Short Course
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Introduction to Debiased Machine Learning Whitney Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lecture 1 of 4
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Introduction to Debiased Machine Learning Whitney Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lecture 1 of 4
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sergio Andre Cristovao Nascimento (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Sergio Lopez Araiza (NU): "The Hidden Costs of Mass Deportations: Early-Life Mortality and the 1930s Mexican Repatriation" With Jesse McDevitt-Irwin Abstract:...
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Speaker: Ed Jee Title: Targeting Transfers under Uncertainty
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Mansa Saxena (NU): Social Frictions and Job Information Sharing: Experimental Evidence from Informal Labor Markets in India joint with Vasu...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Speaker: Tyler Schumacher (Vanderbilt) Title: Computerization and The Rising Return to Long-Hour Jobs Abstract: Occupations differ substantially in their average weekly hours...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Nicolas Sourisseau (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Max Pienkny (NU): TBA Previously scheduled on 10/27
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Daniel Martin (UCSB): "Misaligned by Design: Incentive Failures in Machine Learning" (with David Autor, Andrew Caplin, and Philip Marx) Abstract: Giving...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
"Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects in Nonseparable Panel Data with Applications to Heterogeneous Taxable Income Elasticities and Demand...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Adelyn Carney (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Michael Callen (LSE): Is Knowledge Power? Experimental Evidence from Afghan Girls Facing Education Restrictions Authors: Noam Angrist (Oxford), Michael Callen (LSE),...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Speakers: Alex Weinberg (U Chicago), Luis Mota Freitas
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Cufre Batista (Northwestern University): Title TBA
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Dan Herbst (Arizona): Asymmetric Information in Wage Contracts: Experimental Evidence and Welfare Implications Abstract: Compared to self-employment or performance-based pay, fixed...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Adam McCloskey (CU Boulder): Numerical Analysis of Test Optimality
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elizabeth Ash (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Yueran Ma (UChicago Booth): Innovation and Development over the (Very) Long Run Abstract: We study the spatial distribution of innovation and production...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ethan Nourbash (Northwestern University): Title TBA
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Joao Victor dos Santos (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Hoyt Bleakley (UMich): A Compact Oligarchy: Slaveholding and Antebellum Southern Politics Abstract: Understanding politicians’ behavior is especially important for the Late...
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Chicagoland Friends of Economic History Dinner with Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Michel Gutmann (Northwestern University): Title TBA
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Chris Clayton (Yale): The Great Game: A Model of Geoeconomic Competition
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The unveiling of the new Nobel Prize display celebrating the achievements of Department of Economics Professors Dale Mortensen (Nobel Laureate,...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tylor Wu (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Moved from 11/5 to 11/19 Paul Niehaus (UCSD): What Would it Cost to End Extreme Poverty?
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Dimitriy Leksanov (Northwestern University): Title TBA
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
William Firmin (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford): TBA
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Arthur Francisco Schwerz Cahali (Northwestern University): Title TBA
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Volha Charnysh (MIT Sloan): Industrialization and the Making of an Integrated Society: Evidence from US Marriage Networks