Becker Applied Economics Workshop
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.
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Fall 2018 Program
Tuesday, October 2 – Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago
Title: Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets
Tuesday, October 9 – Erik Hurst, University of Chicago
Title: Income Growth, Spatial Sorting and the Distributional Effects of Urban Gentrification
Tuesday, October 16 – Margaux Luflade, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Value of Information in Centralized School Choice Systems
Tuesday, October 23 – Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia
Title: Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects
Tuesday, October 30 – Camille Landais, London School of Economics
Title: Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment & Welfare Effects of Short Time Work
Tuesday, November 6 – Amy Finkelstein, MIT
Title: Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration
Tuesday, November 13 – Danielle Li, MIT
Title: Developing Novel Drugs
Tuesday, November 20 – Jesse Shapiro, Brown
Title: On the Informativeness of Descriptive Statistics for Structural Estimates
Tuesday, November 27 – Matt Notowidigdo, Northwestern
Title: Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP