Empirical Micro Lunch

Spring 2022

Locations: PCPSE 101

Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm

Date Speaker Paper Title
January 18, 2022 Shasha Wang  
March 1, 2022 Sajad Ghorbani and Felipe Barbieri  
March 15, 2022 Emilio Borghesan  
March 22, 2022 Elsie Peng  
March 29, 2022 Priyanka Goonetilleke  
April 5, 2022 Lucie L'Heude Newspaper Consolidation and the Decline of Local News
April 12, 2022 Kathleen Hui  
April 19, 2022 Jungsoo Yoo State Dependence in Residential Location Choice
April 26, 2022 Andrew Arnold  
May 3, 2022 Cung Truong Hang and Ornella Darova  
May 10, 2022 Kristen Beamer and Hyoungjun Kang  
May 17, 2022 Felipe Barbieri and Jonathan Arnold  
   

Fall 2021

Locations: PCPSE 101

Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm

Date Speaker Paper Title
September 21, 2021 Claire Lim The Political Economy of Medicaid: Partisanship, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures
September 28, 2021 Zhemin Yuan The effects of the Affordable Care Act on pharmaceutical prices, utilization and the direction of innovation
October 5, 2021 Ni Wang Job Attachment and Life Cycle Gender Wage Differences
October 12, 2021 Kathleen Hui

Physician Spatial Allocation and Moving Costs

 

October 19. 2021   

Justin Franco Lam
Recall Over the Life Cycle
October 26, 2021 Jungsoo Yoo State Dependence and Neighborhood Persistence
November 2, 2021 Elsie Peng  
November 9, 2021 Jason Sockin  
November 16, 2021 Coby Wittman  
November 23, 2021 Sarah George  
November 30, 2021 Minji Bang  
December 7, 2021 Emilio Borghesan  
December 14, 2021 Priyanka Goonetilleke    

Lucie L'Heudé
 

Spring 2021

Location: Zoom

Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm


*Contact Artem Kuriksha for zoom link

Date Speaker Paper Title
February 16, 2021 Juan Pablo Atal Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence
March 9, 2021 Minji Bang Understanding Gender Gaps and the Child Penalty: Job Flexibility and Household Labor Supply
March 16, 2021 Elsie Peng Growing A Mega City
March 23, 2021 Jason Sockin Measuring the Hard to Measure: What's in a Job Attribute
March 30, 2021 Andrew Arnold  Valence, Ideology, and Positioning in U.S. Congressional Elections
April 6, 2021 Shuo Yang Optimal Affirmative Action under Uncertainty (Yang)
April 13, 2021 Justin Lam & Shasha Wang Recall over the Life Cycle (Lam)

Understanding the Female Thinness Myth: Marriage and Employment (Wang)
April 20, 2021 Emilio Borghesan College Admissions, Student Time Use, and Endogenous Skill Development: The Case of Eliminating the SAT
May 4, 2021 Kathleen Hui & Cung Truong Hoang Physician entry, moving costs, and competition (Hui)

Child Development, Home and School Investments in India (Hoang)
May 11, 2021 Priyanka Goonetilleke & Jungsoo Yoo The Impact of Race on Perceptions of Attorney Credibility (Goonetilleke)

Local Institutions as a Coordination Mechanism in Residential Choice (Yoo)

Fall 2020

Location: Zoom

Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm


* Contact Kathleen Hui for the Zoom link

Date Speaker Paper Title
September 29, 2020 Ruizhi Ma Omitted Variable Bias from Unobserved Demographics in Random Coefficient Logit Model of Demand: Symptoms and Treatments with Micro Data
October 6, 2020 Alejandro Sanchez Homophily and Selection: The Network Propensity Score
October 13, 2020 Charu Gupta Imperfect intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical industry
October 20, 2020 Emilio Borghesan The Marginal Returns of Distance Education on Achievement
November 3, 2020 Kris Shaw Are Consumption Taxes Really Better Than Labour Income Taxes? Theoretical and Quantitative Implications of the Choice of Tax Base
November 17, 2020 Jianhong Xin TBA
November 24, 2010 Michal Hodor Gig Workers and Performance Pay: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis of an On-Demand Industry

 

Spring 2020

Location: PCPSE 101

Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm

Date Speaker Paper Title
March 3, 2020 Tomas Larroucau Centralized assignment mechanisms and their impact on students' welfare
March 17, 2020 Michal Hodor Gig Workers and Performance-Pay: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis of an On-Demand Industry
March 24, 2020 Gorkem Bostanci Changing Jobs to Fight Inflation: Labor Market Reaction to Inflation Shocks
March 24, 2020 Gabrielle Vasey The Impact of Distance Education Schools on Enrollment Choices of Students in Rural Mexico
March 31, 2020 Jianhong Xin Firm Effect or Peer Effect: Evidence from Denmark
April 7, 2020 Joao Granja TBA
April 14, 2020 Emilio Borghesan and Charu Gupta Imperfect intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical industry (Gupta)
April 21, 2020 Xuequan Peng TBA
April 28, 2020 Andrew Arnold and Lucie L’Heudé,  Jungsoo Yoo  TBA
May 5, 2020 Minji Bang TBA
May 12, 2020 Isaac Rabbani TBA
May 19, 2020 Tomas Larroucau Centralized assignment mechanisms and their impact on students' welfare

Fall 2019

Location: PCPSE 100

Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm

Date Speaker Paper Title
September 3, 2019 Zhenqi Liu "The Impact of Market Structure on Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from Online Censorship in China"
September 24, 2019 Zvi Eckstein "Child Care, Population Growth and Occupational Choice:  Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1930"
October 8, 2019 Xian Gu "The Interbank Market Puzzle"
October 15, 2019 Ming Li "Information and Corruption: Evidence from China's Land Auctions"
October 22, 2019 Mallick Hossain "Bulk Buying and Inequality"
October 29, 2019 Kian Samaee "Inaction, Search Costs and Market Power in the US Mortgage Market"
November 5, 2019 Charu Gupta "Intellectual Property in the Pharmaceutical Industry"
November 19, 2019 Wu Zhu "Networks, Local vs. Global Information, and Stock Market Returns"
December 3, 2019 Gabrielle Vasey and Tomas Larroucau "The Impact of Distance Education Schools on Enrollment Choices of Students in Rural Mexico" (Vasey) and "Centralized assignment mechanisms and their impact on students' welfare" (Larroucau)

Spring 2019



Location: PCPSE 203

Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm

Date Speaker Paper Title
February 19, 2019 Gabrielle Vasey "Estimating Peer Effects: Mexico's Prospera Program"
February 26, 2019    
March 5, 2019 Spring Break  
March 12, 2019 n/a No Meeting, Department External Review
March 19, 2019    
March 26, 2019 Ming Li "Information and Corruption: Evidence from China’s Land Market Auctions"
April 2, 2019 Elena Capatina "Health Shocks and the Evolution of Consumption and Income over the Life-Cycle"
April 9, 2019 Joao Granja "Coverage Requirements and the Timing of Adoption of New Mobile Technologies"
April 16, 2019 Michal Hodor "Rethinking About the Firm’s Labor Decision: The Trade-Off Between Labor Effort and Quantity"
April 23, 2019 Sarah George "Understanding price effects in the Kraft Heinz merger"
April 30, 2019 Shunyi Zhao "Vertical vs Horizontal Efficiency: A Study of Distributorship in Movie Industry"
May 7, 2019 Minji Bang "Self-Employment Decisions and Household Risk Sharing"
May 14, 2019 Kian Samaee "Inaction and Search Costs in Credit Markets: Evidence from Mortgage Refinance Market in the U.S."