Becker Applied Economics Workshop – Spring 2023
May
22
2023
This workshop focuses on the application of core economic tools to address questions that are of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. The seminar series meets weekly on Mondays 3:30-4:45pm.
Agenda
Monday, March 20, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Inferring Long-run Survival Effects from Short-run Estimates: Application to Air Pollution
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monday, March 27, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Efficiency in Household Decision Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples
Cormac O’Dea, National Bureau of Economic Research
Monday, April 3, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Real-Time Surveillance of Repression: Theory and Implementation
Jesse Shapiro, Harvard University
Monday, April 10, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
International Trade Responses To Labor Market Regulations
Mathilde Munoz, University of California, Berkeley
Monday, April 17, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
The Impact of Brexit on UK Firms
Nick Bloom, Stanford University
Monday, April 24, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Job Search and Employer Market Power
Alan Manning, London School of Economics and Political Science
Monday, May 1, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Families as Drivers of Inequality: Experimental Evidence from an Early Childhood Intervention
Imran Rasul, University College London
Monday, May 8, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Owen Zidar, Princeton University
Monday, May 15, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Do Optional Information Policies Increase Equity? Evidence From Two Large-Scale Grading Experiments
Basit Zafar, University of Michigan
Monday, May 22, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap
Ingrid Haegele, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich