Wednesday 18 January at 10:00
Guo Xu, London School of Economics
Title: "The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire"
Thursday 19 January at 15:00
Jack Willis, Harvard University
Title: "Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya"
(with Lorenzo Casaburi)
Monday 23 January at 12:30
Arianna Ornaghi, MIT
Title: "Civil Service Reforms: Evidence from U.S. Police Departments"
Tuesday 24 January at 10:00
Alexey Gorn, Bocconi University
Title: "The Role of Headhunters in Wage Inequality: It's All about Matching"
Friday 27 January at 10:00
Andreas Gulyas, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Identifying Labor Market Sorting with Firm Dynamics"
Monday 30 January at 10:00
Barbara Biasi, Stanford University
Title: "Unions, Salaries, and the Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin"
Friday 3 February at 10:00
Abhijeet Singh, University of Oxford
Title: "Learning More With Every Year: School Year Productivity and International Learning Divergence"
Tuesday 7 February at 12:30
Wei Huang, Harvard University
Title: "Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One Child Policy in China"
Wednesday 8 February at 14:00
Elisa Giannone, University of Chicago
Title: "Skilled-Biased Technical Change and Regional Convergence"
Thursday 9 February at 14:00
Mitch Downey, University of California, San Diego
Title: "
Losers Go to Jail: Congressional Elections and Union Officer Prosecutions (797 Kb)
Monday 13 February at 10:00
Neele Balke, University College London
Title: "
The Employment Cost of Sovereign Default (594 Kb)