Xiaoming Wei (University of Toronto)

Friday, September 19 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Gary Solon (University of Michigan)

Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings

Friday, October 3 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Esther Duflo (MIT)

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India (joint with A. Banerjee, S. Cole, and L. Linden)

Friday, October 10 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Christopher Taber (Northwestern University)

An Empirical Equilibrium Model of the US Labor Market 1972-2000 (joint with James Heckman, Lance Lochner)

Friday, October 17 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Louise Grogan (University of Guelph)

Becker in Russia: Explaining the post-transition fertility decline

Friday, October 24 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Leo Teng Wah (MIT)

Friday, October 31 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Julie Cullen (University of Michigan)

The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries (joint with Brian Jacob and Steven Levitt)

Friday, November 7 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario)

Individual perceptions of the criminal justice system

Friday, November 14 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley)

Incentives to Learn

Friday, November 21 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Michael Veall (McMaster University)

The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000 (joint with Emmanuel Saez, UC-Berkeley)

Friday, November 28 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Imran Rasul (University of Chicago)

Relative and absolute incentives: Evidence on worker productivity

Friday, March 5 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Lee (University of California at Berkeley)

Deterrence and Punishment Effects of Criminal Sanctions

Thursday, March 11 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Terra McKinnish (University of Colorado)

Evidence on cross border welfare migration

Friday, March 12 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Winnie Chan (University of Toronto)

Competition and Public School Performance: Evidence from Ontario's Tuition Tax Credit

Friday, March 19 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Ken Chay (UC-Berkeley)

CANCELLED

Friday, March 26 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Timothy Halliday (Princeton University)

Migration and Self-Insurance in Rural El Salvador

Friday, March 26 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Nathan Nunn (University of Toronto)

The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa, 1400-2000

Friday, April 2 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Ray Fisman (Columbia University)

Searching for a Mate: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Friday, September 17 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Figlio (University of Florida)

Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Friday, September 24 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Figlio (University of Florida)

Friday, September 24 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Paul Dolan (University of Sheffield)

Inequality aversion and health-related social welfare functions

Friday, October 1 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Jia-Zhueng Fan (University of Toronto)

Who Benefits from Public Pensions? - Evidence from Taiwan

Friday, October 8 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)

Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from WWII,

Friday, October 15 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Christine Neill (University of Toronto)

Tuition Fees and the Post-Secondary Education/Employment Decision in Canada

Friday, October 22 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Chris Robinson (Western)

Technological Change in the Production of Human Capital: Implications for Human Capital Stocks, Wages, and Skill Differentials (joint with Audra Bowlus, Western)

Friday, October 29 2004 01:30–02:50, Front Conference Room

Chris Jepsen (Public Policy Institute of California)

Earnings History and the Schooling Decisions of Older Workers

Wednesday, November 3 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Louis-Phillipe Morin (University of Toronto)

TBA

Friday, November 5 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Richard Blundell (University College London)

Consumption Inequality, Income Inequality and Partial Insurance

Friday, November 12 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley)

School Decentralization: helping the good get better but leaving the rest behind

Friday, November 19 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Yee-Fei Chia (University of Toronto)

TBA

Friday, November 26 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University)

Bounds in Competing Risk Models and the War on Cancer (joint with Bo Honore)

Friday, December 3 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Gordon Dahl (University of Rochester)

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement (joint with Lance Lochner, Western Ontario)

Friday, March 4 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Lee (UC-Berkeley)

Deterrence and Punishment Effects of Criminal Sanctions

Friday, March 11 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Mel Stephens (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Consumption Response to Predictable Changes in Discretionary Income: Evidence from the Repayment of Vehicle Loans

Friday, March 18 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Bjerk (McMaster University)

The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across Occupational Sectors

Friday, April 1 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Kurt Schmidheiny (Tufts)

Residential Income Sorting in Federal Systems. The Role of Taxes, Housing Costs and Social Interactions.

Friday, April 15 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Jean-Yves Duclos (University of Laval)

Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting (joint with Sami Bibi)

Friday, April 22 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Emily Hanna (University of Toronto)

Headship and Marital Status Effects of Canadian Welfare Legislation: From mate dependence to state dependence?

Friday, April 29 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Green (UBC)

Racing to the Middle: Minimum Wage Setting and Standards of Fairness (joint with Kathryn Harrison)

Friday, September 23 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

David Green (UBC)

Friday, September 23 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

David Autor (MIT)

TBA

Friday, September 30 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Justin McCrary (University of Michigan)

TBA

Friday, October 14 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Todd Stinebrickner (University of Western Ontario)

Friday, October 21 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Leo Teng Wah (University of Toronto)

TBA

Friday, October 28 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Philippe Morin (University of Toronto)

Friday, November 4 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Fang Hanming (Yale University)

Friday, November 11 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

TBA

Friday, November 18 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Enrico Moretti (University of California)

TBA

Friday, November 25 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Raj Chetty (UC Berkeley)

Thursday, December 1 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Steve Lehrers (Queens University)

Friday, December 9 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Marcelin Joanis (University of Toronto)

Friday, December 16 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Courtney Ward (University of Toronto)

Public Automobile Insurance and Motor Vehicle Collisions in Canada

Friday, January 13 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago)

Estimating Matching Games with Transfers

Friday, March 3 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Tim Besley (LSE)

Friday, March 10 2006 17:00–18:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Florian Hoffman (LSE)

Social Networks and Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants

Friday, March 24 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Abhijit V. Banerjee (MIT)

Long run impact of income shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th century

Friday, April 7 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth College)

Trade Policy, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from Indian Districts

Friday, September 15 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

John B. Jones (SUNY)

Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles (joint with others)

Friday, September 22 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Winnie Chan (University of Toronto)

School Choice and Public School Performance

Friday, September 29 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Philippe Morin (University of Toronto)

Friday, October 6 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Emily Oster (University of Chicago)

HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

Friday, October 13 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)

TBA

Friday, October 20 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Michael Greenstone (MIT)

TBA

Friday, October 27 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard)

TBA

Friday, November 3 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Justin Wolfers (Wharton School)

TBA

Friday, November 10 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Till von Wachter (Columbia University)

TBA

Friday, November 17 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto)

Offering Incentives and Services for Improving Undergraduate Achievement (joint with Joshua Angrist, Daniel Lang)

Friday, November 24 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Bernard Fortin (Universite Laval)

Friday, December 1 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Bernard Fortin (Laval University)

Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks (joint with Yann Bramoulle, Habiba Djebbari)

Friday, December 1 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Max Rempel (University of Toronto)

Do New Goods Drive Labor Supply? Evidence from Video Consoles

Friday, December 15 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Hui Wang (University of Toronto)

Friday, February 16 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Susan Dynarski (Harvard)

TBA

Friday, March 2 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Abdurrahman Aydemir (Statistics Canada)

TBA

Friday, March 9 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Rohini Pande (Yale University)

Friday, March 16 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Joe Altonji (Yale University)

Modeling Earnings Dynamics (joint with Anthony A. Smith and Ivan Vidangos)

Friday, March 23 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Leah Brooks (McGill University)

TBA

Friday, March 30 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Phillip Decicca (McMaster University)

Local labor market fluctuations and health: Is there a connection and for whom? (joint with Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago)

Friday, April 13 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Betsy Caucutt (University of Western Ontario)

TBA

Friday, April 20 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Brian Krauth (Simon Fraser University)

Set estimation of linear causal effects using relative correlation restrictions

Friday, September 14 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Abigail Payne (McMaster)

School Competition with Publicly-Funded Catholic Schools: Evidence on Student Mobility and Achievement (joint with David Card and Martin Dooley)

Friday, September 21 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Abigail Payne (McMaster University)

TBA

Friday, September 21 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Dan Silverman (University of Michigan)

Factions and Political Competition (joint with Nicola Persico and Jose Carlos Rodriguez-Pueblita)

Friday, September 28 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Sandra Black (UCLA)

Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change And The Skill Content Of Women's Work

Friday, October 12 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Brian Knight (Brown University)

Momentum in Presidential Primaries (joint with Nathan Schiff)

Friday, October 19 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Jesse Rothstein (Princeton)

On the Identification of Teacher Effects on Student Achievement: Do Value-Added Models Add Value?

Friday, October 26 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Brian McCaig (University of Toronto)

Exporting out of poverty: Poverty in Vietnam and U.S. market access

Friday, November 2 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Marcelin Joanis (University of Toronto)

The Road to Power: Partisan Loyalty and the Centralized Provision of Local Infrastructure

Friday, November 9 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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 (joint with Xianghong Li (York U.) and Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams))

Friday, November 16 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Tat-kei Lai (University of Toronto)

TBA (second-year paper presentation)

Friday, November 23 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Hugh Macartney (University of Toronto)

Educational Accountability and Teacher Behaviour

Friday, November 30 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Sacha Kapoor (University of Toronto)

TBA (second-year paper presentation)

Friday, December 7 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Ioana Dan (University of Toronto)

Occupational Mobility in Transition Economies: the case of Hungary

Friday, January 11 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Jeanne Lafortune (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Making yourself attractive: Pre-marital investments and the returns to education in the marriage mar

Friday, February 1 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Trang V Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar

Friday, February 8 2008 14:10–15:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Leah Brooks (McGill University)

Inside the Gift Horse's Mouth: City Spending, Political Institutions, and the ... Block Grant

Friday, March 7 2008 14:10–15:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Duncan Thomas (Duke University)

Preferences: Experimental and survey evidence

Friday, March 7 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Duncan Thomas (Duke University)

Preferences: Experimental and survey evidence

Friday, March 7 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Brian Jacob (University of Michigan)

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Productivity

Friday, March 14 2008 16:10–17:30,

Kenneth Chay (Brown University)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Hospital Desegregation and Black Infant Mortality in Mississippi (joint with Douglas V. Almond, Michael Greenstone)

Friday, March 28 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Kaivan Munshi (Brown University)

Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Career Decisions: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest (joint with Nicholas Wilson)

Friday, April 4 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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)

Friday, April 18 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Jacob Vigdor (Duke University)

Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement (joint with Charles Clotfelter and Helen Ladd)

Friday, September 19 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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

Friday, September 26 2008 16:10–17:30, School of Public Policy, room 361

Emanuela Cardia (University of Montreal)

Household Technology: Was it the Engine of Liberation?

Thursday, October 9 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Jackie Wang (University of Toronto)

Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

Friday, October 10 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Courtney Ward (University of Toronto)

Flu Shots, Work Absences and Hospitalizations: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? (job market paper)

Friday, October 17 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Alexandre Debs (University of Rochester)

War! Who is it Good For? The Relationship between Regime Type, the Fate of Leaders and War

Wednesday, October 22 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Jim Levinsohn (University of Michigan)

The Impact of AIDS/HIV on Labor Markets in South Africa

Friday, October 31 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Alex Mas (UC Berkeley (visiting Princeton))

CANCELLED: Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999 (joint with David Lee)

Friday, November 7 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Christian Dippel (University of Toronto)

Vote Buying as a Determinant of Foreign Aid -- Evidence from the International Whaling Commission

Friday, November 14 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

Large Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market for Famine-Born Cohorts in China

Friday, November 21 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Mike Elsby (University of Michigan)

Stepping off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

Friday, November 28 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Hugh Macartney (University of Toronto)

Educational Accountability and School Performance

Friday, December 5 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Alexandre Mas (University of California - Berkeley)

Long Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999 (joint with David S. Lee)

Friday, March 13 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Erica Field (Harvard University)

Does Group Lending Increase Social Capital? Evidence from a Field Experiment in India (joint with Benjamin Feigenberg and Rohini Pande)

Friday, March 20 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego)

CANCELLED

Thursday, March 26 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (Princeton University)

Do Newspapers Matter? Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post (joint with Miguel Garrido)

Friday, April 3 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Chikako Yamauchi (Australian National University)

The Effect of Child Care Center Availability on Child Care Arrangements and Maternal Labor Supply

Tuesday, May 5 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Phil Oreopoulos (University of Toronto)

The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment (joint with Eric P. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long, Lisa Sanbonmatsu)

Friday, September 18 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine)

Public-Private Partnerships and Efficiency: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways (joint with Latika Chaudary)

Friday, September 25 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Weili Ding (Queen's)

Estimating Psychological Biases in Education Experiments (joint with Steven Lehrer)

Friday, October 2 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eik Leong Swee (University of Toronto)

Together or Separate? Post-Conflict Partition, Ethnic Homogenization, and The Provision of Public Schooling

Friday, October 9 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Leah Platt Boustan (UCLA)

"Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration." (joint with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson)

Friday, October 16 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

Testing Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching

Friday, October 23 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Florian Hoffmann (University of Toronto)

Earnings and Mobility Dynamics in a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model: Estimation and Applications

Friday, October 30 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Damon Clark (University of Florida)

How Important is Labor Market Signaling? New Evidence from High School Exit Exams (joint with Paco Martorell)

Friday, November 13 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joshua Lewis (University of Toronto)

The Impact of Smoking Bans: Evidence from Canada

Friday, November 20 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Bird (University of Toronto)

TBA

Friday, November 27 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Lemieux (UBC)

Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure (joint with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin)

Friday, December 4 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Parag Pathak (MIT)

Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston’s Charters and Pilots

Friday, December 11 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rita Pivovarova (University of Toronto)

Determinants of School Enrollment in Nepal: Evidence from the Living Standard Survey

Monday, December 14 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christina Marsh (University of Minnesota)

Estimating Health Expenditure Elasticities Using Nonlinear Reimbursement

Wednesday, January 20 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ashley Langer (UC Berkeley)

Demographic Preferences and Price Discrimination in New Vehicle Sales

Friday, January 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Douglas Almond (Columbia University)

Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy (joint with Bhashkar Mazumder)

Friday, March 5 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lori A. Beaman (Northwestern University)

Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment (joint with Jeremy Magruder)

Friday, March 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Scott E. Carrell (UC Davis)

TBA

Friday, March 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Enrico Moretti (U.C. Berkeley)

Real Wage Inequality

Thursday, March 25 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Nancy Qian (Yale University)

The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61 (joint with Xin Meng, Pierre Yared)

Friday, April 9 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kory Kroft (Charles River Associates)

Does the Moral Hazard Cost of Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Local Unemployment Rate? (joint with Matthew J. Notowidigdo)

Tuesday, April 13 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Raquel Fernández (NYU)

Women's Rights and Development

Friday, April 16 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joseph Altonji (Yale University)

Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use (joint with Sarah Cattan, Iain Ware)

Friday, September 17 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Louis-Philippe Morin (University of Ottawa)

Gender and Competition: From the Lab into the Classroom

Friday, September 24 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University)

The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (joint with et al)

Friday, October 1 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Amy Finkelstein (MIT)

Selection On Moral Hazard In Health Insurance (joint with Liran Einav, Stephen Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark Cullen)

Friday, October 8 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jean Marc Robin (Sciences Po Paris)

Marriage with Labor Market (joint with Nicolas Jacquemet)

Thursday, October 14 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christian Dippel (U Toronto)

Forced Integration and Economic Development - The Case of Native American Reservations

Friday, October 15 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sacha Kapoor (U Toronto)

Incentive Provision in Multitask Jobs: Field Evidence from the Workplace

Friday, October 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University)

The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (joint with Jesse M. Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi)

Friday, October 29 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hugh Macartney (U Toronto)

The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Friday, November 5 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tat-kei Lai (U Toronto)

How Does Information and Communication Technology Affect Workplace Organization?

Friday, November 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University)

Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies (joint with Andrew C. Thomas)

Friday, November 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Chris Robinson (University of Western Ontario)

Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth

Friday, November 26 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gregorio Caetano (University of Rochester)

Identification and Estimation of the Parental Value of School Quality in the US

Friday, December 3 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lei Tang (U Toronto)

Heterogeneity in individual dynamic decision-making among Middle school, High school and University students

Friday, December 10 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Fujiwara (University of British Columbia)

Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil

Friday, January 21 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shari Jane Eli (U.C. Berkeley)

Wealth is Health: Pensions and Disease Onset in the Gilded Age

Tuesday, January 25 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Elaine Kelly (University College London)

A Ticket to Ride: Does Free Bus Travel Promote Active Ageing?

Monday, January 31 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Koichiro Ito (UC Berkeley)

Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing

Wednesday, February 2 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)

Strategy Choice in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma (joint with Guillaume Fréchette)

Friday, March 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Quy-Toan Do (World Bank)

On mechanisms of land acquisition

Friday, March 11 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan)

The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges (joint with Eleanor Dillon)

Friday, March 18 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas - Austin)

'Beauty is the Promise of Happiness'? (joint with Jason Abrevaya)

Friday, March 25 2011 16:00–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University)

Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access" (joint with Pinar Keskin)

Friday, April 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alexander Gelber (University of Pennsylvania)

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men

Friday, April 8 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Adam Found (U of Toronto)

Scale Economies in Municipal Services: A Look at General Government, Fire, and Police

Friday, April 15 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (University of Pennsylvania)

The Political Economy of Moral Conflict: An Empirical Study of Learning and Law Enforcement under Prohibition

Friday, September 16 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University)

Scientific Leadership

Friday, September 23 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago)

Violence Beyond Reason: Prohibition of Alcohol and the Decline of Lynching in the US South (joint with Emily Owens)

Friday, September 30 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paul Gertler (Berkeley)

Poverty, Growth and the Demand for Energy (joint with Orie Shelef, Catherine Wolfram and Alan Fuchs)

Friday, October 7 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ray Fisman (Columbia University)

Labor Supply of Politicians (joint with Nikolaj Harmon, Emir Kamenica and Inger Mun)

Friday, October 14 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Steve Lehrer (Queens University)

Reinvestigating Who Benefits and Who Loses from Universal Childcare in Canada

Friday, October 21 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Branko Boskovic (University of Toronto)

TBD

Friday, October 28 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bernard Salanie (Columbia University)

Cupid's Invisible Hand: Social Surplus and Identification in Matching Models (joint with Alfred Galichon)

Friday, November 4 2011 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Janet Currie (Princeton)

Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick? (joint with Erdal Tekin)

Friday, November 11 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Derek Messacar (University of Toronto)

TBD

Friday, November 18 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marit Rehavi (UBC)

Different Models or Measures?

Monday, November 21 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathan Nunn (Harvard)

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough (joint with Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano)

Friday, November 25 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Derek Neal (University of Chicago)

Pay for Percentile (joint with Gadi Barlevy)

Friday, December 2 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Card (Berkeley)

Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends (joint with Laura Guiliano)

Friday, December 9 2011 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eduardo Augusto de Souza Rodrigues (Yale University)

Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon

Friday, January 20 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Adam Storeygard (Brown University)

Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, February 3 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lesley Jeanne Turner (Columbia University)

The Incidence of Student Financial Aid: Evidence from the Pell Grant Program

Tuesday, February 7 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dayanand Manoli (University of California at Los Angeles)

Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions (joint with Andrea Weber)

Monday, February 13 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mitchell Hoffman (UC Berkeley)

Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training.

Wednesday, February 15 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Frederico Finan (UC Berkeley)

Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service (joint with Ernesto Dal Bo and Martin Rossi)

Friday, March 2 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Anna Aizer (Brown)

The Production of Child Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility (joint with Flavio Cunha)

Friday, March 9 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gerard Padro i Miquel (LSE)

The Effects of Democratization on Economic Policy: Evidence from China (joint with Monica Martínez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao)

Friday, March 16 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John Friedman (Harvard)

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (joint with Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff)

Friday, March 23 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeremiah Dittmar (American)

The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The Printed Book

Friday, March 30 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Diego Puga (IMDEA)

Learning by working in big cities (joint with Jorge De la Roca)

Friday, April 20 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeremy Magruder (Berkeley)

Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (joint with Lori Beaman and Niall Keleher)

Friday, September 14 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth)

CANCELLED

Friday, September 21 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Victor Couture (Toronto)

Travel Demand and the Consumption Value of Urban Density

Friday, September 28 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Josh Lewis (Toronto)

Fertility, Child Health, and the Diffusion of Electricity into the Home

Friday, October 5 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Lemieux (UBC)

Minimum Wages and the Joint Distribution of Employment and Wages

Thursday, October 11 2012 14:30–15:50, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Bird (Toronto)

The Effects of Taxes on the Market for Corporate Control

Friday, October 12 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistributive Policies and in Returns? (joint with Victor Lavy)

Friday, October 19 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Atkin (Yale University)

Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Nature of International Trade Costs (joint with Dave Donaldson (MIT))

Wednesday, October 24 2012 16:30–18:00, Rotman, room 147

Rita Pivovarova (Toronto)

Peer Effects in the Classroom: Evidence from New Peers

Friday, October 26 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kathleen McGarry (UCLA)

Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers

Friday, November 9 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marco Gonzalez-Navaro (University of Toronto)

Certified to Migreate: Property Rights and Migration in Rural Mexico

Friday, November 23 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jesse Shapiro (UChicago)

Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers (joint with Matthew Gentzkow and Michael Sinkinson)

Friday, November 30 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia)

Mansion Tax: The Effect of Transfer Taxes on Residential Real Estate Market (joint with David Munroe)

Friday, December 7 2012 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Benjamin Michael Marx (Columbia University)

Regulatory Hurdles and Growth of Charitable Organizations: Evidence From a Dynamic Bunching Design

Tuesday, January 22 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Laura Ralston (MIT)

Less Guns, More Violence: Evidence from Disarmament in Uganda

Friday, January 25 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paul Novosad (Harvard University)

Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (joint with Sam Asher (Harvard))

Tuesday, January 29 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John Wesley Anderson (Stanford University)

Experience and the Evolution of Wind Power Project Costs in the United States

Tuesday, February 5 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michel Serafinelli (Uc berkeley)

Good FiÂ…rms, Worker Flows and Productivity

Wednesday, February 6 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tatiana Alexandra Homonoff (Princeton University)

Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes versus Bonuses on Disposable Bag Use

Tuesday, February 12 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jessica Leight (MIT)

Reallocating wealth? Insecure property rights and agricultural investment in rural China

Monday, February 25 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley)

Voting to Tell Others (joint with John List, Ulrike Malmendier and Gautam Rao)

Friday, March 1 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kjell Salvanes (Norweigian School of Economics)

This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Downfall from Nuclear Weapon Testing

Friday, March 8 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Melissa Thomasson (Miami)

Saving Babies: The Impact of Public Education Programs on Infant Mortality (joint with Carolyn Moehling)

Friday, March 15 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Abigail Payne (McMaster)

Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK (joint with Jim Andreoni and Sarah Smith)

Friday, March 22 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Costas Meghir (Yale)

The Design and Impact of Early Childhood Interventions: Results from Colombia (joint with Orazio Attanasio, Camila Fernandez, Emla Fitzimmons, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Ma)

Friday, April 5 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Albouy (University of Michigan)

Urban Population and Amenities

Wednesday, April 24 2013 15:00–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rema Hanna (Harvard)

Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (joint with V. Alatas, A. Banerjee, B. A. Olken, R. Purnamasari, M. Wai-Poi)

Friday, September 13 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern University)

Reducing Juvenile Delinquency by Improving Self-Regulation: Experimental Evidence from Juvenile Detention

Friday, September 20 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

The Policy Elasticity

Friday, September 27 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD)

Perverse Consequences of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban (joint with Leah Lakdawala)

Friday, October 4 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment (joint with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst)

Friday, October 11 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eric Mak (Toronto)

TBD

Friday, October 18 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Brian Knight (Brown)

Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations

Friday, October 25 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ayesha Ali (Toronto)

From Home to Market? Credit and the Demand for Rice in Rural Thailand

Friday, November 1 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tom Vogl (Princeton)

Estimating Habit Formation in Voting (joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Kyle Meng)

Friday, November 8 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Amalia Miller (University of Virgina)

Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence Escalation (joint with Carmit Segal)

Thursday, November 14 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Emir Kamenica (UChicago)

Gender identity and relative income within households (joint with Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan)

Friday, November 22 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Fabian Lange (McGill University)

Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins (joint with Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder)

Friday, November 29 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Miguel Urquiola (Columbia)

The big sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes

Friday, December 6 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Kuhn (UC San Diego)

Curing the Calorie Crunch: The Effect of EBT on Household Present Bias

Wednesday, January 22 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Arthur T Blouin (University of Warwick)

Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour

Friday, January 24 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lori Timmins (University of British Columbia)

How do Hospitals Respond to Financial Pain? Evidence from Hospital Markets in Texas

Friday, January 31 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Halket (University of Essex)

Home Ownership and the Scarcity of Rentals (joint with Matteo Pignatti)

Monday, February 10 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sebastian Galiani (Maryland)

The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Friday, February 28 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jim Rebitzer (Boston University School of Management)

Structuring Incentives within Accountable Care Organizations (joint with Brigham Frandsen)

Friday, March 7 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alessandra Voena (UChicago)

Prenuptial Contracts, Labor Supply and Household Investments (joint with Denrick Bayot)

Friday, March 14 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Vincent Pohl (Queen's University)

Health Shocks, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes (joint with Christopher Neilson and Francisco Parro)

Friday, March 21 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Martha Bailey (Michigan)

The Long-term Effects of Family Planning on U.S. Children

Friday, March 28 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ben Faber (UC Berkeley)

Trade Liberalization, the Price of Quality, and Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Store Prices

Wednesday, April 9 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Todd Stinebrickner (University of Western Ontario)

Complementing administrative data with a detailed longitudinal survey: motivation, design/implementation, and analyses in the Berea Panel Study

Friday, September 12 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Maisy Wong (Wharton)

Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia

Monday, September 15 2014 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Eric Mak (University of Toronto)

Do Boys Mature Earlier than Girls? The Case of Risky Behaviors

Friday, September 19 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario)

Understanding Earnings Dynamics: Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks (joint with Youngki Shin)

Friday, September 26 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Derek Messacar (University of Toronto)

The Crowd-Out Effects and Welfare Implications of Retirement Saving Nudges

Friday, October 3 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Elliot Anenberg (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

A More Timely House Price Index (joint with Steven Laufer)

Monday, October 6 2014 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Ethan Lewis (Darmouth)

People and Machines: A Look at The Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill In Manufacturing 1850-1940 Using Immigration Shocks (joint with Jeanne Lafortune and Jose Tessada)

Wednesday, October 8 2014 16:30–17:50, Rotman, room 157

Alfia Karimova (University of Toronto)

'Baby on Board' during Ramadan - an (Un)natural Experiment

Friday, October 17 2014 15:30–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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?

Friday, October 24 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gautam Rao (Microsoft / Harvard University)   Cancelled

Familiarity does not Breed Contempt: Generosity, Discrimination and Diversity in Delhi Schools

Friday, October 31 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Jensen (Wharton)

How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments? (joint with Leonardo Bursztyn)

Friday, November 7 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christian Dippel (UCLA)

Trade Integration, Manufacturing Competition, and Political Radicalization: German Evidence from 1987-2009

Tuesday, November 11 2014 16:30–17:50, Rotman, room 151

Joseph Price (Brigham Young University)

Habit Formation in Children: Evidence from Incentives for Healthy Eating (joint with George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp)

Friday, November 14 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniele Paserman (Boston University)

Three-Generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents (joint with Claudia Olivetti and Laura Salisbury)

Friday, November 21 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthieu Chemin (McGill)

Informal Groups and Health Insurance Take-up: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Friday, November 28 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

James E. Foster (George Washington University)

The Mobility Curve: Measuring the Impact of Income Changes on Welfare (joint with Jonathan Rothbaum (US Census Bureau))

Friday, December 5 2014 15:30–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Genet Zinabou (U Toronto)

Natural Resource Rents, Democracy, and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, December 12 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Martin Fiszbein (Brown University)

Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties

Monday, January 26 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Francisco Haimovich (UCLA)

The Long-term Return to Early Childhood Education: Evidence from the First US Kindergartens

Thursday, January 29 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Namrata Kala (Yale University)

Ambiguity Aversion and Learning in a Changing World: The Potential Effects of Climate Change from Indian Agriculture

Friday, January 30 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Tate Twinam (University of Pittsburgh)

Danger zone: The causal effects of high-density and mixed-use development on neighborhood crime

Monday, February 2 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dominik Sachs (University of Cologne)

Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies (joint with Sebastian Findeisen)

Tuesday, February 3 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eva Vivalt (New York University)

How Much Can We Generalize from Impact Evaluations?

Wednesday, February 4 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jason Albert (Georgetown University)

Strategic Dynamics of Antibiotic Use and the Evolution of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

Friday, February 6 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Natalie D Bau (Harvard University)

School Competition and Product Differentiation

Tuesday, February 24 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Edward Miguel (Berkeley)

Economic and non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicide, and climate in Mexico

Friday, February 27 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrea Prat (Columbia University)   Cancelled

Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach (joint with Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon)

Friday, March 6 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection (joint with Lars Kirkebøen and Edwin Leuven)

Friday, March 13 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia University)

Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health (joint with W. Reed Walker)

Friday, March 20 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Guy Michaels (London School of Economics)

Robots at Work (joint with Georg Graetz)

Friday, March 27 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David S. Rapson (University of California, Davis)

Validating causal inference using high-frequency data: An energy experiment (joint with Katrina Jessoe (UC Davis))

Monday, April 6 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Antonio Bento (Cornell)   Cancelled

The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Congestion Pricing Experiments (joint with Kevin Roth and Andrew Waxman)

Friday, April 10 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Antonio Bento (Cornell)

The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Congestion Pricing Experiments (joint with Kevin Roth and Andrew Waxman)

Friday, April 17 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA)

The Effects of Economics Conditions on Mortality over the Lifetime (joint with David Cutler and Wei Huang)

Friday, April 24 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Gautam Rao (Harvard)

Familiarity Does Not Breed Contempt: Diversity, Discrimination and Generosity in Delhi Schools

Friday, May 8 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors (joint with Ufuk Akcigit and Salome Baslandze)

Friday, September 18 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Francisco Gallego (PUC-Chile)

Adopting a cleaner technology: The effect of driving restrictions on fleet turnover (joint with Hernán Barahona, Juan Pablo Montero)

Monday, September 21 2015 16:10–17:30, Wilson Hall, New College, room 524

Lisa Stockley (Toronto)

TBA

Friday, September 25 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ebonya Washington (Yale University)

Why did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate (joint with Ilyana Kuziemko)

Monday, September 28 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 208N

Alfia Karimova (Toronto)

Learning by doing: evidence from Ramadan exposure during pregnancy

Friday, October 2 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pamela Jakiela (U Maryland)

How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments (joint with Uttara Balakrishnany, Johannes Haushofer)

Monday, October 5 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Graham Beattie (University of Toronto)

Advertising, Media Capture, and Public Opinion: The Case of Climate Change

Friday, October 9 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrea Prat (Columbia U)

CEO Behaviour and Firm Performance

Monday, October 19 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Uros Petronijevic (University of Toronto)

School Competition and Teacher Productivity

Friday, October 23 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Filipe Campante (Harvard University)

The Intergenerational Transmission of War (joint with David Yanagizawa-Drott)

Monday, October 26 2015 16:10–17:30, Wilson Hall, New College, room 524

Fernando Aragon (Simon Fraser University)

Mining closure, gender and employment reallocations: the case of UK coal mines (joint with Juan Pablo Rud, Gerhard Toews)

Friday, October 30 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joshua Murphy (Toronto)

The Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and the Optimal Extent of Air Quality Regulation

Monday, November 2 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Yann Algan (Sciences Po)

The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills Training on Academic and Non-academic Trajectories: From Childhood to Early Adulthood

Friday, November 6 2015 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Claudio Ferraz (PUC-Rio de Janeiro)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, November 9 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Sebastian Findeisen (University of Mannheim)

The Returns to Regional Mobility for Unemployed Workers

Friday, November 13 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rocco Machiavello (Warwick U)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, November 16 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Adam Miettinen (Toronto)

Early Labour Market Integration in Canada, 1901-1911

Friday, November 20 2015 15:40–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Anderson (UC Berkeley)

As The Wind Blows: The Effects Of Long-Term Exposure To Air Pollution On Mortality

Monday, November 23 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Jonas Hjort (Columbia University)

TBA

Friday, November 27 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gabriella Conti (UCL)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, November 30 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Giacomo De Giorgi (New York Fed)

Consumption Network Effects (joint with Anders Frederiksen and Luigi Pistaferri)

Friday, December 4 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Stylianos (Stelios) Michalopoulos (Brown U)

TBA

Monday, December 7 2015 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Ayesha Ali (Toronto)

Electricity Outages and Employment: Evidence from Energy Prices and Thermal Power Plants in Pakistan

Friday, December 11 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp (Harvard University)

Education-associated SNPs are enriched for brain function and disorders

Friday, January 22 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alisa Tazhitdinova (UC Berkeley)

Adjust Me if I Can't: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes

Tuesday, January 26 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Elena Prager (University of Pennsylvania)

Tiered Hospital Networks, Health Care Demand, and Prices

Wednesday, January 27 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Elliot Lipnowski (New York University)

Repeated Delegation (joint with Joao Ramos)

Thursday, January 28 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 368

Yoram Halevy (University of British Columbia)

Parametric Recovery Methods: A Comparative Experimental Study (joint with Lanny Zrill)

Friday, February 26 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hilary Hoynes (University of California Berkeley)

Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start (joint with Marianne P. Bitler, Thurston Domina)

Friday, March 4 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alexandre Mas (Princeton University)

Does Disclosure affect CEO Pay Setting? Evidence from the Passage of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act

Friday, March 11 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth Uniersity)

Coercion, Debt-Bondage and Human Capital (joint with Salil Sharma and Mahesh Shrestha)

Monday, March 14 2016 16:10–17:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Supreet Kaur (Columbia University)

Do Enforcement Constraints Prevent Trade? Evidence on Contracting Failures in Irrigation Markets (joint with Ryan Bubb and Sendhil Mullainathan)

Friday, March 18 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pieter Gautier (VU University Amsterdam)

The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice (joint with Monique de Haan, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw)

Friday, April 8 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gabriella Conti (UCL)

Before Birth: Prenatal Investments and Healthy Development

Friday, April 15 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michel Serafinelli (Toronto)

UTM Workshop "Cities, Trade and Regional Development" Speakers: D. Atkin, J. Dittmar, C. Gaubert, J. Handbury, M. Harari, B. Javorcik

Saturday, April 30 2016 09:00–18:00, Kaneff, room L1230, UTM

Adam Lavecchia (University of Toronto)

Minimum wage policy with optimal taxes and involuntary unemployment

Friday, September 16 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Juan Morales (University of Toronto)

Legislating During War: Conflict and Politics in Colombia

Friday, September 23 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kirsten Cornelson (University of Toronto)

Residential segregation and social segregation

Monday, September 26 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jessica Burley (University of Toronto)

Income Driven Neighborhood Change: Labor Demand and Gentrification in New York City

Friday, September 30 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Gilraine (University of Toronto)

Human Capital Formation and School Accountability

Friday, October 7 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Receptiveness to Advice, Cognitive Ability, and Technology Adoption: An Economic Experiment with Farmers (joint with Bradford L. Barham, Jean-Paul, Chavas Dylan Fitz)

Friday, October 14 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joshua Murphy (University of Toronto)

The Value of Reducing Power Plant Emissions: New Evidence from the Clean Air Interstate Rule

Monday, October 17 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Francesco Trebbi (University of British Columbia)

Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures (joint with Eric Weese)

Friday, October 21 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Benjamin Iverson (Kellogg)

The Externalities of Bankruptcy (joint with Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Xavier Giroud)

Friday, October 28 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jing Cai (University of Michigan)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, October 28 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew Melnyk (University of Toronto)

Long Term Consequences of Childhood Sexual Assault

Monday, October 31 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nicholas Papageorge (Johns Hopkins)

Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment (joint with Barton Hamilton, Andres Hincapie and Robert Miller)

Friday, November 4 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Patrick Kline (University of California, Berkeley)

Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head (joint with Chris Walters)

Friday, November 11 2016 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)

Electoral institutions and the performance of public officials: evidence from state supreme courts (joint with Elliott Ash)

Friday, November 18 2016 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Benjamin Keys (Wharton)

Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards (joint with Jialan Wang)

Friday, November 18 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shintaro Yamaguchi (McMaster University)

Childcare, parenting practices, and child development

Friday, November 25 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Cesarini (New York University)

Windfall Gains and Stock Market Participation (joint with Briggs, Lindqvist, Östling)

Friday, December 2 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Barbara Biasi (Stanford University)

Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin

Tuesday, January 24 2017 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Jonathan Price (Stanford University)

The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance (joint with Jae Song)

Wednesday, January 25 2017 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marit Rehavi (University of British Columbia)

A Doctor Will See You Now: Physician-Patient Relationships and Clinical Decisions (joint with D Chan and E Johnson)

Friday, January 27 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Y Yang (Stanford University)

1984 or the Brave New World? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Media Censorship in China (joint with Yuyu Chen)

Friday, February 10 2017 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Columbia University)   Cancelled

Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Path

Friday, February 10 2017 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kelly Bedard (University of California, Santa Barbara)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, February 10 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Columbia University)

Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths (joint with Note: Seminar room is actually Rotman south building room 7024)

Wednesday, February 15 2017 15:10–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sanghmitra Gautam (University College London)

Household (Under) Adoption of Sanitation: Externalities and Borrowing Constraints

Thursday, February 16 2017 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rebecca Thornton (University of Illinois)

Network Partitioning and Social Exclusion under Different Selection Regimes (joint with Clara Delavallade (IFPRI) and Alan Griffith (Michigan))

Friday, February 17 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton)

Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines (joint with Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma, Thomas Fujiwara, Cecilia Pe Lero, Daniel Rubenson)

Friday, February 24 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shelly Lundberg (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Father Absence and the Gender Gap in College Graduation

Friday, March 3 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)

Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times (joint with Philippe Aghion, Nick Bloom, Brian Lucking and Raffaella Sadun)

Friday, March 10 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kelly Bishop (Arizona State University)

Using Panel Data To Easily Estimate Hedonic Demand Functions (joint with Christopher Timmins)

Friday, March 17 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jos van Ommeren (VU Amsterdam)

Road congestion and public transit (joint with Martin W. Adler , Federica Liberini , Antonio Russo)

Friday, March 24 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Jensen (Wharton)   Cancelled

Information, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India (joint with Nolan Miller)

Friday, March 31 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gaurav Khanna (Center for Global Development/University of California, San Diego)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, April 7 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Beenstock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The cycle of violence in the Second Intifada: Causality in Nonlinear Vector Autoregressive Models (joint with Muhammad Asali and Aamer S. Abu-Qarn)

Friday, April 21 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paola Giuliano (UCLA - Anderson)

Long Term Orientation and Educational Performance (joint with David Figlio, Umut Ozek and Paola Sapienza)

Friday, May 5 2017 14:30–15:50, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michel Serafinelli (Toronto)

IMI Junior Workshop: Health, Labour and Development (speakers: Samuel Bazzi, Guilherme Lichand, Myra Mohnen, Simone Schaner, Heather Schofield, Bryce Steinberg)

Friday, September 8 2017 09:00–18:15, Kaneff, room L1230, UTM

Genet Zinabou (UToronto)

Culture and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Obedience as a Moral Value

Friday, September 15 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Jensen (Wharton)

Information, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Friday, September 22 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jean-William Laliberté (UToronto)

Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods

Friday, September 29 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kevin Devereux (UToronto)

Identifying teamwork skills: application to professional tennis

Friday, October 6 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, October 6 2017 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tim Besley (LSE)

Organizational Dynamics: Culture, Design, and Performance

Friday, October 20 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ridwan Karim (UToronto)

Voter-Buying, Electoral Reform, and Health Outcomes in Brazil

Friday, October 27 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Craig Riddell (UBC)

Gunderson Lecture: What Do Unions do to Wage Inequality? The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Thursday, November 2 2017 16:30–18:00, Munk Centre, Campbell Conference Facility

Corinne Low (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments (joint with Jeanne Lafortune)

Friday, November 3 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel Benjamin (University of Southern California)

Reconsidering Risk Aversion (joint with Miles Kimball, Mark Fontana)

Friday, November 10 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Amine Ouazad (HEC Montreal)

City Equilibrium with Borrowing Constraints: Structural Estimation and General Equilibrium Effects (joint with Romain Rancière)

Wednesday, November 22 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Tim Bond (Purdue University)

Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Trade in the 1970s and 1980s

Friday, November 24 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jing Cai (University of Maryland)

Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance (joint with Adam Szeidl)

Friday, December 1 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Ching (UToronto)

A Structural Model of Correlated Learning and Late-Mover Advantages: The Case of Statins (joint with Hyunwoo Lim)

Friday, December 8 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, December 8 2017 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Heather Sarsons (Harvard University)

Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals

Wednesday, January 10 2018 14:30–16:00, Rotman, room LL1020

Jeffrey Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

The consequences of academic match between students and colleges (joint with Eleanor Wiske Dillon)

Friday, February 2 2018 15:30–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Brent Hickman (Queens University)

Pre-College Human Capital Investment and Affirmative Action (joint with Aaron Bodoh-Creed)

Friday, February 23 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bhash Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US (joint with Timothy Halliday and Ashley Wong)

Friday, March 9 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Imran Rasul (University College London)

Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

Tuesday, March 13 2018 13:00–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alex Pfaff (Duke University)

Collective Environmental Incentives & Group Dynamics in Mexico and Colombia

Friday, March 16 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pablo Querubin (NYU)

The Political Class and Redistributive Policies

Monday, March 19 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago)

Engines of Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing (joint with Martin Rotemberg)

Friday, March 30 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Holger Sieg (University of Pennsylvania)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, April 6 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lori Beaman (Northwestern)

Selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali

Friday, April 13 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gaurav Khanna (UC San Diego)

Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India

Friday, April 20 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego)

General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India (joint with Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar)

Friday, April 27 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hani Mansour (University of Colorado Denver)

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement (joint with Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Andrea Velasquez)

Thursday, May 3 2018 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh)

Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers in a Tournament Incentive Scheme

Friday, May 4 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Maria Casanova (California State University, Fullerton)

Revisiting the Hump-Shaped Wage Profile

Friday, May 11 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Louis-Philippe Morin (University of Ottawa)

Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation (joint with Ana Rute Cardoso)

Thursday, August 23 2018 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kelly Bedard (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers

Friday, September 7 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago Booth)

Physicians, Incentives and Algorithms: Using Machine Learning to Make Sense of Health Care

Friday, September 21 2018 15:40–17:00, Rotman, room LL1020

Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley)

Stability of Experimental Results: Forecasts and Evidence (joint with Devin Pope)

Friday, September 28 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marc-Antoine Schmidt (University of Toronto)

Rest Breaks and Labor Supply Flexibility

Friday, October 12 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Holger Sieg (University of Pennsylvania)

Waiting for Affordable Housing in NYC (joint with Chamna Yoon)

Friday, October 19 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Stephen Lehrer (Queen's University)

Assessing the Hype of Machine Learning for Empiricists (joint with Weili Ding and Tian Xie)

Friday, October 26 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alberto Bisin (New York University)

Dynamic Interactions on Networks: Health Risk Behavior (joint with T. Arduini, O. Ozgur, E. Patacchini)

Friday, November 2 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rachael Meager (London School of Economics)

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature

Friday, November 9 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lawrence M. Kahn (Cornell University)

Do Americans (still) prefer sons over daughters? (joint with Francine D. Blau, Peter Brummund, Jason Cook, and Miriam La)

Friday, November 16 2018 10:30–11:30, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, room 205

Francine Blau (Department of Economics, Cornell University)

Gunderson Lecture: What Do We Really Know About the Gender Wage Gap?

Friday, November 16 2018 16:00–18:00, Woodsworth College, Kruger Hall Commons

Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School)

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading (joint with Panle Barwick, Shengmao Cao and Shanjun Li)

Friday, November 23 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University)

Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How? (joint with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Henry Swift)

Friday, November 30 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joseph Mullins (University of Minnesota)

Firms’ Choices of Wage-Setting Protocols in the Presence of Minimum Wages (joint with Christopher Flinn)

Friday, December 7 2018 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Maximilian Kasy (Harvard University)

Identification of and correction for publication bias (joint with Isaiah Andrews)

Tuesday, January 22 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jesse M Bruhn (Boston University)

The Consequences of Sorting for Understanding School Quality

Thursday, January 24 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Elira Kuka (Southern Methodist University)

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA (joint with Na’ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih)

Friday, January 25 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Carolina Arteaga (University of California Los Angeles (UCLA))

The Cost of Bad Parents: Evidence from the Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children's Education

Tuesday, January 29 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Emily Moschini (University of Minnesota)

Child Care Subsidies with One- and Two-Parent Families

Thursday, January 31 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Oren Danieli (Harvard University)

Outside Options in the Labor Market (joint with Sydnee Caldwell)

Monday, February 4 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Román Andrés Zárate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Social and Cognitive Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Selective High Schools in Peru

Wednesday, February 6 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shan Aman Rana (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Meritocracy in Bureaucracy? Evidence from Pakistan

Thursday, February 7 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jaime Arellano-Bover (Stanford University)

Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size

Thursday, February 28 2019 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Clémentine Van Effenterre (Harvard Kennedy School)

Do women want to work more or more regularly? Evidence from a natural experiment (joint with Emma Duchini)

Friday, March 1 2019 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ricardo Perez-Truglia (Anderson, UCLA)

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons (joint with Zoe Cullen)

Friday, March 1 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeffrey Lin (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Freeway Revolts! (joint with Jeffrey Brinkman)

Friday, March 8 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Francesco Amodio (McGill University)

Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives (joint with Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahma)

Friday, March 15 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jessie Handbury (Wharton, UPenn)

Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting (joint with Victor Couture, Cecile Gaubert, Erik Hurst)

Friday, March 22 2019 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Owen Zidar (Princeton University)

Top Wealth in the United States: New Methods and Implications for Wealth Taxation (joint with Eric Zwick, Matt Smith)

Friday, March 29 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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 (joint with William N. Evans, Brendan Perry, and James X. Sullivan)

Friday, April 5 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Dinerstein (University of Chicago)

Human Capital Depreciation (joint with Rigissa Megalokonomou, Constantine Yannelis)

Friday, September 13 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yu-wei Hsieh (University of Southern California)

Prediction and Congestion in Two-Sided Markets: Economist versus Machine Matchmakers

Friday, September 20 2019 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern University)

The Returns to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program (joint with Martin B. Hackmann)

Friday, September 27 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paul Lim (University of Toronto)

Interest Rates and Credit Rationing in U.S. Mortgage Lending

Friday, October 4 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Julian Dyer (University of Toronto)

Go Set a Watchman: Experimental Evidence on Security and Agricultural Development

Friday, October 11 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel Indacochea (University of Toronto)

Crossing the Color Line: The Effects of Racial Integration during the Korean War

Friday, October 18 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dhruv Sinha (University of Toronto)

The Impact of NGO Campaigning on Firms' Stock Performance

Friday, October 25 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Round Number Bunching in the Wage Distribution (joint with Arindrajit Dube and Alan Manning)

Friday, November 1 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Giulia Giupponi (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

When Income Effects are Large: Labor Supply Responses and the Value of Welfare Transfers

Friday, November 8 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Douglas Miller (Cornell University)

Dynamic Treatment Effects for Empirical Microeconomists: Local Projections and Quasi-Experimental Research Designs (joint with Gaetano Basso, Jessamyn Schaller)

Friday, November 15 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia)

The Employment Impact of Construction Boom-Bust Cycles

Friday, November 22 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Etienne Lehmann (Université Panthéon Assas Paris II)

Comprehensive or Separate Income Tax? A Sufficient Statistics Approach (joint with Marie-Noëlle Lefebvre and Michaël Sicsic)

Friday, November 29 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Richard B Freeman (Harvard University)

Morley Gunderson Lecture: Labor in the Era of Robots and Algorithms

Monday, December 2 2019 16:00–18:00, Woodsworth College, Kruger Hall Commons

Marcella Alsan (Harvard Kennedy School)

Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities (joint with Crystal Yang)

Friday, December 6 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Willa Friedman (University of Houston)

When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System (joint with Kehinde Ajayi and Adrienne Lucas)

Friday, December 13 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Milena Almagro (New York University)

Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam (joint with Tomas Domınguez-Iino)

Wednesday, January 15 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Caitlin Gorback (University of Pennsylvania)

Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity

Thursday, January 16 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eva Vivalt (Australian National University)

Design and Baseline Data for "The Causal Effects of Basic Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States"

Friday, January 17 2020 12:00–13:00, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, room 205

Maura Coughlin (Cornell University)

Insurance Choice with Non-Monetary Plan Attributes: Limited Consideration in Medicare Part D

Friday, January 24 2020 16:00–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Stepner (National Bureau of Economic Research)

The Insurance Value of Redistributive Taxes and Transfers

Wednesday, January 29 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marlène Blédja Aimée Koffi (Universíté de Montréal (University of Montreal))

Innovative Ideas and Gender Inequality

Friday, January 31 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eva Vivalt (Australian National University)

How Do Policymakers Update Their Beliefs?

Monday, February 10 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Will Rafey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Droughts, deluges, and (river) diversions: Valuing market-based water reallocation

Monday, February 24 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dean Yang (University of Michigan)

Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Earnings and Economic Development in the Philippines (joint with Gaurav Khanna and Caroline Theoharides)

Friday, February 28 2020 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew E. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, March 6 2020 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matias Cortes (York University)   Cancelled

Are Routine Jobs Moving South? Evidence from Changes in the Occupational Structure of Employment in the U.S. and Mexico (joint with Diego M. Morris)

Friday, March 13 2020 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Peter Kuhn (University of California, Santa Barbara)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, March 20 2020 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, March 27 2020 15:40–17:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Jonathan Hall (University of Toronto)

Improving structural models of congestion

Friday, March 27 2020 15:40–17:00, Online

Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, April 3 2020 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Etienne Masson-Makdissi (University of Toronto)

Identification of Social Pressure Towards Same-Sex Relationship in a Matching Model with Regional Sorting

Friday, April 3 2020 15:40–17:00, Online

Julian Dyer (University of Toronto)

(Machine) Learning Languages: An Empirical Examination of Linguistic Exchange and Power (joint with Arthur Blouin)

Friday, April 17 2020 15:40–17:00, Online