Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Camille Baker (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Camille Baker (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Yifan Mao (Northwestern University): "Policy Backlash in Autocracies: How Family Planning Reduced Patriotism in 1970s China"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Johannes Hirvonen (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Leemore Dafny (Harvard): The Employers Strike Back (against Pharmaceutical Drug Prices): Rent-Seeking and the Case of Copay Maximizers
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Chuck Manski (Northwestern): Regret in Treatment Choice when Welfare varies with an Uncertain Event: The Prediction-Threshold Problem
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt): Regulation in Crisis: Bank Failures and Entry Barriers Abstract: This paper uncovers and rationalizes a significant, previously overlooked...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rachid Laajaj (Uniandes): Development as Skills and Altruism Abstract: This paper emphasizes the central role of skill and altruism in development,...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Francesca Bastianello (Chicago): Mental Models and Financial Forecasts Abstract: We uncover the mental models financial professionals use to explain their quantitative...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Victoria Baranov (Melbourne): Masculinity around the world
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Eric Auerbach (Northwestern): Post-selection confidence intervals for network structure
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
DGS Federico Bugni and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milestones. They will also...
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
DGS Federico Bugni and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milestones. They will also...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Omer Ali (UPitt): The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages: 1935-1975, Evidence from Local Land Records Abstract: This project develops a novel dataset of...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Erik Hurst (Booth): From Tasks to Talent: Automation, Learning and Career Dynamics with Hassan Afrouzi, Andres Blanco and Andres Drenik
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Elisa Facchetti (Tor Vergata): TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Munir Squires (UBC): Industrialization and the Making of an Integrated Society: Evidence from US Marriage Networks
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Speaker: Francisco Pino (University of Chile)/Alex Weinberg (UChicago)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Nicholas Bloom (Stanford): How curvy is the Phillips curve?