A Theory of Endogenous Degrowth and Environmental Sustainability (with Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, and Matthew Schwartzman)
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University
We develop and quantify a novel growth theory in which economic activity endogenously shifts from material production to quality...
HANK’s Response to Aggregate Uncertainty in an Estimated Business Cycle Model
Cosmin Ilut, Duke University
This paper studies a HANK model with agents who respond to both idiosyncratic and aggregate uncertainty. Since aggregate uncertainty is...
Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement? (with Parag Pathak and Atila Abdulkadiroglu)
Christopher Walters, University of Chicago
We examine two approaches to improving urban school systems: changing who gets to go to existing schools (reallocation) and restructuring...
Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment (joint with Maxwell Kellogg, Magne Mogstad, and Kuan-Ju Tseng)
Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago
After substantial growth in the 1990s and 2000s, enrollment in the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has been...
End of Apartheid, Not of Inequality: the Slow Transition in a Segregated Economy.
Kristina Manysheva, Columbia Business School
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Segment-and-Rule: Modern Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes.
Antoine Zerbini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
We analyze the incentives of authoritarian regimes to segment access to censored content through technology. Citizens choose whether to pay...
Joint ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics and Ross School of Business: Wednesday, March 11
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania
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Estimation in linear models with clustered data (joint work with Mikkel Solvsten and Baiyun Jing)
Anna Mikusheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We study linear regression models with clustered data, high-dimensional controls, and a complicated structure of exclusion restrictions. We...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, March 17
Chang-Tai Hsieh, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics, Wednesday, March 18
Marcus Casey, University of Illinois Chicago
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Who and How? Adverse Selection and Flexible Moral Hazard (by Henrique Castro-Pires, Deniz Kattwinkel, and Jan Knoepfle)
Henrique Castro-Pires, Harvard Business School
We characterize incentive compatible mechanisms in environments with hidden types and flexible hidden actions. Our approach introduces...
Public Finance Seminar: Monday, March 23
Kristoffer Berg, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
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Sticky Discount Rates
Kilian Huber, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
In standard models, expected inflation on its own does not affect the real investment decisions of firms, unless the real cost of capital or...
Freemium Model for Information Provision
Igal Milchtaich, Bar-Ilan University
The paper explores a theoretical freemium model for the sale of information, drawing on mathematical tools used in the study of repeated...
The impact of TV's rollout on baseball in the US and soccer in England
Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan
After WW2 the dominant professional sports in the US (baseball) and England (soccer) faced a common shock - the rapid penetration of TV...
ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, March 25
Amanda Kowalski, University of Michigan
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Economic Development Seminar: Thursday, March 26
Teevrat Garg, University of California, San Diego
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Joint Theory and Econometrics: Tuesday, March 31
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, April 1
Emilio Borghesan, University of Michigan
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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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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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