(The information below is subject to change. Please check back closer to the event date for more details.)
Winter 2015
| February 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Feb. 20 3:30, L429 |
Achyuta Adhvaryu (U. of Michigan) "Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity: Evidence from Air Pollution Exposure in an Indian Garment Factory" |
F. Lange |
| March 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Mar. 13 3:30, L429 |
Charles Zheng (University of Western Ontario) "Military Moral Hazard and the Fate of Empires" |
R. Dutta |
| Friday, Mar. 20 1:30, L429 |
Kevin Lang (Boston University) “Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore” |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Mar. 27 3:30, L429 |
Christopher Ksoll (University of Ottawa) “The Impact of Education on Preferences: Evidence from a Combined Laboratory and Field Experiment in India” |
M. Chemin/S. Laszlo |
| April 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Apr. 10 10:30, L429 |
Joseph Altonji (Yale) "Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: the Case of School and Neighborhood Effects" |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Apr. 17 10:30, L429 |
Huan Xie (Concordia University) "Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism" |
J. Li |
| Wed, Apr. 22 3:30, L429 |
Emmanuel Guerre (University of London, Queen Mary College) "Parametric and Nonparametric Quantile Regression Methods for First-Price Auctions: A Signal Approach" |
J-M Dufour |
| Friday, Apr. 24 10:30, L429 |
Daniel Rosenblum (Dalhousie) "Does Access to Credit Reduce Excess Female Mortality in India?" |
M. Chemin, S. Laszlo |
| May 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 1 3:30, L429 |
Lee Lockwood (Northwestern University) "Means-Tested Old Age Support and Private Behavior: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program" |
D. Barczyk |
| Monday, May 4 3:30, L429 |
Alexis Akira Toda (UC San Diego) "Discretizing Stochastic Processes with Exact Conditional Moments" |
F. Ruge-Murcia |
| Friday, May 8 12:00, L429 |
Henry Siu (U. of British Columbia) "What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle" |
T. Papageorgiou |
Fall 2014
| September 2014 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sep. 5 3:30, L429 |
Xiao Luo (National University Singapore) "Rationalizability in General Situations" |
General |
| Friday, Sep. 12 1:30, L429 |
Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Brown University) "Why Has Urban Inequality Increased?" |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Sep. 19 3:30, L429 |
Kim Lehrer (U. de Sherbrooke) "Peer Effects and Group Assignment Rules: Non-Parametric Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment" |
M. Chemin |
| Friday, Sep. 26 3:30, L429 |
Laurence Kotlikoff (BU) "Assessing Fiscal Sustainability" |
M. Poschke |
| Friday, Sep. 26 3:30, BRONF 179 |
Ivana Komunjer (University of California at San Diego) "Existence and Characterization of Conditional Density Projections" Montreal Econometrics Seminar |
M. Carrasco, V. Zinde-Walsh |
| October 2014 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Oct.3 3:30, L429 |
Johannes Haushofer (MIT) "Household Response to Income Changes: Evidence from an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Kenya" |
M. Chemin, S. Laszlo |
| Friday, Oct. 10 3:30, L429 |
Kory Kroft (UofT) “Optimal Income Taxation with Involuntary Unemployment: A Sufficient Statistics Approach” |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Oct. 17 3:30, L429 |
Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University) "Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Institutions" |
R. Dutta |
| Friday, Oct. 17 1:30, L429 |
Christian Bontemps (ENAC & Toulouse School of Economics) “Identification and Estimation of Incentive Contracts under Asymmetric Information: An Application to the French Water Sector” Montreal Econometrics Seminar |
J-M Dufour |
| Friday, Oct. 24 3:30, L429 |
Pierre Thomas Leger (HEC Montreal) "Physician Practice Style and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Emergency Departments?" |
TBA |
| Friday, Oct. 31 12:00, L738 |
Loukas Karabarbounis (U. of Chicago: Booth School of Business) "Productivity and Capital Allocation in Europe" CIREQ Macro Seminar |
F. Alvarez-Cuadrado, M. Poschke |
| November 2014 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Nov. 7 3:30, L429 |
Kaywana Raeburn "The Effect of School Damages on Educational Outcomes in Post-Hurricane Jamaica" Job Market Practice Talk |
TBA |
| Friday, Nov. 14 11:30, BRONF 179 |
Ken Chay (Brown U.) | F. Lange |
| Friday, Nov. 21 3:30, L429 |
Elena Pastorino (U. of Minnesota) "Careers in Firms: Estimating a Model of Job Assignment, Learning, and Human Capital Acquisition" |
T. Papageorgiou |
| Friday, Nov. 28 3:30, L429 |
Kota Saito (CalTech) "Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice: Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations" (joint with Federico Echenique and Taisuke Imai) |
J. Li |
| December 2014 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Dec. 5 3:30, L429 |
Michael Burda (Humboldt University Berline) "Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles" |
TBA |