Workshops: Complete List

September 11, 2009
Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data
Applied Microeconomics
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia)

September 11, 2009
Underidentification?
Econometrics
Enrique Sentana (CEMFI)
This is on a Friday

September 15, 2009
Public Disagreement
Economic Theory
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University)
Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)
Tuesday – joint workshop with Race and Inequality

September 16, 2009
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Columbia
Macroeconomics
Jim Robinson (Harvard University)

September 17, 2009
Anti-Lemons:School Reputations and Educational Quality
Applied Microeconomics
Miguel Urquiola (Columbia)

September 21, 2009
An Economic Theory of Fidelity in Network Formation: Statics, Dynamics, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS
Economic Theory
Roland Pongou (Brown University)
Background Paper

September 22, 2009
Evaluating Teachers
Race and Inequality
John Tyler (Brown University)

September 23, 2009
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Macroeconomics
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University)

September 24, 2009
Health Insurance as a Two Part Pricing Contract
Applied Microeconomics
Darius Lakdawalla (RAND)

September 28, 2009
Satisficing and Information Search
Economic Theory
Mark Dean (Brown University)
Background Paper

September 28, 2009
Generalized Shrinkage Estimator
Econometrics
Bruce Hansen (University of Wisconsin)

September 29, 2009
Affirmative Action
Race and Inequality
Debipriya Chatterjee (Brown University)

September 30, 2009
Time, Quality and Growth
Macroeconomics
Francisco Alcala (University of Murcia and NYU)

October 1, 2009
Bank Organization, Market Structure and Risk: Evidence from US Commercial Banks
Applied Microeconomics
Martin Goetz (Brown University)

October 5, 2009
Observational Learning and the Demand for Serach Goods
Economic Theory
Ken Hendricks (University of Texas at Austin)

October 6, 2009
Medicare, Hospital Utilization and Morality: Evidence from the Program`s Origins
Race and Inequality
Kenneth Chay (Brown University)

October 7, 2009
Learning and Discovery
Macroeconomics
Boyan Jovanovic (NYU)

October 8, 2009
Identification and Estimation of Parental Valuation of School Quality in the U.S.
Applied Microeconomics
Gregorio Caetano (University of Rochester)

October 13, 2009
Voter Turnout and Labor Market Performance
Race and Inequality
Kerwin Charles (University of Chicago)

October 14, 2009
Climate Variablity, Risk Sharing and the Economic Origins of Trust: Evidence from Europe
Macroeconomics
Ruben Durante (Brown University)

October 15, 2009
What Happens to Local Economies When State-Owned Banks are Privatized? Evidence from Brazil
Applied Microeconomics
Leo Feler (Brown University)

October 19, 2009
A General Theory of Matching Estimation
Econometrics
Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)
Background Paper

October 19, 2009
Signaling to a Network of Consumers
Economic Theory
Jim Campbell (Brown University)

October 20, 2009
Parents` Incomes and Children`s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits
Race and Inequality
Randall Akee (Tufts University)

October 21, 2009
Where Should Liquidity Be Injected During a Financial Crisis?
Macroeconomics
Ricardo Reis (Columbia Universtiy)

October 22, 2009
Wholesale Price Discrimination and Regulation: Implications for Retail Gasoline Prices
Applied Microeconomics
Justine Hastings (Yale University)

October 26, 2009
Nonmanipulable Bayesian Testing
Economic Theory
Colin Stewart (University of Toronto)

October 26, 2009
Instrumental Variables and the Sign of the Average Treatment Effect
Econometrics
Ed Vytlacil (Yale University)

October 27, 2009
Global Neighborhoods: New Pathways to Diversity and Separation
Race and Inequality
John Logan (Brown University)

October 28, 2009
Fixed Costs and Long-Lived Investments
Macroeconomics
Christopher House (University of Michigan)

October 29, 2009
Countering Bribery: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Applied Microeconomics
Francisco Campos-Ortiz (Brown University)

November 2, 2009
Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information
Economic Theory
Navin Kartik (Columbia University)

November 2, 2009
Point Decisions for Interval-Identified Parameters
Econometrics
Kevin Song (UPENN)

November 3, 2009
Human Capital Inequality
Race and Inequality
Lance Lochner (Western Ontario)

November 4, 2009
Innovation-Based Growth & Long-Run Economic Development
Macroeconomics
Petros Milionis (Brown Universtiy)

November 5, 2009
Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Applied Microeconomics
Guy Michaels (LSE)

November 9, 2009
Large deviation approach for moment condition models
Econometrics
Taisuke Otsu (Yale University)
Background Paper

November 9, 2009
Choice by Iterative Search
Economic Theory
Daisuke Nakajima (University of Michigan)

November 10, 2009
Prospective Mobility, Fairness, and the Demand for Redistribution
Race and Inequality
Christina Fong (Carnegie Mellon University)

November 11, 2009
Longevity and Aggregate Savings
Macroeconomics
Eytan Sheshinski (Princeton University and Hebrew University)
Background Paper

November 12, 2009
The Effect of Competition on Unions
Applied Microeconomics
Alexey Levkov (Brown University)

November 13, 2009
Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination
Applied Microeconomics
John Guryan (University of Chicago)
Background Paper

November 16, 2009
Selective Trials, Information Production and Technology Diffusion
Economic Theory
Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)

November 16, 2009
Triangular Semiparametric Models Featuring Two Dependent Endogenous Binary Outcomes
Econometrics
Roger Klein (Rutgers University)

November 17, 2009
THE BUSINESS ETHICS OF PLANTATION PROVISIONING IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
Race and Inequality
Seth Rockman (Brown University)

November 18, 2009
A Bioeconomic Foundation of the Malthusian Equalibrium: Body Size and Population Size in the Long Run
Macroeconomics
Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen)

November 19, 2009
Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability
Applied Microeconomics
Julie Mortimer (Harvard University)

November 23, 2009
An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition
Economic Theory
Humberto Llavador (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Princeton University)

November 30, 2009
TBA
Econometrics
Simon Lee (University College London)

November 30, 2009
TBA
Economic Theory
Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)

December 1, 2009
TBA
Race and Inequality
Roland Fryer (Harvard University)

December 2, 2009
TBA
Macroeconomics
Gita Gopinath (Harvard University)

December 3, 2009
TBA
Applied Microeconomics
Jose Liberti (DePaul University)

December 7, 2009
TBA
Economic Theory
Andrew Schotter (NYU)

December 7, 2009
TBA
Econometrics
Ivan Fernandez-Val (Boston University)

December 8, 2009
TBA
Race and Inequality
Bruce Western (Harvard University)

December 9, 2009
Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology
Macroeconomics
Nick Bloom (Stanford)

December 10, 2009
TBA
Applied Microeconomics
David Albouy (University of Michigan)

December 16, 2009
Wealth Evolution and Financial Market Instability
Macroeconomics
Blake Lebaron (Brandeis University)