Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (formerly, PEW)

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First term
29 September 2016	13:30	Saul Lach (The Hebrew University), Retail Prices in a City .

20 October 2016	13:30	Alex Mas (Princeton University), Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements (joint with Amanda Pallais).

27 October 2016	13:30	Mine Senses (Johns Hopkins University), Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods (joint with Leo Feler).

10 November 2016	13:30	Martin Browning (University of Oxford), Income and Consumption: A Micro Semi-structural Analysis with Pervasive Heterogeneity (joint with Sule Alan).

Second term
19 January 2017	13:30	Carlos Sanz (Banco de España), Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation in Spain .

2 February 2017	13:30	Claudio Ferraz (PUC-RIO), Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics (joint with Frederico Finan and Dimitri Szerman).

16 February 2017	13:30	Swati Dhingra (LSE), Piggy-Back Exporting, Intermediation, and the Distributional Gains from Trade in Agricultural Markets (joint with Silvana Tenreyro).

23 February 2017	13:30	Rohini Pande (Harvard Kennedy School), E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India (joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert and Santhosh Mathew).

9 March 2017	13:30	CANCELLED Tania C.J. Barham (University of Colorado, Boulder), Effects of Early Childhood Health and Family Planning on Labor Market Outcomes.

16 March 2017	13:30	Judit Vall (UPF), Who Respond to Changes in Sick Leave Benefits? Evidence from Spain (joint with Olivier Marie).

23 March 2017	13:30	Ruben Durante (UPF), Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls (joint with G. Beattie, B. Knight and A. Sen).

Third term
6 April 2017	13:30	Costas Meghir (Yale University), Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia (joint with Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons and and Marta Rubio-Codina).

3 May 2017	13:30	Anupam B. Jena (Harvard Medical School), What Happens to Patients when Doctors Leave Town? Evidence from Patient Mortality when Cardiologists Attend National Scientific Conferences.

4 May 2017	13:30	Brian Knight (Brown University), The Limits of Propaganda: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela (joint with Ana Tribin).

18 May 2017	13:30	Tania Barham (University of Colorado at Boulder), Thirty-Five Years Later: Effect of a Child Health and Family Planning Program on Economic and Migration Outcomes .

25 May 2017	13:30	Matt Notowidigdo (Northwestern University), Quantifying the Welfare Gains of Variety: A Sufficient Statistics Approach (joint with Kory Kroft, Jean-William Lalibertie and Rene Leal-Vizcaino).

15 June 2017	13:30	Dave Donaldson (Stanford University), The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect (joint with Arnaud Costinot, Margaret Kyle and Heidi Williams).