Labor and Development Seminar Series - Spring 2018

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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01/26/2018
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Francesco Agostinelli  (Arizona State)
Investing in Children's Skills: An Equilibrium Analysis of Social Interactions and Parental Investments
Joint with Recruiting, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 11:30am on Friday.
01/31/2018
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Niklas Engbom  (Princeton)
Firm and Worker Dynamics in an Aging Labor Market
Joint with Recruiting, Macro.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 11:30am on Wednesday.
02/02/2018
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*RESCHEDULED* Arjada Bardhi  (Northwestern)
Optimal Discovery and Influence Through Selective Sampling
Joint with Recruiting, Microeconomic Theory.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 11:30am on Friday.
02/07/2018
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*RESCHEDULED* Maria Dolores Palacios (postdoc candidate)  (Boston University)
Price Setting and Multitasking by Sales Agents: Evidence from a Contract Change
Joint with Recruiting, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 11:30am on Wednesday.
02/15/2018
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Robert Moffitt  (Johns Hopkins)
Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
Joint with Duke University Population Research Institute, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Gross Hall 270 at 3:30pm on Thursday.
02/19/2018
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Bocar Ba (postdoc candidate)  (Chicago - Harris)
Going the Extra Mile: the Cost of Complaint Filing, Accountability, and Law Enforcement Outcomes in Chicago
Joint with Recruiting, Econometrics.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 11:30am on Monday.
02/21/2018
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Piero Conzo  (University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
A war is forever: The long-run effects of early exposure to World War II on trust
02/28/2018
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Brian Kovak  (Carnegie Mellon)
The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms: Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies
Joint with ERID.
03/02/2018
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Simon Quinn  (University of Oxford)
Self-employment, Capital and Job Search: Evidence from a Structural Model
Joint with International Population, Health and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 12:00pm on Friday.
03/07/2018
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Meredith Startz  (Princeton)
The value of face-to-face: Search and contracting problems in Nigerian trade
03/20/2018
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Damon Clark  (UC Irvine)
How Much Does High School Pay? Evidence from Britain
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:15pm on Tuesday.
03/21/2018
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Moshe Buchinsky  (UCLA)
The Role of Women and Men in Choices of Residential and Work Locations in Israel
03/28/2018
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Rick Hornbeck  (Chicago Booth)
“Engines of Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing" (w/Martin Rotemberg (NYU))
04/11/2018
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Namrata Kala  (MIT Sloan)
"Workhorses or White Elephants: The Effects of Public Sector Firm Autonomy"
04/18/2018
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Roland Rathelot  (Warwick)
Ethnic Discrimination on an Online Marketplace of Vacation Rentals
04/25/2018
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Yinghua He  (Rice)
Strategic ``Mistakes'': Implications for Market Design Research


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