News and Workshops
Applications of Economics
Autumn 2008
This workshop meets every Monday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 329.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Egbecker/
Archives (Fall 2003), Archives (Winter 2004), Archives (Spring 2004), Archives (Fall 2004),
Archives (Winter 2005), Archives (Spring 2005), Archives (Fall 2005), Archives (Winter 2006)
Archives (Spring 2006), Archives (Fall 2006), Archives (Winter 2007), Archives (Spring 2007)
Archives (Fall 2007), Archives (Winter 2008), Archives (Spring 2008)
September 29
No meeting.
October 6
Philippe Aghion (Harvard University)
"Exploiting States' Mistakes to Identify the Causal Impact of Higher Education on Growth"
joint with Leah Boustan, Caroline Hoxby and Jerome Vandenbussche http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/aghion/files/Exploiting_States_Mistakes.pdf
October 13
Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth)
"Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment"
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jzinman/Papers/Karlan&Zinman_OU_ecma_ca.pdf
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jzinman/Papers/Karlan&Zinman_OU_ecma_ca_WebAppend.pdf
October 20
Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia University)
"An Assignment Model with Divorce and Remarriage"
Joint with Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss
October 27
Maxim Mironov (University of Chicago)
"Cash Flow Diversion and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Russia"
http://www.mironov.fm/research/Spacemen4Oct08.pdf
November 3
Eric Glen Weyl (Harvard University)
"Pass-Through as an Economic Tool"
"Pass-Through Determines the Division of Surplus under Monopoly"
Joint with Michael Fabinger
November 10
Mathis Wagner(University of Chicago)
"Understanding the Labor Market Impact of Immigration"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~mwagner/
November 17
Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago)
"Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty"
Joint with James X. Sullivan
November 24
Kevin Murphy (University of Chicago)
workshop cancelled
December 1
Tomas Philipson (University of Chicago, Harris School)
"Data Markets and Medical RD"
December 8
Amy Finkelstein (MIT)
"Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices"
Joint with Liran Einav and Mark Cullen
Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance
