This workshop focused on the application of core economic tools to address questions that are of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. It met weekly on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m., in Saieh Hall Room 146.
Agenda
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Mechanism Design Meets Development: Selective Trials for Technology Diffusion
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Media Capture through Favor Exchange
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Complexity and Sophistication
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Equilibrium Provider Networks: Bargaining and Exclusion in Health Care Markets
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Measuring Physician Quality
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Demand- and Supply-Side Policies to Tackle Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Diversity or Diversion? Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
Tuesday, May 30, 2017