Labor and Development Seminar Series - Fall 2017

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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09/18/2017
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Chris Neilson  (Princeton)
CANCELLED
Joint with ERID.
09/20/2017
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Chris Neilson  (Princeton)
CANCELLED
Joint with ERID.
09/27/2017
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Joe Kaboski  (Notre Dame)
Growth Policy, Agglomeration, and the Lack of Competition
10/04/2017
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Lance Lochner  (Western)
Wage Dynamics and Returns to Unobserved Skills
10/11/2017
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Billy Jack  (Georgetown)
"High hopes: experimental evidence on saving and the transition to high school in Kenya" (joint with James Habyarimana).
10/18/2017
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Nick Bloom  (Stanford)
Do management interventions last? Evidence from India (w/Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, and John Roberts)
10/25/2017
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Per Johansson  (Uppsala University and IFAU)
Exploring the Relation between Immigrants and Native workers: New Evidence using Firms, Occupations, and Employment Flows
Joint with ERID.
10/26/2017
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Per Johansson  (Uppsala University and IFAU)
Forward-looking moral hazard in the social insurance system: evidence from a natural experiment
Joint with Labor Lunch, ERID Seminars and Workshops.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 12:00pm on Thursday.
10/26/2017
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Zhuan Pei  (Cornell)
Joint with Econometrics.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences room 113 at 3:30pm on Thursday.
11/01/2017
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John Eric Humphries  (Yale)
The Causes and Consequences of Self-Employment over the Life Cycle
11/07/2017
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Robert Miller  (Carnegie Mellon)
"Bidding frictions in ascending auctions," - ALL APPLIED MICRO SEMINAR
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:15pm on Tuesday.
11/08/2017
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Nick Papageorge  (Johns Hopkins, ERID Visitor)
Genetic Ability, Wealth and Financial Decision-Making
Joint with ERID.
11/09/2017
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Nick Papageorge  (Johns Hopkins, ERID Visitor)
Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment
Joint with ERID Seminars and Workshops.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 11:30am on Thursday.
11/15/2017
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Paul Niehaus  (UCSD)
"General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India" (w/Karthik Muralidharan and Sandip Sukhtankar)
11/29/2017
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Réka Juhász  (Columbia)
"Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th Century"
12/06/2017
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Katherine Casey  (Stanford GSB)
"Institutions and Technocratic Skill in Local Economic Development"


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