Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Eisho Takatsuji (Northwestern University): "Selecting Proportional Juries"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Eisho Takatsuji (Northwestern University): "Selecting Proportional Juries"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Benjamin Krueger (Northwestern University): "Shrinkage vs Omission for Estimation in the Presence of Medium Parameters"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Seung Hyeong Lee Title: Disagreement, Subjective Uncertainty, and the Stock Market Abstract: We propose a new method to separately quantify investor...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Thomas Helgerman (Minnesota): Women in Law and the Draft Abstract: Between 1964 and 1973, women’s representation in full-time law school programs...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Speaker: Alison Doxey (UChicago) Title: The Long-Run Effects of Access to Social Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Workers' Compensation (with...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Christian Hellwig (TSE): “Consumption, Wealth and Income Inequality: a Tale of Tails”, with Alexandre Gaillard (Brown), Philipp Wangner (Mannheim) and...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Michael Kremer (UChicago) Title: Narrative, Ritual, and Identity Abstract: Some scholars argue that exposure to historical narrative, ritual, and collective experiences...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Sara Heller (UMich): Using Network Data to Measure Social Returns and Improve Targeting of Crime-Reduction Interventions with Ashley Craig, Kenneth...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Xu Cheng (UPenn): Optimal Estimation of Two-Way Effects under Limited Mobility Abstract: We propose an empirical Bayes estimator for two-way effects...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Patrick Testa (Tulane): Elections and Political Investment Abstract: Elections select officeholders and policies, but they also signal to political actors where...