Important note:
The Public Economics Workshop meets Tuesdays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Sciences
Faculty organizer: Corina Mommaerts
*Please note the Public Workshops have moved from Room 8417 to Room 7142 for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters.
- Fall 2023
- Spring 2023
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Fall 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2019
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/14/2021 | Dartmouth |
The Effects of Urban Renewal Programs on Gentrification and Inequality |
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| 9/21/2021 | Michigan | Evaluating Minimum Taxes and Tax Harmonization | |
| 9/28/2021 | UW-Madison |
Selection in Disability Insurance |
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| 10/5/2021 | Berkeley | Equilibrium Effects of Food Labeling Policies | |
| 10/19/2021 | UW-Madison | Optimal Taxation of Families over the Life Cycle | |
| 10/26/2021 | MIT Sloan | Efficiency in Household Decision Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples | |
| 11/2/2021 | FRB NY | The Work-Leisure Trade-off: Identifying the Heteroogeneity | |
| 11/9/2021 | 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 | 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 |
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| 3/9 | Dartmouth | ||
| 3/16 | Princeton |
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA |
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| 3/22 (Monday) | Bocconi | ||
| 4/6 (begins at 5.45 pm) | University of New South Wales | ||
| 4/13 | University of Western Ontario | ||
| 4/19 (Monday at 11 am) | 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) |
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| 4/26 (Monday at 11 am) | Aarhus | ||
| 5/11 | Purdue |
Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes (co-authored with Kevin Mumford) |
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/15 | Amherst College | ||
| 09/29 | Dartmouth College | ||
| 10/06 | Stanford |
Subsidy Targeting with Market Power |
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| 10/13 | UW-Madison |
Employee-Side Discrimination: Beliefs and Preferences |
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| 10/20 | UW-Madison |
Place-Based College Admission, Migration and the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital: Evidence from China |
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| 10/27 | University of Michigan |
You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings |
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| 11/03 | University of Rochester | ||
| 11/09 (Monday, at noon) | University of Oxford | ||
| 11/17 | UC-Berkeley |
Spillovers from voluntary employer minimum wages (joint with Clemens Noelke and David Weil) |
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| 11/23 (Monday at noon) | LSE | ||
| 12/7 (Monday at noon) | Erasmus University |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/10 | University of Michigan | ||
| 3/24 | University of Michigan | Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income | |
| 3/31 | University of Rochester | ||
| 4/7 | Georgetown University | ||
| 4/14 | University of Arizona | ||
| 4/21 | Harvard | ||
| 4/28 | Stanford | ||
| 5/5 | UCLA |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/10 | University of Washington | The Welfare Costs of Gross Receipts Taxes | |
| 9/17 | Washington University STL | What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital? | |
| 9/24 | Cornell | Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration | |
| 10/1 | Stanford | The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States | |
| 10/8 | UCSD | Field of Study in High School and Career Outcomes | |
| 10/15 | UW-Madison | Sorting into Neighborhoods: The Role of Minimum lot Sizes | |
| 10/22 | Brown University | Subways and Urban Air Pollution | |
| 10/29 | University of Chicago | Beyond Health: The Welfare Effects of Disability Insurance | |
| 11/5 | UW-Milwaukee | Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Life-Cycle | |
| 11/12 | Aarhus University | ||
| 11/19 | Vanderbilt | Who Benefits from Federal Welfare Spending? Evidence from the Introduction of Progressive Cost Sharing | |
| 12/3 | UC- Berkeley |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/5 | Federal Reserve Bank | Do Consumer Beliefs about Credit Conditions Predict Car Purchases? | |
| 4/9 | Duke | Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States | |
| 4/16 | 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 | University of Toronto | An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfect Competition | |
| 4/30 | University of Michigan | Firm-Level Responses to Immigration: the Extensive Margin |