Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Organized by: Joe Altonji and Jason Abaluck
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 Williams (203-432-3560)
Events/Seminars
August 31, 2017 | |||
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| 4:00pm |
Yusuke Narita, Yale University "Experimental Design as Market Design: Billions of Dollars Worth of Treatment Assignments" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 7, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Owen Zidar, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business "State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation" joint with Pablo D. Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Eduardo Morales (Princeton), and Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 14, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University "Consumption Network Effects" joint with Giacomo De Giorgi (GSEM) and Anders Frederiksen (Aarhus University) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 21, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
James Thomas, Yale University "What Do Course Offerings Reveal About University Preferences?" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 28, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Rebecca McKibbin, Yale University "Clinical Trials & Regulation: Lessons From Off-label Oncology" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 5, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Noriko Amano, Yale University "Nutrition Inequality" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 12, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University "Cultural Assimilation During Two Ages of Mass Migration" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 2, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Ana Reynoso, Yale University "The Impact of Divorce Laws on the Equilibrium in the Marriage Market" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 9, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University "Alternative Work Arrangements, Labor Supply, and the Value of Non-Work Time" joint with Alexander Mas (Princeton), Presentation based on 2 papers 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 16, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy "Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 30, 2017 | |||
| 2:30pm |
David Dorn, University of Zurich - 2:30pm "The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms" joint with David Autor, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson & John Van Reenen Hamish Low, University of Cambridge - 4:00pm 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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December 4, 2017 | |||
| 1:00pm |
Ana Reynoso, Yale University -- NOTE: This is an extra workshop (not a lunch) and is being held on a different day, time, and location than usual. "The Impact of Divorce Laws on the Equilibrium in the Marriage Market" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 108 |
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December 7, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Claudia Olivetti, Boston College "Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women" joint with Marianne Bertrand, Patricia Cortes & Jessica Pan 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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December 11, 2017 | |||
| 1:00pm |
Noriko Amano, Yale University -- NOTE: This is an extra workshop (not a lunch) and is being held on a different day, time, and location than usual. "Nutrition Inequality: The Role of Prices, Income and Preferences" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 108 |
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February 22, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Paul Oyer, Stanford University & NBER "The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers" Joint with Cody Cook (Uber Technologies), Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University & NBER), Jonathan Hall (Uber Technologies), and John A. List (University of Chicago, NBER, & Uber Technologies) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 1, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University "Unintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 8, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Ronald Fryer, Harvard University "The Impact of Federal Investigations on Crime and Policing" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 29, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University "Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending" joint with Rucker C. Johnson (Berkeley) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 5, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Jon Kolstad, Berkeley "Insurer Innovation and Health Care Efficiency: Evidence from Utah" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 12, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Stefanie Stancheva, Harvard University "Immigration and Redistribution" Joint with Alberto Alesina & Armando Miano (both of Harvard) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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May 2, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University ***NOTE: Taking place on different day of the week and different location that usual*** "TBD" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room B8 |
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