February | |
Tue Feb 14 | Brown Bag: Josef Sigurdsson (SU): "The Gift of Moving: Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock". |
Tue Feb 14 | PhD Defense: Kuflu Gedefe Molla (SU) |
Thu Feb 16 | Johannes Haushofer (Princeton): "Peace of Mind: Health Insurance Reduces Stress and Cortisol Levels – Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Kenya". |
Tue Feb 21 | Brown Bag: Rikard Forslid & Sten Nyberg (SU): "Brexit – Balancing Trade and Migration". |
Thu Feb 23 | Ines Helm (SU): ”Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs”. |
March | |
Tue Mar 7 | Brown Bag: Matilda Kilström (SU): "Should I Stay or Must I Go? Temporary Protection and Labor Market Outcomes for Refugees". |
Thu Mar 9 | Michael Greenstone, (Chicago): “Measuring the Welfare Effects of Residential Energy Efficiency Programs.” |
Tue Mar 14 | Brown Bag: Anna Bindler GU): "The fall of capital punishment and the rise of prisons: How punishment severity affects jury verdicts”. |
Thu Mar 16 | Sergio de Ferra (SU): "Sovereign Default and the Zero Lower Bound: Deadly Embrace in a Monetary Union". |
Thu Mar 23 | Alessandra Voena (Chicago): "Child Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments" . |
Tue Mar 28 | Brown Bag: Niklas Blomqvist (SU): "Part-time Employment and Gender Gaps". |
Tue Mar 30 | Kaveh Majlesi (LU): "Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure". |
April | |
Tue Apr 4 | Brown Bag: Daniel Knutsson (SU): "Infant Health Monitoring and Mortality: Evidence From a Universal Reform in Sweden". |
Thu Apr 6 | Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary): "Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle". |
Tue Apr 18 | David Autor (MIT): "When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men". |
Tue Apr 25 | Brown Bag: David Zentler-Munro (UCL): "Minimum Wages in Frictional Labour Markets". |
Thu Apr 20 | Johannes Haushofer (Princeton): ”The Cost of Keeping Track”. |
Thu Apr 27 | Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE): "State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Historic Germany”. |
Fri Apr 28 | PhD Defense: Jürg Fausch (SU) |
May | |
Tue May 2 | Brown Bag: David Seim (SU): “The Role of Firms in Payroll Tax Incidence: Evidence from a Young Workers' Tax Cut in Sweden”. |
Thu May 4 | Kory Kroft (Toronto): "Quantifying the Welfare Gains of Variety: A Sufficient Statistics Approach". |
Tue May 9 | Brown Bag: Andrea Colombo (ECARES): "Public Good under Appointed versus Elected Mayors: Evidence about Criminality in Belgium". |
Thu May 11 | Paula Bustos (CEMFI): "Capital Allocation Across Regions, Sectors and Firms: Evidence from a Commodity Boom in Brazil ". |
Tue May 16 | Brown Bag: Per Pettersson-Lidbom (SU): “Political Power and Resistance to Technological Change and Economic Development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden”. |
Thu May 18 | Dave Donaldson (Stanford): "The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect". |
Tue May 30 | Brown Bag: Björn Hinnerich (SU): “Do Mild Sentences Deter Crime? Evidence using a Regression-Discontinuity Design”. |
June | |
Thu Jun 1 | Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley): "Are Protests Games of Strategic Complements or Substitutes? Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement". |
Thu Jun 8 | Pedro Dal Bó (Brown): "The Demand for Bad Policy when Voters Underappreciate Equilibrium Effects”. |
Fri Jun 9 | Final seminar: Anders Österling (SU) |
Tue Jun 13 | Brown Bag: Anna Seim (SU): “Towards a Unified Theory of Income and Democracy”. |
Thu Jun 15 | Gerard Padró i Miquel (LSE): "Making Democracy Work: Formal Institutions and Culture in Rural China". |
Seminars & brown bags, spring 2017
Last updated:
June 22, 2017
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Source: Department of Economics