Spring 2021
Thursday 21 January
Audinga Baltrunaite, Bank of Italy
Trainspotting: Board Appointments in Private Firms (with Egle Karmaziene)
Thursday 11 March
Ola Andersson, Uppsala University
The Individual Welfare Costs of Stay-at-Home Policies
Thursday 18 March
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics (LSE)
The Misallocation of Women’s Talent Across Countries: Evidence from Personnel Data
Tuesday 23 March
Muly San, New York University (NYU)
Who Works Where and Why? Parental Networks and the Labor Market
Thursday 25 March
Christina Brown, UC Berkeley
Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools
Thursday 15 April
Sarah Ridout, Harvard University & Vanderbilt University
A Model of Justification
Thursday 22 April
Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University
Caution and Reference Effects (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dillenberger)
Thursday 29 April
Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University
The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC
Thursday 6 May
Gilat Levy, London School of Economics (LSE)
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism (with Ronny Razin and Alwyn Young)
Tuesday 11 May
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol
Migrants and the Urban Economy: Evidence from China
Fall 2021
Thursday 9 September
Erika Deserranno, Kellogg School of Management & Northwestern University
Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector
Thursday 21 September
Sascha Becker, Monash University & University of Warwick
Scholars at Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Thursday 14 October
Lauren Falcao Bergquist, University of Michigan
Search Cost, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets (with Craig McIntosh and Meredith Startz)
Tuesday 19 October
Anna Tompsett, IIES & Department of Economics (Stockholm University)
Time is Not Money: An Experiment with Community Contribution Requirements in Cash and Labor (with Serena Cocciolo, Selene Ghisolfi, and Md. Ahasan Habib)
Thursday 28 October
Tore Ellingsen, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
Bubbles and Kinks: A Monetary Model of Recessions (with David Domeij)
Thursday 11 November
Gustavo De Souza, IIES
On the Political and Economic Determinants of Redistribution: Pecuniary Gains, Social Preferences, or Institutions?
Tuesday 16 November
Rachael Meager, London School of Economics (LSE)
An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: When Can Dropping a Little Data Make a Big Difference? (with Tamara Broderick and Ryan Giordano)
Friday 19 November
Daphne Skandalis, University of Copenhagen
Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
Thursday 23 November
Barbara Biasi, Yale School of Management & Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
The Education-Innovation Gap (with Song Ma)
Thursday 25 November
Edouard Schaal, CREI
Herding through Booms and Busts (with Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel)
Thursday 30 November
Joshua Weiss, IIES
Market Power, Imitation and Growth