Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2021

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren and Sarojini Hirshleifer

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
3/29/2021 Opinder Kaur (UC Riverside) Does Making Mothers Literate Improve Their Little One’s Health? Evidence from India
4/05/2021
*11:00am
Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario) Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill
4/12/2021
*11:00am
Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus University) Academic Achievement and Wellbeing of Dual Language Learners: Evidence from a Busing Program
4/19/2021
*11:00am
Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg) Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
4/26/2021 TBD TBD
5/03/2021
*11:00am
Dan Bjorkegren (Brown University) (Machine) Learning what Policymakers Value
5/10/2021 Damon Clark (UC Irvine) How do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers.
5/17/2021
*11:00am
Chris Woodruff (Oxford University) Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico’s Labor Courts
5/24/2021 Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago) Does Public Participation Matter? Evidence from a National-Scale Experiment on the Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China