Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects (with Casey McQuillan)
Brendan Moore, Stanford University
Unemployment insurance (UI) take-up is relatively low in the United States. We implement a large-scale field experiment among 50,000 likely...
Innovation Races: Strategic Complementarities and Global Competition Spillovers
Ester Faia, Harvard University
The Innovation Race: Experimental Evidence on Advanced Technologies...
Misspecification-Averse Estimation
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We study optimal estimation when the likelihood may be misspecified. Building on tools from the theory of decision-making under...
A Dynamic Evaluation of Parental Marriage and Children’s Skill Development
Emilio Borghesan, University of Michigan
Children who grow up in two-parent households score 0.2-0.4 standard deviations higher on covariate-adjusted cognitive skill measures than...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, April 7
Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto
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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...
Joint ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics and CJARS Seminar: Wednesday, April 8
Evan Rose, University of Chicago
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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...
Joint ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics and CJARS Seminar: Wednesday, April 15
Emily Leslie, Brigham Young University
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Energy & Environmental Economics: Thursday, April 16
Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley
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Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday, April 21
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University
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