Events and Seminars

Applied Microeconomics Seminar

Spring 2021

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Racial 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
To request access to zoom, please contact lola@mit.edu.

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