Labor and Development Seminar Series - Spring 2026

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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01/07/2026
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Jean-Marc Robin  (Sciences Po)
Individual Wage Dynamics, Continuous Firm Types and Path Dependence (joint with R. Blundell, T. Breda and M. Chan)
Joint with Econometrics.
02/04/2026
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Eliana La Ferrara  (Harvard)
Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia
Joint with Public and IO.
02/25/2026
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Chris Flinn - CANCELLED  
03/18/2026
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Ryungha Oh  (Chicago Booth)
Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms
Joint with International Trade.
03/25/2026
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Natalie Bau  (UCLA)
Information and Productivity in Education Markets
04/01/2026
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Paul Novosad  (Dartmouth)
Cancelled
04/07/2026
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Lance Lochner - CANCELLED  (Western)
The Consumption Value of College (joint with Y. Gong, T. Stinebrickner and R. Stinebrickner)
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 3:30pm on Tuesday.
04/08/2026
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Weilong Zhang  (Cambridge University)
The DNA of Enterprise: Genetic Endowments, Entrepreneurship and Wealth Distribution
04/15/2026
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Matt Lowe  (UBC)
Identity Uncertainty
04/22/2026
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Naoki Aizawa  (Wisconsin-Madison)
Job Amenity Bundles, Sorting, and Monopsony
04/29/2026
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Dev Patel  (Harvard and MIT)
Environmental Beliefs and Adaptation to Climate Change


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