Seminar by Date

Emily Owens – UCI School of Social Ecology
Monday, January 9th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750
Title: Specialization in Criminal Courts: Decision Making, Recidivism, and Re-victimization in Domestic Violence Courts in Tennessee

David Molitor – Gies College of Business 
Friday, January 13th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750
Title:

Timothy Bond – Purdue University 
Friday, February 10th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750 (Labor)
Title: Paper tile TBD

TBA
Friday, February 17th, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Virtual (Health)
Title:

Federico Mandelman – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Friday, February 24th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm , AYS 749/750 (Econ)
Title:

Guillaume Frechette – New York University 
Friday, March 3rd, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, 55 Park Place 604 (Experimental)
Title:

Erin Mansur (Dartmouth College)
Friday, March 24th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750 (Environmental)
Title:

TBA
Friday, March 31st, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750 (Health)
Title:

Maggie Jones – Emory University 
Friday, April 7th, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750 (Labor)
Title:

Martin Dufwenberg
Friday, April 14th, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750 (Experimental)
Title:

Rebecca Diamond – Stanford Graduate School of Business 
Friday, April 21st, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, AYS 749/750 (Econ)
Title:

Job Candidate
Friday, January 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title:

Job Candidate
Friday, January 21st, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title:

Job Candidate
Friday, January 28th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title:

Will Dobbie (Harvard University)
Friday, February 4th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Labor)
Title:

Jan Brueckner (UC Irvine)
Friday, February 11th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Econ)
Title: A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy

Richard Zeckhauser (Harvard University)
Friday, February 25th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Experimental)
Title: Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors

Patricia Cortes (Boston University)
Friday, March 25th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title: Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap

Matt Kotchen (Yale University)
Friday, April 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Virtual
Title: Taxing Externalities: Revenue vs. Welfare Gains with an Application to Carbon Taxes

Marcella Alsan (Harvard)
Friday, April 8th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Virtual
Title: Diversity and Legitimacy: Evidence from Clinical Trials

Martin Uribe (Columbia University)
Friday, April 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Virtual
Title: Optimal Bank Reserve Remuneration and Capital Control Policy

Charles Plott (Caltech)
Friday, April 22, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Location: Virtual
Title:

Job Candidate
Friday, January 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title:

Job Candidate
Friday, January 21st, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title:

Job Candidate
Friday, January 28th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title:

Will Dobbie (Harvard University)
Friday, February 4th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Labor)
Title:

Jan Brueckner (UC Irvine)
Friday, February 11th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Econ)
Title: A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy

Richard Zeckhauser (Harvard University)

Friday, February 25th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Experimental)
Title: Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors

Patricia Cortes (Boston University)
Friday, March 25th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA
Title: Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap

Matt Kotchen (Yale University)
Friday, April 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Virtual
Title: Taxing Externalities: Revenue vs. Welfare Gains with an Application to Carbon Taxes

Marcella Alsan (Harvard)
Friday, April 8th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Virtual
Title: Diversity and Legitimacy: Evidence from Clinical Trials

Martin Uribe  (Columbia University)
Friday, April 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Virtual
Title: Optimal Bank Reserve Remuneration and Capitol Control Policy

Carlos Asarta
Friday, February 5, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Econ)
Title:

Keith Ericson (Boston University)
Friday, February 12, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Health)
Title: TBA

Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)
Friday, February 19, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Econ)
Title:

Jennifer Doleac Friday, February 26, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Labor)
Title: TBA

Daniel Friedman (University of California – Santa Cruz) Friday, March 5, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location: Virtual (Experimental)
Title: On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium

Kenneth Rogoff Friday, March 12, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (International)
Title: Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes

John Shoven (Stanford) Friday, March 26, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Location TBA (International)
Title: Is Automatic Enrollment Consistent with a Life Cycle Model?

Friday, April 2, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Econ)
Title: TBA

Kitt Carpenter (Vanderbilt University)
Friday, April 9, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Health)
Title: TBA

Dr. Björn Bartling (University of Zurich) Friday, April 16, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Experimental)
Title: Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the U.S.

Peter Kuhn Friday, April 23, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Location TBA (Labor)
Title: What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board

Joseph Shapiro (UC Berkeley)
Friday, February 7, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Is the Clean Air Act too Stringent?

Damon Clark (UC Irvine)
Friday, February 14, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: TBA

Tom Buchmueller (University of Michigan)
Friday, February 21, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: TBA

Joseph Aldy (Harvard University)
Friday, March 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Daniel Broxterman (Florida State University)
Friday, March 27, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Measuring Human Capital Divergence in a Growing Economy

David Neumark (UC Irvine)
Monday, March 30, 10:30am – 12:00pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: TBA

Friday, April 3, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: TBA

Friday, April 10, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: TBA

Stephen Billings (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Friday, April 17, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Charles Noussair (Univeristy of Arizona)
Friday, April 24, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: TBA

Bill Evans (University of Notre Dame )
Friday, February 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Guns and Violence: The Enduring Impact of Crack Cocaine Markets on Young Black Males

Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois)
Friday, February 22, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Giorgio Coricelli (University of Southern California)
Friday, March 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: Strategizing and Attention in Games (Abstract)

Aspen Gorry (Clemson University)
Friday, March 8, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Léonce Ndikumana (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Friday,  March 29, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: TBA

Ted Joyce (Baruch College, CUNY)
Friday,  April 5, 1:30 – 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720 (Health)
Title: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health Revisited

Lionel Page (University of Technology Sydney)
Friday, April 12, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: Strategically Delusional (Abstract)

Frank Sloan (Duke University)
Monday, April 15, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Subjective Beliefs

Pascal Lavergne (Toulouse School of Economics, currently visiting NYU)
Monday, April 15, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Identification-Robust Nonparametric Inference in a Linear IV Model (Abstract)

Ben Keys (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)
Friday, February 9, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Seth Zimmerman (University of Chicago – Booth)
Friday, February 16, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: TBA

Matias Busso (Inter-American Development Bank)
Friday, February 23, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: TBA

Jeffrey Butler (University of California – Merced)
Thursday, March 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: The Causal Effect of Cultural Identity on Cooperation

Shawn Rohlin (Kent State University)
Friday, March 2, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720 (Econ)
Title: Do Spatially Targeted Redevelopment Incentives Work? The Answer Depends on How You Ask the Question

Casey Warman (Dalhousie University)
Friday, March 9, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: TBA

Lesley Turner (University of  Maryland)
Friday, March 23, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: TBA

Catherine Maclean (Temple University)
Friday, March 30, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: TBA

Friday, April 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Andrew Friedson (University of Colorado – Denver)
Friday, April 13, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

John Ledyard (California Institute of Technology)
Friday, April 20, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: Learning to Alternate

Dhaval Dave (Bentley University)
Friday, August 25, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

Michael Lovenheim (Cornell University)
Friday, September 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Labor)
Title: The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes

Alex Karaivanov (Simon Fraser University)
Friday, September 22, 2:30 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Involuntary Entrepreneurship – Evidence from Thai Urban Data

Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University)
Friday, September 29, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: The Digital Revolution and Targeting Public Expenditure for Poverty Reduction

Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
Monday, October 2, 10:30 – noon, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749/750 (W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture)
Title: Recent Research on Undergraduate Field, Graduate Education, and Labor Market Outcomes

Carlos Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Friday, October 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Housing Finance, Boom-Bust Episodes, and the Macroeconomy

James Spletzer (U.S. Census Bureau)
Friday, October 13, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Labor)
Title: Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues (joint with K. Abraham, J. Haltiwanger, and K. Sandusky) (Atlanta RDC Conference)

David Grabowski (Havard University)
Friday, October 20, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Do Report Cards Measure True Quality? The Case of Skilled Nursing Facilities

David J. Cooper (Florida State University)
Friday, October 27, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: Consistent Depth of Reasoning in Level-k Models (Co-Authored with Enrique Fatas (University of East Anglia); Antonio J. Morales (Universidad de Málaga); Shi Qi (College of William and Mary))

Kelly Bishop (Arizona State University)
Friday, November 3, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Hazed and Confused: Air Pollution, Dementia, and Financial Decision Making

Andrew Kloosterman (University of Virginia)
Friday, November 10, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: A Simple Experimental Test of the Coase Conjecture: Fairness in Dynamic Bargaining (Abstract)

Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona)
Friday, January 13, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Frustration and Anger in Games

Daniel Rees (University of Colorado – Denver)
Wednesday, February 1, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720 (Health)
Title: Was the First Public Health Campaign a Failure?

Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams College)
Friday, February 3, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Disability Program Participation

Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)
Friday, February 10, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ)
Title: Education and Long Term Social Mobility in Benin

Alex Hollingsworth (Indiana University)
Friday, February 17, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: Macroeconomic Conditions and Opioid Abuse

Matthew Freedman (University of California, Irvine)
Friday, February 24, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: Persistence in Industrial Policy Impacts: Evidence from Depression-Era Mississippi

Laura Zimmerman (University of Georgia)
Friday, March 3, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: May There be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World’s Largest Public-Works Program

lala Ma (University of Kentucky)
Friday, March 24, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water

Bradley Heim (Indiana University)
Friday, March 31, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: The Effects of IRS Audits on EITC Claimants

Frans van Winden (University of Amsterdam)
Friday, April 7, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: An Affective Social Tie Mechanism Theory, Evidence, and Implications

Charles Manski (Northwestern University)
Thursday, April 13, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Credible Ecological Inference for Personalized Medicine: Formalizing Clinical Judgment

B. Ravikumar (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Friday, April 14, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: Explaining Cross-Cohort Differences in Life Cycle Earnings

Marcos Rangel (Duke University)
Friday, April 21, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Agriculture, Fire, and Infant Health

Mike Pesko (Cornell University)
Friday, August 26, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: TBA

Friday, September 2, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (TBA)
Title: TBA

Friday, September 9, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: TBA

Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Monday, September 12, 10:30 am – 12 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: The Price Ain’t Right: Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured

Jay Bhattacharya (Standford University)
Monday, September 19, 10:30 am – 12 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: Trying Out New Ideas in Science (Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas, Neophilia Ranking of Scientific Journals)

Friday, September 23, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Josh Kinsler (University of Georgia)
Friday, September 30, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Labor)
Title: Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children: The Distortionary Impact of Schools

Raj Chetty (Standford University)
Monday, October 3, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (13th Annual W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture)
Title: Equality of Opportunity (tentative title)

Marcos Rangel (Duke University)
Friday, October 7, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Labor)
Title: Agriculture, Fire, and Infant Health (joint with Tom Vogl)

Neil Ning Yu (Emory University)
Friday, October 14, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Affordable Care Encourages Healthy Living: Theory and Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme

Chad Cotti (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh)
Monday, October 17, 10:30 am – 12 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: The Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Tobacco Products, Tar, and Nicotine Purchases among Adults: Evidence from Household Panel Data

Christopher R. Udry (Yale University)
Friday, October 21, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (International)
Title: Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Friday, October 28, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: TBA

Laura Razzolini (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Friday, November 4, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Best-of-five Contest: An Experiment on Gender Differences (with Shakun Datta Mago)

Alejandro Del Valle (Georgia State University)
Friday, November 11, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: Insuring Growth: the Impact of Disaster Funds on Economic Reconstruction in Mexico

Friday, December 2, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (TBA)
Title: TBA

Friday, January 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: TBA

Friday, January 22, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ Recruiting)
Title: TBA

Friday, January 29, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ Recruiting)
Title: TBA

Friday, February 5, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ Recruiting)
Title: TBA

Daniel Friedman (The University of California, Santa Cruz)
Friday, February 19, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Emergence of Networks and Market Institutions in a Large Virtual Economy

John Roemer (Yale University)
Friday, February 26, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: How We Do And Could Cooperate: A Kantian Approach

Mark Anderson (Montana State University)
Friday, February 26, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: Occupational Licensing and Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws

Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University)
Friday, March 4, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ)
Title: Gender and Agency within the Household: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Ryan Oprea (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Friday, March 25, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Do Wealth Dynamics Eliminate Bad Beliefs?  A Test of the Market Selection Hypothesis

Gilles Duranton (Wharton)
Friday, April 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749  (Domestic)
Title: The Misallocation of Land and Other Factors of Production in India

Stephen Morris (Princeton University)
Friday, April 8, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (International)
Title: Illiquidity Component of Credit Risk (joint with Hyun Song Shin)

Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan)
Thursday, April 14, 1:30 – 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Dan E. Sweat Lecture Series)
Title: Three Myths About Student Loans

Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine)
Friday, April 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: The Case of China’s Building-Height Limits

Michael Anderson (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday, April 18, 10:30 – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750
Title: As the Wind Blows: The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality

Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)
Friday, April 22, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Carlos Lamarche (University of Kentucky)
Friday, August 28, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ)
Title: Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
Monday, August 31, 10:30 – 12:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720 (Health)
Title: Mostly Dangerous Econometrics: How to Do Model Selection with Inference in Mind?

Nikolas Mittag (CERGE)
Friday, September 18, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Labor)
Title: Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net (with Bruce Meyer)

Scott Barkowski (Clemson University)
Monday, September 28, 10:30 – noon, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: The Effect of Specialist Cost Information on Primary Care Physician Referral Patterns

Bindeshwar Pathak (Founder of Sulabh Social Services International)
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00 – 1:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Econ)
Title: TBA

Jonathan Eaton (Brown University)
Friday, October 2, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (International)
Title: Trade and the Global Recession

Matthew Turner (Brown University)
Monday, October 5, 10:00 – 11:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: Subways and Urban Growth: Evidence from Earth

James Cox (Georgia State University)
Monday, October 12, 10:30 – noon, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making

Jacqueline Oliveira (Clemson)
Friday, October 16, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720 (Domestic)
Title: Migration, Roads and Labor Market Integration: Evidence from a Planned Capital City

Ozkan Eren (University of California, Riverside)
Friday, October 23, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750(Labor)
Title: Emotional Judges and Unlikely Juveniles

Don Kenkel (Cornell University)
Monday, October 26, 10:30 – noon, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749
Title: Cowboys & Indians: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Cigarette Brand Loyalty.

Jeffrey Clemens (University of California at San Diego)
Friday, October 30, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: The Anatomy of Physician Payments: Contracting Subject to Complexity

Vjollca Sadiraj (Georgia State University)
Monday, November 2, 10:30 – noon, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Incentivizing Cost-Effective Reductions in Hospital Readmission Rates

B. Andrew Chupp (Georgia Tech)
Friday, November 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Domestic)
Title: The Market for Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: What Have We Learned from the Grand Policy Experiment?

Gary Solon (University of Arizona)
Wednesday, November 11th, 9:30-12:00 am AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749/750 (W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture)
Title: Intergenerational Income Mobility: What Have We Learned from More Than Thirty Years of Research?

Ronald Oaxaca (The University of Arizona)
Friday, November 13, 3:15 – 4:45 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis

Daniel Burghart (University of Zürich)
Friday, January 16, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: A “Risky” Perspective on Uncertainty: Using Lower Envelope Lotteries to Examine Ambiguity Attitudes

Tanya Rosenblat (University of Michigan)
Friday, February 13, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Managing Self-Confidence

Thomas Holmes (University of Minnesota)
Friday, February 20, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Competition for Land and Economies of Density

Alan Barreca (Tulane University)
Friday, February 27, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Maybe Next Month? The Dynamic Effects of Ambient Temperature on Fertility

Friday, March 6, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: TBA

Darren Lubotsky (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Friday, March 27, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Mothers’ Employment, Children’s Age, and Childcare Costs (paper abstract)

Catherine Tucker (MIT)
Monday, March 30, 10:30am AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Health)
Title: TBA

Friday, April 3, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: TBA

Kaivan Munshi (Cambridge University)
Tuesday, April 7, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 740 (Health)
Title: Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration

Matthew Harding (Duke University)
Friday, April 10, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: The Impact of Smart Technology on Consumer Welfare: Evidence from a large randomized smart grid experiment

John Winters (Oklahoma State University)
Friday, April 17, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

Ben Handel (UC Berkeley)
Monday, April 20, 10:30 am, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Heath Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics

Holger Sieg (University of Pennsylvania)
Friday, April 24, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Admitting Students to Selective Education Programs: Merit, Profiling, and Affirmative Action

Donna Gilleskie (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
Monday, April 27, 10:30 am, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749(Health)
Title: TBA

Esfandiar Maasoumi (Emory University)
Friday, September 5, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: Gender Earnings Gap: Measurements and Analysis

Alex Brown (Texas A&M)
Friday, September 12, 3:00pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental)
Title: Exploding Offers with Experimental Consumer Goods

Stephen Shore (Georgia State University, RMI)
Friday, September 19, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Identifying Idiosyncratic Career Taste and Skill with Income Risk

Ian McCarthy (Emory University)
Friday, September 26, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments

Leila Agha (BostonUniversity)
Monday, September 29, 10:30am AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: The Local Influence of Clinical Investigators on Technology Adoption: Evidence From New Cancer Drugs

Friday, October 3, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International) – Cancelled

Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)
Wednesday, October 8, 10:30am AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749, (Usery Distinguished Lecture)
Title: The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System

Thomas Lubik (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Friday, October 10, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Econ)
Title: The Shifting and Twisting Beveridge Curve: An Aggregate Perspective

Kyle Mangum (Georgia State University)
Friday, October 24, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble

Friday, October 31, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (International)
Title: TBA

Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh)
Friday, November 7, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: The Dynamics of White Flight and Segregation in Urbanizing America

Anya Savikhin Samek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Friday, November 14, 3:00 pm, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 750 (Experimental)
Title: Field Experiments with Kids: Evidence from CHECC
(Paper abstracts: Early Results from a Field Experiment on the Temporal Allocation of Schooling, Work in Progress: Eliciting Children’s Social Preferences with Economic Experiments)

Seth Freedman (Indiana University)
Monday, November 17, 10:30am, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Health)
Title: Information Technology and Patient Health: An Expanded Analysis of Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms

Friday, November 21, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel
Title: AYSPS Department of Economics’ SEA Pre-Conference  Workshop

Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
February 27, Thursday, 2:30, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor/Health)
Title: Linear Social Interactions Models
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/Durlauf/

Stephane Verani (Federal Reserve Board)
February 28, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720(International)
Title: Aggregate Consequences of Dynamic Credit Relationships

Yoram Halevy (University of British Columbia)
March 7, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental/Theory)
Title: No Two Experiments Are Identical
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/yhalevy/

Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
March 12, Wednesday, 10:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749
Title: It’s Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Workers in the U.S.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/freeman

Jake Rosenfeld (University of Washington)
March 25, Tuesday, 10:30-12:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749
Title: What Unions No Longer Do and What It Means for Racial Inequality
http://www.jakerosenfeld.net

Judd Kessler (University of Pennsylvania)
March 28, Friday, 3:00-4:30, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749
Title: Experimental Investigation of Deceased Organ Donations
https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1671/cv

David Neumark (University of California – Irvine)
April 4, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Testing for Age Discrimination
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~dneumark/

Stephanie R. Cellini (UCLA)
April 11, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: TBA
http://home.gwu.edu/~scellini/index/Welcome.html

Matthew Kahn (UCLA)
April 18, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Public Transit Bus Procurement: The Role of Energy Prices, Regulation and Federal Subsidies
http://luskin.ucla.edu/matthew-kahn

Chris Muris (Simon Fraser University)
April 25, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Economics)
Title: Covariate selection and model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects
http://www.sfu.ca/~cmuris/

Laura Razzolini (Virginia Commonwealth University)
September 6, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental/Theory)
Title: Taking, Giving, and Impure Altruism in Dictator Games
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~lrazzolini/

Peter Hinrichs (Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University)
September 13, Friday, 11:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: What Kind of Teachers Are Schools Looking For? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
http://www18.georgetown.edu/data/people/plh24/cv.pdf

Lee Mobley (School of Public Health, Georgia State University)
September 27, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Economics)
Title: Macro-Level Factors Impacting Geographic Disparities in Cancer Screening

Klaus Zimmermann (IZA Bonn, Director)
October 4, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Labor)
Title: Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession
http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/zimmermann_html

Craig Gundersen (University of Illinois)
October 11, Friday, 3:00 AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rooms 749
Title: Addressing Food Insecurity in the United States: The Role of Food Assistance Programs
https://ace.illinois.edu/directory/craig-gundersen

Sarah Turner (University of Virginia)
October 15, Tuesday, 3:00 AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rooms 749-750 (8th Annual Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Lecture)
Title: Public Universities: Challenges of the Great Recession for Students and Faculty
http://economics.virginia.edu/people/set5h

Cary A. Deck (University of Arkansas)
October 18, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749
Title: Alliance Formation with an Opportunistic Challenger: Theory and Experiments (Co-authored with Joshua Foster and Hongwei Song)

Toshihiko Mukoyama (University of Virginia)
October 25, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm 720 (Economics)
Title: Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle
http://people.virginia.edu/~tm5hs/

Nicolai Kuminoff (Arizona State University)
November 1, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: National Expenditure on Local Amenities
www.public.asu.edu/~nkuminof/‎

Robert Metcalfe (University of Chicago)
November 6, Wednesday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 720
Title: The Behavioralist As Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance

Brent Davis (Florida State University)
November 7, Thursday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental/Theory)
Title: TBA
http://myweb.fsu.edu/bjd09/

Matthew Neidell (Columbia)
November 8, Friday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic)
Title: Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers
http://www.columbia.edu/~mn2191/

Mark Partridge (Ohio State University)
November 12, Tuesday, 10:30, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Domestic/Economics)
Title: International Trade and Local Labor Markets: Are Foreign and Domestic Shock Created Differently?
http://aede.osu.edu/our-people/mark-partridge

Edward Lazear (Stanford)
November 13, Wednesday, 10:30, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749/750 (10th Annual W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture)
Title: The Recession and the US Labor Market
http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/lazear/

Andrew Smyth (Florida State University)
November 19, Tuesday, 3:00, AYSPS 7th Floor Conference Rm. 749 (Experimental/Theory)
Title: Competitive Pressure and X-inefficiency: Evidence from Experimental Markets