Events and Seminars

Applied Microeconomics Seminar

Spring 2017

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Predicting Experimental Results: Who Knows What?
Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley)
February 13, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment
Amanda Agan (Rutgers University)
February 21, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
Melissa Dell (Harvard)
February 27, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Bad Credit, No Problem? Credit and Labor Market Consequences of Bad Credit Reports
Will Dobbie (Princeton)
March 06, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Of Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age
Steve Pischke (LSE)
March 13, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
Alex Mas (Princeton)
March 20, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design For R&D - joint with IO
John Van Reenen (MIT)
April 03, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E52-164

'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton University)
April 24, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Information, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India - joint with IO and Development Economics
Robert Jensen (Wharton)
May 01, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650

Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts - joint with IO and Development
Mark Shepard (Harvard Kennedy School)
May 08, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E52-164

The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools - joint with IO and Development
Glenn Ellison (MIT)
May 15, 2017
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E52-164