Applied Economics Workshop
When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page. Hard copies of the above workshop papers will be available in GSB 344 preceding the workshop, except for the winter quarter.
Upcoming Workshops
Schedule: Wednesdays 1:30 to 2:50 p.m. (except where noted)
Location: Harper Center Room 3B
Spring Quarter 2007
March 28
"The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh" (with Patrick Barron) (PDF)
Benjamin A. Olken, Harvard University
April 4
"Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S." (with Olivier Deschênes) (PDF)
Mike Greenstone, MIT
April 11
Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending (with William Adams and Jonathan Levin) (paper unavailable)
Liran Einav, Stanford
April 18
Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, a New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan) (PDF)
Amil Petrin, University of Chicago
April 25
Information Gathering Externalities in Product Markets (with Guillermo Caruana and Vicente Cuñat) (PDF)
Heski Bar-Isaac, NYU
May 2
Reference-Dependent Utility (no paper will be distributed)
Matthew Rabin, Berkeley
May 9
A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad? (with John Gibson and Steven Stillman) (PDF)
David McKenzie, World Bank
May 16
Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (PDF)
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia
May 23
Age and Great Invention (PDF)
Ben Jones, Kellogg
May 30
Information and the Skewness of Music Sales (with Ken Hendricks) (PDF)
Alan Sorensen, Stanford
June 6
Capital Services in Microprocessor Production: Quantitative Implications of a Vintage Model (with Ana Aizcorbe and Unni Pillai) (PDF)
Sam Kortum, University of Chicago
Winter Quarter 2007
January 17
"Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime" (PDF)
Ilyana Kuziemko, Harvard
January 22 (Monday -- 1:30 to 3 p.m. -- Harper Center 3B)
"All Pay Contests" (PDF)
Ron Siegel, Stanford
January 24
"Tie Breaking in School Choice Problems"Student Assignment (PDF)
Parag Pathak, Harvard
January 29 (Monday -- 12 to 1:30 p.m. -- Harper Center 3B)
"Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis of the Oil and Gas Field Services Industry" (PDF)
Patrick Kline, University of Michigan
February 28 -- CANCELLED
"Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities" with Jeffrey Lin (PDF)
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago
Autumn Quarter 2006
September 27
"Contracting for Control", with George Baker and Kevin J. Murphy (PDF)
Bob Gibbons, MIT
October 4
"Malaria in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure" (PDF)
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago
October 11
"The Making of an Investment Banker: Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income" (PDF)
Paul Oyer, Stanford
October 18
"A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation, and Debt" (PDF)
Marco Battaglini, Princeton
October 25
"Race and Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims: Experimental Evidence" (PDF)
Erzo Luttmer, Harvard
November 1
"Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial"
Phil Oreopoulos, University of Toronto
November 8
"Peers at Work" (with Enrico Moretti)
Alexandre Mas, UC Berkeley and NBER
November 15
"Market Share Dynamics and the 'Persistence of Leadership' Debate" (PDF)
John Sutton, London School of Economics (Visiting Prof. GSB)
November 22
No Meeting
November 29
"The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health"
Adriana Lleras-Muney, Princeton
December 6
"Incentives to Teach Badly? After-School Tutoring in Developing Countries" (PDF) with Paul Glewwe
Seema Jayachandran, Stanford
Past Workshops