Autumn 2020
October 7: Edouard Schaal (U Pompeu Fabra). Herding Cycles
October 14: Rossella Calvi (Rice). 'Til Dowry Do Us Apart: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families
October 21: no seminar
October 28: Kristiina Huttunen (Helsinki and Aalto). In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples
November 4: Pietro Reichlin (LUISS). Optimal Taxation with Home Ownership and Wealth Inequality
November 25: Elisa Giannone (Penn State). Unpacking Moving
December 2: Eric T. Chyn (Dartmouth). Moved to Vote: The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhoods on Political Participation
December 9: Manudeep Bhuller (Oslo). Sequential Choices, Option Values and the Returns to Education
Spring 2021
January 27: Vincenzo Bove (Warwick). Micromotives and macromoves: Political preferences and internal migration in England and Wales
February 3: Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern). A five-question women's agency index created using machine learning and qualitative interviews
February 10: Abdoulaye Ndiaye (NYU Stern). Redistribution with Performance Pay
February 17: Tommaso Porzio (Columbia). The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
February 24: Weilong Zang (Cambridge). Bargaining Power and Portfolio Choice
March 3: Gadi Barlevy (Chicago Fed). On Speculative Frenzies and Price Stability
March 17: Guillaume Plantin (Science Po). Bubbles against Financial Repression
March 24: Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven). The Welfare Impact of Market Power. The OPEC Cartel
Summer 2021
May 19: Anja Shortland (King's College). Trading in Looted and Stolen Art
May 26: Selim Gulesci (Trinity College of Dublin). Childcare and Cash Grants for Labor Supply and Wellbeing: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
June 2: Hans Sievertsen (Bristol). Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter
June 9: Gabrielle Fack (Paris Dauphine). The Effect of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-income priorites in Paris High Schools
June 16: Glenn W. Harrison (Georgia State). Do No Harm? The Welfare Consequences of Behavioural Interventions