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Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
January 19 Th 3:30 p.m.	Benjamin Bushong, Harvard University	Misattribution of Reference Dependence: Evidence from Real-Effort Experiments
January 30 M 3:30 p.m.	Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University	Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
January 31 1:30 p.m.	Ami Ko, University of Pennsylvania	An Equilibrium Analysis of the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
February 6 M 3:30 p.m.	Jing Li, Harvard University	Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
February 7 1:30 p.m.	Claudio Labanca, University of California, San Diego	Coordination of Hours within the Firm
February 16 Th Maloney 365	Abby Friedman, Yale School of Public Health	Minimum Legal Sales Ages for Electronic Cigarettes: Lasting, Differential Effects
February 27	Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University	Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
February 28	Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania	Parental Employment, Absence and Children’s Educational Gender Gap
March 14	Cancelled
March 21	Lisa Kahn, Yale School of Management	Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings
March 28	Nicolai Kuminoff, Arizona State University	Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market
April 4	S Anukriti, Boston College
April 11	Matthew Backus, Columbia University	On the Empirical Content of Cheap-Talk Signaling: An Application to Bargaining
May 2	Javier Donna, Ohio State University	The Illiquidity of Water Markets: Efficient Institutions for Water Allocation in Southeastern Spain

2016

Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
February 23	Andrey Fradkin MIT	Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb
March 1	Johannes Schmieder Boston University	Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
March 4, Friday 11:30 a.m- 12:30 p.m.	Yuyun Liu Zhongshan University
March 15	Nate Miller Georgetown University	Pass-Through in a Concentrated Industry: Empirical Evidence and Regulatory Implications
March 22	Mar Reguant Northwestern University	Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency
March 29	Costas Meghir Yale University	Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
April 5	Gautam Rao Harvard University	Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
April 12	Mitsuru Igami Yale University	Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1996-2015
April 19	Matthew Osborne University of Toronto	Identification and Estimation of Forward-looking Behavior: The Case of Consumer Stockpiling
April 26	Kevin Williams Yale University	Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail
May 3	Adam Kapor Princeton University	Distributional Effects of Race-Blind Affirmative Action
May 10	Christos Genakos Athens University of Economics and Business	Loss Aversion on the Phone

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
August 29 12:00 p.m.	Franco Peracchi, Georgetown University	Growing up in Wartime: Evidence From The Era of Two World Wars
September 13	Mallika Thomas, Cornell University	The Impact of Mandated Maternity Benefits on the Gender Differential in Promotions: Examining the Role of Adverse Selection
September 20	Richard Sweeney, Boston College	Capital versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy
September 27	Thomas Wollmann, University of Chicago	The Impact of Money on Science: Evidence From Unexpected NCAA College Football Outcomes
October 4	Daniel Ackerberg, University of Michigan	Timing and Information Set Assumptions in a Production Function Context
October 18	Anna Raute, University of Mannheim	Who Benefits From Universal Childcare? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Childcare Attendance
October 25	Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College	An Account of One's Own: Can Targeting Benefits Payments Address Social Constraints to Female Labor Force Participation?
November 1	Thomas Covert, University of Chicago	Experiential and Social Learning in Firms: The Case of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Bakken Shale
November 8	Petra Persson, Stanford University	The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests
November 15	Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Texas-Dallas	Learning When to Quit
November 22	Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University	Competition and Relational Contacts: Evidence from Rwanda’s Coffee Mills
November 29	Lucas Coffman, Harvard University	Marketing Schooling: An At Scale Experiment in the Dominican Republic
December 6	John Lazarev, New York University	Input Allocation and Downstream Market Structure: Slot Control in the U.S. Airline Industry

2015

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
Feb. 24	Mike Sinkinson, University of Pennsylvania	"Ask Your Doctor? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals"
March 10	Jordi Jaumandreu, Boston University	"Measuring the Bias of Technological Change"
March 17	Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics	"The Effects of Banning Advertising in Junk Food Markets"
March 24	Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College	"Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on: Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey"
March 25 (Wednesday)	Nikhil Agarwal, MIT	"Demand Analysis using Strategic Reports: An Application to a School Choice Mechanism"
March 31	Nathan Hendren, Harvard University	"The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children’s Long-Term Outcomes"
April 14	Robin Lee, Harvard University	"Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets"
April 21	Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University	"Why are Indian Children So Short?"
April 28	Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto	"A Microeconometric Dynamic Structural Model of Copper Mining Decisions"
May 4	Sylvia Hristakeva, Boston College	"The Effect of Vertical Contracts on Product Availability. An Empirical Study of the Grocery Industry"

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 15	Sylvia Hristakeva, Boston College	How Do Vertical Contracts Affect Product Availability? An Empirical Study of the Grocery Industry
Sept. 22	Michael French, University of Miami	Hit-and-Run or Hit-and-Stay: Do Stricter BAC Limits Encourage Drivers to Flee the Crash Scene?
Sept. 29	Przemyslaw Jeziorski, UC Berkeley	Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in a Dynamic Model of Auto Insurance
Oct. 6	Seminar Cancelled
Oct. 13	Alessandra Voena, University of Chicago (visiting Yale)	Bride Price and Female Education
Oct. 20	Jean François Houde, University of Pennsylvania	Estimating Substitution Patterns in Differentiated Goods Industries
Oct. 27	Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto	Identification of Counterfactuals and Payoffs in Dynamic Discrete Choice with an Application to Land Use
Nov. 3	Daniel L. Chen, ETH Zurich	The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I
Nov. 10	Namrata Kala, Harvard University	Ambiguity Aversion and Learning in a Changing World: The Potential Effects of Climate Change From Indian Agriculture
Nov. 17	Anna Aizer, Brown University	Inequality in Lead Exposure and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Nov. 24	Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago	Quantifying the Supply Response of Private Schools to Public Policies
Dec. 1	Rossella Calvi, Boston College	Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
Dec. 8	Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University	Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband
Dec. 14 Monday 4:00 p.m.	Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University	What Drives Home Market Advantage?

2014

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 16	Rossella Calvi Boston College	"Long-Term Effects of Access to Health Care: Medical Missions in Colonial India"
Sept. 23	Julie Holland Mortimer, Boston College	"Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of All-Units Discounts: Empirical Evidence"
Sept. 30	Arthur Lewbel, Boston University	"Identifying Sharing Rules in Collective Household Models"
Oct. 7	Ben Shiller, Brandeis University	"First-Degree Price Discrimination Using Big Data"
Oct.14	Marc Rysman, Boston University (Visiting Boston College)	"A Structural Model of Air Services Agreements: Empirics of Network Formation"
Oct.21	Rohini Pande, Harvard Kennedy School	TBD
Oct.28	Sylvia Hristakeva, Boston College	"Effect of Vertical Relations on Product Assortments"
Nov. 4	Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame	"Cognitive Mobility: Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas"
Nov. 11	Koichiro Ito, Boston University	"The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation : Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards"
Nov. 14, Friday, 11:30 a.m.	Claudia Olivetti, Boston University	"Intergenerational Mobility Across Three Generations in the 19th Century: Evidence from the US Census"
Nov. 18	Chris Ahlin, Michigan State University	"Matching for Credit: Risk and Diversification in Thai Microcredit Groups"
Nov. 25	Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago	"Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection"
Dec. 2	Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto	TBD

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