Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Organized by: Cormac O’Dea and Barbara Biasi
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, 3:30-5:00 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 (*unless otherwise noted)
Events/Seminars
August 29, 2019 | ||
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Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University School of Medicine ““When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers’ Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health"” Joint with Petra Persson 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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September 5, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA “"The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor are Small" ” Joint with Shari Eli, University of Toronto and Anna Aizer, Brown University 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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September 12, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Margaux Luflade, University of Pennsylvania “The Value of Information in Centralized School Choice Systems ” 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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September 19, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill “Match Effects in the Teacher Labor Market: Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition” With Esteban M. Aucejo- Arizona State University, Patrick Coate-NCCI, Sean Kelly-University of Pittsburgh, Zachary Mozenter-University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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September 26, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Michael Gilraine, New York University “A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added” With Jiaying Gu, University of Toronto and Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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October 3, 2019 | ||
| 12:00pm |
Christine Ho, Singapore Management University “Conditional Cash Transfer and Loss Aversion: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh” 28 Hillhouse Ave., Tobin Lounge |
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| 3:30pm |
Katherine Wagner, Yale University “Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance” 28 Hillhouse Ave., Tobin Lounge |
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October 8, 2019 | ||
| 2:30pm |
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University “The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States” Joint with Shai Bernstein, Tim McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada - Stanford University 28 Hillhouse Ave., Tobin Lounge |
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October 10, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia (UBC) and NBER “The Employment Impact of Construction Boom-Bust Cycles” Florian Hoffmann (UBC), Maria Kogelnik (UC Santa Barbara), Mirko Titze (Halle Institute for Economic Research) 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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October 17, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
October Recess “No Seminar - October Recess ” 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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October 24, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Ro'ee Levy, Yale University “Social Media, News Consumption and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment” Job Market Practice 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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October 31, 2019 | ||
| 12:00pm |
Kaivan Munshi “Herding in Quality Assessment: Identification and Welfare Analysis ” Stephanie De Mel (Institute for Fiscal Studies) Soenje Reiche (Yale University) Hamid Sabourian (Cambridge University) 28 Hillhouse Ave., Tobin Lounge |
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| 3:30pm |
Yoko Okuyama “Toward Better Informed Decision-Making: the Impacts of a Mass Media Campaign on Women's Outcomes in Occupied Japan” This is a Job Market Practice 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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November 7, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley “Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes” Joint with Sandra Black (Columbia University) and Jeffrey Denning (Brigham Young University) 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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November 14, 2019 | ||
| 3:00pm |
Jaime Arellano-Bover and Jason Abaluck “The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills" AND "Mortality Effects and Choice Across Health Plans” Note: This week only this seminar will start at 3 and end at 5 pm 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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November 21, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Basit Zafar, Arizona State University “Gender Differences in Job Search Behavior and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, and Basit Zafar” 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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November 28, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
“Recess - No Workshop ” 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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December 4, 2019 | ||
| 12:00pm |
Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin–Madison “Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Individual, Employer-Sponsored and Public Insurance ” with Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin-Madison 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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December 5, 2019 | ||
| 3:30pm |
Alex Gelber, University of California - San Diego “Using Non-Linear Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test” With Damon Jones - University of Chicago, Daniel W. Sacks – Indiana University, and Jae Song – Social Security Administration 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106 |
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