Public Policy & Economics

This workshop meets on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5:00 in Room 140C, 1155 E. 60th St. The faculty organizer is Damon Jones. To receive regular updates about the seminar, please email Cynthia Cook-Conley (c-cook@uchicago.edu).


Spring 2013 Workshops

April 2Alessandra Voena (Chicago Econ)
"Prenuptial Agreements and Household Wellbeing: Theory and Evidence from Italy "
April 9Ioana Marinescu (Chicago Harris)
"Understanding wage dispersion and job search: the key role of occupations"
April 16Marit Rehavi (UBC)
"Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth"
April 23Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern Econ)
"Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam"
April 30Ebonya Washington (Yale)
"Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voter Rights Act of 1965"
May 7Gabriella Conti (Chicago Harris)
May 14Ali Hortascu (Chicago Econ)
"Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico"
May 21Pat Kline (UC Berkeley)
"What Distributional Impacts Mean: Welfare Reform Experiments and Competing Margins of Adjustment"
May 28David Dorn (CEMFI/Harvard)
"Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence"
June 4Liran Einav (Stanford)
"The Response of Drug Expenditure to Contract Design in Medicare Part D"