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The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages, 1935-1975: Evidence from Local Land Records (with Jacob Faber, Andreas Ferrara, Jonathan Rose, Thomas Storrs, Katherine Thomas, Gabrielle Toborg, Randall Walsh, and Wenfei Xu)
Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh
This project develops a novel dataset of federally-insured mortgages from 1935 to 1975 by digitizing local land records from county...
Double Duty: A Subsidy Design for\\Quality Promotion and Price Discipline
Ying Fan, University of Michigan
This paper studies how the design of quality-linked subsidies shapes firm behavior in both quality choices and pricing decisions. We examine...
Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls (joint with Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d’Astous, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina and Barry Scholnick)
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
We estimate the causal effects of a financial windfall on consumption, savings, and wage earnings using linked administrative data on a...
The Devil is in the Tail: Macroeconomic Tail Risk Expectations of Firms
Manuel Menkhoff, University of Copenhagen
This paper examines novel survey evidence on firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions. In a...
Magic Dirt: Social, Economic, and Political Divergence in the Antebellum
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
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The Robust Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks (joint with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Roberto Corrao, and Joel Flynn)
Giacomo Lanzani, University of California, Berkeley
We characterize equilibria in a canonical class of economies with endogenous production networks, showing that log-prices equal a min-max...
Easy to Collect, Costly to Bear: Mobile Money Taxation and Network Spillovers in Tanzania
Youssef Benzarti, University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper provides evidence that a tax on mobile money transactions shrinks its base by an order of magnitude more than taxes on income or...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 3
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley
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Knowing the Numbers: Performance Data and Microenterprise Outcomes in Uganda
Emma Riley, University of Michigan
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 10
Danial Lashkari, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from Indigent Defense in Texas
Emily Owens, University of California, Irvine
The majority of felony cases in the United States involve indigent defendants represented by publicly financed attorneys. We examine the...
Economic Theory Seminar: Friday, November 13
Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 17
David Argente, Yale University
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Joint Economic Theory and Econometrics Seminar: Tuesday, November 17
Jörg Stoye, Cornell University
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”Serving Those Who Served”: VA-Affiliations and the Direction of Research at U.S. Universities
Arkey Barnett, University of Michigan
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, November 18
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
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Housing First or Treatment First? Evidence from the VA's Homelessness Programs
Sydney Constantini, University of California, Berkeley
Debates in homelessness policy often pit Housing First programs, in which subsidized housing is offered unconditionally and immediately,...
Micro Responses to Macro Shocks
Martin Almuzara, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
We study panel data regression models when the shocks of interest are aggregate and there are omitted macro and micro-level shocks of any...
Between Slavery and Incarceration
Christopher Muller, Harvard University
This talk aims to make sense of some puzzling patterns in the incarceration rates of Black and White Americans since slavery, particularly...
What Makes a Good Cop? Measuring Officer Quality and the Trade-Off Between Policing and Public Safety
Roman Rivera, Georgetown University
This paper measures heterogeneity in officers’ effects on reported crime and policing activities (stops, arrests, force use, and...
Economic Theory Seminar: Friday, December 4
Federico Echenique, University of California, Berkeley
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, December 8
George Nikolakoudis, Yale University
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Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Joint Energy & Environment and Economic Development Seminar
Robyn Meeks, Duke University
Joint EEE and EDS Seminar.
The Diversity Paradox: Evidence from College Coeducation
Francesca Truffa, University of Michigan
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Economic History Seminar: Tuesday, March 16
Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics and Political Science
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, March 17
Marlene Koffi, University of Toronto
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Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics: Tuesday, March 23
Desmond Ang, Harvard University
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Economic Development Seminar: Thursday, March 25
Jeremy Magruder, University of California, Berkeley
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Joint Economic History Seminar and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, April 14
Ellora Deronocourt, Princeton University
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, April 21
Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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