Applied Microeconomics, Workshop 2015-2016

​​►19.10.15

Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia 

• Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets

joint with Elie Tamer (Harvard) and Charles Murray (Penn State).

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►26.10.15

Avi Ebenstein,Hebrew University

• The Long Run Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations: Evidence from Transitory Variation in Pollution

joint with Victor Lavy (Hebrew University)

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►2.11.15

Alma Cohen,Tel Aviv University

• Affirmative Action and Stereotype Threat

joint with Anat Bracha (Boston Fed)

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►9.11.15

Jonathan Dingel ,University of Chicago

• Spatial and Social Frictions in the City: Evidence from Yelp

joint with Don Davis (Columbia), Joan Monras (SciencesPo), and Eduardo Morales (Princeton University)

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►16.11.15

Yannay Spitzer,Hebrew University 

•​ Migrant Self-Selection: Anthropometric Evidence from the Mass Migration of Italians to the United States,1907–1925

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►23.11.15

Ram Fishman,Tel Aviv University  

• Do Agricultural Modernization Programs in Developing Countries have Sustainable Impacts? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-out of the BRAC Program in Uganda.

joint with  Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic and Sulaiman Munshi

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►30.11.15

Robert Townsend,MIT

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

 Joint with the Departmental Seminar >>

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►7.12.15

Tom Vogl, Princeton University

• "Growth and Childbearing” (with Shoumitro Chatterjee)

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►21.12.15

Joshua Sherman , University of Vienna

 • "Bargaining at Retail Stores: Evidence from Vienna"

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►28.12.15

Ofer Malamud, University of Chicago

• Interactions between Family and School Environments: Evidence on Dynamic Complementarities?

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►11.01.16

Oren Danieli, Harvard University

• Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning

(joint with Aaron Chalfin, Andrew Hillis, Zubin Jelveh, Michael Luca, Jens Ludwig, And Sendhil Mullainathan)

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