Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (formerly, PEW)

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First term

27 September 2018:

Maia Güell (University of Edinburg), Income Contingent University Loans: Policy Design and an Application to Spain (joint with Antonio Cabrales, Rocio Madera and Analia Viola).

18 October 2018:

Frederic Robert-Nicoud (University of Geneva), Highways, Market Access, and Spatial Sorting (joint with Stephan Fretz and Raphaël Parchet).

25 October 2018:

Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia in Vancouver), The Long Run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition.

8 November 2018:

Vernon Henderson (LSE), Building the City: Urban Transition and Institutional Frictions (joint with Tanner Regan, and Anthony J. Venables).

15 November 2018:

Pierre-Philippe Combes (CNRS - Universite de Lyon - ENS Lyon), A Random Forest Approach to Mining Historical Maps: Land Use in France from the Mid-18th Century (joint with Marie-Pierre De Bellefon, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Clément Gorin).

29 November 2018:

Laura Hospido (Banco de España), Pollution and Sick Leaves: Evidence from Social Security Data (joint with Felix Holub and Ulrich Wagner).

19 December 2018:

Eduardo Morales (Princeton University), Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference (joint with Rodrigo Adão and Michal Kolesár).

20 December 2018:

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

Second term

10 January 2019:

Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania), Mobility and Congestion in Urban India (joint with Prottoy A. Akbar, Victor Couture and Adam Storeygard).

21 February 2019:

Jan Stuhler (UC3M), Kinship Correlations and Intergenerational Mobility (joint with Lola Collado and Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin).

28 February 2019:

Paula Bustos (CEMFI), Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth (joint with Juan Manuel Castro Vincenzi, Joan Monras and Jacopo Ponticelli).

7 March 2019:

Luca Repetto (Uppsala University), Government Stability in Parliamentary Democracies (joint with Felipe Carozzi and Davide Cipullo).

21 March 2019:

Nick Tsivanidis (UC Berkeley and Dartmouth College), The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogota s TransMilenio.

28 March 2019:

Diego Puga (CEMFI), The Role of Networks in Residential Mobility (joint with Konstantin Büchel, Elisabet Viladecans, and Maximilian von Ehrlich).

Third term

4 April 2019:

Janet Currie (Princeton University), Understanding Physician Decision Making: The Case of Depression (joint with W. Bentley Macleod).

25 April 2019:

Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), TBA.

16 May 2019:

Giulia Brancaccio (Princeton University), TBA.

6 June 2019:

Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago), TBA.

13 June 2019:

Jérôme Adda (Bocconi University), TBA.