| December 7, 20213:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Seminar in Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Eric Zwick (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business): "Top Wealth in America: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich" |
| December 6, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Emily Cuddy (Northwestern University): "Competition and Collusion in the US Generic Drug Market" |
| December 6, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Joe Hazell (London School of Economics): "Downward Rigidity in the Wage for New Hires" |
| December 2, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Development Economics | Reshmaan Hussam (Harvard Business School): "The Psychosocial Value of Employment" |
| December 2, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Fergal Hanks (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| December 2, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Francesca Truffa (Northwestern): "Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students" |
| December 1, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Eduardo Campillo Betancourt (Northwestern): "Caste cleavages, religious tensions, and voting behavior in India (joint with Kensuke Maeba)"
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| December 1, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jinwook Han (Northwestern University): "Consumer Search Over Clusters:
Why Do Firms of a Kind Flock Together?" |
| November 29, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Milena Almagro (University of Chicago): "Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam" (Joint with Tomas Dominguez-Lino) |
| November 29, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Feed Your Mind with Professor Annie Liang | Please join The Department of Economics for our quarterly "Feed Your Mind" Lunch Series with Professor Annie Liang! |
| November 29, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Stefano Eusepi (Stockholm University): "Forward Guidance With Unanchored Expectations" |
| November 29, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jin Yang (Northwestern University): "Dynamic Collusion Design in Auction" |
| November 23, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Filip Obradovic (Northwestern University): "Sensitivity and Specificity Measurement Using an Imperfect Gold Standard: Identification, Inference and Decisions" |
| November 23, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Xiaoxia Shi (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Simple Adaptive Size-Exact Testing for Full-Vector and Subvector Inference in Moment Inequality Models" |
| November 22, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University): “Information and Wealth in the Macroeconomy” |
| November 22, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Huerta Diego (Northwestern University): "The Political Economy of Labor Policy Design" |
| November 19, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Pedro Ohi (Northwestern University): "Title TBA" |
| November 19, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Ashley Wong (Northwestern): "Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Scientific Research" |
| November 18, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Development Economics | Tavneet Suri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Universal Basic Income: Experimental Evidence from Kenya” |
| November 18, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Joao Guerreiro (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| November 18, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Ola Paluszynska (Northwestern): "Hazy Decisions: The effect of cognitive decline on medical decision-making" |
| November 17, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Michael Porcellacchia (Northwestern University): "International Power Rankings: theory and evidence from international cooperation" |
| November 17, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Kensuke Maeba (Northwestern): "How the Political Power of Teacher Unions Affects Education" (joint with Eduardo Campillo Betancourt)
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| November 17, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Devis Decet (Northwestern University): "Water and Conflict: Evidence from Africa" |
| November 16, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Rafaella Giacomini (University College London): "Identification and Inference Under Narrative Restrictions" |
| November 15, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Kelli Marquardt (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago): "Mis(sed) Diagnosis: Physician Decision Making and ADHD" |
| November 15, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Masao Fukui (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "A Theory of Downward Wage Rigidity and Unemployment Fluctuations with On-the-Job Search" |
| November 15, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Thomas Pellet (Northwestern University): "Supply and Demand Coordination with Lead Time in Production" |
| November 12, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Filip Obradovic (Northwestern University): "Sensitivity and Specificity Measurement Using an Imperfect Gold Standard: Identification, Inference and Decisions" |
| November 12, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Lukas Rosenberger (LMU Munich): "Invention and Imitation during the Industrial Revolution" |
| November 11, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Development Economics | Nilesh Fernando (University of Notre Dame): "Regulation by Reputation? Quality Revelation of Labor Intermediaries in International Migration" |
| November 11, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Jose Alvarado (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| November 11, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Ashley Wong (Northwestern): "Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Direction of Scientific Research" |
| November 10, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Pawel Janas (Northwestern University): "Public Goods Under Financial Distress: Evidence from Cities in the Great Depression" |
| November 10, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Sarah Chloe Deschenes (Northwestern University): "Social Targeting: Evidencefrom a Gender-norms Intervention in Benin" (joint with Yasmine Bekkouche, Nina Buchman (Stanford University), and Rozenn Hotte (University of Tours)
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| November 10, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Anastasiia Evdokimova (Northwestern University): "Access to Internet and Healthcare" |
| November 9, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Bryan Graham (University of California, Berkeley): "Simulated Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Large Games" (Joint with Andrin Pelican) |
| November 9, 20213:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Seminar in Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Injuries" |
| November 8, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi University): "Pricing for the Stars - Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Rating Systems" |
| November 8, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Elisa Rubbo (University of Chicago): "Money and Spending Multipliers with HA-IO" |
| November 8, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Amilcar Velez (Northwestern University): "A Bootstrap for Local Projection Inference" |
| November 5, 20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Luxi Han (Northwestern University): "China’s Employment Dynamics: Rural Urban Divergence in a Labor Market with Informal Employment" |
| November 5, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Carlo Medici (Northwestern): "Labor, Unions, Race, and Political Cycles" |
| November 4, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Development Economics | Jie Bai (Harvard University): "Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AiExpress" |
| November 4, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Sun Yong Kim (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| November 4, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Devis Decet (Northwestern): "Water and Conflict: Evidence from Africa" |
| November 3, 20216:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 2021 Chicagoland Friends of Economic History Dinner | Please join the Department of Economics and the Center for Economic History for our annual Chicagoland Friends of Economic History Dinner. Joe Ferrie will present "Georgia on My Mind: Sticky Plots, 'Profligate' Parents, & Fortunate Sons." |
| November 3, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Jimmy Lee (Northwestern University): "Does Information Asymmetry About Changes Affect the Response of Liberian Households to a School-based Agricultural Education Program?"
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| November 3, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Yijun Liu (Northwestern University): "Commit to Constrained Actions to Induce Information" |
| November 2, 20213:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Seminar in Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke University): "Capital Investment and Labor Demand: Evidence from 21st Century Tax Policy" |
| November 1, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Mike Dinerstein (University of Chicago): "The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Program" |
| November 1, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Alisdair McKay (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis): "What Can Time-Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals?" |
| November 1, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Tomer Yehoshua-Sandak (Northwestern University): "Communication with Costly Information Acquisition" |
| October 28, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Joint Seminar in Development & Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Joris Mueller (Northwestern University): "China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants, Economic Consequences" |
| October 28, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Yunus Topbas (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| October 28, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Kaman Lyu (Northwestern): "Dynamic Effects of Agricultural Shocks in Childhood: Evidence from Ghana" |
| October 27, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Brendon Andrews (Northwestern University): "Reporting versus Reputation: Physician Quality and the Flexner Report of 1910" |
| October 27, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Kwok Yan Chiu (Northwestern University): "Decline in Homeownership 2003 - 2015" |
| October 26, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Harold Chiang (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Multiway Empirical Likelihood" (Joint with Yukitoshi Matsushita and Taisuke Otsu) |
| October 25, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Sebastian Fleitas (University of Leuven): "Adverse Selection and Lock-out with Dynamic Incentives in Medicare Part D" |
| October 25, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Mike Dinerstein (University of Chicago): "The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Program" |
| October 25, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Zachary Stangebye (University of Notre Dame): "Learning from others in financial markets" |
| October 25, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Kaman Lyu (Northwestern University): "Dynamic Effects of Agricultural Shocks in Childhood:
Evidence from Ghana" |
| October 22, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Katherine Hauck (University of Arizona): "An Empirical Estimation of a Structural Option Value Model of Homesteading" |
| October 21, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Matias Bayaz-Erazo (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| October 21, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Anran Li (Northwestern): "Limited Commitment and Market Segmentation in Non-Acute Care Provision" |
| October 20, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School): "The Race between Education and Technology in (Colonial) Africa and Asia" |
| October 20, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Andrew Saab (Northwestern): "Conflict Migration and Blood Diamond Policy Shocks"
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| October 20, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Giovanni Sciacovelli (Northwestern University): "Excess Savings and Recovery Dynamics After the Covid-19 Pandemic" |
| October 19, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Kei Hirano (Pennsylvania State University): "Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Statistical Decision Problems" |
| October 19, 20213:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Joint Seminar in Development & Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Francesca Truffa (Northwestern University): Title TBA (Note: Seminar ends at 4:20 PM) |
| October 18, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | David Stillerman (Northwestern University): "Loan Guarantees and Incentives for Information Acquisition" |
| October 18, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Cosmin Ilut (Duke University): "Economic agents as imperfect problem solvers" (Joint with Rosen Valchev) |
| October 18, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Michael Cai (Northwestern University): "Inflation Expectations
A Window into Household Belief Formation" |
| October 15, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Pawel Janas (Northwestern University): "Recessions, Constraints, and Public Education: Impact of the Great Depression on the High School Movement" |
| October 14, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Santiago Camara (Northwestern): Title TBA |
| October 14, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Brendon Andrews (Northwestern): "Quality Certification and Reputation: Lessons from the Flexner Report" |
| October 13, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Stephen Redding (Princeton University): "The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws" |
| October 13, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Title TBA
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| October 13, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Hans Zhu (Northwestern University): "The effects of refunds in the context of Steam and ex-ante value
uncertainty" |
| October 12, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Annie Liang (Northwestern University): "How Flexible is that Functional Form? Measuring the Restrictiveness of Theories" (Joint with Drew Fudenberg and Wayne Gao) |
| October 12, 20213:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Joint Seminar in Development & Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Miguel Angel Talamas Marcos (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| October 11, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University): "College Expansion and Unequal Access to Education in Peru" (Joint with Jose Luis Flor Toro) |
| October 11, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Amy Handlan (Brown University): "Text Shocks and Monetary Surprises: Text Analysis of FOMC Statement with Machine Learning" |
| October 11, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Miguel Moreira Santana (Northwestern University): "Quantity Theory Does Not Hold Without Rational Expectations" |
| October 8, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Brendon Andrews (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| October 7, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Kristina Manysheva (Northwestern): “Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries” |
| October 7, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Nicole Ozminkowski (Northwestern): "Patient Demand and Payer-Lead Quality Disclosure" |
| October 6, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College): "Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia" |
| October 6, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Matteo Ruzzante (Northwestern): Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil
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| October 6, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Jose Salas (Northwestern University): "Screening, Selection and Asymmetric Regulation:
Banks and Shadow Banks in the Mortgage Market" |
| October 5, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Francesca Molinari (Cornell University): "Discrete Choice Models with Heterogeneous Preferences and Consideration" (Joint with Victor Aguiar and Levon Barseghyan) |
| October 5, 20213:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Joint Seminar in Development & Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Ashley Wong (Northwestern University): "Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Scientific Research" |
| October 4, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Junyan Guan (Northwestern University): "Reserve Price Signaling with Public Information: Evidence from Online Auto Auctions" |
| October 4, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Karthik Sastry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Attention Cycles" (Joint with Joel P. Flynn) |
| October 4, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar | Ryunosuke Matsuura (Northwestern University): "Market Integration and
Cost of Borders in Africa" |
| October 1, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Sebastian Ottinger (Northwestern University): "The Political Origins of Racial Hate in Media: Evidence from the U.S. South" |
| September 30, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Riccardo Vimercati (Northwestern): job talk 12 to 1:30 pm |
| September 30, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Joris Mueller (Northwestern): "China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants, Economic Effects" |
| September 29, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Ying Bai (Chinese University of Hong Kong): "Shaking Legitimacy: The Impact of Earthquakes on Conflict in Historical China" |
| September 29, 202112:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Development Economics Lunch Seminar | Erika Deserranno (Northwestern): "Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector"
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| September 28, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Econometrics | Chuck Manski (Northwestern University): "Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice: with focus on personalized medicine" |
| September 28, 20213:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Joint Seminar in Development & Health/Education/Labor/Public Economics | Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University): "College Expansion and Unequal Access to Education in Peru" |
| September 27, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Industrial Organization | Benjamin Vatter (Northwestern University): "Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage" |
| September 27, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Seminar in Macroeconomics | Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University): "The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View" |
| September 24, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Economic History Lunch Seminar | Michael Porcellacchia (Northwestern University): Title TBA |
| September 23, 202112:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar | Xiaojie Liu (Northwestern): "Endogenous Liquidity and Systemic Risk” |
| September 23, 202111:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar | Miguel Talamas (Northwestern): "Surviving Competition in Mexico's Retail Sector: Mom & Pop Shops vs. Convenience Chains" |
| September 22, 20213:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Seminar in Economic History | Santi Perez (University of California, Davis): "Who Benefits from Meritocracy?" |
| 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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