Resource Allocation, Technology Adoption, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Farm-Level Data (with Duc Nguyen)
Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto
We examine how resource allocation across production units shapes technology adoption and productivity growth, combining a unique panel...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, April 21
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego
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Auctions as Experiments (with Ryota Iijima, Yuhta Ishii, and Nicholas Wu)
Mira Frick, Princeton University
We study a seller who does not know the distribution of buyers’ values, but can learn from observing their bids in an auction. Which...
Transport Infrastructure and Agriculture Productivity: Evidence from the Antebellum United States
Alexander Klein, University of Sussex
This paper investigates the relationship between transport infrastructure and agricultural productivity in the Antebellum United States...
Understanding Criminal Record Penalties in the Labor Market
Evan Rose, University of Chicago
This paper studies the earnings and employment penalties associated with criminal records using linked data on criminal justice...
Improved Inference for Nonparametric Regression (joint with G.Cavaliere, M. Nielsen, and E. Zanelli)
Silvia Goncales, McGill University
Nonparametric regression estimators, including those employed in regression-discontinuity designs (RDD), are central to the economist’s...
The Drafted Nation: Economic and Political Legacies of Conscription (with Siddharth George and Kewei Zhang)
Sam Bazzi, University of California, San Diego
This paper provides the first comprehensive evidence on the multifaceted legacy of military conscription across the world. We construct a...
Lock-in and productive innovations: implications for firm-to-firm innovation pass-through
Lucía Casal, Columbia Business School
Firms innovate to improve efficiency and reduce their costs of production (productive innovations) and to increase customer dependency by...
Same Crime, Different Time: Disparities in Judicial Outcomes for DWI Offenders
Emily Leslie, Brigham Young University
We examine disparities in judicial outcomes among people charged with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), a setting in which legal guilt is...
Energy & Environmental Economics: Thursday, April 16
Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley
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Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets
Anran Li, University of Minnesota
This paper studies how insurance brokers affect product choices, premiums, and welfare in the employer-sponsored insurance market. We...
Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday, April 21
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University
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