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DTSTAMP:20260330T081853
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Resource Allocation\, Technology Adoption\, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Farm-Level Data (with Duc Nguyen)
DESCRIPTION:We examine how resource allocation across production units shapes technology adoption and productivity growth\, combining a unique panel dataset of the universe of Canadian farms spanning 1986 to 2006 with a quantitative model of heterogeneous producers. The period features the advent and rapid di!usion of a major new seeding technique\, zero tillage\, whose use expanded from zero percent of cultivated land in 1986 to 60 percent by 2006. We document substantial technology adoption\, land consolidation\, and productivity growth\, facilitated by an economic environment characterized by relatively high allocative e”ciency\, whereby more productive farms operate at a larger scale. Empirically\, we find that adopting zero-tillage raises farm-level productivity substantially. Through quantitative analysis\, we estimate that zero-tillage adoption accounts for roughly 30 percent of the near doubling of agricultural productivity over the period and 45–70 percent of the observed structural transformation. We show that high allocative e”ciency was crucial for the widespread adoption of technology\, which would have nearly disappeared with correlated distortions commonly documented in developing countries. We also show that technological progress can be a powerful driver of catch-up growth in developing economies with low correlated distortions.
UID:143300-21892656@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143300
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Macroeconomics,seminar,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T132040
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday\, April 21
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UID:143303-21892658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Macroeconomics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260128T091728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T142000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Auctions as Experiments (with Ryota Iijima\, Yuhta Ishii\, and Nicholas Wu)
DESCRIPTION:We study a seller who does not know the distribution of buyers’ values\, but can learn from observing their bids in an auction. Which auction formats provide better information about the value distribution? We show that among a large class of standard auctions (e.g.\, kth-price\, all-pay)\, the first-price auction is (Lehmann) most informative. Thus\, while all these auction formats yield the same expected static revenue\, the first-price auction is preferred by a seller who can use today’s bid observations to optimize revenue tomorrow.
UID:143382-21892969@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143382
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theory,seminar,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260213T081432
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transport Infrastructure and Agriculture Productivity: Evidence from the Antebellum United States
DESCRIPTION:This paper investigates the relationship between transport infrastructure and agricultural productivity in the Antebellum United States (1840–1860). Leveraging a novel dataset of county-pair transport costs\, we utilize time-\, region-\, and direction-specific freight rates and newly digitized road network to understand how declining transit costs reshaped the agrarian landscape and agricultural production. These data allow for a rigorous evaluation of what we can call an antebellum \"place-based\" transport policies and their heterogeneous effects on antebellum regions. We use minimum spanning tree approach to construct a plausibly exogenous transportation network which is used to assess the causal impact of transportation infrastructure on antebellum agriculture.\n \nOur first set of findings reveal that the impact of canal construction was not uniform\, showing considerable variation across different geographic regions. Notably\, in the Middle Atlantic\, the introduction of canals catalyzed a significant reallocation of resources away from wheat production\, signalling a shift in comparative advantage. While canals laid the groundwork\, railroads exerted the most transformative influence during the 1850s. In the final decade preceding the Civil War\, the expansion of the rail network drove a broad reallocation away from traditional grain production\, as improved connectivity facilitated deeper market integration and specialization. By accounting for the nuances of freight directionality and regional specificity\, this study provides new evidence on how infrastructure-led cost reductions altered land use and productivity patterns in the nineteenth-century U.S. economy.
UID:143570-21893403@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar,History
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260330T081439
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding Criminal Record Penalties in the Labor Market
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies the earnings and employment penalties associated with criminal records using linked data on criminal justice interactions\, state laws on formal labor market restrictions\, and wages and employment. We estimate fixed effects models that decompose earnings into a worker's portable earnings potential and firm pay premia\, both of which are allowed to shift after a worker acquires a record. We find that sorting into lower-paying firms explains a small share of the record penalty. Legal record restrictions are not concentrated in higher-paying jobs\, meaning that sorting away from them contributes little to the earnings gap. Conditional on earnings potential\, however\, workers with a record are substantially less likely to be employed. The results suggest that criminal record penalties operate primarily by reducing employment and lowering earnings potential at every firm rather than increasing sorting into lower-paying jobs\, although the bulk of the gaps can be attributed to differences that existed prior to acquiring a record.
UID:143696-21893658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143696
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260401T090119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T115000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Improved Inference for Nonparametric Regression (joint with G.Cavaliere\, M. Nielsen\, and E. Zanelli)
DESCRIPTION:Nonparametric regression estimators\, including those employed in regression-discontinuity designs (RDD)\, are central to the economist’s toolbox. Their application\, however\, is complicated by the presence of asymptotic bias\, which undermines coverage accuracy of conventional confidence intervals. Extant solutions to the problem include debiasing methods\, such as the widely applied robust bias-corrected (RBC) confidence interval of Calonico et al. (2014\, 2018). We show that this interval is equivalent to a prepivoted interval based on an invalid residualbased bootstrap method. Specifically\, prepivoting performs an implicit bias correction while adjusting the nonparametric regression estimator’s standard error to account for the additional uncertainty introduced by debiasing. This idea can also be applied to other bootstrap schemes\, leading to new implicit bias corrections and corresponding standard error adjustments. We propose a prepivoted interval based on a bootstrap that generates observations from nonparametric regression estimates at each regressor value and show how it can be implemented as an RBCtype interval without the need for resampling. Importantly\, we show that the new interval is shorter than the existing RBC interval. For example\, with the Epanechnikov kernel\, the length is reduced by 17%\, while maintaining accurate coverage probability. This result holds irrespectively of: (a) the evaluation point being in the interior or on the boundary\; (b) the use of a ‘small’ or ‘large’ bandwidths\; (c) the distribution of the regressor and the error term.
UID:143683-21893642@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143683
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Econometrics,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260327T172407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T142000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Drafted Nation: Economic and Political Legacies of Conscription (with Siddharth George and Kewei Zhang)
DESCRIPTION:This paper provides the first comprehensive evidence on the multifaceted legacy of military conscription across the world. We construct a new global database of conscription policy reforms linked to hundreds of census and survey data sources. Exploiting cohort-based eligibility cutoffs\, we compare individuals just eligible for service to those just exempt. On average\, conscription increases men's adult socioeconomic status\, driven by higher university attainment\, greater geographic mobility\, and the transferability of military-acquired skills. Effects are largest where the opportunity cost of service is low and reintegration into civilian life is strong. Economic gains extend to households: women who marry conscription-eligible men experience higher living standards\, and their children exhibit lower mortality\, despite no direct effects on women's own education or employment. Conscription also fosters interethnic marriage\, national-language use\, and patriotic attachment\, but simultaneously increases xenophobia and gender conservatism\, revealing a tradeoff between national integration and tolerance. Effects vary widely across countries depending on political institutions\, development\, diversity\, and conscription design. Economic and sociopolitical effects are positively correlated\, suggesting that nation-building is strongest where conscription delivers greater economic returns.
UID:143575-21893411@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143575
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Development,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260203T093715
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lock-in and productive innovations: implications for firm-to-firm innovation pass-through
DESCRIPTION:Firms innovate to improve efficiency and reduce their costs of production (productive innovations) and to increase customer dependency by reducing the substitutability of their products (lock-in innovations). In this paper\, I quantitatively study the macroeconomic implications of lock-in innovations for aggregate productivity and market power. I develop a theoretical framework that allows firms to invest in lock-in innovations by reducing product substitutability\, while also nesting standard macroeconomic models of productive innovations. A key prediction of the model is that productive innovations by suppliers increase customer firms’ sales by lowering input costs\, while lock-in innovations decrease customer firms' sales by allowing suppliers to charge higher prices for products that are harder to substitute. I use this theoretical insight to identify the nature of innovation in the data and calibrate the model to the U.S. economy. Informed by the observed changes in the response of customer firms' sales to their suppliers' innovations\, I find that the incidence of lock-in innovations among high-markup firms has increased significantly in the post-2000 period. Moreover\, had the incidence of lock-in innovations remained at pre-2000 levels\, observed aggregate productivity would have been 3% higher\, median markups would have stayed at pre-2000 levels\, and markup dispersion would have been 9% lower.
UID:143302-21892657@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143302
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Macroeconomics,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T132659
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T142000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Theory: Tuesday\, Tuesday\, April 14
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UID:143383-21892971@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143383
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theory,seminar,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260330T123922
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Same Crime\, Different Time: Disparities in Judicial Outcomes for DWI Offenders
DESCRIPTION:We examine disparities in judicial outcomes among people charged with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)\, a setting in which legal guilt is objectively determined by breath alcohol content (BrAC). Focusing on first-time offenders with no aggravating circumstances and BrAC above the legal threshold\, we find that race\, gender\, and financial resources strongly predict the likelihood of incarceration and case dismissal. Defendants with greater socioeconomic advantage are more likely to access rehabilitative alternatives and avoid criminal records. We discuss how these outcome differences may reflect not only disparities in options offered by the court\, but also in defendants’ choices among them.
UID:143697-21893659@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143697
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T131618
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Energy & Environmental Economics: Thursday\, April 16
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UID:143457-21893203@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143457
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Energy,Environment,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260403T100021
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies how insurance brokers affect product choices\, premiums\, and welfare in the employer-sponsored insurance market. We compile a novel database of contracting relationships among employers\, brokers\, and insurers in New York State. Exploiting variations in commission schedules\, we document two market distortions: First\, brokers exhibit traditional agency frictions\, steering employers towards more financially lucrative products. Second\, commission levels affect ex-ante insurer-broker networks and\, in turn\, insurers' competitive pressure\, leading to anti-competitive distortions. We develop and estimate a structural model of employer insurance demand\, insurer pricing\, and formation of broker-insurer contracting networks. We use the model to study a commission-cap counterfactual. A one-percentage-point cap reduces broker-induced steering and raises employer surplus by 3\%\, but the resulting reduction in insurer competition lowers surplus by over 6\%\, yielding a net decline of about 3\%. We also explore the impacts of fiduciary duties and network regulations for insurance brokers.
UID:147379-21900941@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147379
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Industrial Organization,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T132718
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Theory: Mariann Ollár
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UID:143384-21892974@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143384
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theory,seminar,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260213T095946
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance Seminar: Monday\, April 20
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:145436-21897345@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145436
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Public Finance,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260112T100344
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T115000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday\, April 21
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:143698-21893660@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143698
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 AC
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260128T091851
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T142000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:143387-21892976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143387
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theory,seminar,Industrial Organization,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260109T093947
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic History: Sebastian Sotelo
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:143571-21893404@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143571
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260119T121947
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Development Seminar: Wednesday\, April 22
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:144125-21894695@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144125
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar,Development
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T132051
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday\, April 28
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:143304-21892669@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143304
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Macroeconomics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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