Becker Applied Economics Workshop

This workshop is organized by Jack Mountjoy and Evan Rose and meets in-person only for the Spring 2025 quarter on Mondays from 3:00 - 4:20 p.m. CDT in SHFE 021. For questions, please contact Brittney Walker. 

View past workshops here.

March 24

Michael Rubens, UCLA

Topic: Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power

March 31

Virginia Minni, Booth School of Business

Topic: Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs

April 7

Rebecca Diamond, Stanford GSB

Topic: Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing

April 14

Jan De Loecker, KU Leuven

Topic: Production Function Identification Under Imperfect Competition

April 21

Jesse Bruhn, Brown University

Topic: Path Dependence in the Labor Market: The Long-run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience

April 28

Costas Meghir, Yale University

Topic: TBA

May 5

Zach Bleemer, Princeton

Topic: TBA

May 12

Speaker: TBA

Topic: TBA

May 19

Anne Karing, University of Chicago

Topic: TBA