| September 2, 202110:00 AM - 11:00 AM | ECON Open House- WCAS Virtual Academic Fair | Join the Department of Economics for a virtual information session on the Economics major/minor! |
| September 1, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | ECON Open House- WCAS Virtual Academic Fair | Join the Department of Economics for a virtual information session on the Economics major/minor! |
| August 5, 20215:00 PM - 6:00 PM | First Year Q&A with the Department of Economics | Please join us on Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 5:00 PM CT for a Q&A session with Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mark Witte, and ECON students, Amirah Ford '22 and Rowan Lapi '23. |
| June 15, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 2021 Virtual ECON Senior Celebration | Join the Department of Economics for a virtual celebration live via Zoom Webinar. The event will feature opening remarks by Department Chair, Joseph Ferrie and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mark Witte, a keynote address from ECON alumna, Sonya Brown ’94, and student reflections by Katherine Daehler ’21, an ECON graduate. We look forward to celebrating with you! |
| June 14, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 2021 ECON Senior Awards Ceremony | Every year the Economics department holds a senior awards celebration to honor the students who were granted honors for their senior theses. This year, we will celebrate these students with a small, in-person ceremony on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 2:00 PM. |
| June 11, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Mario Cannella (Northwestern University) - “Two sides of the same coin: Labor market effects of party membership and government surveillance in Fascist Italy”
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| June 7, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | IPR Colloquium: L. Beaman (IPR/Econ) and R. Voigt (Linguistics/IPR) - Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation in Economics | "A Computational Analysis of Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation in Economics"*
Lori Beaman, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow, and Rob Voight, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and IPR Associate
This event is part of the Spring 2021 Fay Lomax Cook IPR Colloquium Series.
* Designates that the presentation will involve work in progress. |
| June 7, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | IPR Colloquium: L. Beaman (IPR/Econ) - Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation in Economics | "A Computational Analysis of Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation in Economics"*
Lori Beaman, Associate Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
This event is part of the Spring 2021 Fay Lomax Cook IPR Colloquium Series.
* Designates that the presentation will involve work in progress. |
| June 7, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Juliane Begenau (Stanford University): "A Q-Theory of Banks" (Joint with Saki Bigio, Jeremy Majerovitz, and Matias Vieyra)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| June 4, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Matthew O'Keefe (Northwestern University): "Producer Integration & Wastewater Management in the Marcellus Shale" |
| June 4, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Michael Porcellacchia (Northwestern University) -“Thucydides Trap: Theory and Evidence” |
| June 4, 20218:30 AM - 1:30 PM | CSIO-TSE Conference on Industrial Organization | Join the Northwestern University Department of Economics and Toulouse School of Economics for a virtual IO conference. |
| June 3, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Carl Hallmann (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| June 3, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics): Title TBA (Note change in time)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| June 3, 20218:30 AM - 1:30 PM | CSIO-TSE Conference on Industrial Organization | Join the Northwestern University Department of Economics and Toulouse School of Economics for a virtual IO conference. |
| June 2, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Hossein Alidaee (Northwestern University): "Is Context a Mechanism Behind Social Learning? A Proposal for a Lab Experiment"
Abstract: Information acquisition is central to technology adoption decisions. Two common sources of information about returns include (i) central sources, such as government information campaigns, and (ii) social learning from peers. Central sources often have greater data on returns—yet, we lack empirical evidence that social learning is less persuasive. Understanding social learning's efficacy is particularly important for technologies where returns are highly heterogeneous and information acquisition is a major barrier to adoption. I propose one potential mechanism, which I refer to as context uncertainty. I will test this mechanism via a lab-in-the-field experiment with a sample of smallholder farmers. If valid, this mechanism provides a framework to improve informational interventions from central sources.
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| June 2, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Evgeni Rachkovski (Northwestern University): "Integrating to Opportunity: High School Integration and Intergenerational Mobility" |
| June 1, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Jingyuan Wang / Gaston Lopez / Francisco Pareschi (Northwestern University): Title TBA (30 minutes each) |
| June 1, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Social Protection and Inequality in a Pandemic: Evidence from Ghana | Survey evidence from 16 developing countries shows widespread employment loss and declines in income and food security since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. These patterns are apparent in Ghana. In this Northwestern Buffett "Building Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges and Possibilities" webinar, Chris Udry, professor of Economics at Northwestern University, and Robert Darko Osei, vice dean for the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Ghana, discuss the effect on workers of the COVID lockdown policies implemented in urban areas, and the organization of a program of mobile money transfers to individuals in poor households.
They will discuss the dynamic effects of lockdowns on employment. They will show how substantial, randomized mobile money transfers affected social distancing, food security, and work patterns. Further, they will discuss how reliance on mobile money restricted the reach of the program to those with access to mobile phones but allowed for useful characterization of excluded populations.
Chris Udry: Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. His current research includes directing the first long-term, nationwide socioeconomic panel survey of individuals across Ghana (in collaboration with the University of Ghana); randomized evaluations of a variety of governmental and NGO-led development programs in West Africa; work on household organization, risk, information flows and agriculture in Mali and Ghana; and the role of psychological well-being on economic decision-making.
Robert Darko Osei: Associate Professor in the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon, and also the Vice Dean for the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Ghana. Robert has published widely in edited volumes and top international journals. His main areas of research include evaluative poverty and rural research, macro and micro implications of fiscal policies, aid effectiveness and other economic development policy concerns. He is currently involved in a number of research projects in Ghana, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Free and open to the public. This webinar will be available through WebEx at this LINK. Please use the following passcode when accessing: 1234. The talk will begin at 12 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, June 1.
This webinar is part of the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs’ Building Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges and Possibilities series. This and other spring 2021 webinars focused on UN SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities are co-sponsored by the Northwestern University Community for Human Rights (NUCHR). |
| June 1, 202111:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Thierry Magnac (Toulouse School of Economics): "Convex tools for inference in set-identified linear models"
(Please note alternate start time)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 28, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Marie-Louise Decamps (Northwestern University): "Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation" |
| May 28, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) - “Farm to desert: How Post-Civil War Farm Tenancy Created Food Deserts” (joint with Philipp Ager and Stefan Gissler) |
| May 27, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Asim Khwaja (Harvard University): Title TBA
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 27, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Paul Kim (Northwestern University): "Regulating Insurers in Medicare Part D" |
| May 27, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Macro LuncH Seminar - CANCELED |
| May 26, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Cong Liu (Jinan University): "Military Investment and the Rise of Industrial Clusters: Evidence from China’s First Industrial Policy, 1858-1937"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 26, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Kensuke Maeba (Northwestern University): "Net influences from polling officers" |
| May 26, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Alexander Doser (Northwestern University): "Decoupling Rosen-Roback: Remote Work in Spatial Equilibrium" |
| May 25, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University): "College Entry and Inequality of Access to Education in Peru" |
| May 24, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich): "Job Hunting: A Costly Quest"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 24, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Fergal Hanks (Northwestern University): "Women and Labour Market Recoveries" |
| May 21, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Gaston Lopez (Northwestern University): "Entry with Demand Spillovers: Evidence from the
Healthcare Industry" |
| May 20, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Ben Vatter (Northwestern University): "Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage" |
| May 20, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Fergal Hanks (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| May 19, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University): Title TBA
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| May 19, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Lou Yiqi (Northwestern University): "Global Climate Agreements: A Dynamic
Implementation Approach" |
| May 18, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Yuehao Bai (University of Michigan): "Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 17, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Vasco Carvalho (University of Cambridge): "Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations" (Joint with Ariel Burstein and Basile Grassi)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 17, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Ting Wang (Northwestern University): "Demand Uncertainty and Information Supply:
Evidence from Chinese Online Book Market" |
| May 14, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Anran Li (Northwestern University): "Dynamic Inefficiency, Competition, and Market
Segment in Non-Acute Care Provision" |
| May 14, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Nancy Qian (Northwestern University) -Title TBA |
| May 13, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Eilidh Geddes (Northwestern University): "Insurer Competition and Rating Areas on the ACA Exchanges" |
| May 13, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Santiago Camara (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| May 12, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics): "The Demand for Extraterritoriality: Religious Minorities in Nineteenth-Century Egypt"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 12, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Siddhant Agarwal (Northwestern University): "Breaking Caste Barriers: Reservations and Endogamy"
Abstract: Endogamy remains the strongest pillar supporting the caste system in India. In this paper, I propose to estimate the effect that affirmative action favouring backward castes, in the form of reserved quotas in government jobs and universities, might have on caste endogamy. I hope to use online marriage portal data to estimate any potential decreases in the demand for endogamous partners, and commonly-used survey data to estimate effects on actual marriage outcomes.
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| May 12, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Maren Vairo (Northwestern University): "Optimal Delegation with Information Provision" |
| May 11, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Silvia Goncalves (McGill University): "Impulse response analysis for structural dynamic models with nonlinear regressors" (Joint with Ana Herrera, Lutz Kilian, and Elena Pesavento).
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 10, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Laura Pilossoph (Federal Reserve Bank of New York): "Latent Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume" (Joint with Daniel Lewis and Davide Melcangi)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 10, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Matias Bayas-Erazo (Northwestern University): "On the Effectiveness of Negative Interest Rate Policy" |
| May 7, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Stefano Gagliarducci (University of Rome Tor Vergata) -"Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US" |
| May 6, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College): "Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 6, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Junyan Guan (Northwestern University): "Price Reference Effect and Vertical Contract in the Book Retail Market" |
| May 6, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Clement Bohr (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| May 5, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Sascha Becker (Monash University): "Scholars at Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 5, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Eduardo Campillo Betancourt (Northwestern University): "Economic Mobility and Religious Conversions"
Abstract: Historically, India’s caste system has imposed restrictions, often violently enforced, on the occupations that people can have depending on their social status. These boundaries can hinder economic mobility, particularly for lower-caste people, and create frictions as workers attempt to reallocate across occupations. As the value of occupations outside those ascribed by their social standing grows, the incentive for people to abandon their caste status increases as well. In my analysis, I show that when low-to-middle-status occupations become more profitable, the number of low-caste converts away from Hinduism grows. Contrastingly, I find no such effect when middle-to-high-status occupations become increasingly attractive. This pattern of results supports a framework in which low-caste people are induced to convert away from Hinduism in order to take advantage of higher-paying occupations that are accessible to them in terms of social status and/or human capital.
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| May 5, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Xiaoyun Qiu (Northwestern University): "Paternalistic Motive, Trust and Information Withholding" |
| May 4, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Stefan Wager (Stanford University): "Noise-Induced Randomization in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 3, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | David Baqaee (University of California, Los Angeles): "The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| May 3, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Gex Guillaume (Northwestern University): "Protests, Revolutions and Introspective Equilibrium" |
| April 30, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Aniket Panjwani (Northwestern University) -Title TBA |
| April 29, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | David Stillerman (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| April 29, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Joao Guerreiro (Northwestern University): "The Slowdown in Labor Mobility" |
| April 28, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | James Fenske (University of Warwick): “The Columbian Exchange and conflict in Asia”
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 28, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Utsav Manjeer (Northwestern University): "The Effect of Export Activity on Domestic Prices: Evidence from India's Rice Sector"
Abstract: How does export activity affect prices in domestic consumer markets? To explore this question, I exploit a natural experiment provided by India’s rice export restrictions during 2007-2011. I first document that the binding restrictions had a considerable negative impact on producers. However, there is little evidence to suggest that the lower prices transmitted to consumers. To estimate the causal impact of export activity on domestic consumer prices, I use a difference-in-differences framework. I show that, following the imposition of export restrictions, Indian districts with higher exposure to export trade experienced a greater increase in prices paid by consumers in local markets. To measure the intensity of exposure to trade, I use a novel strategy exploiting spatial variation in districts’ proximities to export trade routes along India’s road network. The estimated price effects are substantial – prices increased by an additional 5 to 6.5 percent in districts exposed to export activity. Further, the impact of export activity on prices is most pronounced for higher-quality products. I illustrate that the presence of increasing returns in internal trade - strong complementarities between exports and intra-national trade are the main forces driving my results. By exploiting synergies with export activity, intra-national trade encounters lower domestic trade costs, which are then translated to lower prices faced by consumers in domestic markets. My findings suggest that promoting export activity could be a means to reduce intra-national trade barriers for large developing economies.
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| April 28, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Panagiotis Kyriazis (Northwestern University): "The Role of Strategic Mediators in Promoting Peace and War" |
| April 27, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Elena Manresa (New York University): “An adversarial approach to structural estimation” (Joint with Tetsuya Kaji and Guillaume Pouliot.)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 26, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | John Grigsby (Northwestern University): “Skill Heterogeneity and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics”
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 26, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Thomas Wilner (Northwestern University): "Regulation Under Corruption:
Evidence from Automobile Emissions in Chile" |
| April 23, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Marie-Louise Decamps (Northwestern University) -"Excluded Women: The Fall of Female Labour Force Participation in Post-Industrial Revolution England" |
| April 22, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Tai Lam (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| April 22, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Joao Miguel da Costa Monteiro (Northwestern University): “Credit Misallocation in Exporting Firms” |
| April 22, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | The Economics of Environmentalism: An Earth Day Alumni Talk with Seema Jayachandran and Mar Reguant | Join the Department of Economics for an Earth Day talk on the economics of environmentalism with Professors Seema Jayachandran and Mar Reguant. |
| April 21, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Zach Ward (Baylor University): "Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 21, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Utsav Manjeer (Northwestern University): Title TBA
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| April 21, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Diego Cid Ortiz (Northwestern University): |
| April 20, 202111:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Vishal Kamat (Toulouse School of Economics): "Estimating the Welfare Effects of School Vouchers"
(Please note alternate start time)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 19, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Johannes Wieland (University of California San Diego): "Lumpy Durable Consumption Demand and the Limited Ammunition of Monetary Policy"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 19, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jason Premo (Northwestern University): "Inference with Matrix Completion |
| April 16, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Rik Steckel (Ohio State University) - "Rapid Economic Growth and Type II Diabetes: Dreadful Unintended Consequences" |
| April 16, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Feed Your Mind: "The lasting impacts of school shootings" with Professor Molly Schnell | Join Professor Molly Schnell on Friday, April 16 at 12:00 PM CT while she discusses her paper, "The lasting impacts of school shootings." |
| April 15, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Matt O'Keefe (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| April 15, 202112:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Riccardo Bianchi Vimercati (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| April 14, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Elena Esposito (University of Lausanne): "Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 14, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jose Alvarado (Northwestern University): "The Dynamics of Tax Progressivity: A Macro-Political Economy Approach" |
| April 13, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Eric Auerbach (Northwestern University): "The Local Approach to Network Interference" (Joint with Max Tabord-Meehan)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 12, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Matt Rognlie (Northwestern University): "Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Sizing up the Real Income Channel" (Joint with Adrien Auclert, Martin Souchier, and Ludwig Straub)
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 12, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Laura Murphy (Northwestern University): |
| April 9, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Sebastian Ottinger (UCLA) - ‘’History’s Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance” |
| April 8, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Erica Field (Duke University): "Title TBA"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 8, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Miguel Talamas (Northwestern University): “David vs Goliath: Mexican Corner Stores Facing Convenience Chains” |
| April 7, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Ricardo Dahis (Northwestern University): "The Impact of 3G Mobile Internet on Educational Outcomes in Brazil" (with Pedro Bessone and Lisa Ho).
Abstract:Does the availability of mobile broadband internet affect children's test scores? We compare Portuguese and math scores before and after the staggered entry of 3G into Brazil's 5,570 municipalities using an event study design. Despite the evidence that 3G is widely adopted and used by Brazilians, we find that there is no effect of mobile internet on Portuguese or math scores, and can reject effect sizes of 0.02 standard deviations for 5th grade students, and 0.01 standard deviations for 9th grade students. Taken together, our results indicate that simply offering high-speed mobile internet is not sufficient to improve educational outcomes.
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| April 7, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jingyuan Wang (Northwestern University): "Subsidy, Market Structure Change, and Innovationdynamics in the Chinese Electric Vehicle industry" |
| April 5, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | IPR Colloquium: S. Jayachandran (IPR/Econ) - Designing Survey Modules by Combining Qualitative Interview Data and Machine Learning | "Designing Survey Modules by Combining Qualitative Interview Data and Machine Learning"*
by Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
This event is part of the Spring 2021 Fay Lomax Cook IPR Colloquium Series.
* Designates that the presentation will involve work in progress. |
| April 5, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota): "Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply?"
*All spring seminars will take place via Zoom |
| April 5, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Francisco Pareschi (Northwestern University): Environmental regulation underuncertainty: The case of Australia’s watermarket. |
| April 1, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Ting Wang (Northwestern University): "Title TBD" (30 minutes) |
| April 1, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | CANCELED |
| March 31, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Sean Higgins (Northwestern University): "Price Comparison Tools in Consumer Credit Markets"
Abstract: Consumer credit markets feature large amounts of price dispersion, and the same consumer can be offered substantially different interest rates by different banks. Nevertheless, consumers do not search much across banks: in Chile, only 3% of consumers searched at another bank after receiving a loan offer. One reason consumers may not search is that they have inaccurate expectations about price dispersion or the benefits of search. Using administrative data on the universe of consumer loans from Chile's financial regulator, we built an interactive loan price comparison tool. The tool provides just-in-time, personalized information by showing a consumer the distribution of interest rates that similar consumers received for similar loans in the past six months. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) among Chilean consumers who are searching for a loan to measure the impact of the loan price comparison tool on priors about prices and price dispersion, planned and actual search behavior, and eventual loan terms.
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| March 31, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Aparna Anand- City University of New York Graduate Center |
| March 31, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Yoshimasa Katayama (Northwestern University): "Facilitating Positive Assortative Matching through Quality Information Disclosure in Healthcare Markets" |
| March 30, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Ahnaf Rafi (Northwestern University): "Semiparametric Efficiency Under Covariate Adaptive Randomization" |
| March 26, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Sng Tuan Hwee (Northwestern University): Title TBA
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| March 26, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Sidonia McKenzie- Kansas State University |
| March 25, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Christopher Dobronyi- University of Toronto |
| March 19, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Leander Heldring (Northwestern) : “Bureaucracy as a tool for politicians: Evidence from Weimar and Nazi Germany”
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| March 18, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Federico Puglisi (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| March 18, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Michael Gmeiner- Northwestern University |
| March 17, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University): "Acquisitions, Management and Efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Industry" (joint work with Rocco Macchiavello)
Abstract: Markets in low-income countries often display long tails of inefficient firms and significant misallocation. This paper studies Rwandan coffee mills, an industry initially characterized by widespread inefficiencies that has recently seen a process of consolidation in which exporters have acquired control of a significant number of mills giving rise to multi-plant groups. We combine administrative data with original surveys of both mills and acquirers to understand the consequences of this consolidation. Difference-in-difference results suggest that, controlling for mill and year fixed effects, a mill acquired by a foreign group, but not by a domestic group, improves both productivity and product quality. The difference in performance is not accompanied by changes in mill technology or differential access to capital. Upon acquisition, both foreign and domestic group change mills' managers. Foreign groups, however, recruit younger, more educated and higher ability managers, pay these managers a higher salary (even conditional on manager and mill characteristics) and grant them more autonomy. These “better” managers explain about half of the better performance associated with foreign ownership. The difference in performance reflects superior implementation, rather than management knowledge: following an acquisition, managers in domestic and foreign groups try to implement the same management changes but managers in domestic groups report significantly higher resistance from both workers and farmers and fail to implement the changes. The results have implications for our understanding of organizational change and for fostering market development in emerging markets. |
| March 15, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Luca Fornaro (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional): "The Global Financial Resource Curse"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| March 11, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Diego Huerta (Northwestern University): "Wealth Inequality and the Political Economy of Financial and Labour Regulations" (joint with Ronald Fischer) |
| March 10, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Cormac O’Grada (University College Dublin): "Tracking the Famine Irish in New York and Beyond: The Pitfalls and Potential of Automated Census Linkage"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| March 10, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Joris Mueller (Northwestern University): "China's Outward Foreign Aid and Domestic Strategic Motives"
Abstract: This paper tests whether China uses outward foreign aid to pursue domestic policy goals. First, I show that aid projects are allocated to firms that internalize the government's goal of stabilizing domestic employment in prefectures experiencing labor unrest. I then show that local unrest in China also influences which countries receive foreign aid and when. Finally, I exploit this variation to construct an instrumental variable for foreign aid and find positive short-term effects on recipient country GDP and consumption. |
| March 8, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Morten Ravn (University College London): "Financial Frictions: Macro Vs Micro Volatility"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| March 5, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Megumi Murakami (Northwestern University): Title TBA
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| March 4, 20215:00 PM - 6:00 PM | GPRL Coffee Chat with Prof. Seema Jayachandran | Professor Seema Jayachandran will present her research, “Missing women”: Causes and consequences of gender ratios in developing countries.
This event is co-sponsored by Circle of Women and the Economics Department.
For the Zoom link, please RSVP to Shloka Shetty (shlokashetty2021@u.northwestern.edu). |
| March 4, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Joao Guerreiro (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| March 3, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Katya Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics): "Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| March 3, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University): presenting "Local Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform" (joint work with Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati and Giampaolo Lecce)
Abstract: This paper analyzes a large-scale redistribution policy and its short- and long-term effects on industrial structure and economic development. We focus on a major land reform implemented by the Italian government in the 1950s. We assemble a novel dataset on the expropriations at the municipal level and on pre- and post-reform socio-economic characteristics. A difference in difference model provides evidence that areas with higher incidence of expropriations reported more employed workers in the agricultural sector (and less in the manufacturing one) in the aftermath of the reform. This result persists over the decades. Finally, we analyze the long-term impact of the reform and, using a matching estimator, we provide evidence of a negative effects on economic growth in the long run: municipalities exposed to the land redistribution are associated with significantly lower income growth in the period 1970-2000. |
| March 1, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Cecile Gaubert (University of California, Berkeley): “Place Based Redistribution“ (Joint with Pat Kline and Danny Yagan)
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 25, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Jose Alvarado (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| February 24, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Belinda Archibong (Columbia University): "Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 24, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University): The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation: Evidence from Brazil (with Paula Bustos and Christoph Albert)
Abstract: We study the effect of climate change on the reallocation of labor and capital across regions and sectors. First, we estimate the effect of extreme weather events occurred in Brazil in the last two decades on the local economy of the affected areas. Second, we assess the magnitude and direction of labor and capital flows that they generate. Finally, we study their impact on destination regions. |
| February 22, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics): "Jumpstarting an International Currency"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 18, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Tony Hu (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| February 17, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Guo Xu (University of California, Berkeley): "Title TBA"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 17, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Miguel Talamás Marcos (Northwestern University): "David vs Goliath: Mexican Corner Stores Facing Convenience Chains"
Abstract: This paper studies how one of the most prevalent forms of microenterprises, the corner store, responds to increasing competition of large convenience chains. To address the endogenous entry problem, this paper leverages time and market fixed effects with an instrumental variable based on a cost shifter for convenience chains - regional economies of scale - and suitability for convenience chains measured by street width. Convenience chains lead to a reduction in the number of corner stores. This effect is not driven by an increase in exits of corner stores, but by deterring their entry. The managerial advantages of the corner stores being owner-operated allows them to remain productive and keep their core customers. |
| February 15, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics): "Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy" (Joint with David Laibson and Peter Maxted)
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 12, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Brendon Andrews (Northwestern University): Reputation in Markets for Physician Services: Historical Evidence from a Shocking Report
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| February 11, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Kristina Manysheva (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| February 10, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Niko Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin): "Testing Marx. Income Inequality, Concentration, and Socialism in late 19th century Germany" (with Charlotte Bartels and Felix Kersting)
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 10, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University): "Astrology and Matrimony: The Real Effects of Religious Beliefs about Marriage in Vietnam" (joint work with Edoardo Ciscato and Quoc-Anh Do)
Abstract: This paper investigates the real consequences of a system of unscientific, illogical religious beliefs in Vietnam. They prescribe that the matching of husband and wife can be auspicious or inauspicious depending on the pair of their birth years. First, we estimate a structural model of assortative marriage matching market, and show that such beliefs in marriage fortune matter to people’s marriage matching, as much as 15% of how much the age and education profile matters. Second, based on this model, we derive a control function for selection into marriage to estimate the effect of auspicious matches on household outcomes, free of the selection bias. We find that auspicious matches increase household expenditure and income by about 3%, and reduces school dropouts without changing the number and composition of children. The likely mechanism operates on relatives’ transfers in case of a negative shock: auspicious couples receive much more transfer when, say, the family suffers from a health shock. Third, we discuss how such testable, unscientific beliefs can persist when their refutation depends on actions 2-3 steps off the equilibrium path. |
| February 9, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | "On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making" with Ivan Canay | Join the Department of Economics and Professor Ivan Canay on Tuesday, February 9 at 12:00 PM CST as he discusses his new paper, "On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making". |
| February 8, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Federica Romei (University of Oxford): "Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries?"
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 5, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Leander Heldring and Mario Cannella (Northwestern University): “Wealth inequality and social mobility in industrializing England"
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| February 4, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Xiaojie Liu (Northwestern University): “Growth with Two Technologies”. |
| February 3, 20214:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Pauline Grosjean (The University of New South Wales): "Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France" (Joint with Julia Cage, Anna Dagorret and Saumitra Jha)
*All winter seminars will take place via Zoom |
| February 3, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Alexey Makarin (Northwestern University): "Production Networks and War" (joint with Vasily Korovkin)
Abstract: How do severe shocks, such as war, alter the economy? We study how a country's production network is affected by a devastating but localized conflict. We use novel transaction-level data on Ukrainian railway shipments, complemented by administrative data on firms, to document the effect of war on firms and interfirm trade. First, we document substantial propagation effects-trade declines even between firms outside the conflict areas if one of them had traded with the conflict areas before the war. Our estimates suggest that the magnitude of the second-degree effect of conflict is one-third of the first-degree effect. Second, we study firm-level consequences of a change in production network structure. Firms that, for exogenous reasons, become more central in the production network after the start of the conflict receive a lasting boost to their revenues and a temporary one to their profits. A temporary increase in markups suggests a rise in market power as one of the mechanisms. Finally, in a production networks model, we separate the effects of exogenous firm removal and subsequent endogenous network adjustment on firm revenue distribution. At the median of the distribution, network adjustment compensates for 72% of network destruction. |
| January 29, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Pawel Janas (Northwestern University): Title TBA
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| January 28, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Emily Ann Cuddy- Princeton University |
| January 28, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Cassiano Alves (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| January 27, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University): "A five-question women's agency index created using machine learning and qualitative interviews" (with M. Biradavolu and J. Cooper)
Abstract: We develop a new short survey module for measuring women's agency by combining mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best five survey questions for the module based on how strongly correlated they are with a "gold standard" measure of women's agency. For a sample of 209 women in Haryana, India, we measure agency, first, through a semi-structured in-depth interview and, second, through a large set of close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat as her true agency. To identify the subset of close-ended questions most predictive of the "truth", we apply statistical methods similar to standard machine learning except that we specify how many survey questions are selected. The resulting 5-question index is as strongly correlated with the coded qualitative interview as is an index that uses all of the candidate questions. We also considered a second gold standard measure of agency, a real-stakes choice between money for oneself or one's husband. This lab game, however, does not measure agency cleanly in our setting. Thus, our preferred survey measure of agency is the one validated against qualitative interviews.
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| January 26, 202111:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Silvia Vannutelli- Boston University |
| January 25, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Elisa Jacome- Princeton University |
| January 21, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Christopher Campos- University of California, Berkeley |
| January 20, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Erika Deserranno (Northwestern University): "Meritocratic Promotions and Worker Productivity: An Experiment in the Public Sector" (joint work with Gianmarco Leon and Philipp Kastrau)
Abstract: We study the effect of making the promotion criteria in an organization more performance-based (i.e., more meritocratic), the effect of increasing the prize associated with a promotion (i.e., more pay progression), and the interplay of the two on worker productivity. In collaboration with a large public sector organization in Sierra Leone, we introduce exogenous variation at the team level in the extent to which the promotion decision from a Community Health Worker (lower-tier) position to a Peer Supervisor (upper-tier) position is based on worker performance (rather than on personal connections). We cross-randomize this with variation in the perceived pay progression between these two positions. We find that more meritocracy in the promotion system increases worker productivity, especially for workers who perceive the pay progression to be large and for those who are highly-ranked in terms of performance. Higher pay progression has opposite effects depending on meritocracy. In meritocratic promotion regimes, a steeper pay progression motivates lower-tier workers to “climb the organization’s ladder” and prompts an increase in their effort. In non-meritocratic promotion regimes, a steeper pay progression instead demotivates workers, lowering their productivity. The combination of steep pay progression and low meritocracy that is the norm in many bureaucracies in developing countries and in multiple private sector firms around the world may thus hinder the productivity of lower-tier workers. |
| January 19, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Carolyn Stein- Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| January 15, 202111:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Nina Roussille- University of California, Berkeley |
| January 13, 20211:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Ashley Wong (Northwestern University) "Business Collaborations and Female Entrepreneurship"(joint work with Edward Asiedu, Francesca Truffa, and Monica Lambon-Quayefio) |
| January 12, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Economics Junior Recruitment Seminar | Zachary Bleemer- University of California, Berkeley |
| December 10, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Brittany Almquist Lewis (Northwestern University): "Housing Inequities"
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| December 3, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Michael Callen (London School of Economics): "Title TBA"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| December 3, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Clement Bohr (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| December 2, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Kensuke Maeba (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| November 30, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Mark Gertler (New York University): "Title TBA" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 27, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Sng Tuan Hwee (National University of Singapore): TBA
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| November 24, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago): "Teams: Heterogeneity, Sorting and Complementarity"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 23, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Eduardo Davila (Yale University): "Prudential Policy with Distorted Beliefs" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 23, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Marie Decamps (Northwestern University): "Information Disclosure and Practising Styles:
Evidence from Deliveries in Brazil" (start time is 11:10am)
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| November 20, 20202:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Evgeni Rachkovski (Northwestern University): "Trading Away Democracy: How Does Trading with Autocrats Affect Democratic Values in the Home
Country?" (seminar time is 2:20pm to 3:10pm)
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| November 20, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Michael Porcellachia (Northwestern University): "Labor Power and Racial Discrimination"
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| November 19, 20207:00 PM - 8:00 PM | An Evening with Professor Karlan | Join GRC as we speak with Dean Karlan, a professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management. Professor Karlan has also founded and led several social impact organizations. The first half of the session will be a deep-dive into Professor Karlan's work at Global Poverty Research Lab and ImpactMatters. The second half will consist of a Q&A for you to ask any specific questions you may have. Please join us on Nov 19 at 7pm CST and email northwestern@grcglobalgroup.com with any questions!
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| November 19, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Joao Guerreiro (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| November 18, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Suresh Naidu (Columbia University): "Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century" (Joint with Elisa Jacome and Ilyana Kuziemko)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 18, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Joris Mueller (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| November 18, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Yoshimasa Katayama (Northwestern University): "How do Hospitals Respond to Non-Linear Pricing? Evidence from Hospital Payment Reform in Japan" (start time is 11:10am) |
| November 17, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Ivan Canay (Northwestern University): "On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 17, 202012:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Game Theory and Decision-Making: "Ruth, Anthony and Clarence." with Jeff Ely | Join us on Tuesday, November 17 at 12:00 PM CT via Zoom Webinar for a talk with Jeff Ely where he will be discussing game theory and decision-making through the lens of the Supreme Court. |
| November 16, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Michael Woodford (Columbia University): "Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 16, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Ting Wang (Northwestern University): "Parallel Inverse Aggregate Demand Curves in Discrete Choice Models" (start time is 11:10am) |
| November 13, 20202:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jason Premo (Northwestern University): "Title TBA" (seminar time is 2:20pm to 3:10pm) |
| November 13, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Mario Cannella (Northwestern University): “The Legacy of Nazi Annexation”
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| November 12, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| November 11, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Daniel Gross (Harvard Business School): "Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 11, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Ritwika Sen and Hossein Alidaee (Northwestern University):
First Presenter: Ritwika Sen
Title: Covid19 and the Value of Relationships in Informal Economies (with Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio and Esau Tugume)
Abstract: This project focuses on the value of employment relationships in informal economies, where there are usually no written labor or trade contracts. By studying the resilience of these relationships to the Covid19 lockdown, we seek to understand whether these relationships are valuable, and to clarify the sources of their value. We argue that in periods of normalcy inefficient firm-worker matches may persist in the presence of labor market frictions. However, these relationships will be disrupted if they hold little value and there is a cost to re-match (e.g. workers traveling back to the city) as managers will hire different workers once firms reopen after the lockdown. If instead relationships are valuable, these will restart despite any costs to re-match even in the absence of formal contracts. Our starting point is a representative survey of about 1,000 managers and their employees that we conducted in 2018-19. We are now re-surveying this sample through a phone survey to understand which relationships have been disrupted and why. To further examine the sources of relationship value we introduce a nudging experiment and plan to interpret our findings using an adaptation of the canonical Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) model of search and matching.
Second Presenter: Hossein Alidaee
Title: “Recovering Network Structure from Aggregated Relational Data using Penalized Regression”, joint w. E. Auerbach and M. Leung
Abstract: Social network data can be expensive to collect. Breza (2020) propose aggregated relational data (ARD) as a low-cost substitute that can be used to recover the structure of a latent social network when it is generated by a specific parametric random effects model. Our main observation is that many economic network formation models produce networks that are effectively low-rank. As a consequence, network recovery from ARD is generally possible without parametric assumptions using a nuclear-norm penalized regression. We demonstrate how to implement this method and provide finite-sample bounds on the mean squared error of the resulting estimator for the distribution of network links. Computation takes seconds for samples with hundreds of observations. Easy-to-use code in R and Python can be found at https://github.com/mpleung/ARD.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| November 11, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Anran Li (Northwestern University): "Design of the Public Option in the ACA
Individual Insurance Market " (start time is 11:10am) |
| November 10, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Matthew Thirkettle (Cornell University): "Identification and Estimation of Network Statistics with Missing Link Data"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 9, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Banks, Dollar Liquidity and Exchange Rates"(Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 9, 202012:00 PM - 1:15 PM | IPR 2020 Post-Election Panel | IPR 2020 Post-Election Panel
Panelists:
Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor Professor of Economics
Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
Erik Nisbet, Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis & Communication and IPR Associate
Chloe Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
Moderator: Daniel Galvin, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow
Organized by James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and Fellow
This event is part of the 2020 Fay Lomax Cook IPR Colloquium Series. |
| November 9, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Mauren Vairo (Northwestern University): "Screening with a Privately Informed Seller and
Market Learning" (start time is 11:10am) |
| November 6, 20202:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Gaston Lopez (Northwestern University): "Competition, Coordination and Technology
adoption: Evidence from the hospital industry" (seminar time is 2:20pm to 3:10pm) |
| November 6, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Klas Eriksson (Stockholm University): "Who owns the city?- General and Specific Regulation of Public and Private Interests in Stockholm Real Estate Market 1959-2020" |
| November 5, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Emre Yavuz (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| November 4, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Michele Rosenberg (Northwestern University): "Tell Me What You Grow and I’ll Tell You What You Think: Westward Expansion and the Politics of Slavery in the US South"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 4, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jingyuan Wang (Northwestern University): "Title TBA" (start time is 11:10am) |
| November 3, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Dalia Ghanem (University of California, Davis): "Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 2, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Ian Dew-Becker & Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Northwestern University): "Systemic Risk in Production Networks" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| November 2, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Edmund Yiqi Lou (Northwestern University): "Pandemics, social distancing, and political
narrative" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 30, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Andy Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh): "Group Cohesion Under Stress: An Event-Study Analysis of Desertions in the Civil War"
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 29, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Santiago Camara (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| October 28, 20203:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Walker Hanlon (New York University): "The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 28, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University): "College Entry, Educational Spillovers, and Market Structure in Perú”, joint with J. Flor-Toro
Abstract: As they complete the compulsory component of their schooling, students have to weigh the benefits from further education against its cost. The availability of college education can decrease the probability of dropout by increasing the ex-ante returns to a high school diploma. Analyzing the fast-growing higher education market of Peru, we provide preliminary evidence regarding the spillovers of colleges on secondary schooling, identifying an increase in high school graduation rates of similar size to the increase in students attending university. We observe that this spillover effect is present for public colleges but not for private ones. We further discuss how the sequentiality of educational choices and spillover effects of public colleges can affect market structure and private entry.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 28, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Laura Murphy (Northwestern University): "A Behavioural Aiyagari Model" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 27, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Isaac Loh (Northwestern University): "Nonparametric Identification and Estimation with Discrete Instruments"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 26, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan): "International Comovement in the Global Production Network" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 26, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Francisco Pareschi (Northwestern University): "Oligopolistic Pricing Under Inflation:
Evidence from the Soft Drink Industry in Uruguay" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 23, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Kelly Strada (Northwestern University): "Role Mothers: Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes towards Work"
Abstract: Do women pay a social cost for working? Are children of working women disadvantaged or empowered? In this project, I exploit the WWII draft lottery to attain individual-level variation in the labor supply decisions for the wives of draft-eligible men. Specifically, I construct a novel wartime measure of labor force entry—SSN first issuance—and combine it with data on army enlistment and war supply contracts. By exploiting within-labor market variation in the demand for female work over time and the timing of one’s husband conscription, I can assess the ex-ante ambiguous long-term consequences of being (a child of) a working woman, as measured in restricted-access longitudinal censuses and surveys.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 22, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Joe Long (Northwestern University): "Chinese Capital Flight to the US Real Estate Market"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 22, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Carl Hallmann (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| October 21, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Eduardo Campillo Betancourt (Northwestern University): "Citizenship Policy and the Spread of Communicable Diseases: Evidence from the Dominican Republic" joint with F. Alba-Vivar and J. Flor-Toro
Abstract: We study two controversial policies in the Dominican Republic in 2013 and 2015 that targeted as much as 10% of the country's population based on their foreign ancestry and limited their safe access to services such as health. Beyond the direct negative effects such policies may have on the targeted group, we argue that there may be important indirect effects from such policies through the contagion of communicable diseases. We exploit the timing and differential exposure to these policies across the country, as well as highly disaggregated epidemiological data on diseases to provide evidence of these indirect effects. Our estimates provide evidence of a notable increase in the caseload of Dengue, a highly contagious disease. Contrarily, there are no effects either for communicable diseases that are less contagious, or for non-communicable diseases. We argue that these results are due to a restriction in access to health services.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 21, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Matthew O'Keefe (Northwestern University): "Innovation Policy in Software Markets
& The 2012 JOBS Act" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 20, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Lixiong Li (Johns Hopkins University): "Title TBA"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 19, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University): "A Growth Model of the Data Economy" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 19, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Panagiotis Kyriazis (Northwestern University): "On the Dynamics of Government Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 16, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Amy Coomb (University of Chicago): "Beyond the Nitrogen Thesis: Brassica Napus Oilseed in the British Agricultural Revolution"
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 15, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Ricardo Dahis (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 15, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Kristina Manysheva (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| October 14, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Katherine Eriksson (University of California, Davis): "Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 14, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | José Flor Toro (Northwestern University): "Getting health professionals to underserved areas in developing countries: wages, career-incentives, and selection" joint with M. Magnaricotte.
Abstract: Human resources in health are unequally distributed within many developing countries, a factor which contributes to unequal access to health. Since job positions in poor and remote areas are often unattractive to health professionals, governments rely on different incentives to draw professionals to underserved areas. Are these incentives efficient in attracting health professionals and are they ultimately effective in improving health outcomes? We study Peru’s civil service requirement in remote areas for recently graduated health professionals, and two major reforms on the schedule of wages and career incentives for this particular system. We exploit discontinuities in the incentives schedules introduced by the reforms to document two facts. First, while both incentives seem to be effective in attracting health professionals scoring higher in major-specific tests, physicians respond strongly to career incentives and nurses to pay increases. Second, despite observably 'better' health professionals, health outcomes did not improve and in some cases worsened. We argue that this may result from the pattern of selection created by reforms in a system with limited job positions, different incentives, and different types of health professionals beyond what is measured in test scores. We then discuss a framework to quantify these selection patterns by exploiting administrative data and the system's centralized allocation.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 14, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Diego Cid Ortiz (Northwestern University): "Monetary Policy and Commercial Banks
in the Mexican Mortgage Market" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 13, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Vira Semenova (Harvard University): "Better Lee Bounds"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 12, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Alessandra Peter (Princeton University): "Owning Up: Closely Held Firms and Wealth Inequality" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 12, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Matias Bayas-Erazo (Northwestern University): "Financial Market Structure, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 9, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Pawel Janas (Northwestern University): "Public Goods Under Financial Distress: Evidence from Cities in the Great Depression"
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 8, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Utsav Manjeer (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 8, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Egor Kozlov (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| October 7, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Vancouver School of Economics): “Trust Unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War”
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 7, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Jimmy Lee (Northwestern University): "Conventional Roles, Beliefs, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Agricultural Innovations: Preliminary Evidence, Theory, and a Field Experiment in Liberia"
Abstract: As the youth population and school enrollment continue to rise in sub-Saharan Africa, school programs that provide practical life skills are increasingly common. Such programs can cost-effectively diffuse new knowledge into households. However, students conventionally assist their elders in many household decisions. A reversal of roles is required for students to teach their elders new practices. Unaware of skills that students have learnt in schools, elders are skeptical that students have valuable knowledge. Students, knowing that elders are skeptical, might be reluctant to engage in discussions of what they have learnt. This paper studies these informational barriers to intergenerational transmission of innovations in the context of a school-based agricultural education program in Liberia. I construct a novel game that highlights inefficiencies in communication when (i) an information friction hindering one player’s update on the state of nature is commonly known to both parties; (ii) costs of communication and/or sanctions for violating prevailing norms necessitate coordination between players; and (iii) players form beliefs with reference to conventional roles. I design a field experiment to separately identify biases in the reduced-form beliefs of students and their elders, to test policy-relevant informational treatments, and to measure their effects on the flow of agricultural innovations and production patterns within households.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 7, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Xiaoyun Qiu (Northwestern University): "Learning and Communication in a Changing World " (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 6, 20204:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Kenichi Nagasawa (University of Warwick): "Identification and Estimation of Partial Effects with Proxy Variables"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 5, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Dmitry Mukhin (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing" (joint with Konstantin Egorov) (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| October 5, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Tomas Wilner (Northwestern University): "The Environmental Benefit of a Price Subsidy" (start time is 11:10am) |
| October 2, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Marco Tabellini (Harvard Business School): "Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: the Great Migration and Civil Rights."
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| October 1, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Bence Bardocy (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| September 30, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Maggie Chen (George Washington University): "Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| September 30, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Sean Higgins (Northwestern University): "Increasing Financial Inclusion and Attracting Deposits through Prize-Linked Savings"
Abstract: Despite the benefits of saving in formal financial institutions, take-up and use of savings accounts are low among the poor. In a randomized experiment across 110 bank branches throughout Mexico, we provide a temporary incentive to both open and use a savings account: saving earns raffle tickets for cash prizes. We find that 41% more accounts are opened in treatment branches than control branches during the incentive months, and the temporary two-month incentive has a lasting three-year impact on the number of deposits made at treatment branches. Prize-linked savings can thus benefit both poor households and banks.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| September 30, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Guillaume Gex (Northwestern University): "The Impact of Private Data Sharing" (start time is 11:10am) |
| September 28, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Pooya Molavi (Northwestern University): "Simple Factor Models and Macroeconomic Expectations" (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| September 28, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Ahnaf Rafi (Northwestern University): "Estimating Heterogeneous Responses in Dyadic Regression Using Universal Singular Value Thresholding" (start time is 11:10am) |
| September 25, 202012:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Diego Ramos Toro (Dartmouth College): "Self-Emancipation and Progressive Politics: The Legacy of Civil War Refugee Camps"
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| September 24, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Applied Microeconomics | Mauricio Romero (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México): "Factorial designs, model selection, and (incorrect) inference in randomized experiments""
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| September 24, 202012:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Jane Olmstead-Rumsey (Northwestern University): Title TBA
*all fall lunches will take place via zoom
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| September 23, 20204:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich): "From Welfare to Warfare: New Deal Spending and Patriotism during World War II"
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| September 23, 20201:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Economics Development Lunch | Chao Liu (Northwestern University): "Early-Life Health and Lifetime Outcomes: Evidence from the Large-Scale Schistosomiasis Eradication in China" (joint work with G.G. Liu)
Abstract: Schistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in the world. This paper studies a large-scale deworming program targeted to schistosomiasis in China, to identify the long-term impacts of early-life health on adult outcomes. Using multiple identification strategies, we find that the disease control campaign led to increased educational attainment and adult economic status. The education effect for women was greater than that for men, but the income effect was reversed. Moreover, people in counties with a low initial education level mainly improved in basic education. The results also suggest that the education effect was larger when the intervention happened in utero and for people from a low socioeconomic background. Furthermore, we document the positive impact on employment for people in their fifties, job prestigiousness, adult health, and cognitive abilities. We also find a positive effect on the education level of the treated cohorts’ children.
*All fall lunches will take place via zoom |
| September 23, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Alex Doser (Northwestern University): "Labor Market Adjustments in the Great Depression" (start time is 11:10am) |
| September 21, 202012:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Thomas Winberry (University of Chicago Booth School of Business): "The Investment Network, Sectoral Comovement, and the Changing U.S. Business Cycle" (Joint with Christian vom Lehn) (Start time: 12:20 PM)
*All fall seminars will take place via Zoom |
| September 21, 202011:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jose Alvarado (Northwestern University): "Unequal Taxes, Heterogeneous Rate of Returns, and Wealth Inequality" (start time is 11:10am) |
