Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Organized by: Cormac O’Dea and Ilse Lindenlaub
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 Brooke Jones (203-432-3560)
Events/Seminars
August 30, 2018 | |||
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Barbara Biasi, Yale SOM "The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 6, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
David Card, UC Berkeley "Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Hiring and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil" joint with Francois Gerard & Lorenzo Lagos (both of Columbia University) and Edson Severnini (Carnegie Mellon University) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 13, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Leila Bengali, Yale University "(In)attention to Additional Costs in the Residential Housing Market" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 20, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
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 1, 2018 | |||
| 2:30pm |
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago "Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia" NOTE: This is a joint Development and Labor/Public Economics workshop 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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