Becker Applied Economics Workshop

The Spring 2026 quarter workshop is organized by Manasi Deshpande, Eric Richert, Chris Walters, Michael Greenstone, Magne Mogstad, and the Becker Friedman Institute. The workshop will meet in-person only on Mondays from 3:00 - 4:20 p.m in SHFE 021. For questions or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Vicky Lynn.

View past workshops here.

March 23

Christina Brown, University of Chicago

Topic: "Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers"

March 30

Ben Scuderi, University of Michigan

Topic: "Market Definition Bias in Studies of (Labor) Market Power"

April 6

Christopher J. Flinn, NYU

Topic and paper: "Labor Market Fusion: An Application to the Minimum Wage"

April 13

Mert Demirer, MIT

Topic and paper: "Firm Productivity and Learning with Digital Technologies: Evidence from Cloud Computing"

April 20

Adam Kapor, Princeton

Topic and paper: "Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets"

April 27

Sydnee Caldwell, UC Berkeley

Topic and paper: "Why Workers Stay: Pay, Beliefs, and Attachment*"

May 4

Carolyn Stein, UC Berkeley

Topic and paper: "How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Science: Evidence from AlphaFold ∗"
 

May 11

Phil Haile, Yale

Topic: "Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data"

May 18

Eric Richert, University of Chicago

Topic TBA