Past Becker Applied Economics Workshops

March 23
Christina Brown, University of Chicago
Topic: "Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers"

March 30
Ben Scuderi, University of Michigan
Topic: "Market Definition Bias in Studies of (Labor) Market Power"

April 6
Christopher J. Flinn, NYU
Topic and paper: "Labor Market Fusion: An Application to the Minimum Wage"

April 13
Mert Demirer, MIT
Topic and paper: "Firm Productivity and Learning with Digital Technologies: Evidence from Cloud Computing"

April 20
Adam Kapor, Princeton
Topic and paper: "Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets"

April 27
Sydnee Caldwell, UC Berkeley
Topic and paper: "Why Workers Stay: Pay, Beliefs, and Attachment*

May 4
Carolyn Stein, UC Berkeley
Topic and paper: "How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Science: Evidence from AlphaFold ∗"

May 11
Phil Haile, Yale
Topic: "Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data"

May 18
Eric Richert, University of Chicago

October 20
Tobias Salz, MIT
Topic and paper: "Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment"

October 27
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Topic and paper: "The Impact of Medicare on Life Expectancy"

November 3
Winnie van Dijk, Yale
 

November 10
Viola Corradini, Columbia
Topic: "Information and Access in School Choice Systems: Evidence from New York City"

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 21
Jesse Bruhn, Brown University
Topic and paper: "Path Dependence in the Labor Market: The Long-run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience"

April 28
Costas Meghir, Yale University
Topic and paper: "Labor Market Matching, Wages, and Amenities (joint with Thibaut Lamadon, Jeremy Lise, and Jean-Marc Robin)"

May 5
Zach Bleemer, Princeton
Topic and paper: "Affirmative Action and Racial Integration"

May 12
Derek Neal, UChicago
Topic and paper: "The Impact of Parole Supervision"

May 19
Thibaut Lamadon & Stéphane Bonhomme, UChicago
Topic and paper: "Deconvolution in Networks: Estimating Distributions of Firm and Worker Effects"

October 14
Seth Zimmerman, Yale School of Management
Topic: "Parents' Earning and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten"

October 21
David Green, The University of British Columbia
Topic: "The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution"

October 28
Zarek Brot, Harris School of Public Policy at The University of Chicago
Topic: "Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers"

November 4
Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester 
Topic: "Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Stock"

November 11
Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University
Topic: "Wage-Surging: An Analysis of Firms' Searching during Hiring Difficulties"

November 18
Juanna S. Joensen, University of Chicago
Topic: "Complementarities in High School and College Investments"

December 2
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University

October 16
Jack Mountjoy
Topic: "Marginal Returns to Public Universities"

October 23
Amanda Pallais
Topic: “The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today” with Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington

October 30
Jessie Handbury
Topic: “Demographic Differences in Social Exposure to High-Income People” with Victor Couture, Jonathan Dingel and Allison Green

November 6
John Eric Humphries, Yale University
Topic: "Parents' Labor Supply and the Social Return to Universal Pre-Kindergarten" (with Christopher Neilson, Xiaoyang Ye, and Seth Zimmerman)

November 13
Dan Waldinger, NYU
Topic: "Right-to-Counsel and Rental Housing Markets: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from New York" (joint with Robert Collinson, John Eric Humphries, Stephanie Kestelman, Scott Nelson, and Winnie Van Dijk)