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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Yosh Halberstam

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Michael Baker and Kory Kroft

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

The Policy Elasticity

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Rahul Deb and Yosh Halberstam

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

Eric Mak (Toronto)

TBD

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Aloysius Siow

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Yosh Halberstam

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Yosh Halberstam, and Kory Kroft

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Shari Eli and Yosh Halberstam

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Nicola Lacetera

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Nicola Lacetera

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Robert McMillan

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Philip Oreopoulos

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Shari Eli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Yosh Halberstam

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Nicola Lacetera

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Yosh Halberstam and Laura Turner

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Shari Eli and Yosh Halberstam

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

Series: International trade/Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Peter Morrow