Applied Microeconomics Archive
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 |
Fall 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 |
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| 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 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? |
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 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 |