Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (formerly, PEW)

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First term
21 September 2017	13:30	Walker Hanlon (NYU Stern School of Business & NBER), Evolving Comparative Advantage in International Shipbuilding During the Transition from Wood to Steel .

19 October 2017	13:30	Clement Imbert (University of Warwick), Migration and Firms: Evidence from China (joint with Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg).

16 November 2017	13:30	Florian Oswald (Sciences Po), Consumer Bankruptcy, Mortgage Default and Labor Supply (joint with Wenli Li and Costas Meghir).

30 November 2017	13:30	Miguel Almunia (Warwick University), Information, Fiscal Capacity and Tax Compliance: An Experimental Evaluation.

Second term
22 February 2018	13:30	Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto), Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations: Evidence from Ethiopia (joint with Girum Abebe and Margaret McMillan).

8 March 2018	13:30	Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University), Ex Ante Returns and Occupational Choice (joint with V. Joseph Hotz and Arnaud Maurel).

15 March 2018	13:30	Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University), Surviving the Killing Fields. The cultural and political heritage of the Khmer Rouge (joint with Mathias Iwanowsky).

Third term
19 April 2018	13:30	Ulf Zoelitz (University of Zurich), High Achieving Men Discourage Women from Entering Quantitative Fields.

26 April 2018	13:30	Joachim Voth (University of Zurich), Rage Against the Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrst in England, 1830-32 (joint with Bruno Caprettini).

4 May 2018	13:30	Hannes Schwandt (Universität Zürich), Unlucky Cohorts: Earnings, Income, and Mortality Effects from Entering the Labor Market in a Recession (joint with Till von Wachter).

10 May 2018	13:30	Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale School of Management), Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement (joint with Luca David Opromolla, Fernando Parro and Alessandro Sforza).

17 May 2018	13:30	Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University), Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations (joint with Penny Goldberg, Costas Meghir and Gabriel Ulyssea).

24 May 2018	13:30	Treb Allen (Dartmouth College), The Geography of Path Dependence (joint with Dave Donaldson).

31 May 2018	13:30	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University), Location as an Asset (joint with Adrien Bilal).

1 June 2018	13:30	Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting (joint with Cecile Gaubert).

14 June 2018	13:30	Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University), Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia (joint with Nicolas de Roux, Marcela Eslava and Santiago Franco).