Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule
Monday, January 28, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Econometrics
Are Women More Attracted to Team Incentives than Men?
Peter Kuhn
University of California, Santa Barbara
Wed, January 30, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Dan Hamermesh
UT
Wed, January 30, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Theory
Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices
Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Princeton University
Fri, February 1, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Macroeconomics
Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
Francois Gourio
Boston University
Mon, February 4, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Development
Job Loss, Family Ties, and Regional Mobility
Kjell Salvanes
NHH, visiting Columbia University
Wed, February 6, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
This is only a test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout
Sandy Black
UT
Wed, February 13, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Noncognitive Skills and the Black White Wage Gap
Melinda Petre
UT
Mon, February 18, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Econometrics
Specification Tests for Partially Identified Models Defined By Moment Inequalities
Federico Bugni
Duke University
Wed, February 20, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Black-White wage gap: The effects of personality traits on the distribution of wages
Ozan Senturk
UT
Wed, February 20, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Theory
On the Comparative Statics of Equilibrium Points
Rabah Amir
University of Arizona
Mon, February 25, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Econometrics
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
David Dorn
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), CEMFI
Visiting Harvard University
Wed, February 27, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
World War II GI Bill and Low Education Levels
Megan Thomas
UT
Wed, February 27, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Theory
Stable Matching with Incomplete Information
Andy Postlewaite
University of Pennsylvania
Fri, March 1, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM BRB 1.118
Industrial Organization
Identification of Discrete Games and Choice Models for Bundles
Jeremy Fox
University of Michigan
Mon, March 4, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Econometrics
Incentivizing schooling for learning: Evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches
Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Harvard University
Wed, March 6, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts
Mark Schankerman
London School of Economics
Wed, March 6, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM BRB 1.118
Theory
Optimal Contracts for Experimentation
Marina Halac
Columbia University
Fri, March 8, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Mcroeconomics
Sectoral Shift, Job Mobility and Wage Inequality
Florian Hoffman
University of British Columbia
Monday, March 18, 2013 • 3:30 PM 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Econometrics
The Elasticity of Labour Supply to the Firm Over the Business Cycle
Todd Sorensen
University of California, Riverside
Wed, March 20, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
TBA
Qian Lu
UT
Wed, March 20, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Theory
Costs and Benefits of Dynamic Trading in a Lemons Market
Willie Fuchs
University of California, Berkeley
Mon, March 25, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Development
The EITC Goes to College: Evidence Based on Income Tax Data and Policy Nonlinearities
Nicholas Turner
U.S. Department of Treasury
Wed, March 27, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Merit Scholarships and College Attendance in Tennessee
Chester Polson
UT
Fri, March 29, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Macroeconomics
The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning About Demand?
John Haltiwanger
University of Maryland
Mon, April 1, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Econometrics
Informational Content of Special Regressors in Heteroskedastic Binary Response Models
Xun Tang
University of Pennsylvania
Wed, April 3, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Specificity of Healthcare Providers' Responses to Pay-for-Performance in the United Kingdom: Do You Get (Exactly) What You Pay For?
Sam Richardson
UT
Fri, April 5, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Macroeconomics
The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
Pete Klenow
Stanford University
Mon, April 8, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Econometrics
Why Experimenters Should Not Randomize, And What They Should Do Instead
Maximilian Kasy
Harvard University
Wed, April 10, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Family Ties: How Do Children Affect the Migration Decision?
Ricki Dolan
UT
Fri, April 12, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Macroeconomics
Sector-Specific Technical Change
John Fernald
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Mon, April 15, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Development
Physician Beliefs and Patient Prefrences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Spending
Jonathan Skinner
Dartmouth College
Tue, April 16, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Macroeconomics
External Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory
Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Wed, April 17, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Long-term Consequences of ADHD Medication Use for Children's Human Capital Development
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Aarhus University
Fri, April 19, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Industrial Organization
Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data
Joachim Winter
Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, visiting Princeton University
Mon, April 22, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Econometrics
Geometric Approach to Weakly Identified Econometric Models
Anna Mikusheva
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wed, April 24, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Waiting It Out: Strategic Delay and Addition of Training Among College Students
Julie Pechacek
UT
Wed, April 24, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM BRB 1.102
Theory
Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect
Pietro Ortoleva
California Institute of Technology
Fri, April 26, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Industrial Organization
Highway Procurement and the Stimulus Package: Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Jorge Balat
Johns Hopkins University
Mon, April 29, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Econometrics
On the Testability of Identification in Some Nonparametric Models with Endogeneity
Andres Santos
University of California, San Diego
Wed, May 1, 2013 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Externalities and Taxation of Supplemental Insurance: A Study of Medicare and Medigap
Marika Cabral
UT
Mon, May 6, 2013 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • BRB 1.118
Labor/Public Finance/Development
Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms and Busts, and Rising Non-Employment
Kerwin Charles
University of Chicago, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
