Revisiting U.S. Wage Inequality at the Bottom 50%
Oren Danieli, Tel Aviv University School of Economics
I propose a model of a skill-replacing routine-biased-technological-change (SR- RBTC). In this model, technology substitutes the usage of...
Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.? Evidence on Racial Gaps in Retirement Wealth Accumulation (co authored with Taha Choukhmane, Jorge Colmenares, Jonathan Rothbaum, and Lawrence Schmidt)
Cormac O'Dea, Yale University
U.S. employers and the federal government devote more than 1.5% of GDP annually towards promoting Defined Contribution retirement saving. We...
Learning and Expectations in Dynamic Spatial Economies
Fernando Parro, Pennsylvania State University
The impact of shocks in dynamic environments depends on how forward-looking agents anticipate the path of future fundamentals that shape...
En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco.
Awa Ambra Seck, Harvard Business School
Between 1830 and 1962, six million Africans living under colonial rule served in the French army. Most were deployed internationally to...
Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains
Tomás Domínguez-Iino, University of Chicago
I build an empirical model of the South American agricultural sector to show how environmental policy is transmitted along a supply chain...
RCGD/EHAP Winter Seminar Series: Design Principles for Risk-Pooling Systems
Lee Cronk
Design Principles for Risk-Pooling Systems...
Randomized Early Access to Covid-19 Vaccines through Michigan Medicine: First Presentation of Findings
Amanda Kowalski, University of Michigan
Please join us for light refreshments after the talk. This talk will be both in-person and available virtually....
Missing Markets: the Determinants of Liquidity Provision on the 19th Century London Stock Exchange
Rui Esteves, Geneva Graduate Institute
This paper studies the behavior of specialist dealers in choosing to make markets in securities. Our setting is the 19th century London...
Estimating a Life-Cycle Model of Pay and Task Assignment: Productivity, Discrimination, and Racial Gaps
Limor Golan, Washington University in St. Louis
Inequality in pay and promotions between black and white workers increases over the life cycle. We decompose the sources of this inequality...
Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number (with Adhami, Bils, and Klenow)
Chad Jones, Stanford University
Economic growth is typically measured in per capita terms. But social welfare should arguably include the number of people as well as their...
Economic Development Seminar- March 28
Emily Breza, Harvard University
This talk is presented by the Economic Development Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics through a generous gift given...
Getting Down to Business: Chain Ownership and Fertility Clinic Performance
Ambar La Forgia, University of California, Berkeley
Acquisitions by corporate entities have fueled the growth of chain organizations in healthcare. A chain is a multiunit firm under the same...
Economic Theory Seminar- March 29
Ryota Iijima, Yale University
This talk is presented by the Economic Theory Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Mark...
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care
A conversation with Amy Finkelstein, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The U.S. health care system spends more per person than anywhere else in the world, but still leaves nearly 30 million without coverage or...
Economic Development Seminar- April 2
Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago
This talk is presented jointly by the Political Economy Workshop (PEW) and the Economic Development Seminar, sponsored in part by the...
Economic History Seminar- April 2
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University
This talk is presented by the Economic History Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the...
ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics- Wed, Apr 3
Andrew Shephard, University of Pennsylvania
This talk is presented by the Labor Economics Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics- April 3
Julian Kozlowski, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This talk is presented by the Macroeconomics Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Michael...
Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
Yunmi Kong, Rice University
This paper empirically analyzes the performance of one of the world’s most developed water exchanges, which operates as a primitive limit...
Intertemporal Hedging and Trade in Repeated Games with Recursive Utility
Asen Kochov, University of Rochester
Two key features distinguish the general class of recursive preferences from the standard model of dynamic choice: (i) agents may care about...
Public Finance Seminar- April 8
Katarzyna Bilicka, Utah State University
This talk is presented by the Public Finance Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the...
Economic History Seminar- April 9 (joint with PEW)
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University
This talk is presented by the Economic History Seminar, joint with the Political Ecology Workshop and sponsored by the Department of...
International Economics Seminar- April 11
Pamela Medina, University of Toronto Scarborough
This talk is presented by the International Economics Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through...
Bundling to save: Estimating package size choices in South African grocery stores
Andrea Szabo, University of Houston
Storable goods such as laundry detergent come in different package sizes with different associated unit prices. Buying larger packages is an...
Economic Theory Seminar- April 12
Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This talk is presented by the Economic Theory Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Mark...
PSC Brownbag Series: Effects of Expanding Contraceptive Choice: New Evidence from Virginia’s Contraceptive Access Initiative
Analisa Packham
In 2018, the Virginia Department of Health implemented the Contraceptive Access Initiative (CAI) to increase access to hormonal...
Understanding Capital Gains Responses to Taxes Using Transaction-Level Data
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara
We study how individuals’ trading behavior responds to tax incentives using administrative transaction-level data on all taxable sales of...
Property Rights for Whom?
Art Carden, Samford University
This talk is presented by the Economic History Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the...
ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics- April 17
Rasmus Lenz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
This talk is presented by the Labor Economics Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics- April 17
Zhen Huo, Yale University
This talk is presented by the Macroeconomics Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Michael...
Industrial Organization Seminar- April 19
Jorge Alé-Chilet, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
This talk is presented by the Applied Microeconomics/Industrial Organization Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous...
PSC Brownbag Series: Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Emma Riley
The PSC Brown Bag Seminar runs live and on Zoom from noon to 1....
Public Finance Seminar- April 22
Michael Smart, University of Toronto
This talk is presented by the Public Finance Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the...
ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics- April 24
Petra Persson, Stanford University
This talk is presented by the Labor Economics Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through...
Remote Work and City Structure
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, The University of Chicago
We study the adoption of remote work within cities and its effect on city structure and welfare. We develop a dynamic model of a city in...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics- May 1
Maarten De Ridder, London School of Economics
This talk is presented by the Macroeconomics Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Michael...