University of Wisconsin–Madison

Juli Plant Grainger Public Workshop

Important note:

The Public Economics Workshop meets Tuesdays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Science (Morton Room)
Faculty organizer: Martin O’Connell

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/3	Carolina Arteaga	University of Toronto (on sabbatical at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago and at CEMFI)	Demographic Divergence: The Legacy of the Opioid Epidemic
2/24	Katie Bollman	Oregon State University	More with Less: The Impact of Mandatory Overtime on Police Wellness and Productivity
3/3	Nathan Hendren	MIT	Credit Access in the United States
3/17	Manasi Deshpande	University of Chicago	Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment
4/7	Andy Ferrara	University of Pittsburgh	Frontline Leadership: Evidence from American Civil War Captains
4/21	Ethan Ligon	UC-Berkeley	Credit and Welfare Across the Lean Season
5/6	Anders Humlum	University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Still Waters, Rapid Currents: Early Labor Market Transformation under Generative AI

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/9	Sarah Bass	UW-Madison	Home Financing and Sorting Responses to Wildfire Risk Information and Insurance Availability
9/16	Andrea Franco	UW-Madison	School or Crime: A Teenager’s Choice
9/23	Andrew Smith	UW-Madison	The Effects of High School Curriculum Standards Reform: Evidence from Texas
9/30	Katherine Kwok	UW-Madison	Police Officer Interactions in Arrests, Stops, and Use of Force
10/7	Amitabh Chandra	Harvard Kennedy School of Government	Scientists, Institutions and Fundamental Science
10/14	Hyun Lim	UW-Madison	Grading Policies and College Major Choice with Ability Learning
10/21	Hanna Han	UW-Madison	All SROs are not created equal: Heterogeneity in school policing
10/28	Zoe Cullen	Harvard Business School	Pushing the Envelope: The Effects of Salary Negotiations
11/6 joint with WSB (11-12:15pm in Grainger 4580)	Leah Boustan	Yale	Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
11/11	Jacob Moscona	MIT	Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/25	Louis-Pierre Lepage	SOFI	Anticipated Discrimination and Major Choice
3/4	Harrison (Harry) Wheeler	Toronto	The Effect of a Homebuyer Subsidy on Children
3/11	Leandro Carvalho	USC	A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of SES
3/18	Dmitry Taubinsky	UC-Berkeley	When do Nudges Increase Welfare?
4/1	Dan Black	University of Chicago - Harris	The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in an Economy with Spatial Variation in Wages and Prices
4/8	Enrique Seira	Michigan State University	Structured Payment in Pawnshop Borrowing: Mandates vs. Choice
4/15	Tania Barham	University of Colorado Boulder	Taking a Chance on Workers: Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT
4/22	Petra Persson	Stanford	TBD
4/29	Abigail Adams	Oxford	TBD
5/6	TBD	TBD	TBD

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/17	Jiemin Xu	UW-Madison	Parent-Child Strategic Interaction and Skill Development in Adolescence
9/24	Karla Hernandez	UW-Madison	The Price of Formality: The Role of Social Insurance in Labor Market Choices
10/1	Manisha Jain	UW-Madison	The Effect of Conditional Cash Transfers on Fertility in India
10/8	Arjun Jain	UW-Madison	Better Schools or Healthier Students? Uncovering Hidden Heterogeneity in School Effectiveness
10/15	Elizabeth Llanes	UW-Madison	Unemployment Insurance Policy: The Impact of Required Reemployment Service and Eligibility Assessment Programs on Worker Outcomes.
10/22	Paul Gertler	Berkeley	In-situ Upgrading or Population Relocation? Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Slum Renewal Policies
10/29	Andrew Barr	Texas A&M	The Big Economic Consequences of Small Financial Shocks: Evidence from Minor Car Accidents
11/5 3:30pm	Menaka Hampole	Yale SOM	Financial Frictions and Human Capital Investments
11/12	Kory Kroft	Toronto	The Consumption and Borrowing Responses to Income Shocks and Debt Forgiveness
11/19	Lorenzo Lagos	Brown	Union-Specific Rents and Inequality
12/3	Garance Genicot	Georgetown	Firstborn Girls and Family Structure: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
12/10	Laura Weiwu	Stanford/Berkeley Haas	Unequal Access: Racial Segregation and the Distributional Impacts of Interstate Highways in Cities

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/27	Joshua Gottlieb	University of Chicago	Market Size and Trade in Medical Services
3/5	Koichiro Ito	University of Chicago	Choosing Who Chooses: Selection-Driven Targeting in Energy Rebate Programs
3/12	Jacob Goldin	University of Chicago	Child Allowances and Labor Supply: Evidence from the California Young Child Tax Credit
3/19	Maya Rossin-Slater	Stanford	Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread
3/21 (11am-12:15pm in Grainger 3560)	Allison Shertzer	Federal Reserve, Philadelphia	The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006
4/2	Xavier Jaravel	London School of Economics	Five Facts about MPCs
4/23	Hoyt Bleakley	Michigan	Voting with their Feet: Differential Migration of the Free in the Antebellum United States
4/30	Benjamin Schoefer	UC Berkeley	Social Preferences, Hostility, and Dismissals: Evidence from Failures of Bilateral Efficiency in ‘Separations by Mutual Agreement in France'
5/7	TBD

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/12	Tim Layton	Harvard	Adverse Selection and (un)Natural Monopoly in Insurance Markets
9/19	Jim Sallee	Berkeley	Who Will Pay for the Energy Transition? Affordability, Efficiency, and Electricity Price Regulation
9/26	Katsuhiro Komatsu	UW-Madison	Temporary Layoffs and Unemployment Insurance
10/03	Lois Miller	UW-Madison	Switching Schools: Effects of College Transfers
10/10	Ray Kluender	Harvard	A Bittersweet Jubilee: Evidence on the Effects of Randomized Medical Debt Relief
10/17	Jeremy Kirk	UW-Madison	The Impact of Parental Resources on Human Capital Investment and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Great Recession
10/24	Elise Marifian	UW-Madison	As Seen On TV: The Effects of Advertising on Demand for College
10/31	Stuart Craig	UW-Madison	Who Bears the Burden of Rising Health Care Spending in the US? Evidence from Hospital Mergers
11/07	Stephanie Owen	Colby	Experimental Evidence on the Effects of College Quality on Educational Attainment
11/14	Rossella Calvi	Rice University	Terms of Engagement: Migration, Dowry, and Love in Indian Marriages
11/21	NONE	-	-
11/27 MONDAY -Joint with Labor Workshop	Bruce Meyer	University of Chicago	Poverty in the U.S.
11/28	NONE	-	-
12/05	Joe Hotz	Duke	Race Differences in Impact of Parental Resources on Children’s College Attendance & Its Financing
12/12	Nicole Maestas	Harvard	Social Security Disability Reform and Implications for Employment

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/21	Judd Boomhower	UCSD	Property Insurance Markets and Climate Change Adaptation
3/28	Marcus Casey	UIC	Distinguishing Causes of Racial Change: A Nearest Neighbor Design
4/04	Cormac O'Dea GRAINGER VISITOR	Yale	Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Life Cycle Perspective
4/18	Dean Corbae	UW-Madison	Equilibrium Evictions
4/25	Winnie van Dijk GRAINGER VISITOR	Harvard	Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door
5/02	Matthew Johnson	Duke	Innovation and the Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements
5/09	Dena Lomonosov	Wisconsin (Real Estate Dept)	The Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Residential Housing Choices

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/13	Itzik Fadlon	UC San Diego	Measuring Valuation of Liquidity with Penalized Withdrawals
9/20	Lee Lockwood	University of Virginia	Health Insurance Increases Financial Risk
9/27	Helen Levy	Michigan	The Impact of Eligibility for Medicaid versus Subsidized Private Health Insurance on Medical Spending, Self-Reported Health, and Public Program Participation
10/04	Hae-Young Hong	UW-Madison	Estimating the Distribution of Elasticity of Medical Expenditure Using a Notch in Out-of-Pocket Cost
10/11	Long Hong	UW-Madison	Coworker sorting, learning, and wage inequality
10/18	Tomas Larroucau	ASU	Dynamic College Admissions
10/25	Elise Marifian	UW-Madison	Cost Uncertainty, Financial Aid, and the Enrollment Choices of Low-Income Students
11/01	Nathan Seegert	Utah	The Elasticity of Corporate Taxable Income Across Countries
11/08	Silvia Vannutelli	Northwestern	From Lapdogs to Watchdogs
11/15	Pengpeng Xiao	Duke	Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium
11/29	Luca Flabbi	University of North Carolina	Working and Saving Informally: The Link between Labor Market Informality and Financial Exclusion
12/06	Andreas Kostol	ASU WP Carey School of Business	Layoff Costs, Insurance and Precautionary Job Mobility
12/13	Ami Ko	Georgetown	Marital Transitions, Housing, and Long-Term Care in Old Age

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/22	Milena Djourelova	Chicago	Media Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Coverage of Immigration
4/5 ROOM 7142	Amanda Agan	Rutgers	Misdemeanor Prosecution
4/19	Kevin Lang	Boston University	Estimating the Nature of Technological Change: Exploiting Shifts in Skill Use Within and Between Occupations
4/26	Donna Gilleskie	UNC	“The Dynamic Effects of a Criminal Record on Health: A Model of Long-run Behaviors and Outcomes when Lagged Variables are Missing Non-Randomly” by Ning Fu, Donna B. Gilleskie, Shawn Kneipp, Todd Schwartz, and Amanda Sheely
5/3	Maurizio Mazzocco	UCLA	http://www.econ.ucla.edu/mazzocco/doc/Taxation_For_Website.pdf

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/14/2021	Chyn, Eric	Dartmouth	The Effects of Urban Renewal Programs on Gentrification and Inequality
9/21/2021	Hines, James	Michigan	Evaluating Minimum Taxes and Tax Harmonization
9/28/2021	Abdulhadi, Adibah	UW-Madison	Selection in Disability Insurance
10/5/2021	Barahona, Nano	Berkeley	Equilibrium Effects of Food Labeling Policies
10/19/2021	Ahmadi-Renani, Sahber	UW-Madison	Optimal Taxation of Families over the Life Cycle
10/26/2021	Choukhmane, Taha	MIT Sloan	Efficiency in Household Decision Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples
11/2/2021	Kosar, Gizem	FRB NY	The Work-Leisure Trade-off: Identifying the Heteroogeneity
11/9/2021	Colmer, Jonathan	Univ of Virginia	Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States
11/30/21	Pope, Nolan	Univ of Maryland	Making Teaching Last: Long-Run Value-Added
12/7/21	Mukherjee, Anita	UW-Madison	Set it and Forget it? Financing Retirement in an Age of Defaults

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/2	Wojciech Kopczuk	Columbia	Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway, with Annette Alstadsaeter, Martin Jacob, and Kjetil Telle
3/9	Erzo Luttmer	Dartmouth	What Behavioral Biases Limit Retirement Security? Experimental Evidence
3/16	Ilyana Kuziemko	Princeton	Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA
3/22 (Monday)	Jérôme Adda	Bocconi	There is more to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations
4/6 (begins at 5.45 pm)	Michael Keane	University of New South Wales	Health Shocks and the Evolution of Earnings over the Life-Cycle
4/13	Rory McGee	University of Western Ontario	Old Age Savings and House Price Shocks
4/19 (Monday at 11 am)	Gabriella Conti	University College London	Perceived Costs and Benefits of Compliance to the COVID-19 Social Distancing Measures: Evidence from Subjective Expectations Gabriella Conti (UCL) and Pamela Giustinelli (Bocconi University)
4/26 (Monday at 11 am)	Helena Skyt Nielsen	Aarhus	Academic Achievement and Wellbeing of Dual Language Learners: Evidence from a Busing Program
5/11	Tim Bond	Purdue	Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes (co-authored with Kevin Mumford)

Date	Speaker	Institute	Presentation Title
09/15	Joshua Hyman	Amherst College	School District Revenue Shocks, Resource Allocations, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Universe of U.S. Wind Energy Installations
09/29	Jonathan Skinner	Dartmouth College	Hospital Productivity and the Misallocation of Healthcare Inputs
10/06	Maria Polyakova	Stanford	Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
10/13	Md Moshi Ul Alam	UW-Madison	Employee-Side Discrimination: Beliefs and Preferences
10/20	Alan Yang	UW-Madison	Place-Based College Admission, Migration and the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital: Evidence from China
10/27	Laura Kawano	University of Michigan	You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings
11/03	John Singleton	University of Rochester	Valuing School Choice: Using a Randomized Experiment to Validate Welfare Evaluation of Private School Vouchers
11/09 (Monday, at noon)	Hamish Low	University of Oxford	Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences with Luigi Pistaferri
11/17	Ellora Derenoncourt	UC-Berkeley	Spillovers from voluntary employer minimum wages (joint with Clemens Noelke and David Weil)
11/23 (Monday at noon)	Johannes Spinnewijn	LSE	The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands (joint with Ben Handel, Jon Kolstad, and Thomas Minten)
12/7 (Monday at noon)	Anne Gielen	Erasmus University	Unexpected colonial returns - Mass migration and the persistence of inequality over multiple generations (Joint with Dinand Webbink)

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/10	Sarah Miller	University of Michigan	The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion
3/24	~~Jim Hines~~	University of Michigan	Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income
3/31	~~John Singleton~~	University of Rochester	~~Valuing School Choice: Using a Randomized Experiment to Validate Welfare Evaluation of Private School Vouchers~~
4/7	~~Ami Ko~~	Georgetown University
4/14	~~Evan Taylor~~	University of Arizona
4/21	~~Ellora Drenoncourt~~	Harvard
4/28	~~Luigi Pistaferri~~	Stanford
5/5	~~Maurizio Mazzocco~~	UCLA

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/10	Caroline Weber	University of Washington	The Welfare Costs of Gross Receipts Taxes
9/17	George Gayle	Washington University STL	What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?
9/24	Levon Barseghyan	Cornell	Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration
10/1	Tim McQuade	Stanford	The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
10/8	Gordon Dahl	UCSD	Field of Study in High School and Career Outcomes
10/15	Amrita Kulka	UW-Madison	Sorting into Neighborhoods: The Role of Minimum lot Sizes
10/22	Matthew Turner	Brown University	Subways and Urban Air Pollution
10/29	Manasi Deshpande	University of Chicago	Beyond Health: The Welfare Effects of Disability Insurance
11/5	Kevin Thom	UW-Milwaukee	Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Life-Cycle
11/12	Lars Skipper	Aarhus University	Discontinuity in Care: Practice Closures among Primary Care Providers and Patient Health
11/19	Andrew Goodman-Bacon	Vanderbilt	Who Benefits from Federal Welfare Spending? Evidence from the Introduction of Progressive Cost Sharing
12/3	Victor Couture	UC- Berkeley	Income Growth and the Distributional Effect of Urban Spatial Sorting

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/5	Karen Pence	Federal Reserve Bank	Do Consumer Beliefs about Credit Conditions Predict Car Purchases?
4/9	Christopher Timmins	Duke	Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States
4/16	Susan Dynarski	University of Michigan	Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
4/23	Kory Kroft	University of Toronto	An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfect Competition
4/30	Parag Mahajan	University of Michigan	Firm-Level Responses to Immigration: the Extensive Margin