Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (formerly, PEW)

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First term
24 October 2014	13:30	Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia.

7 November 2014	13:30	Christian Fons-Rosen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation (joint with Michael Ewens).

14 November 2014	13:30	Manuel Bagüés (Aalto University), What You Know Can't Hurt You (for long): A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback (joint with Ghazala Azmat, Antonio Cabrales and Nagore Iriberri).

25 November 2014	13:30	Paula Bustos (CREI and Princeton), Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation. Evidence from Brazil (joint with Bruno Caprettini and Jacopo Ponticelli).

28 November 2014	13:30	Jan Stuhler (UC3M), Labor Supply Shocks and the Adjustment Dynamics of Local Wages and Employment: New Evidence from a Commuting Policy (joint with Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg).

17 December 2014	13:30	Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra (Harvard University & University of California, Berkeley), Contract Enforceability and Ethnic Institutions in East Congo .

Second term
13 February 2015	13:30	Joe Altonji (Yale University), Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables when Estimating Group Treatment Effects: The Case of School and Neighborhood Effects (joint with Richard K. Mansfield).

27 February 2015	13:30	Konrad Burchardi (IIES), Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts.

5 March 2015	13:30	Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Job Search Behavior and Outcomes among the Employed and Unemployed (joint with Jason Faberman, Andreas Mueller and Aysegul Sahin).

Third term
5 June 2015	13:30	James Snyder (Harvard University), Institutional Reforms and the Power of Political Party Organizations, Evidence from the U.S. 1877-1977 (joint with Pamela Ban, Alexander Fouirnaies and Andrew B. Hall).