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Fall 2023
Fall 2023
*Thursday, September 7: Agostina Brinatti (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"The Third-Country Effects and the Efficacy of U.S. Immigration Policy: Evidence from Canada."
International Seminar: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, September 13: Victoria Barone (University of Notre Dame)
"On the Design of Paid Sick Leave: A Structural Approach."
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, September 20: Zsigmond Pálvölgyi (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"Did decreasing residential segregation reduce the racial wealth inequality?"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, September 27: Iris Vrioni (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"Inequity in Centralized College Admissions with Public and Private Universities: Evidence from Albania."
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, September 28: Tyler Radler (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"Child Disability, Family Labor Supply, and the Value of the Child SSI Program"
Labor lunch: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 301
*Thursday, September 28: Emir Murathanoglu (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"When the Weather Turns: Coping with Risk Through International Migration in the Presence of Search Frictions."
Development Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, October 4: Shwetha Raghuraman (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"Family preferences and horizontal differentiation in urban school choice markets."
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, October 12: Hayley Abourezk-Pinkstone (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"Student Loan Debt and Risk Preferences on the Job Market."
Labor lunch: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 301
Wednesday, October 18: Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
"Earnings, Marriage, and Lifetime Family Income: Generational Change for Men and Women"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, October 26: Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)
"Reshaping gender attitudes in India: An 8-year follow-up."
Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, November 1: Winnie van Dijk (Yale University)
"Conviction, incarceration, and recidivism: understanding the revolving door (with John Eric Humphries, Aurelie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, and Megan Stevenson)"
Joint with Public Finance: 2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, November 8: Emma Harrington (University of Virginia)
"The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today? (joint with Natalia Emanuel and Amanda Pallais)"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, November 16: Manuela Angelucci (University of Texas at Austin)
"The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy."
Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics:: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
*Tuesday, November 28: John Horton (MIT)
"Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus?"
Joint with Social, Behavioral and Experimental Economics Seminar: 11:30 to 12:45, Ehrlicher Room (North Quad 3100)
CANCELLED: Wednesday, November 29: Elird Haxhiu (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
"Low Dose or No Dose? Continuous Treatment Difference-in-Differences with Unknown Controls"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, December 6: Justin Bloesch (Cornell University)
"When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power?"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Winter 2023
Winter 2023
Wednesday, March 8: Arin Dube (UMass Amherst)
The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201 (joint with Public Finance)
Wednesday, March 22: Lance Lochner (Western University)
Child skill production: Accounting for parental and market-based time and goods investments
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, March 29: Felipe Goncalves (UCLA)
Should the Punishment Fit the Crime? Discretion and Deterrence in Law Enforcement
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, April 6: Linh To (Boston University)
Rightly Transforming Right-Skewed Data
Development Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, April 12: Brad Hershbein (Upjohn Institute)
Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond?
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, April 19: Ashley Wong (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)
Undergraduate Gender Diversity and the Direction of Scientific Research
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Fall 2022
Fall 2022
*Seminars marked with an asterisk are in a different time slot than the standard Wednesday 2:30-3:50pm schedule
Wednesday, August 31: Esteban Aucejo (Arizona State University)
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, September 7: Michael Murto (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Student Loans and Human Capital Investments: The Role of Repayment Plan Structure
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Friday, September 9: Samuel Stern (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
*** POSTPONED; NEW DATE TBD ***
Labor Regulation and Manufacturing Operations: Evidence from OSHA Inspections
Macro/International Lunch: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 301
*Wednesday, September 14: Caitlin Hegarty (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Firm Heterogeneity and Racial Labor Market Disparities
Macro Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, September 15: Mike Mei (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
House Size and Household Size: the Distributional Consequences of the Minimum Lot Size Regulation
Labor Lunch: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 301
*Thursday, September 15: James Allen (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Double-Booked: Effects of Overlap between School and Farming Calendars on Schooling and Child Labor
Development Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
*Wednesday, September 21: Tereza Ranosova (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Suburbanization and the value of marriage
Macro Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, September 28: Benjamin Pyle (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Negligent Hiring: Recidivism and Employment with a Criminal Record
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Wednesday, September 28: Nishaad Rao (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
The Wealth Effects of Local Labor Markets
Macro Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
*Monday, October 3: Nathan Mather (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Welfare or Unfair? Estimating Marginal Utility of Income From Willingness to Pay Conditional on Ability to Pay
Public Finance Seminar: 4:00-5:20 pm, Lorch 301
Wednesday, October 5: Thomas Helgerman (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Health Womanpower: The Role of Federal Policy in Women's Entry into Medicine
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, October 6: Michelle Lam (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Zoning and Implications for Gentrification
International Seminar: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, October 12: Keshav Garud (University of Michigan) - Practice Job Talk
Who Avoids Health Information? Experimental Evidence on Health Insurance Choice
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Friday, October 21: Claudia Allende (Stanford University)
Learning about Schools
Industrial Organization Seminar: 10:00-11:20 am, Lorch 301
Wednesday, October 26: Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201 (joint with Econometrics)
*Monday, November 7: Molly Schnell (Northwestern University)
The Expansionary and Contractionary Supply-Side Effects of Health Insurance
Public Finance Seminar: 4:00-5:20pm pm, Lorch 301 (also joint with Industrial Organization)
Wednesday, November 9: Monica Costa-Dias (University of Bristol)
Higher Education Sorting and Social Mobility
Virtual Seminar, 2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201 and Zoom
*Monday, November 14: John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Public Finance Seminar: 4:00-5:20pm pm, Lorch 201
*Thursday, November 17: Joan Monras (Federal Reserve Bank of San Franscisco)
Floating population: consumption and location choices of rural migrants in China
International Seminar: 11:30-12:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, November 30: Kevin Schnepel (Simon Fraser University)
Welfare payment misalignment and crime
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, December 7: Mark Colas (University of Oregon)
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Winter 2022
Winter 2022
*Seminars marked with an asterisk are in a different time slot than the standard Wednesday 2:30-3:50pm schedule
Wednesday, March 9: Marcella Alsan (Harvard Kennedy School)
In Person
Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, March 16: No Seminar
Wednesday, March 23: Jose Vasquez (London School of Economics)
Online
Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica
2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom
Friday, April 1: Two-way Fixed-Effects (TWFE) Mini-Conference
Hybrid
Details are here
Wednesday, April 6: Elisa Maria Jacome (Stanford SIEPR)
Online
**CANCELLED
Wednesday, April 13: Alain Cohn (University of Michigan)
In Person
Motivated Optimism and Workplace Risk
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, April 20: Kory Kroft (University of Toronto)
In Person, Joint with PF Seminar
An empirical framework for matching with imperfect competition
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Fall 2021
Fall 2021
*Seminars marked with an asterisk are in a different time slot than the standard Wednesday 2:30-3:50pm schedule
*Thursday, September 23: Shawn Martin (UM Practice Job Talk)
In Person
"Job Search and Earnings Growth: General and Specific Majors"
11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 301
Wednesday, September 29: No Seminar
Wednesday, October 6: Michael Ricks (UM Practice Job Talk)
In Person
"Late Kindergarten Entry and the Kindergarten-Entry LATE"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, October 13: Claudia Olivetti (Dartmouth College)
Online, Joint with Macro Seminar
"Female Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, October 20: Zoë Cullen (Harvard Business School)
In Person
"Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, October 27: Clementine van Effenterre (University of Toronto)
In Person
"Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, November 3: Peter Bergman (University of Texas, Austin)
Online
"Using Predictive Analytics to Track Students: Evidence from a Seven-College Experiment"
2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom
*Friday, November 12: Adam Kapor (Princeton University)
Online, Joint with IO Seminar
"Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms"
10-11:20 am, online via Zoom
Wednesday, November 17: Amanda Agan (Rutgers University)
In Person
"Misdemeanor Prosecution"
2:30-3:50 pm, Lorch 201
*Wednesday, December 1: Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University)
In Person, Joint with Macro Seminar
"Teacher Preferences and Student Achievement”
4-5:20 pm, Lorch 201
Wednesday, December 8: Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi University)
Online
"Hiring Difficulties and Firms' Growth"
2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom
*Friday, December 10: Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto)
In Person
"Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record"
10-11:20am, Lorch 201
Winter 2021
Wednesday, February 17: Pat Bayer (Duke University)
"Segregation, Capital, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, February 24: Mike Elsby (University of Edinburgh)
"Infrequent Wage Adjustment and Unemployment Dynamics."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, March 3: Adeline Delavande (University of Technology Sydney)
"Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Friday, March 12: Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore)
"Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap."
***8:30-9:50 am, Note change of usual time, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, March 24: Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
"Changes in Assortative Matching: Theory and Evidence for the US."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, March 31: Marion Goussé (Laval University)
"Marriage and cohabitation. A search and matching equilibrium model."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, April 07: George-Levi Gayle (Washington University at Saint Louis)
"What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, April 14: Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management)
"Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, April 21: Alessandra Voena (Stanford University)
"Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Fall 2020
Fall 2020
Wednesday, September 09: Louis-Pierre Lepage (Job Market Practice Talk)
"Endogenous Learning, Persistent Employer Biases, and Discrimination"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, September 16: Pinghui Wu (Job Market Practice Talk)
"Wage Inequality and the Rise in Labor Force Exit: The Case of US Prime-age Men."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, September 23: Stephanie Owen (Job Market Practice Talk)
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, September 30: Matthew Gross (Job Market Practice Talk)
"The Long Term Impacts of Housing Policy and Childhood Location: Evidence From Rent Control"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, October 14: Yana Gallen (University of Chicago)
"Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, October 21: Basit Zafar (University of Michigan)
"Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors."
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, October 28: Ana Reynoso (University of Michigan)
"Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, November 04: Paul Rhode (University of Michigan)
"The Economic Effects of American Slavery, Redux: Tests at the Border"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, November 11: Anna Bindler (University of Cologne)
"The impact of the first professional police forces on crime"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Wednesday, November 18: Andreas Hagemann (University of Michigan)
"Inference with a single treated cluster"
***2:30-3:50 pm, online via Zoom***
Friday, December 04: Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
"This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession."
***8:30-9:50 am, Note change of usual time, online via Zoom***
Winter 2020
Cancelled due to Covid-19.
Fall 2019
Thursday, October 24: David Dorn (University of Zurich)
"Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure"
***Joint with International, 11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 201***
Monday, October 28: Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)
"A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies"
***Joint with Public Finance, 4-5:20pm, Lorch 201***
Tuesday, November 5: Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley)
"Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration"
***Joint with Economic History, 2:30-3:50pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, November 15: Muriel Niederle (Stanford)
"The Positive Effects of Affirmative Action: A Case Study in France"
***1:00-2:20pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, November 22: Michela Carlana (Harvard University)
"Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools"
***1:00-2:20pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, December 6: Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern University)
"What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output"
***1:00-2:20pm, Lorch 201***
Winter 2019
Thursday, March 14: Mary Ann Bronson (Georgetown)
“Taxation and Household Decisions: an Intertemporal Analysis”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 301***
Thursday, March 21: Eduardo Morales (Princeton) (Joint with International)
“Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, March 29: Attila Lindner (UCL)
“Reallocation and the Minimum Wage - Evidence from Germany”
Friday, April 5: Ben Sand (York University)
“Estimating the Gains from Trade in Frictional Labor Markets”
Friday, April 12: Conrad Miller (UC Berkeley) (Joint with Public Finance)
“Big Push Policies and Firm-Level Barriers to Employing Women: Evidence from Saudi Arabi"
Friday, April 19: Michael Mueller-Smith (University of Michigan)
“Inequalities in U.S. Criminal Justice and Economic Outcomes"
Friday, April 26: Sara Heller (University of Michigan)
“Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago"
Fall 2018
Thursday, September 6: Nicolas Morales (University of Michigan) (Joint with International)
"High-Skilled Migration, Multinational Companies and the Location of Economic Activity”
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 201***
Wednesday, September 12: Rich Ryan (University of Michigan) (Joint with Macro)
“Aggregate implications of labor-market composition”
***4:00-5:20pm, Lorch 301***
Monday, September 24: Amelia Hawkins (University of Michigan) (Joint with Public Finance)
“Paying for Disability Insurance?: Firm cost sharing and its employment consequences”
***4:00-5:20pm, Lorch 301***
Wednesday, September 26: Dhiren Patki (University of Michigan) (Joint with Macro)
“Breaking the Implicit Contract: Using Pension Freezes to Estimate the Labor Supply Elasticity”
***4:00-5:20pm, Lorch 301***
Thursday, September 27: Mike Elsby (The University of Edinburgh)
“TBD”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 301***
Monday, October 1: Max Risch (University of Michigan) (Joint with Public Finance)
“TBD”
***4:00-5:20pm, Lorch 301***
Thursday, October 4: Pieter De Vlieger (University of Michigan)
“TBD”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 301***
Friday, October 5: Ben Lipsius (University of Michigan) (Joint with Macro)
“Monopsony and the labor share”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, October 12: Brenden Timpe (University of Michigan)
“TBD”
Tuesday, October 16: Zach Levinson (University of Michigan) (Joint with H2D2)
“TBD”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, October 19: Francesco Agostinelli (University of Pennsylvania)
“Money vs Time: Family Income, Maternal Labor Supply, and Child Development”
Friday, October 26: Pat Kline (UC Berkeley)
“TBD”
Friday, November 2: Joseph Doyle (MIT)
“Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence from Physician Availability”
Thursday, November 8: Rebecca Diamond (Stanford)
“The Contribution of Immigrants to Innovation in the United States”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 301***
Monday, November 12: Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) (Joint with Public Finance)
“TBD”
***4:00-5:20pm, Lorch 301***
Thursday, November 29: Gordon Hanson (UC San Diego) (Joint with International)
“TBD”
***11:30-12:50pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, December 7: Itzik Fadlon (UC San Diego) (Joint with Public Finance)
“Household Responses to Transfers and Liquidity: Evidence from Social Security’s Survivors Benefits”
Friday, December 14: War on Poverty conference (Joint with Economic History and the Population Studies Center)
Winter 2018
Friday, March 9: Larry Katz (Harvard University)
"The Fall of Labor's Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms"
Thursday, March 15: Steve Machin (London School of Economics) (Zwerdling Lecture)
"Why Does Education Reduce Crime?"
***4:00-5:30pm, Foster Library***
Friday, March 30: John Eric Humphries (Yale University)
"The Causes and Consequences of Self-Employment over the Life Cycle"
Friday, April 6: Supreet Kaur (University of California - Berkeley) (Joint with Development)
"Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply"
Friday, April 13: Basit Zafar (Arizona State University)
"Labor Market Search with Imperfect Information and Learning"
Thursday, April 19: Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)
"TBD"
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 301***
Wednesday, May 16: Labo(u)r Day (Joint with Michigan State and Western University)
Speakers TBD
***9:30am-6pm, 1120 Weill Hall***
Fall 2017
Thursday, September 7: Alecia Cassidy (University of Michigan)
"How does mandatory energy efficiency disclosure affect housing prices?"
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 301***
Friday, September 8: Manasi Deshpande (University of Chicago)
"Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs"
Wednesday, September 13: Yipei Cao (University of Michigan) (Joint with Macro)
"Consumption Commitments and the Added Worker Effect"
***4:00-5:30pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, September 15: Abigail Wozniak (University of Notre Dame)
"Making Big Decisions: The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel"
Wednesday, September 20: Mike Zabek (University of Michigan) (Joint with Macro)
"Implications of Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium"
***4:00-5:30pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, September 22: Daniel Hubbard (University of Michigan)
"More Gains Than Score Gains? High School Quality and College Success"
Thursday, September 28: Nicolas Morales (University of Michigan) (Joint with International)
"The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream"
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, September 29: Daniela Morar (University of Michigan)
"Foreign instructors and student STEM outcomes"
Friday, October 13: Jisung Park (Harvard Kennedy School/UCLA) (Joint with Environmental)
"Will We Adapt? Temperature, Labor Productivity, and Adaptation to Climate Change in the United States"
Thursday, October 19: Thomas Bridges (University of Michigan)
"Household Responses to Job Loss"
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 301***
Thursday, October 26: Valentina Duque (University of Michigan)
"Integrating Early-Life Shocks and Human-Capital Investments on Children's Education"
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 301***
Friday, October 27: Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (University of Michigan)
"Identification and Estimation of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments"
Friday, November 3: Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College)
"On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes: An Examination of Random Shocks to Children in Military Families"
Thursday, November 16: Rodrigo Adao (University of Chicago) (Joint with International)
"Trade, Agglomeration and Labor Markets: Theory and Evidence"
***11:30-1pm, Lorch 201***
Friday, December 8: Philip Cook (Duke University)
"Gun Markets"
Friday, December 15: Matthew Notowidigdo (Northwestern University) (Joint with Public Finance)
"The Effects of Information and Application Assistance on Take-up, Targeting, and Welfare: Experimental Evidence from SNAP"
Winter 2017
Friday, March 3: No seminar - Spring Break
Tuesday, March 7: Petra Persson (Stanford University) in H2D2 seminar slot, 11:30am-1pm, in Lorch 201
Friday, March 10: No seminar - H2D2 Research Day
Friday, March 17: No seminar - Admitted Student Preview Day
Friday, March 24: Nicolas Morales (University of Michigan)
"The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream"
Friday, March 31: Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan)
"The Evolving U.S. Occupational Structure: A Textual Analysis"
Friday, April 7: Amanda Pallais (Harvard University)
"Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements"
Friday, April 14: No seminar
Thursday, April 20: Brian Kovak (Carnegie Mellon University)
(Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Thursday 11:30-1pm, in Lorch 201)
Fall 2016
Friday, September 16: Morris Hamilton (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk: "Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Authority and The Prescription Opioid Market")
Thursday, September 22: Julian Hsu (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk; "Learning about Abilities in College: Do Course Experiences Deter Students from Completing Different Majors?"; 11:30am - 1pm in Lorch 301)
Friday, September 23: Evan Taylor (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk: "The Impact of College Education on Mortality: A Study of Marginal Treatment Effects")
Friday, September 30: Bryan Stuart (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk: "The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Children")
Thursday, October 6: Daniela Morar (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk; "Teaching assistant characteristics and student STEM outcomes"; 11:30am - 1pm in Lorch 301)
Friday, October 7: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
"A Nudge to School: Triangulating the Gains"
Thursday, October 13: Alfredo Sosa (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk: "Impact of high school mathematics credits on earnings: Evidence from shocks to teachers’ labor supply"; 11:30am - 1pm in Lorch 301)
Friday, October 14: No seminar
Friday, October 21: Justin McCrary (University of California)
"How Rigged are Markets? Evidence from Microsecond Timestamps" (In Lorch 301)
Friday, October 28: Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland)
"Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street"
Friday, November 4, 11: No seminars
Friday, November 18: Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan)
"What do financial markets think of the 2016 election: Unpacking a puzzle"
(this is the pre-election draft, is a work in progress, and they are now trying to make sense of how markets responded to the actual election.)
Friday, November 25: No seminar
Thursday, December 1: Imran Rasul (University College London)
"The Returns to Training in a Low-Income Labor Markets: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Model"
(Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Thursday 4-5:30pm, Weill Hall 3240)
Friday, December 9: Johannes Schmieder (Boston University)
"The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure"
Friday, December 16: Victoria Prowse (Cornell University)
"Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments"
Winter 2016
Thursday, January 14: Mike Mueller-Smith (University of Michigan)
(joint with Informal Labor Lunch - Lunch will be provided, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 301)
"Federal Bans from the Food Stamps Program for Felony Drug Offenders"
Thursday, January 21: Sue Dynarski (University of Michigan)
(joint with Informal Labor Lunch - Lunch will be provided, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 301)
"Incentives, Subsidies and Postsecondary Attainment: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach"
Thursday, January 28: Mel Stephens (University of Michigan) and Steve Haider (Michigan State)
(joint with Informal Labor Lunch - Lunch will be provided, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 301)
"Using Binary Indicators Generated From Noisy Continuous Measures"
Thursday, February 4: Manuela Angelucci (University of Michigan)
(joint with Informal Labor Lunch - Lunch will be provided, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 301)
"The Marriage Market for Lemons: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi"
***Event of Interest***
Thursday, February 25: Josh Angrist (MIT)
(sponsored by ISQM, 4:00pm-5:30pm, 5670 Haven Hall)
"Market Design Meets Research Design: Using Matching Mechanisms for Impact Evaluation"
Friday, March 11: Melanie Wasserman (MIT)
"Hours Constraints, Occupational Choice and Fertility: Evidence from Medical Residents"
Monday, March 14 - Andrew W. Marcus Seminar: Francois Gerard (University of California, San Diego)
(joint with Public Finance, 4-5:30pm, Lorch 301)
"Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable"
Friday, March 18 - Andrew W. Marcus Seminar: Reed Walker (University of California, Berkeley)
(joint with Energy and Environment, Lorch 301)
"Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing"
***Event of Interest***
Tuesday, March 22 - MITRE Visiting Scholar Seminar: Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota)
(jointly sponsored by Economic History, Historical Demography, and the Population Studies Center, 11:30am-1:00pm, Foster Library in Lorch)
"Race, Class, and Marriage"
Friday, March 25: Till von Wachter (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Firming Up Inequality"
Friday, April 8: Anna Aizer (Brown University)
"Lead and Crime"
Friday, April 15 - Andrew W. Marcus Seminar: Robert Gibbons (MIT)
(joint with Applied Microeconomics)
"Why Organizations Are Dysfunctional (and What Economists Might Do About It)"
Friday, April 22: Gordon Dahl (University of California, San Diego)
"Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment"
***Event of Interest***
Wednesday, May 18: Labor Day
(hosted by MSU; program forthcoming)
***Event of Interest***
Thursday, May 19 - Friday May, 20: Advances in Econometrics Conference
(location TBA)
"Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications"
Fall 2015
Wednesday, September 9: Isaac Sorkin (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with Macroeconomics, 4-5:30pm, Lorch 301)
“Why Do Some Firms Pay So Much and Some So Little?”
Tuesday, September 15: Katherine Michelmore (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with H2D2, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 201)
“Timing is Money: Does Lump-Sum Payment of Tax Credits Induce High Cost Borrowing?”
Friday, September 18: Max Kapustin (University of Michigan) (practice job talk)
“Mend the Gap: The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Insurance Stability”
Tuesday, September 22: Katie Lim (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with H2D2, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 201)
“Self-Employment, Workplace Flexibility, and Maternal Labor Supply: A Life-Cycle Model”
Thursday, September 24: Eric Chyn (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with NRPTL, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 301)
“Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children”
Friday, September 25: Bhash Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
“Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the US: Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data”
Tuesday, September 29: Monica Hernandez (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with H2D2, 11:30-1pm, Lorch 201)
“Fueling Violence Instead of Education? The Effect of Oil Price Booms on Educational Attainment”
Wednesday, September 30: Nicole Fortin (University of British Columbia)
(joint with CIERS, Weill Hall 3240, 8:30-10:00am)
“Computer Gaming and Test Scores: Cross-Country Gender Differences among Teenagers”
Thursday, October 1: Paolo Abarcar (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with EDS, Weill Hall 3240, 4-5:30pm)
“Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience”
Friday, October 9: Lindsay Baker (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk)
“Breastfeeding and Employment in the United States: Does Workplace Support affect Behavior?"
Thursday, October 15: Maya Rossin-Slater (University of California, Santa Barbara)
(Lorch 301, 11:30-1pm)
“Are Different Early Investments Complements or Substitutes? Long-Run and Intergenerational Evidence from Denmark”
Thursday, October 15: Gaurav Khanna (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, joint with Development, Weill Hall 3240, 4-5:30pm)
“Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India”
Friday, October 16: Bert Lue (University of Michigan)
(practice job talk, Lorch 301, 1-2:30pm)
“Mark one or more: Identity choice among multiracial Americans”
***Event of Interest***
October 22 - October 24: FDZ Data User Workshop
Friday, October 23: Keynote by David Card (University of California - Berkeley)
(ISR, 5:30pm-6:30pm)
Wednesday, October 28: Jeremy Lise (University College London)
(joint with Macroeconomics, 4-5:30 pm, Lorch 301)
"The Macro-dynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms"
Friday, December 4: Sara Heller (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs: Evidence from Two Field Experiments” (with Jonathan Davis)
Friday, December 11: Martha Bailey, John DiNardo, and Bryan Stuart (University of Michigan)
“How Did the 20th Century’s Highest Minimum Wage Affect Labor Market Outcomes and Health? Evidence from the 1966 Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act”
Friday, December 18: Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago)
"Human Decisions and Machine Predictions"
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