Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Organized by: Joseph Altonji and John Eric Humphries
All graduate students and faculty are invited to attend the weekly workshop. Graduate students who anticipate undertaking dissertation research in microeconomics or labor, household consumption and savings, development and demography are expected to attend the workshop and register at least once for credit. Graduate students with a thesis prospectus and/or report on dissertation research should discuss it in advance with her/his faculty advisor and then sign up for a workshop presentation.
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Thursdays, 4:00-5:30 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 (*unless otherwise noted)
Schedule maintained by Eli Westerman (203-432-3560)
Events/Seminars
September 20, 2018 | |||
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George-Levi Gayle, Washington University in St. Louis "What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?" joint with Limor Golan (WU St. Louis) and Mehmet A. Soytas (Ozyegin University) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 27, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Ling Zhong, Yale University "Internal Migration and Extended Families in China" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 4, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Yujung Hwang, Yale University "Social Integration of Immigrants Through Shaping Neighborhoods" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 11, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Benjamin Lockwood, Wharton "Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax" joint with Hunt Allcott (NYU) and Dmitry Taubinsky (UC Berkeley) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 25, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Taha Choukhmane, Yale University "Default Options and Retirement Saving Dynamics" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 1, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Matthew Notowidigdo, Northwestern University "Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP" Joint with Amy Finkelstein (MIT) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 8, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Esteban Aucejo, Arizona State University "The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills" joint with Jonathan James (California Polytechnic State University) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 15, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Henrik Kleven, Princeton University "The EITC and the Extensive Margin: A Reappraisal" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 29, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Modibo Sidibe, Duke University "Schooling Investment, Mismatch and Wage Inequality" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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December 6, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Derek Neal, University of Chicago "Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools" joint with Daniel O. Gilligan and Naureen Karachiwalla (both of IFPRI), Ibrahim Kasirye (EPRC), and Adrienne M. Lucas (University of Delaware & NBER) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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February 21, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled" joint with Soojin Kim (Purdue University) and Serena Rhee (Korea Development Institute) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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February 28, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Peter Ganong, University of Chicago, Harris Public Policy "Liquidity vs. Wealth in Household Debt Obligations: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession" joint with Pascal Noel (Chicago Booth) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 5, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago **NOTE: This is an EXTRA seminar, and is being held on a different day "Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 7, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Justine Hastings, Brown University "The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications" joint with Ryan Kessler (Brown University) and Jesse M. Shapiro (Brown University and NBER) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 28, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore "The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination" joint with Kerwin Charles (Chicago) and Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 4, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University "The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Outcomes" joint with Rajashri Chakrabarti (NY Fed) and Nicole Gorton (UCLA) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 11, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago "How Much Should we Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?" joint with Stephane Bonhomme (UChicago), Kerstin Holzheu (IFS), Elena Manresa (NYU), Magne Mogstad (UChicago), and Bradley Setzler (UChicago) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 16, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences Po **NOTE: This is an EXTRA workshop, and is being held on a different day and in a different location. "Marriage markets in East and West Germany after Reunification" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 108 |
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April 18, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Danny Yagan, UC-Berkeley "Place-Based Redistribution" joint with Patrick Kline (UC-Berkeley) and Cecile Gaubert (UC-Berkeley) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 25, 2019 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Matthew Wiswall, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Child Care and Early Childhood Skills" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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