Public and IO Seminar Series - Fall 2014

Usual time and place: 3:30pm - 5:00pm on Tuesday in Social Sciences 113.
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09/02/2014
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Hunt Allcott  (New York University)
How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India.
Cosponsored by DUEI
09/09/2014
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Damon Jones  (The Harris School, U of Chicago)
The Social Security Earnings Test and Retirement: Evidence and Implications
Joint with Labor and Development.
09/16/2014
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Jonathan Eaton  (Brown)
Firm to Firm Trade
Joint with ERID Seminars and Workshops.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Tuesday.
09/30/2014
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Stephen Yeaple  (Penn State University)
Globalization and Multiproduct Firms
10/03/2014
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Empirical micro jamboree  
Joint with Departmental, Labor and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 8:30am on Friday.
Speakers: Esteban Aucejo, Arun Chandrasekhar, Jeff Clemens, Rafael Dix Carneiro, Thomas Fujiwara, Dan Keniston, Edward Kung, Hugh Macartney, Neale Mahoney, Arnaud Maurel, Mandy Pallais, Mar Reguant, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato.
10/04/2014
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Empirical micro jamboree  
Joint with Departmental, Labor and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 8:30am on Saturday.
10/07/2014
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Rebecca Diamond  (Stanford GSB)
The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000
Joint with Labor and Development.
10/21/2014
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Joe Mazur  
Job market presentation
10/22/2014
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Alan Sorensen  (Wisconsin)
*AT UNC ON WEDNESDAY*
10/28/2014
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Nathan Hendren  (Harvard University)
The Inequality Deflator: Interpersonal Comparisons without a Social Welfare Function
10/29/2014
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Salvador Navarro  (Western Ontario)
Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime
Joint with Labor and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Wednesday.
11/05/2014
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Kate Ho *AT UNC ON WEDNESDAY*  (Columbia)
11/11/2014
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Henrik Jacobsen Kleven  (LSE)
“Parenthood and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Denmark” (joint work with Camille Landais and Jakob Søgaard).
Joint with Labor and Development.
11/12/2014
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Chris Woodruff  (University of Warwick)
Managerial Capital and Productivity: Evidence from a Training Program in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
Joint with Labor and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Wednesday.
11/13/2014
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Paul Scott  (Toulouse)
Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with and without Value Functions (with Myrto Kalouptsidi and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues)
11/18/2014
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Nikhil Agarwal  (MIT)
Demand Analysis using Strategic Reports: An application to a school choice mechanism
12/02/2014
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Andrew Shephard  (U Penn)
Joint Household Labour Supply and Health Care Reform


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