Departmental Seminar 2015-2016

Meetings take place on  Tuesday,14:15-15:45, Berglas Building, room  101 

Workshop Organizers: Itay Saporta-Eksten

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►24.11.15

Dan Zeltzer ,Princeton

Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Pay Gap

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►30.11.15 - Please note the special date: Monday

Robert  M Townsend , MIT

Spatial Expansion of Financial Service Providers and Optimal Contract Design (joint work with Victor Zhorin) 

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►15.12.15

Assaf Razin , TAU

Why are the EU and US different in their redistribution and migration policies

 

►22.12.15

Gal Wettstein , Harvard University

Retirement Lock and Prescription Drug Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Part D

 

►29.12.15

Oded Galor, Brown University       

Roots of Autocracy

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►15.03.16

Joseph G. Altonji , Yale

GROUP-AVERAGE OBSERVABLES AS CONTROLS FOR SORTING ON  UNOBSERVABLES WHEN ESTIMATING GROUP TREATMENT EFFECTS: THE CASE OF SCHOOL AND NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS

joint work with Richard K. Mansfield

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►22.03.16 , 16:00-17:15 

Joshua Angrist, MIT

Research Design Meets Market Design:Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

joint work with Atila Abdulkadiroglu , Yusuke Narita ,Parag A. Pathak

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►29.03.16 

Nittai Bergman , MIT

The Effect of Cash Injections: Evidence from the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis

joint with Rajkamal Iyer and Richard Thakor

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►12.04.16

Mark Schankerman , LSE

Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

joint with Iain Cockburn and Jean Lanjouw

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►3.05.16

Peter Ganong, Harvard

How Does Unemployment Affect Consumer Spending

 

►23.05.16  Please note the difference in day and time : Monday, 14: 00 

A conversation with the Dan David Laureates -- Francois Bourgignon, and James Heckman 

 

►31.05.16

Omer Moav, IDC and Warwick 

Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy

joint with Joram Mayshar, Zvika Neeman, and Luigi Pascali