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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Aloysius Siow and Ronald Wolthoff

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Elizabeth Dhuey, and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Arthur Blouin, and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Arthur Blouin, and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Robert McMillan

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Nicola Lacetera

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Dwayne Benjamin

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Loren Brandt, and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan Hall, Kory Kroft, and Aloysius Siow

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Michael Baker, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Econometrics, Organizer: Robert McMillan

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Robert McMillan

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Aloysius Siow

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Kory Kroft

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: David Price

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Arthur Blouin

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: David Price

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Jonathan P. Beauchamp

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Yosh Halberstam, and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Aloysius Siow

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Urban and real estate economics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Jonathan Hall

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and Kory Kroft

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  

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Jonathan Hall, and David Price