Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

Monday 01 November 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 08 November 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 15 November 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 22 November 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 29 November 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 06 December 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 13 December 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 14 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the U.S. Gender Gap

In the 1960s, two landmark pieces of legislation targeted the long-standing practice of labor-market discrimination against U.S. women. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 mandated equal pay for equal work, and Title VII of the Ci... Read more...

Monday 07 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data

Changes in self-employment rates may reflect changes in the structure of the labor market and the extent of entrepreneurial activity in the broader economy. Increasingly, researchers are looking to administrative tax mea... Read more...

Monday 24 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

The origins and content of new work, 1940-2018

Recent theory stresses the role of new job types (‘new work’) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation on labor demand. We study new work by building a novel nearly century-long inventory of n... Read more...

Thursday 20 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

What does schooling do? Cognitive endurance as human capital

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Monday 17 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Family spillovers in high school majors | High school majors, comparative (dis)advantage, and future earnings

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Tuesday 11 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 29 March 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Employer size, referral hiring, and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil

In Brazil, nonwhite workers are less likely than white workers to be hired by high-wage employers and larger employers pay higher wages, yet nonwhite workers sort to larger employers. This pattern holds conditional on de... Read more...

Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies

Roads, rail, and other public transport in a city are “place-based,” in that they are built in specific neighborhoods. Do such investments benefit the poor? If people are mobile within a city, then any such place-based i... Read more...

Monday 15 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

The political economy of policy experimentations in China

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Monday 01 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

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Monday 07 December 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Digital Addiction

Digital technologies such as smartphones and social media occupy a large and growing share of leisure time. While these technologies provide obvious benefits, it is often argued that they can be addictive and harmful. We... Read more...

Monday 23 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

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Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and “nontradable.” Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 cou... Read more...

Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION IN ETHNICALLY MIXED SCHOOLS: AN INTERVENTION ON PERSPECTIVE TAKING

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context wh... Read more...

Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

The Birth of a Nation: media and racial hate

This paper documents the short- and long-run impacts of popular media on racial hate. I do so in the context of the first American blockbuster: the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," a racist retelling of the Civil War a... Read more...

Monday 26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

TOP WEALTH IN AMERICA: NEW ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXING THE RICH

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We build on the capitalization approach in Saez and Zucman (2016) while accounting for heterogeneity within asset classes when mapping ... Read more...

Tuesday 16 June 2020 16:00 - 17:00

The Geography of New Technologies

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Monday 08 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 01 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 18 May 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Stringent?

This paper describes a new approach to measuring the costs of environmental regulation, which we use to study the efficiency of the U.S. Clean Air Act. We exploit regulations that force new or expanding plants to pay inc... Read more...

Tuesday 05 May 2020 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 23 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax

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Monday 16 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Building Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build inter-ethnic cohesion in schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The educational program takes place in southeastern Turkey, a hig... Read more...

Monday 09 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago

An ambitious Chicago program to reduce homicides. A discussion of how we use machine learning and police/hospital data to identify active shooters, gang outreach to recruit them, and effects of a 2-year jobs and cognitiv... Read more...

Monday 02 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

3G Internet and Confidence in Government

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Monday 24 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Labor in the Boardroom

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Monday 17 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Payday Lending, Self-Control, and Consumer Protection

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Monday 09 December 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise

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Monday 02 December 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development

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Monday 25 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Motivated by recent work on the labor market effects of trade, we build a model of trade with labor market frictions and regulations that are not perfectly enforced by the government. Heterogeneous firms decide whether t... Read more...

Monday 18 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda

Interventions aimed at raising agricultural productivity in developing countries have been a centerpiece in the global fight against poverty. Much of the recent evidence in this space has been based on randomized control... Read more...

Monday 11 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Allocative Efficiency in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Test Using Procurement Lotteries

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Monday 04 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

What do Nudges Really Do? New Evidence from Over 100 Trials

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Monday 17 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

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Monday 10 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Using Equity Market Reactions to Infer Exposure to Trade Liberalization

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Monday 03 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

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Tuesday 28 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Behavioral Feedback: Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

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Monday 20 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies

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Monday 13 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 29 April 2019 12:00 - 13:30

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Monday 25 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

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Monday 18 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing

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Monday 11 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies

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Monday 04 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

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Monday 25 February 2019 12:00 - 13:30

An Experiment in Candidate Selection

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Monday 18 February 2019 12:00 - 13:30

All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage

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Monday 10 December 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Local and Aggregate Effect of Agglomeration on Innovation: Evidence from High Tech Clusters

Most industries are spatially clustered and clustering is particularly strong in the high tech sector. In this paper I use longitudinal data on top patenters to estimate the productivity benefits enjoyed by scientists wh... Read more...

Monday 03 December 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect

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Monday 26 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

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Monday 19 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Rage Against The Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrest in England, 1830-32

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Monday 12 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right

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Monday 05 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile

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Monday 18 June 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Marriage, Labour Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net

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Monday 11 June 2018 12:00 - 13:30

How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic

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Monday 21 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources- Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

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Monday 14 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

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Tuesday 08 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The unintended consequences of “ban the box”: Statistical discrimination and employment outcomes when criminal histories are hidden.

Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted “ban the box” (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal is to improve employm... Read more...

Monday 30 April 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Seasonal liquidity, rural labour markets and agricultural production

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to... Read more...

Monday 23 April 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-experimental Data

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Monday 19 March 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth

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Monday 12 March 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth

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Monday 05 March 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification

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Monday 26 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

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Monday 19 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Impact of State Budget Cuts on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment

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Monday 12 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits

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Monday 05 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Information Frictions and Policy

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Monday 04 December 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate

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Monday 27 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

What Do Consumers Consider before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses (joint with Jason Abaluck)

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Monday 20 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application

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Monday 13 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Atkinson Memorial Lecture <br><br>Media and behaviour change: Unpacking social effects

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Monday 06 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

The Incidence of Carbon Taxes in U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons from Energy Cost Pass-Through

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Monday 30 October 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

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Monday 23 October 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Alternative Work Arrangements, Labor Supply, and the Value of Non-Work Time

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Monday 16 October 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Economic Applications of Machine Learning

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