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Applied Economics Workshop

Sponsored by the Gatto Economic Research & Faculty Development Fund

Organizing Committee: Dan Benjamin, Antonio Bento, Jim Berry, Steve Coate, Matt Freedman, Ori Heffetz, Ben Ho, Kirabo Jackson, Mike Lovenheim, Jordan Matsudaira, Ted O'Donoghue, and Emily Owens.

Contact: Ted O'Donoghue

All workshops are on Wednesdays at 4:15 p.m. in Uris Hall 498 unless otherwise noted.

September 9 - Eric Weese (Yale University) (joint w/Public Econ)
Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: Evidence from Japanese Municipal Amalgamations

September 16 - Matt Weinberg (Cornell University)
Do Social Security Benefit Recipients Smooth Consumption over Paychecks: Evidence from New Data with Variation in Paydates

September 30 - Carlos Dobkin (UC Santa Cruz)
Are Supply-Side Drug Control Efforts Effective? Evaluating OTC Regulations Targeting Methamphetamine Precursors

October 7 - Mike Conlin (Michigan State University) (joint w/Public Econ)
Interference by College Admission Departments: Bayesian or Cursed? (joint w/Stacy Dickert-Conlin)

October 14 - Ray Fisman (Columbia University) (joint w/Public Econ)
Distinguishing Motivations for Corporate Charity: Evidence from EBay Sellers

October 21 - Fernanda Leon (Cornell University) (joint w/ Public Econ)
Newspaper Political Endorsements and Market Competition

October 28 - Leah Brooks (University of Toronto) (joint w/ Public Econ)
The Micro-Empirics of Collective Action: The Case of Business Improvement Districts (joint w/William Strange)

November 4 - Kevin Stange (University of Michigan) (joint w/ Public Econ)
An Empirical Investigation of the Option Value of College Enrollment

November 11 - Damon Jones (Stanford University) (joint w/ Public Econ)
Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds

November 13 - (Fri., 4:00 p.m., STL 265) - Department Wide Seminar - Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India (joint w/Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak & Jeanne Lafortune)

November 18 - James Sallee (University of Chicago) (joint w/ Public Econ)
Car Notches (joint w/Joel Slemrod)

December 2 - Monica Singhal (Harvard University) (joint w/ Public Econ)
Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution (joint w/Erzo Luttmer)

December 4 - (Fri., 4:00 p.m., STL 265) - Frank Knight Lecture- Roger Myerson - (University of Chicago)
Understanding the Foundations of Institutions: Moral Hazard in High Office