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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Lisa Stockley (Toronto)

TBA

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

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

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

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Shari Eli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli

Andrea Prat (Columbia U)

CEO Behaviour and Firm Performance

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

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

Uros Petronijevic (University of Toronto)

School Competition and Teacher Productivity

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli

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

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

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli

Claudio Ferraz (PUC-Rio de Janeiro)   Cancelled

TBA

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Shari Eli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli

Rocco Machiavello (Warwick U)   Cancelled

TBA

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Arthur Blouin, Gustavo Bobonis, and Shari Eli

Adam Miettinen (Toronto)

Early Labour Market Integration in Canada, 1901-1911

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis, Shari Eli, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Jonas Hjort (Columbia University)

TBA

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

Gabriella Conti (UCL)   Cancelled

TBA

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Shari Eli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Robert McMillan and Michel Serafinelli

Stylianos (Stelios) Michalopoulos (Brown U)

TBA

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Arthur Blouin, Gustavo Bobonis, and Shari Eli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Business economics, Organizers: Ambarish Chandra and Rahul Deb

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Rahul Deb

Elliot Lipnowski (New York University)

Repeated Delegation (joint with Joao Ramos)

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Business economics, Organizers: Ambarish Chandra and Rahul Deb

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

Series: Economic theory/Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Colin Stewart

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Kory Kroft and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Mitchell Hoffman, Kory Kroft, and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Nicholas Li

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michel Serafinelli

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Michel Serafinelli and Ronald Wolthoff

Gabriella Conti (UCL)

Before Birth: Prenatal Investments and Healthy Development

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Shari Eli

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

Series: Urban and real estate economics/Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Nicholas Li and Michel Serafinelli