Events and Seminars
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
Spring 2021
Download iCal Add to Google CalendarRacial Disparities in Motor Vehicle Searches Cannot Be Justified by Efficiency Conrad Miller (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business)
February 22nd, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
To request access to zoom, please contact lola@mit.edu.
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs Alexia Delfino (Bocconi University)
March 1st, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News? Bruce Sacredote (Dartmouth University)
March 9th, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA)
March 15th, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940--2018 David Autor (MIT and NBER), Anna Salomons (Utrecht University & IZA), Bryan Seegmiller (MIT Sloan)
Please contact lola@mit.edu for zoom connection information.
March 31st, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Civic Responses to Police Violence Desmond Ang (Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government)
April 5th, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students Claire Duquennois (University of Pittsburgh)
April 12th, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Manipulation Proof Machine Learning Dan Bjorkegren (Brown University)
April 26th, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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A Revealed-Preference Approach to Measuring Frictions in Migration Decisions Eduardo Morales (Princeton)
May 3rd, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry Bradley Setzler (Chicago)
May 10th, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
How to Get Away with Merger: Stealth Consolidation and Its Real Effects on US Healthcare Thomas Wollmann (Chicago)
May 17th, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm