Applied Economics Workshop
Gentzkow/Topel (Spring Quarter 2006)
Bertrand/Petrin (Autumn Quarter 2005)
Goolsbee/Kroszner (Winter Quarter 2006)
Wednesdays – 1:30 to 2:50 p.m. – HPC Room 3B
March 29
AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT
"The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance:
Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare."
April 5
No Meeting.
April 12
CAROLA FRYDMAN, Harvard
Rising through the Ranks: The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Executives,
1936-2003." Secondary paper: "Historical
Trends in Executive Compensation, 1936-
2003" with Raven E. Saks.
April 19
CHAD JONES, Berkeley
"Knowledge and the Theory of Economic
Development."
April 26
EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard
"Housing Cycles" (with Joseph Gyourko).
May 3
DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT
"Input and Technology Choices in
Regulated Industries: Evidence from
the Health Care Sector" with
Amy Finkelstein.
May 10
MARTIN LJUNGE, UofC Econ Ph.D.
"Half the Job Is Showing Up: Returns
to Work, Taxes, and Sick Leave Choices."
May 17
MARTIN MANDORFF, UofC Econ
"Immigrants, Social Interaction, and
Productivity: Big Effects in Small Groups."
May 24
DAVID AUTOR, MIT
"Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from the Retail Sector"
with David Scarborough.
May 31
RAN ABRAMITZKY, Stanford
"The Limits of Equality: Insights from
the Israeli Kibbutz."
SCHEDULE – WINTER 2006
January 11
RICHARD T. HOLDEN, Harvard U
"Optimal Gerrymandering"(with John N. Friedman).
January 18
EMIR KAMENICA, Harvard U
"Contextual Inference in Markets: On the
Informational Content of Product Lines."
January 19* (Note: Thursday in 3B)
ALLAN COLLARD-WEXLER, NU
"Plant Turnover and Demand Fluctuations in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry."
January 25
PATRICIA CORTES, MIT
"The Effect of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data."
March 8
CARL SHAPIRO, UC Berkeley
"How Strong Are Weak Patents?" (with
Joseph Farrell).
SCHEDULE – AUTUMN 2005
September 28
M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew U
"Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term
Educational Outcomes of Natives?" Quasi-Experimental Evidence (jointly with
Eric Gould and Victor Lavy).
October 5
EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC Berkeley
"Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-
Income Families: Evidence from a Field
Experiment with H&R Block" (jointly with
Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey
Liebman, and Peter Orszag).
October 12
PATRICK BAJARI, U Michigan
"Estimating Static Models of Strategic Interactions" (jointly with
Han Hong, John Krainer, and
Denis Nekipelov).
October 19
ARIEL PAKES, Harvard Economics
"Nash Equilibria and Empirical Work."
Background Paper.
October 26
JEREMY FOX, UofC Economics
"Complementarities and Collusion in an
FCC Spectrum Auction" (jointly with
Patrick Bajari).
November 2
JUSTIN McCRARY, U Michigan
"Crime, Punishment, and Myopia"
(jointly with David S. Lee).
November 9
JOEL WALDFOGEL, Wharton
"The Median Voter and the Median Consumer: Local Private Goods and
Residential Sorting."
November 16
EDWARD MIGUEL, UC Berkeley
"Iraq War Casualties and the 2004 U. S. Presidential Election" (with David Karol).
November 23
JOHN VAN REENEN, LSE
"Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries"
(with Nick Bloom).
November 30
AMIL PETRIN, UofC GSB
"Control Function Corrections for
Unobserved Factors in Differentiated
Product Markets" (with Kenneth Train).
Workshop Papers: When possible, workshop papers are posted to the Workshop website. Hard copies of the above workshop papers will be available in GSB 344 preceding the workshop.
Past Workshops