THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Past Applications of Economics Workshops
The Applications of Economics workshops meet during on the Spring and Fall quarters on Tuesdays 3:30-4:50 p.m. in SHFE Room 021. For questions, please contact Ada Barbosa.
October 1
Michele Modungo, Board of Governors of the Fed Reserve System
“Decoding Equity Market Reactions to Macroeconomic News"
October 8
No Meeting
October 15
Orazio Attanasio, Yale University*
"Subjective Earnings and Employment Dynamics”
October 22
Eric Budish, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
"Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains”
October 29
No Meeting
November 5
No Meeting
November 12
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Corporate Discount Rates”
November 19
Anup Malani, University of Chicago Law School
“Effective Fertility: A New Measure of Surviving Children to Analyze Fertility Decline”
November 26
No Meeting
December 3
Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago
“Can Price Ceilings Increase Prices? Reference Pricing and the Inflation Reduction Act”
December 10
No Meeting
*Please note that this workshop only will begin at 3:45 p.m.
March 26
No Meeting
April 1
No Meeting
April 9
Rachel Glennerster, UChicago
"Nudging at Scale: Combining Random and Quasi-Random Variation to Evaluate the Scale-Up of Incentives for Immunization in Pakistan”
April 16
Anup Malani, UChicago
"Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India"
April 23
Bruce D. Meyer, UChicago
“Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation"
April 30
Casey Mulligan, UChicago
"Difference-in-Differences in the Marketplace"
May 7
No Meeting
May 14
Christina Brown, UChicago
"Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers"
October 17
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University
"A Technology-Gap Model of Premature Deindustrialization"
October 24
Furkan Kılıç, UChicago
“Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs”
October 31
Jim Heckman, UChicago
"The Microdynamics and Measurement of Early Childhood Learning"
November 7
Santiago Franco, UChicago
"Output Market Power and Spatial Misallocation"
November 14
Michael Kremer, UChicago
"Improving Secondary School Through Vocational Education"