Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (formerly, PEW)

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First term

26 September 2019:

Keith Head (University of British Columbia), Global Giants and Local Stars: Market Concentration and its Consequences.

17 October 2019:

Costas Arkolakis (Yale University), General Equilibrium Indirect Effects in Space: Theory and Measurement (joint with Rodrigo Adao Federico Esposito).

30 October 2019:

Kamran Bilir (University of Wisconsin), Knowledge Diffusion Through Networks (joint with Treb Allen and Chris Tonetti).

31 October 2019:

Eduardo Morales (Princeton University), A Revealed-Preference Approach to Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions (joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Charly Porcher).

21 November 2019:

Jan Eeckhout (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE), Quantifying Market Power (joint with Jan De Loecker and Simon Mongey).

12 December 2019:

David Atkin (MIT), How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption (joint with Eve Colson-Sihra and Moses Shayo).

Second term

13 February 2020:

Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford), Informality and the Economic Effects of Mass Migration: Evidence from the Syrian refugees in Turkey.

26 March 2020:

CANCELLED Michael Waugh (NYU), The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration (joint with David Lagakos and Mushfiq Mobarak).

Third term

16 April 2020:

Barbara Petrongolo (LSE), Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms.

30 April 2020:

CANCELLED Victor Lavy (University of Warwick), TBA.

7 May 2020:

Gabriella Santangelo (University of Cambridge), TBA.

13 May 2020:

Ingo Isphording (IZA), The Value of a Peer (joint with Ulf Zölitz).

21 May 2020:

Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University), Attending kindergarten improves cognitive but not socioemotional development in India (joint with Joshua T. Dean).

28 May 2020:

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University), TBA.

4 June 2020:

Noam Yuchtman (University of California Berkeley), TBA.