Applied Micro Research Seminars: 2016

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Monday, 11 January, 2016 | 16:30

Miri Stryjan (Job Talk) “Electoral Rules and Leader Selection: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Community Groups”

Thursday, 14 January, 2016 | 16:30

Hector Galindo-Silva, Ph.D. (Job Talk) “Political Representation and Armed ConfIict: Evidence from Local Councils in Colombia”

Friday, 15 January, 2016 | 15:00

Myra Mohnen (Job Talk) “Stars and Brokers: Peer Effects among Medical Scientists”

Monday, 25 January, 2016 | 16:30

Patricia Navarro-Palau (Job Talk) “Effects of Differentiated School Vouchers: Evidence From a Policy Change and Date of Birth Cutoffs”

Wednesday, 27 January, 2016 | 16:30

Andrei Victor Potlogea (Job Talk) “Trade Liberalization and Economic Development: Evidence from China's WTO Accession”

Friday, 29 January, 2016 | 15:00

Andreas Menzel (Job Talk) “Organizational Learning: Experimental Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories”

Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 | 16:30

Gaetano Basso (Job Talk) “Local Labor Markets Adjustments to Oil Booms and Busts”

Friday, 5 February, 2016 | 15:00

Audinga Baltrunaite (Job Talk) “Political Finance Reform and Public Procurement: Evidence from Lithuania”

Monday, 8 February, 2016 | 16:30

Christoph Koenig (Job Talk) “Loose Cannons – War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany”

Tuesday, 9 February, 2016 | 16:30

Rocco d’Este (Job Talk) “Breaking the Crystal Meth Economy: The Effects of Over the Counter Medicine Restrictions on Drug-Related Crime in the United States”

Monday, 29 February, 2016 | 16:30

Prof. Hessel Oosterbeek (U. of Amsterdam) “The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice”

Monday, 14 March, 2016 | 16:30

Prof. Maia Güell (U. of Edinburgh) “Unemployment Duration Variance Decomposition à la ABS: Evidence from Spain”

Monday, 18 April, 2016 | 16:30

Prof. James Snyder (Harvard University) “Party Polarization in Legislatures with Office-Motivated Candidates”

Monday, 25 April, 2016 | 16:30

Pascaline Dupas, Ph.D. (Stanford University) “The Daily Grind: Cash Needs, Labor Supply and Self-Control”

Monday, 2 May, 2016 | 16:30

Fabian Waldinger, Ph.D. (University of Warwick) “International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the Wake of WWI”

Monday, 9 May, 2016 | 15:30

Prof. Michael A. Leeds (Temple University) “Incentives and Institutions: The Case of Nippon Professional Baseball”

Wednesday, 11 May, 2016 | 16:30

Astrid Kunze, Ph.D. (NHH) “Child Care Coverage and Flexible Working Arrangements of Mothers”

Monday, 16 May, 2016 | 16:30

Rusty Tchernis, Ph.D. (Georgia State University) “On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting”

Monday, 6 June, 2016 | 16:30

Prof. Ludger Woessmann (CESifo Group Munich) “The Political Economy of University Tuition Fees: Information Provision and Income Contingency in Representative Survey Experiments”

Thursday, 9 June, 2016 | 16:30

Prof. David Jaeger (CUNY) “Identification is Harder than You Think: Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration”

Monday, 26 September, 2016 | 16:30

Pietro Biroli, Ph.D. (U. of Zurich) “Racial Differences in Human Capital Investments and Inequality Later in Life”

Monday, 10 October, 2016 | 16:30

Silvia Barcellos, Ph.D. (USC Dornsife): “Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health”

Monday, 14 November, 2016 | 16:30

Olga Kuzmina, Ph.D. (NES, Moscow) “Operating Flexibility and Capital Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

Monday, 5 December, 2016 | 16:30

Michel Maréchal, Ph.D. (U. of Zürich) “The Honest Citizen: Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments”

Monday, 12 December, 2016 | 16:30

Gregory Veramendi, Ph.D. (Arizona State U.) “College Major Choice: Sorting and Differential Returns to Skills”

Monday, 19 December, 2016 | 16:00

Rául Sánchez de la Sierra, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, Haas) “The state as organized crime: Industrial organization of the traffic police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”