Event Types
Location
The Race between AI Costs and Capabilities: Task-Based Automation When Machines Improve
Danial Lashkari, London School of Economics and Political Science
What drives the patterns of AI automation: expanding capabilities or falling computing costs? We develop a quantitative task-based theory of...
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...
Confidence, Inattention and First-Moment Effects of Information (joint with Ben Golub, Northwestern University)
Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We study canonical coordination models – with linear best responses to an uncertain state and to others' average action - in which,...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 17
David Argente, Yale University
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Local Asymptotics for Treatment Choice with Partial Identification
Jörg Stoye, Cornell University
We provide a new asymptotic framework to derive approximately optimal treatment assignments when sampling noise from data is compounded by...
”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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