathak (MIT) | |
| Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston’s Charters and Pilots | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Monday, 14 December 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rita Pivovarova (University of Toronto) | |
| Determinants of School Enrollment in Nepal: Evidence from the Living Standard Survey | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Wednesday, 20 January 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Christina Marsh (University of Minnesota) | |
| Estimating Health Expenditure Elasticities Using Nonlinear Reimbursement | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Junichi Suzuki |
| Friday, 22 January 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ashley Langer (UC Berkeley) | |
| Demographic Preferences and Price Discrimination in New Vehicle Sales | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 5 March 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Douglas Almond (Columbia University) | |
| Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy | |
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(joint with Bhashkar Mazumder)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 12 March 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lori A. Beaman (Northwestern University) | |
| Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment | |
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(joint with Jeremy Magruder)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 19 March 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Scott E. Carrell (UC Davis) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Thursday, 25 March 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Urban and real estate economics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Enrico Moretti (U.C. Berkeley) | |
| Real Wage Inequality | |
| Rotman, room 127 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Matthew Turner |
| Friday, 9 April 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Nancy Qian (Yale University) | |
| The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61 | |
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(joint with Xin Meng, Pierre Yared)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Tuesday, 13 April 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kory Kroft (Charles River Associates) | |
| Does the Moral Hazard Cost of Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Local Unemployment Rate? | |
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(joint with Matthew J. Notowidigdo)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 100 | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 16 April 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Raquel Fernández (NYU) | |
| Women's Rights and Development | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 17 September 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joseph Altonji (Yale University) | |
| Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use | |
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(joint with Sarah Cattan, Iain Ware)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 24 September 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Louis-Philippe Morin (University of Ottawa) | |
| Gender and Competition: From the Lab into the Classroom | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 1 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University) | |
| The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century | |
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(joint with et al)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 8 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Amy Finkelstein (MIT) | |
| Selection On Moral Hazard In Health Insurance | |
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(joint with Liran Einav, Stephen Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark Cullen)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Leah Brooks and Robert McMillan |
| Thursday, 14 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Macroeconomics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jean Marc Robin (Sciences Po Paris) | |
| Marriage with Labor Market | |
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(joint with Nicolas Jacquemet)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gueorgui Kambourov, Robert McMillan, and Shouyong Shi |
| Friday, 15 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Christian Dippel (U Toronto) | |
| Forced Integration and Economic Development - The Case of Native American Reservations | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 22 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sacha Kapoor (U Toronto) | |
| Incentive Provision in Multitask Jobs: Field Evidence from the Workplace | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 29 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University) | |
| The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers | |
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(joint with Jesse M. Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 5 November 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hugh Macartney (U Toronto) | |
| The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 12 November 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tat-kei Lai (U Toronto) | |
| How Does Information and Communication Technology Affect Workplace Organization? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 19 November 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Econometrics | |
| Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies | |
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(joint with Andrew C. Thomas)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Martin Burda |
| Friday, 26 November 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Chris Robinson (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Dwayne Benjamin and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 3 December 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gregorio Caetano (University of Rochester) | |
| Identification and Estimation of the Parental Value of School Quality in the US | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 10 December 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lei Tang (U Toronto) | |
| Heterogeneity in individual dynamic decision-making among Middle school, High school and University students | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 21 January 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Thomas Fujiwara (University of British Columbia) | |
| Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Tuesday, 25 January 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Shari Jane Eli (U.C. Berkeley) | |
| Wealth is Health: Pensions and Disease Onset in the Gilded Age | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Monday, 31 January 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Elaine Kelly (University College London) | |
| A Ticket to Ride: Does Free Bus Travel Promote Active Ageing? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Leah Brooks |
| Wednesday, 2 February 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Koichiro Ito (UC Berkeley) | |
| Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Matthew Turner |
| Friday, 4 March 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University) | |
| Strategy Choice in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma | |
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(joint with Guillaume Fréchette)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 11 March 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) | |
| On mechanisms of land acquisition | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Loren Brandt |
| Friday, 18 March 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan) | |
| The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges | |
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(joint with Eleanor Dillon)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 25 March 2011 | 16:00–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas - Austin) | |
| 'Beauty is the Promise of Happiness'? | |
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(joint with Jason Abrevaya)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker and Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 1 April 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University) | |
| Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access" | |
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(joint with Pinar Keskin)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 8 April 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alexander Gelber (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michael Smart |
| Friday, 15 April 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Adam Found (U of Toronto) | |
| Scale Economies in Municipal Services: A Look at General Government, Fire, and Police | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Adonis Yatchew |
| Friday, 16 September 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| The Political Economy of Moral Conflict: An Empirical Study of Learning and Law Enforcement under Prohibition | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 23 September 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University) | |
| Scientific Leadership | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 30 September 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago) | |
| Violence Beyond Reason: Prohibition of Alcohol and the Decline of Lynching in the US South | |
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(joint with Emily Owens)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 7 October 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Paul Gertler (Berkeley) | |
| Poverty, Growth and the Demand for Energy | |
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(joint with Orie Shelef, Catherine Wolfram and Alan Fuchs)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 14 October 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ray Fisman (Columbia University) | |
| Labor Supply of Politicians | |
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(joint with Nikolaj Harmon, Emir Kamenica and Inger Mun)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 21 October 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Steve Lehrer (Queens University) | |
| Reinvestigating Who Benefits and Who Loses from Universal Childcare in Canada | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 28 October 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Branko Boskovic (University of Toronto) | |
| TBD | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Robert McMillan, and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 4 November 2011 | 14:00–15:20 |
| Econometrics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Bernard Salanie (Columbia University) | |
| Cupid's Invisible Hand: Social Surplus and Identi fication in Matching Models | |
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(joint with Alfred Galichon)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Martin Burda, Yosh Halberstam, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 11 November 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Janet Currie (Princeton) | |
| Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick? | |
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(joint with Erdal Tekin)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Philip Oreopoulos, and Mark Stabile |
| Friday, 18 November 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Derek Messacar (University of Toronto) | |
| TBD | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Robert McMillan, and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Monday, 21 November 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marit Rehavi (UBC) | |
| Different Models or Measures? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 25 November 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Nathan Nunn (Harvard) | |
| On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough | |
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(joint with Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Dwayne Benjamin, Yosh Halberstam, and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 2 December 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Derek Neal (University of Chicago) | |
| Pay for Percentile | |
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(joint with Gadi Barlevy)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 9 December 2011 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Card (Berkeley) | |
| Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends | |
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(joint with Laura Guiliano)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Philip Oreopoulos, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 20 January 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eduardo Augusto de Souza Rodrigues (Yale University) | |
| Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Rahul Deb |
| Friday, 3 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Adam Storeygard (Brown University) | |
| Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Tuesday, 7 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lesley Jeanne Turner (Columbia University) | |
| The Incidence of Student Financial Aid: Evidence from the Pell Grant Program | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Monday, 13 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Dayanand Manoli (University of California at Los Angeles) | |
| Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions | |
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(joint with Andrea Weber)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michael Smart |
| Wednesday, 15 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Mitchell Hoffman (UC Berkeley) | |
| Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training. | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Shari Eli |
| Friday, 2 March 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Frederico Finan (UC Berkeley) | |
| Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service | |
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(joint with Ernesto Dal Bo and Martin Rossi)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 9 March 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Anna Aizer (Brown) | |
| The Production of Child Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility | |
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(joint with Flavio Cunha)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 16 March 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gerard Padro i Miquel (LSE) | |
| The Effects of Democratization on Economic Policy: Evidence from China | |
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(joint with Monica Martínez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 23 March 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| John Friedman (Harvard) | |
| The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood | |
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(joint with Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 30 March 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jeremiah Dittmar (American) | |
| The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The Printed Book | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 20 April 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Diego Puga (IMDEA) | |
| Learning by working in big cities | |
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(joint with Jorge De la Roca)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 14 September 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jeremy Magruder (Berkeley) | |
| Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi | |
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(joint with Lori Beaman and Niall Keleher)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 21 September 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth) | |
| CANCELLED | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 28 September 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Victor Couture (Toronto) | |
| Travel Demand and the Consumption Value of Urban Density | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gilles Duranton and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 5 October 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Josh Lewis (Toronto) | |
| Fertility, Child Health, and the Diffusion of Electricity into the Home | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Mark Stabile |
| Thursday, 11 October 2012 | 14:30–15:50 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Thomas Lemieux (UBC) | |
| Minimum Wages and the Joint Distribution of Employment and Wages | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 12 October 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Andrew Bird (Toronto) | |
| The Effects of Taxes on the Market for Corporate Control | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Michael Smart |
| Friday, 19 October 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ran Abramitzky (Stanford) | |
| How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistributive Policies and in Returns? | |
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(joint with Victor Lavy)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Shari Eli and Yosh Halberstam |
| Wednesday, 24 October 2012 | 16:30–18:00 |
| International trade/Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Atkin (Yale University) | |
| Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Nature of International Trade Costs | |
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(joint with Dave Donaldson (MIT))
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| Rotman, room 147 | Organizer: Peter Morrow |
| Friday, 26 October 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rita Pivovarova (Toronto) | |
| Peer Effects in the Classroom: Evidence from New Peers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Dwayne Benjamin and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 9 November 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kathleen McGarry (UCLA) | |
| Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Laura Turner |
| Friday, 23 November 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marco Gonzalez-Navaro (University of Toronto) | |
| Certified to Migreate: Property Rights and Migration in Rural Mexico | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 30 November 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jesse Shapiro (UChicago) | |
| Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers | |
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(joint with Matthew Gentzkow and Michael Sinkinson)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 7 December 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia) | |
| Mansion Tax: The Effect of Transfer Taxes on Residential Real Estate Market | |
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(joint with David Munroe)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Tuesday, 22 January 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Benjamin Michael Marx (Columbia University) | |
| Regulatory Hurdles and Growth of Charitable Organizations: Evidence From a Dynamic Bunching Design | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Friday, 25 January 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Laura Ralston (MIT) | |
| Less Guns, More Violence: Evidence from Disarmament in Uganda | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Tuesday, 29 January 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Paul Novosad (Harvard University) | |
| Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India | |
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(joint with Sam Asher (Harvard))
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Nicholas Li |
| Tuesday, 5 February 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| John Wesley Anderson (Stanford University) | |
| Experience and the Evolution of Wind Power Project Costs in the United States | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michael Baker |
| Wednesday, 6 February 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michel Serafinelli (Uc berkeley) | |
| Good Fi rms, Worker Flows and Productivity | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Laura Turner |
| Tuesday, 12 February 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tatiana Alexandra Homonoff (Princeton University) | |
| Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes versus Bonuses on Disposable Bag Use | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Monday, 25 February 2013 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jessica Leight (MIT) | |
| Reallocating wealth? Insecure property rights and agricultural investment in rural China | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 1 March 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley) | |
| Voting to Tell Others | |
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(joint with John List, Ulrike Malmendier and Gautam Rao)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 8 March 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kjell Salvanes (Norweigian School of Economics) | |
| This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Downfall from Nuclear Weapon Testing | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 15 March 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Melissa Thomasson (Miami) | |
| Saving Babies: The Impact of Public Education Programs on Infant Mortality | |
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(joint with Carolyn Moehling)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Shari Eli and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 22 March 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Abigail Payne (McMaster) | |
| Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK | |
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(joint with Jim Andreoni and Sarah Smith)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 5 April 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Costas Meghir (Yale) | |
| The Design and Impact of Early Childhood Interventions: Results from Colombia | |
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(joint with Orazio Attanasio, Camila Fernandez, Emla Fitzimmons, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Ma)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Wednesday, 24 April 2013 | 15:00–16:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Albouy (University of Michigan) | |
| Urban Population and Amenities | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker and Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 13 September 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rema Hanna (Harvard) | |
| Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia | |
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(joint with V. Alatas, A. Banerjee, B. A. Olken, R. Purnamasari, M. Wai-Poi)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 20 September 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern University) | |
| Reducing Juvenile Delinquency by Improving Self-Regulation: Experimental Evidence from Juvenile Detention | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker and Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 27 September 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University) | |
| The Policy Elasticity | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 4 October 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD) | |
| Perverse Consequences of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban | |
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(joint with Leah Lakdawala)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Rahul Deb and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 11 October 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) | |
| Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment | |
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(joint with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 18 October 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eric Mak (Toronto) | |
| TBD | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 25 October 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Brian Knight (Brown) | |
| Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 1 November 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ayesha Ali (Toronto) | |
| From Home to Market? Credit and the Demand for Rice in Rural Thailand | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Yosh Halberstam, and Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 8 November 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tom Vogl (Princeton) | |
| Estimating Habit Formation in Voting | |
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(joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Kyle Meng)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Shari Eli and Yosh Halberstam |
| Thursday, 14 November 2013 | 14:40–16:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Amalia Miller (University of Virgina) | |
| Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence Escalation | |
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(joint with Carmit Segal)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 22 November 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Emir Kamenica (UChicago) | |
| Gender identity and relative income within households | |
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(joint with Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 29 November 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Fabian Lange (McGill University) | |
| Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins | |
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(joint with Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 6 December 2013 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Miguel Urquiola (Columbia) | |
| The big sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Robert McMillan |
| Wednesday, 22 January 2014 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Kuhn (UC San Diego) | |
| Curing the Calorie Crunch: The Effect of EBT on Household Present Bias | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 24 January 2014 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Arthur T Blouin (University of Warwick) | |
| Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 31 January 2014 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lori Timmins (University of British Columbia) | |
| How do Hospitals Respond to Financial Pain? Evidence from Hospital Markets in Texas | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Shari Eli |
| Monday, 10 February 2014 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jonathan Halket (University of Essex) | |
| Home Ownership and the Scarcity of Rentals | |
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(joint with Matteo Pignatti)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 28 February 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sebastian Galiani (Maryland) | |
| The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 7 March 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jim Rebitzer (Boston University School of Management) | |
| Structuring Incentives within Accountable Care Organizations | |
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(joint with Brigham Frandsen)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 14 March 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alessandra Voena (UChicago) | |
| Prenuptial Contracts, Labor Supply and Household Investments | |
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(joint with Denrick Bayot)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Laura Turner |
| Friday, 21 March 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Vincent Pohl (Queen's University) | |
| Health Shocks, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes | |
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(joint with Christopher Neilson and Francisco Parro)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 28 March 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Martha Bailey (Michigan) | |
| The Long-term Effects of Family Planning on U.S. Children | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Shari Eli and Yosh Halberstam |
| Wednesday, 9 April 2014 | 16:10–17:30 |
| International trade/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ben Faber (UC Berkeley) | |
| Trade Liberalization, the Price of Quality, and Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Store Prices | |
| Rotman, room 147 | Organizers: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Peter Morrow |
| Friday, 12 September 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Todd Stinebrickner (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Complementing administrative data with a detailed longitudinal survey: motivation, design/implementation, and analyses in the Berea Panel Study | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Monday, 15 September 2014 | 16:00–17:30 |
| Business economics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Maisy Wong (Wharton) | |
| Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia | |
| Rotman, room LL1010 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 19 September 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eric Mak (University of Toronto) | |
| Do Boys Mature Earlier than Girls? The Case of Risky Behaviors | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 26 September 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Understanding Earnings Dynamics: Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks | |
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(joint with Youngki Shin)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 3 October 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Derek Messacar (University of Toronto) | |
| The Crowd-Out Effects and Welfare Implications of Retirement Saving Nudges | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Monday, 6 October 2014 | 16:00–17:30 |
| Business economics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Elliot Anenberg (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) | |
| A More Timely House Price Index | |
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(joint with Steven Laufer)
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| Rotman, room LL1010 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Wednesday, 8 October 2014 | 16:30–17:50 |
| International trade/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ethan Lewis (Darmouth) | |
| People and Machines: A Look at The Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill In Manufacturing 1850-1940 Using Immigration Shocks | |
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(joint with Jeanne Lafortune and Jose Tessada)
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| Rotman, room 157 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 17 October 2014 | 15:30–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alfia Karimova (University of Toronto) | |
| 'Baby on Board' during Ramadan - an (Un)natural Experiment | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 24 October 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Robert Fairlie (UC Santa Cruz) | |
| Do Video Game and Other Recreational Uses of Computers Contribute to Why Boys do Worse in School than Girls among Disadvantaged Schoolchildren? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 31 October 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| Familiarity does not Breed Contempt: Generosity, Discrimination and Diversity in Delhi Schools | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Nicholas Li |
| Friday, 7 November 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Robert Jensen (Wharton) | |
| How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments? | |
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(joint with Leonardo Bursztyn)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Tuesday, 11 November 2014 | 16:30–17:50 |
| International trade/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Christian Dippel (UCLA) | |
| Trade Integration, Manufacturing Competition, and Political Radicalization: German Evidence from 1987-2009 | |
| Rotman, room 151 | Organizer: Kunal Dasgupta |
| Friday, 14 November 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joseph Price (Brigham Young University) | |
| Habit Formation in Children: Evidence from Incentives for Healthy Eating | |
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(joint with George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker, Gustavo Bobonis, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 21 November 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Daniele Paserman (Boston University) | |
| Three-Generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents | |
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(joint with Claudia Olivetti and Laura Salisbury)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 28 November 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Matthieu Chemin (McGill) | |
| Informal Groups and Health Insurance Take-up: Evidence from a Field Experiment | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 5 December 2014 | 15:30–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| James E. Foster (George Washington University) | |
| The Mobility Curve: Measuring the Impact of Income Changes on Welfare | |
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(joint with Jonathan Rothbaum (US Census Bureau))
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gordon Anderson, Gustavo Bobonis, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 12 December 2014 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Genet Zinabou (U Toronto) | |
| Natural Resource Rents, Democracy, and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Nicholas Li |
| Monday, 26 January 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Martin Fiszbein (Brown University) | |
| Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michel Serafinelli |
| Thursday, 29 January 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Francisco Haimovich (UCLA) | |
| The Long-term Return to Early Childhood Education: Evidence from the First US Kindergartens | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 30 January 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Namrata Kala (Yale University) | |
| Ambiguity Aversion and Learning in a Changing World: The Potential Effects of Climate Change from Indian Agriculture | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 100 | Organizer: Shari Eli |
| Monday, 2 February 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tate Twinam (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| Danger zone: The causal effects of high-density and mixed-use development on neighborhood crime | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Junichi Suzuki |
| Tuesday, 3 February 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Dominik Sachs (University of Cologne) | |
| Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies | |
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(joint with Sebastian Findeisen)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Wednesday, 4 February 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eva Vivalt (New York University) | |
| How Much Can We Generalize from Impact Evaluations? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 6 February 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jason Albert (Georgetown University) | |
| Strategic Dynamics of Antibiotic Use and the Evolution of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Nicholas Li |
| Tuesday, 24 February 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Natalie D Bau (Harvard University) | |
| School Competition and Product Differentiation | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Laura Turner |
| Friday, 27 February 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Edward Miguel (Berkeley) | |
| Economic and non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicide, and climate in Mexico | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 6 March 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach | |
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(joint with Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 13 March 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago) | |
| Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection | |
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(joint with Lars Kirkebøen and Edwin Leuven)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 20 March 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia University) | |
| Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health | |
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(joint with W. Reed Walker)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 27 March 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Guy Michaels (London School of Economics) | |
| Robots at Work | |
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(joint with Georg Graetz)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 6 April 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David S. Rapson (University of California, Davis) | |
| Validating causal inference using high-frequency data: An energy experiment | |
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(joint with Katrina Jessoe (UC Davis))
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria |
| Friday, 10 April 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Urban and real estate economics/Empirical microeconomics | |
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| The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Congestion Pricing Experiments | |
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(joint with Kevin Roth and Andrew Waxman)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 17 April 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Antonio Bento (Cornell) | |
| The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Congestion Pricing Experiments | |
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(joint with Kevin Roth and Andrew Waxman)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 24 April 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) | |
| The Effects of Economics Conditions on Mortality over the Lifetime | |
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(joint with David Cutler and Wei Huang)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 100 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Laura Turner |
| Friday, 8 May 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gautam Rao (Harvard) | |
| Familiarity Does Not Breed Contempt: Diversity, Discrimination and Generosity in Delhi Schools | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Nicholas Li |
| Friday, 18 September 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) | |
| Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors | |
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(joint with Ufuk Akcigit and Salome Baslandze)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 100 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 21 September 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Francisco Gallego (PUC-Chile) | |
| Adopting a cleaner technology: The effect of driving restrictions on fleet turnover | |
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(joint with Hernán Barahona, Juan Pablo Montero)
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| New College, 524 Wilson Hall | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 25 September 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lisa Stockley (Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 28 September 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ebonya Washington (Yale University) | |
| Why did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate | |
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(joint with Ilyana Kuziemko)
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| Munk Centre, room 208N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 2 October 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alfia Karimova (Toronto) | |
| Learning by doing: evidence from Ramadan exposure during pregnancy | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 5 October 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Pamela Jakiela (U Maryland) | |
| How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments | |
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(joint with Uttara Balakrishnany, Johannes Haushofer)
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| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Shari Eli |
| Friday, 9 October 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Graham Beattie (University of Toronto) | |
| Advertising, Media Capture, and Public Opinion: The Case of Climate Change | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 19 October 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Andrea Prat (Columbia U) | |
| CEO Behaviour and Firm Performance | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 23 October 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Uros Petronijevic (University of Toronto) | |
| School Competition and Teacher Productivity | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 26 October 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Filipe Campante (Harvard University) | |
| The Intergenerational Transmission of War | |
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(joint with David Yanagizawa-Drott)
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| New College, 524 Wilson Hall | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Yosh Halberstam |
| Friday, 30 October 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Fernando Aragon (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Mining closure, gender and employment reallocations: the case of UK coal mines | |
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(joint with Juan Pablo Rud, Gerhard Toews)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 2 November 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joshua Murphy (Toronto) | |
| The Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and the Optimal Extent of Air Quality Regulation | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 6 November 2015 | 14:00–15:20 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Yann Algan (Sciences Po) | |
| The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills Training on Academic and Non-academic Trajectories: From Childhood to Early Adulthood | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 9 November 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Shari Eli |
| Friday, 13 November 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sebastian Findeisen (University of Mannheim) | |
| The Returns to Regional Mobility for Unemployed Workers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 16 November 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Arthur Blouin, Gustavo Bobonis, and Shari Eli |
| Friday, 20 November 2015 | 15:40–16:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Adam Miettinen (Toronto) | |
| Early Labour Market Integration in Canada, 1901-1911 | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 23 November 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Anderson (UC Berkeley) | |
| As The Wind Blows: The Effects Of Long-Term Exposure To Air Pollution On Mortality | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
| Friday, 27 November 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jonas Hjort (Columbia University) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 30 November 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Shari Eli |
| Friday, 4 December 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Giacomo De Giorgi (New York Fed) | |
| Consumption Network Effects | |
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(joint with Anders Frederiksen and Luigi Pistaferri)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Robert McMillan and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 7 December 2015 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Stylianos (Stelios) Michalopoulos (Brown U) | |
| TBA | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizers: Arthur Blouin, Gustavo Bobonis, and Shari Eli |
| Friday, 11 December 2015 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ayesha Ali (Toronto) | |
| Electricity Outages and Employment: Evidence from Energy Prices and Thermal Power Plants in Pakistan | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 22 January 2016 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp (Harvard University) | |
| Education-associated SNPs are enriched for brain function and disorders | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Tuesday, 26 January 2016 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Business economics | |
| Alisa Tazhitdinova (UC Berkeley) | |
| Adjust Me if I Can't: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes | |
| Rotman, room LL1025 | Organizers: Ambarish Chandra and Rahul Deb |
| Wednesday, 27 January 2016 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Elena Prager (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Tiered Hospital Networks, Health Care Demand, and Prices | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Rahul Deb |
| Thursday, 28 January 2016 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Business economics | |
| Elliot Lipnowski (New York University) | |
| Repeated Delegation | |
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(joint with Joao Ramos)
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| Rotman, room 368 | Organizers: Ambarish Chandra and Rahul Deb |
| Friday, 26 February 2016 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic theory/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Yoram Halevy (University of British Columbia) | |
| Parametric Recovery Methods: A Comparative Experimental Study | |
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(joint with Lanny Zrill)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Friday, 4 March 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hilary Hoynes (University of California Berkeley) | |
| Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start | |
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(joint with Marianne P. Bitler, Thurston Domina)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 11 March 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alexandre Mas (Princeton University) | |
| Does Disclosure affect CEO Pay Setting? Evidence from the Passage of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Mitchell Hoffman, Kory Kroft, and Michel Serafinelli |
| Monday, 14 March 2016 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth Uniersity) | |
| Coercion, Debt-Bondage and Human Capital | |
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(joint with Salil Sharma and Mahesh Shrestha)
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| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizer: Nicholas Li |
| Friday, 18 March 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Supreet Kaur (Columbia University) | |
| Do Enforcement Constraints Prevent Trade? Evidence on Contracting Failures in Irrigation Markets | |
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(joint with Ryan Bubb and Sendhil Mullainathan)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 8 April 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Pieter Gautier (VU University Amsterdam) | |
| The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice | |
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(joint with Monique de Haan, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michel Serafinelli and Ronald Wolthoff |
| Friday, 15 April 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gabriella Conti (UCL) | |
| Before Birth: Prenatal Investments and Healthy Development | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Shari Eli |
| Saturday, 30 April 2016 | 9:00–18:00 |
| Urban and real estate economics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michel Serafinelli (Toronto) | |
| UTM Workshop "Cities, Trade and Regional Development" Speakers: D. Atkin, J. Dittmar, C. Gaubert, J. Handbury, M. Harari, B. Javorcik | |
| Kaneff, room L1230, UTM | Organizers: Nicholas Li and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 16 September 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Adam Lavecchia (University of Toronto) | |
| Minimum wage policy with optimal taxes and involuntary unemployment | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Michael Smart |
| Friday, 23 September 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Juan Morales (University of Toronto) | |
| Legislating During War: Conflict and Politics in Colombia | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Monday, 26 September 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kirsten Cornelson (University of Toronto) | |
| Residential segregation and social segregation | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Dwayne Benjamin, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 30 September 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jessica Burley (University of Toronto) | |
| Income Driven Neighborhood Change: Labor Demand and Gentrification in New York City | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and William Strange |
| Friday, 7 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Gilraine (University of Toronto) | |
| Human Capital Formation and School Accountability | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 14 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | |
| Receptiveness to Advice, Cognitive Ability, and Technology Adoption: An Economic Experiment with Farmers | |
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(joint with Bradford L. Barham, Jean-Paul, Chavas Dylan Fitz)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Jonathan Hall |
| Monday, 17 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joshua Murphy (University of Toronto) | |
| The Value of Reducing Power Plant Emissions: New Evidence from the Clean Air Interstate Rule | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 21 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Francesco Trebbi (University of British Columbia) | |
| Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures | |
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(joint with Eric Weese)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Yosh Halberstam, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 28 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Loren Brandt, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 28 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Benjamin Iverson (Kellogg) | |
| The Externalities of Bankruptcy | |
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(joint with Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Xavier Giroud)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey and Jonathan Hall |
| Monday, 31 October 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Matthew Melnyk (University of Toronto) | |
| Long Term Consequences of Childhood Sexual Assault | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, Aloysius Siow, and Laura Turner |
| Friday, 4 November 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Nicholas Papageorge (Johns Hopkins) | |
| Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment | |
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(joint with Barton Hamilton, Andres Hincapie and Robert Miller)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues |
| Friday, 11 November 2016 | 14:00–15:20 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Patrick Kline (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head | |
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(joint with Chris Walters)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 18 November 2016 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Econometrics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University) | |
| Electoral institutions and the performance of public officials: evidence from state supreme courts | |
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(joint with Elliott Ash)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jiaying Gu and Yuanyuan Wan |
| Friday, 18 November 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Benjamin Keys (Wharton) | |
| Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards | |
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(joint with Jialan Wang)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 25 November 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Shintaro Yamaguchi (McMaster University) | |
| Childcare, parenting practices, and child development | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 2 December 2016 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Cesarini (New York University) | |
| Windfall Gains and Stock Market Participation | |
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(joint with Briggs, Lindqvist, Östling)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Tuesday, 24 January 2017 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Barbara Biasi (Stanford University) | |
| Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Natalie Bau |
| Wednesday, 25 January 2017 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Jonathan Price (Stanford University) | |
| The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance | |
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(joint with Jae Song)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 27 January 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marit Rehavi (University of British Columbia) | |
| A Doctor Will See You Now: Physician-Patient Relationships and Clinical Decisions | |
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(joint with D Chan and E Johnson)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 10 February 2017 | 12:10–13:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Y Yang (Stanford University) | |
| 1984 or the Brave New World? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Media Censorship in China | |
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(joint with Yuyu Chen)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Sandro Ambuehl, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 10 February 2017 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Path | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 10 February 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey and Jonathan Hall |
| Wednesday, 15 February 2017 | 15:10–16:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Columbia University) | |
| Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths | |
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(joint with Note: Seminar room is actually Rotman south building room 7024)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria |
| Thursday, 16 February 2017 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sanghmitra Gautam (University College London) | |
| Household (Under) Adoption of Sanitation: Externalities and Borrowing Constraints | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues |
| Friday, 17 February 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rebecca Thornton (University of Illinois) | |
| Network Partitioning and Social Exclusion under Different Selection Regimes | |
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(joint with Clara Delavallade (IFPRI) and Alan Griffith (Michigan))
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Laura Derksen, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 24 February 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton) | |
| Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines | |
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(joint with Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma, Thomas Fujiwara, Cecilia Pe Lero, Daniel Rubenson)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Arthur Blouin, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 3 March 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Shelly Lundberg (University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
| Father Absence and the Gender Gap in College Graduation | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Laura Turner |
| Friday, 10 March 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) | |
| Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times | |
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(joint with Philippe Aghion, Nick Bloom, Brian Lucking and Raffaella Sadun)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Mitchell Hoffman |
| Friday, 17 March 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kelly Bishop (Arizona State University) | |
| Using Panel Data To Easily Estimate Hedonic Demand Functions | |
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(joint with Christopher Timmins)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 24 March 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Jos van Ommeren (VU Amsterdam) | |
| Road congestion and public transit | |
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(joint with Martin W. Adler , Federica Liberini , Antonio Russo)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 31 March 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| Information, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India | |
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(joint with Nolan Miller)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 7 April 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Jonathan Hall, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 21 April 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Beenstock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | |
| The cycle of violence in the Second Intifada: Causality in Nonlinear Vector Autoregressive Models | |
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(joint with Muhammad Asali and Aamer S. Abu-Qarn)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 5 May 2017 | 14:30–15:50 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Paola Giuliano (UCLA - Anderson) | |
| Long Term Orientation and Educational Performance | |
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(joint with David Figlio, Umut Ozek and Paola Sapienza)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Philip Oreopoulos, and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 8 September 2017 | 9:00–18:15 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michel Serafinelli (Toronto) | |
| IMI Junior Workshop: Health, Labour and Development (speakers: Samuel Bazzi, Guilherme Lichand, Myra Mohnen, Simone Schaner, Heather Schofield, Bryce Steinberg) | |
| Kaneff, room L1230, UTM | Organizers: Laura Derksen and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 15 September 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Genet Zinabou (UToronto) | |
| Culture and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Obedience as a Moral Value | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 22 September 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Robert Jensen (Wharton) | |
| Information, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 29 September 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jean-William Laliberté (UToronto) | |
| Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 6 October 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kevin Devereux (UToronto) | |
| Identifying teamwork skills: application to professional tennis | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 6 October 2017 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 20 October 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tim Besley (LSE) | |
| Organizational Dynamics: Culture, Design, and Performance | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 27 October 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ridwan Karim (UToronto) | |
| Voter-Buying, Electoral Reform, and Health Outcomes in Brazil | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Thursday, 2 November 2017 | 16:30–18:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Craig Riddell (UBC) | |
| Gunderson Lecture: What Do Unions do to Wage Inequality? The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment | |
| Munk Centre (One Devonshire Place), Campbell Conference Facility | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 3 November 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Corinne Low (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments | |
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(joint with Jeanne Lafortune)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Jonathan Hall, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 10 November 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Daniel Benjamin (University of Southern California) | |
| Reconsidering Risk Aversion | |
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(joint with Miles Kimball, Mark Fontana)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall |
| Wednesday, 22 November 2017 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Amine Ouazad (HEC Montreal) | |
| City Equilibrium with Borrowing Constraints: Structural Estimation and General Equilibrium Effects | |
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(joint with Romain Rancière)
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| Rotman, room 147 | Organizer: Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 24 November 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Tim Bond (Purdue University) | |
| Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Trade in the 1970s and 1980s | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan Hall and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Friday, 1 December 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jing Cai (University of Maryland) | |
| Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance | |
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(joint with Adam Szeidl)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Loren Brandt and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 8 December 2017 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Andrew Ching (UToronto) | |
| A Structural Model of Correlated Learning and Late-Mover Advantages: The Case of Statins | |
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(joint with Hyunwoo Lim)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 8 December 2017 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Wednesday, 10 January 2018 | 14:30–16:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Heather Sarsons (Harvard University) | |
| Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals | |
| Rotman, room LL1020 | Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Natalie Bau |
| Friday, 2 February 2018 | 15:30–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jeffrey Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | |
| The consequences of academic match between students and colleges | |
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(joint with Eleanor Wiske Dillon)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 23 February 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Brent Hickman (Queens University) | |
| Pre-College Human Capital Investment and Affirmative Action | |
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(joint with Aaron Bodoh-Creed)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 9 March 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Bhash Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) | |
| Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US | |
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(joint with Timothy Halliday and Ashley Wong)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Shari Eli and Jonathan Hall |
| Tuesday, 13 March 2018 | 13:00–14:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Imran Rasul (University College London) | |
| Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Dwayne Benjamin, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 16 March 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alex Pfaff (Duke University) | |
| Collective Environmental Incentives & Group Dynamics in Mexico and Colombia | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan Hall and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues |
| Monday, 19 March 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Pablo Querubin (NYU) | |
| The Political Class and Redistributive Policies | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 100 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Yosh Halberstam, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 30 March 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago) | |
| Engines of Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing | |
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(joint with Martin Rotemberg)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Jonathan Hall, and Michel Serafinelli |
| Friday, 6 April 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan Hall and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 13 April 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lori Beaman (Northwestern) | |
| Selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 20 April 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gaurav Khanna (UC San Diego) | |
| Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 27 April 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego) | |
| General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India | |
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(joint with Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau and Jonathan Hall |
| Thursday, 3 May 2018 | 13:00–14:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hani Mansour (University of Colorado Denver) | |
| The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement | |
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(joint with Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Andrea Velasquez)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Natalie Bau, Jonathan Hall, and Pamela Medina Quispe |
| Friday, 4 May 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers in a Tournament Incentive Scheme | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Natalie Bau |
| Friday, 11 May 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Maria Casanova (California State University, Fullerton) | |
| Revisiting the Hump-Shaped Wage Profile | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan Hall and Laura Turner |
| Thursday, 23 August 2018 | 12:00–13:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Louis-Philippe Morin (University of Ottawa) | |
| Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation | |
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(joint with Ana Rute Cardoso)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Aloysius Siow and Ronald Wolthoff |
| Friday, 7 September 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Kelly Bedard (University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
| Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 21 September 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago Booth) | |
| Physicians, Incentives and Algorithms: Using Machine Learning to Make Sense of Health Care | |
| Rotman, room LL1020 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Arthur Blouin, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 28 September 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Stability of Experimental Results: Forecasts and Evidence | |
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(joint with Devin Pope)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Arthur Blouin, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 12 October 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marc-Antoine Schmidt (University of Toronto) | |
| Rest Breaks and Labor Supply Flexibility | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 19 October 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Holger Sieg (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Waiting for Affordable Housing in NYC | |
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(joint with Chamna Yoon)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 26 October 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Stephen Lehrer (Queen's University) | |
| Assessing the Hype of Machine Learning for Empiricists | |
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(joint with Weili Ding and Tian Xie)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 2 November 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Alberto Bisin (New York University) | |
| Dynamic Interactions on Networks: Health Risk Behavior | |
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(joint with T. Arduini, O. Ozgur, E. Patacchini)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Nicola Lacetera |
| Friday, 9 November 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rachael Meager (London School of Economics) | |
| Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 16 November 2018 | 10:30–11:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lawrence M. Kahn (Cornell University) | |
| Do Americans (still) prefer sons over daughters? | |
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(joint with Francine D. Blau, Peter Brummund, Jason Cook, and Miriam La)
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| Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, room 205 | Organizer: Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 16 November 2018 | 16:00–18:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Francine Blau (Department of Economics, Cornell University) | |
| Gunderson Lecture: What Do We Really Know About the Gender Wage Gap? | |
| Woodsworth College, Kruger Hall Commons | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 23 November 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School) | |
| Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading | |
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(joint with Panle Barwick, Shengmao Cao and Shanjun Li)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Loren Brandt, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 30 November 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University) | |
| Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How? | |
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(joint with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Henry Swift)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan Hall, Kory Kroft, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 7 December 2018 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Joseph Mullins (University of Minnesota) | |
| Firms’ Choices of Wage-Setting Protocols in the Presence of Minimum Wages | |
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(joint with Christopher Flinn)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, and Jonathan Hall |
| Tuesday, 22 January 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Econometrics | |
| Maximilian Kasy (Harvard University) | |
| Identification of and correction for publication bias | |
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(joint with Isaiah Andrews)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Thursday, 24 January 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jesse M Bruhn (Boston University) | |
| The Consequences of Sorting for Understanding School Quality | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 25 January 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Elira Kuka (Southern Methodist University) | |
| Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA | |
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(joint with Na’ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih)
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| Rotman, room 127 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Tuesday, 29 January 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Carolina Arteaga (University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) | |
| The Cost of Bad Parents: Evidence from the Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children's Education | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Aloysius Siow |
| Thursday, 31 January 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Emily Moschini (University of Minnesota) | |
| Child Care Subsidies with One- and Two-Parent Families | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues |
| Monday, 4 February 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Oren Danieli (Harvard University) | |
| Outside Options in the Labor Market | |
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(joint with Sydnee Caldwell)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Wednesday, 6 February 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Román Andrés Zárate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Social and Cognitive Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Selective High Schools in Peru | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: David Price |
| Thursday, 7 February 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Shan Aman Rana (London School of Economics and Political Science) | |
| Meritocracy in Bureaucracy? Evidence from Pakistan | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Arthur Blouin |
| Thursday, 28 February 2019 | 14:40–16:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jaime Arellano-Bover (Stanford University) | |
| Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: David Price |
| Friday, 1 March 2019 | 12:10–13:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Clémentine Van Effenterre (Harvard Kennedy School) | |
| Do women want to work more or more regularly? Evidence from a natural experiment | |
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(joint with Emma Duchini)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Jonathan P. Beauchamp |
| Friday, 1 March 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ricardo Perez-Truglia (Anderson, UCLA) | |
| How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons | |
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(joint with Zoe Cullen)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Yosh Halberstam, and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 8 March 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Jeffrey Lin (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) | |
| Freeway Revolts! | |
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(joint with Jeffrey Brinkman)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 15 March 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Francesco Amodio (McGill University) | |
| Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives | |
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(joint with Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahma)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 22 March 2019 | 12:10–13:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Jessie Handbury (Wharton, UPenn) | |
| Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting | |
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(joint with Victor Couture, Cecile Gaubert, Erik Hurst)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 29 March 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Owen Zidar (Princeton University) | |
| Top Wealth in the United States: New Methods and Implications for Wealth Taxation | |
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(joint with Eric Zwick, Matt Smith)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 5 April 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland) | |
| Increasing Community College Completion Rates among Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Case Management Intervention | |
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(joint with William N. Evans, Brendan Perry, and James X. Sullivan)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and David Price |
| Friday, 13 September 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Dinerstein (University of Chicago) | |
| Human Capital Depreciation | |
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(joint with Rigissa Megalokonomou, Constantine Yannelis)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Robert McMillan, and David Price |
| Friday, 20 September 2019 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Econometrics/Empirical microeconomics | |
| Yu-wei Hsieh (University of Southern California) | |
| Prediction and Congestion in Two-Sided Markets: Economist versus Machine Matchmakers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Jiaying Gu, Yosh Halberstam, David Price, and Aloysius Siow |
| Friday, 27 September 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern University) | |
| The Returns to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program | |
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(joint with Martin B. Hackmann)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Mons Chan, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 4 October 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Paul Lim (University of Toronto) | |
| Interest Rates and Credit Rationing in U.S. Mortgage Lending | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: David Price |
| Friday, 11 October 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Julian Dyer (University of Toronto) | |
| Go Set a Watchman: Experimental Evidence on Security and Agricultural Development | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: David Price |
| Friday, 18 October 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Daniel Indacochea (University of Toronto) | |
| Crossing the Color Line: The Effects of Racial Integration during the Korean War | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and David Price |
| Friday, 25 October 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Dhruv Sinha (University of Toronto) | |
| The Impact of NGO Campaigning on Firms' Stock Performance | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and David Price |
| Friday, 1 November 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Suresh Naidu (Columbia University) | |
| Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Round Number Bunching in the Wage Distribution | |
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(joint with Arindrajit Dube and Alan Manning)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, and David Price |
| Friday, 8 November 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Giulia Giupponi (Institute for Fiscal Studies) | |
| When Income Effects are Large: Labor Supply Responses and the Value of Welfare Transfers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 15 November 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Douglas Miller (Cornell University) | |
| Dynamic Treatment Effects for Empirical Microeconomists: Local Projections and Quasi-Experimental Research Designs | |
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(joint with Gaetano Basso, Jessamyn Schaller)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 22 November 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia) | |
| The Employment Impact of Construction Boom-Bust Cycles | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Mitchell Hoffman, and David Price |
| Friday, 29 November 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Etienne Lehmann (Université Panthéon Assas Paris II) | |
| Comprehensive or Separate Income Tax? A Sufficient Statistics Approach | |
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(joint with Marie-Noëlle Lefebvre and Michaël Sicsic)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, and David Price |
| Monday, 2 December 2019 | 16:00–18:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Richard B Freeman (Harvard University) | |
| Morley Gunderson Lecture: Labor in the Era of Robots and Algorithms | |
| Woodsworth College, Kruger Hall Commons | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 6 December 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marcella Alsan (Harvard Kennedy School) | |
| Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities | |
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(joint with Crystal Yang)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Shari Eli, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 13 December 2019 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Willa Friedman (University of Houston) | |
| When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System | |
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(joint with Kehinde Ajayi and Adrienne Lucas)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Laura Derksen, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Wednesday, 15 January 2020 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Milena Almagro (New York University) | |
| Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam | |
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(joint with Tomas Domınguez-Iino)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Thursday, 16 January 2020 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Caitlin Gorback (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Jonathan Hall |
| Friday, 17 January 2020 | 12:00–13:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eva Vivalt (Australian National University) | |
| Design and Baseline Data for "The Causal Effects of Basic Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States" | |
| Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, room 205 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Xianwen Shi |
| Friday, 24 January 2020 | 16:00–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Maura Coughlin (Cornell University) | |
| Insurance Choice with Non-Monetary Plan Attributes: Limited Consideration in Medicare Part D | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Carolina Arteaga |
| Wednesday, 29 January 2020 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Michael Stepner (National Bureau of Economic Research) | |
| The Insurance Value of Redistributive Taxes and Transfers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 31 January 2020 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Marlène Blédja Aimée Koffi (Universíté de Montréal (University of Montreal)) | |
| Innovative Ideas and Gender Inequality | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: David Price |
| Monday, 10 February 2020 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eva Vivalt (Australian National University) | |
| How Do Policymakers Update Their Beliefs? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Aloysius Siow |
| Monday, 24 February 2020 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Will Rafey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Droughts, deluges, and (river) diversions: Valuing market-based water reallocation | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 28 February 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Dean Yang (University of Michigan) | |
| Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Earnings and Economic Development in the Philippines | |
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(joint with Gaurav Khanna and Caroline Theoharides)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 6 March 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam, Jonathan Hall, and David Price |
| Friday, 13 March 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| Are Routine Jobs Moving South? Evidence from Changes in the Occupational Structure of Employment in the U.S. and Mexico | |
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(joint with Diego M. Morris)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and David Price |
| Friday, 20 March 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Elizabeth Dhuey, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 27 March 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jonathan Hall (University of Toronto) | |
| Improving structural models of congestion | |
| Online | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and David Price |
| Friday, 27 March 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
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| TBA | |
| Rotman, room LL1010 | Organizers: Ruben Gaetani, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 3 April 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
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| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 3 April 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Etienne Masson-Makdissi (University of Toronto) | |
| Identification of Social Pressure Towards Same-Sex Relationship in a Matching Model with Regional Sorting | |
| Online | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and David Price |
| Friday, 17 April 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Julian Dyer (University of Toronto) | |
| (Machine) Learning Languages: An Empirical Examination of Linguistic Exchange and Power | |
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(joint with Arthur Blouin)
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| Online | Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and David Price |
| Friday, 24 April 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sam Asher (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities | |
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(joint with Paul Novosad and Charlie Rafkin)
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| Online | Organizers: Loren Brandt, Yosh Halberstam, and David Price |
| Friday, 11 September 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Matias Cortes (York University) | |
| Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality | |
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(joint with Adrian Lerche (IAB), Uta Schoenberg (UCL) and Jeanne Tschopp (Bern))
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 18 September 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Simon Jäger (MIT) | |
| Worker Voice and Shared Governance: Evidence from Finland | |
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(joint with joint with Jarkko Harju and Benjamin Schoefer)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Kory Kroft, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 25 September 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Claudio Ferraz (Vancouver School of Economics, UBC) | |
| Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil | |
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(joint with Frederico Finan, Monica Martinez-Bravo)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Gustavo Bobonis, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 2 October 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell University) | |
| Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion | |
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(joint with Marco Battaglini, Luigi Guiso, Chiara Lacava)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Marlene Koffi, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 16 October 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto) | |
| Externalities in Politicians’ Malfeasance | |
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(joint with Anke Kessler and Xin Zhao)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 23 October 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Thomas King (University of Toronto) | |
| The Impact of Housing Supply Conditions on Neighborhood Income Segregation | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 30 October 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Hammad Shaikh (University of Toronto) | |
| Nudging Towards Education at Scale: A Study of Online Learning | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 6 November 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Keith Chen (UCLA Anderson School of Management) | |
| Smartphone Trace Data in Empirical Microeconomics | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Yosh Halberstam, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 13 November 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Abby Alpert (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 20 November 2020 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Matthew E. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| Adapting to Climate Change | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Jonathan Hall, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 27 November 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Sule Alan (EUI) | |
| Building Social Cohesion in Ethnically Mixed Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking | |
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(joint with Ceren Baysan , Mert Gumren, and Elif Kubilay)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 11 December 2020 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Peter Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara) | |
| What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board | |
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(joint with Kailing Shen)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Elizabeth Dhuey, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Wednesday, 20 January 2021 | 12:10–13:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gabriel Englander (UC Berkeley) | |
| Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery | |
| Online | Organizer: Robert McMillan |
| Wednesday, 27 January 2021 | 13:10–14:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Allan Hsiao (MIT) | |
| Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil | |
| Online | Organizer: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues |
| Friday, 5 March 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Katherine Baldiga Coffman (Harvard Business School) | |
| When to Apply | |
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(joint with Manuela R. Collis and Leena Kulkarni)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 12 March 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University) | |
| Misdemeanor Prosecution | |
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(joint with Amanda Agan and Anna Harvey)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 19 March 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Rosalie Pacula (USC Sole Price School of Public Policy) | |
| The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Laws on Cannabis Use: How you measure the market matters | |
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(joint with Greg Tung and Christine Buttorff)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 26 March 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Nick Tsivanidis (University of California at Berkeley) | |
| Spatial Spillovers from Urban Redevelopments: Evidence from Mumbai's Textile Mills | |
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(joint with Mike Gechter)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Jonathan Hall, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 23 April 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption | |
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(joint with Rebecca Diamond)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Ruben Gaetani, David Price, and Clementine Van Effenterre |
| Friday, 10 September 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University) | |
| Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century | |
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(joint with Elisa Jácome and Suresh Naidu)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Nicola Lacetera, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 17 September 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Emily Breza (Harvard University) | |
| The Nerds, the Cool and the Central: Peer Education and Teen Pregnancy in Brazil | |
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(joint with Erick Baumgartner, Eliana La Ferrara, Victor Orozco, Pedro Rosa Dias)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 24 September 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Katherine Coffmann (Harvard Business School) | |
| A Dynamic Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief Updating, and Behavior | |
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(joint with Paola Ugalde Araya, Basit Zafar)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 1 October 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Diana Moreira (University of California Davis) | |
| Who Benefits from Meritocracy? | |
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(joint with Santiago Perez)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Tuesday, 5 October 2021 | 13:10–14:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Empirical microeconomics brown bag | |
| Rob Gillezeau (University of Victoria) | |
| The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada | |
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(joint with Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Elizabeth Dhuey, Aloysius Siow, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 8 October 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Boriana Miloucheva (University of Toronto) | |
| Pharmaceutical Promotion, Physician Response, and Opioid Abuse: Identifying the Role of Physicians in the Opioid Crisis | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Tuesday, 12 October 2021 | 13:10–14:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics brown bag/Empirical microeconomics | |
| James Uguccioni (University of Toronto) | |
| Timing is Everything: Parental Unemployment and their Children's Future Earnings | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Aloysius Siow, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 15 October 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Etienne Masson-Makdissi (University of Toronto) | |
| Moving for Love? Location Choice in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Relationships | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 22 October 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jessica Wagner (University of Toronto) | |
| The Effects of Student Exposure to Proactive Policing: Evidence from Los Angeles Gang Injunctions | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 5 November 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Maria Polyakova (Stanford University) | |
| General Equilibrium Effects of Insurance Expansions: Evidence from Long-Term Care Labor Markets | |
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(joint with Maria Polyakova)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Michael Stepner, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 12 November 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics | |
| Leah Boustan (Princeton University) | |
| Political Speech about Immigration to the US is More Positive but More Polarized Than Any Time in the Past 150 Years | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Ruben Gaetani, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 19 November 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Corinne Low (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Cultural Institutions and Structural Change: Dowries as Pensions when Sons Migrate | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Thursday, 25 November 2021 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia) | |
| Gunderson Lecture: Labour Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting | |
| Online | Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin |
| Friday, 26 November 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Juan Morales (Collegio Carlo Alberto) | |
| Can Online Dissent be (Effectively) Censored? | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Michael Baker, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 3 December 2021 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Econometrics | |
| Isaiah Andrews (Harvard University) | |
| Inference on Winners | |
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(joint with Toru Kitagawa, Adam McCloskey)
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| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Robert McMillan, Ismael Mourifié, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 7 January 2022 | 14:30–16:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Katherine Wagner (University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resourc) | |
| Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing | |
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(joint with Jonathan T. Hawkins-Pierot)
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| Online | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Friday, 14 January 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Development economics | |
| Ceren Baysan (University of Essex / Yale U) | |
| Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey | |
| Online | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Roman Zarate |
| Monday, 24 January 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Iain Bamford (Columbia University) | |
| Monopsony Power, Spatial Equilibrium, and Minimum Wages | |
| Online | Organizer: Kory Kroft |
| Tuesday, 25 January 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Lena Song (New York University) | |
| The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Media Content on Racial Attitudes | |
| Online | Organizer: Jim Goldman |
| Thursday, 27 January 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Development economics | |
| Lydia Assouad (Paris School of Economics) | |
| Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building | |
| Online | Organizer: Arthur Blouin |
| Friday, 11 March 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto) | |
| A Helping Hand Goes a Long Way: Long-Term Effects of Counseling and Support to Workfare Program Participants | |
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(joint with Aneta Bonikowska, Phillip Oreopoulos, W. Craig Riddell, and Steven P. Ryan)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 18 March 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Jonathan Zhang (McMaster University) | |
| Impacts of Basic Income on Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program | |
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(joint with David Silver)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Kory Kroft, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 25 March 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | |
| Follow the Crowd: But Who Follows, Who Counteracts, and Which Crowd? (joint with Inbal Dekel) | |
| Online | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Arthur Blouin, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 1 April 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Conrad Miller (Berkeley Haas) | |
| The Dynamics of Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |
| Friday, 8 April 2022 | 11:10–12:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics | |
| Francisca Antman (University of Colorado Boulder) | |
| Innovation Nation: Evidence from Broadening Access to Ph.D. Training in the U.S. | |
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(joint with Kirk Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce Weinberg)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Carolina Arteaga, David Price, Clementine Van Effenterre, and Roman Zarate |