News and Workshops
Applications of Economics
Spring 2009
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), Archives (Fall 2008)
Archives (Winter 2009)
March 30
Matias Tapia (University of Chicago)
"Matching and Outcomes in Education Markets Under Different Policy Regimes"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~matias/Applications.pdf
and
Nicholas Trachter (Univesity of Chicago)
"Learning and the Dynamics of Post-Secondary Education: The Role of Junior College"
April 6
Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago)
"Bayesian Persuasion" joint with Emir Kamenica
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/emir.kamenica/documents/bayesianPersuasion.pdf
April 13
Amanda Agan (University of Chicago)
"Using Experiments to Screen: Theory and Experimental Evidence"
and
Daniel Schmierer (University of Chicago)
"Children's Test Scores and the Marriage Market"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~dschmier/SchmiererApplications.pdf
April 20
Derek Neal (University of Chicago)
"Pay for Percentile"
April 27
Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm University)
"When Does Communication Improve Coordination?"
May 4
James Heckman (University of Chicago)
"The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity, and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy", joint with Flavio Cunha
May 11
Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Harvard University)
"Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets"
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~akhwaja/papers/RC_08May09full.pdf
May 18
David Stromberg (Stockholm University)
"Press Coverage and Political Accountability" joint with James M. Synder, Jr.
"http://www-2.iies.su.se/~stromber/w13878[1].pdf"
May 25
No Meeting
June 1
Raj Chetty (University of California,Berkeley)
"The Effect of Adjustment Costs and Institutional Constraints on Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Denmark"
joint with John Friedman, Tore Olsen, Luigi Pistaferri, and Anders Fredrikssen
http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~chetty/papers/denmark_adjcost.pdf
June 8
Jesse Shapiro (University of Chicago)
"Media Market Structure and Political Participation: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers"
joint with Matthew Gentzkow and Michael Sinkinson
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/jesse.shapiro/research/voting.pdf
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
