Research Workshops Applied Economics Workshop
In this workshop, new applied economics research and applied economics research papers, as well as related topics, are presented by Booth faculty and PhD students, as well as by invited speakers.
The workshop will be held in-person (in HC 3B), with no virtual options.
Please contact Kerry Thomas if you would like to be added to the listserv for weekly updates.
When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.
Autumn 2024
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, October 2, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment" |
Hunt Allcott |
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability |
| Wednesday, October 9, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B | "Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets" |
Claudia Allende |
Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Wednesday, October 16, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Who Benefits from Payroll Tax Cuts? Market Power, Tax Incidence and Efficiency" |
Felipe Lobel |
Columbia University |
| Wednesday, October 23, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Quantifying Bargaining Power Under Incomplete Information: A Supply-Side Analysis of the Used-Car Industry" |
Brad Larsen |
Olin Business School at Washington University in Saint Louis |
| Wednesday, October 30, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Mechanism Reform: An Application to Child Welfare" | Jason Baron |
Duke University |
| Wednesday, November 6, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Water Works: Causes and Consequences of Safe Drinking Water in America" |
Joe Shapiro |
University of California Berkeley |
| Wednesday, November 13, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Spillovers and Fairness: The Owens Valley Controversy as a Game of Spatial Externalities" |
José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez |
Yale University |
| Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Tax Incentives and the Supply of Low-Income Housing" |
Evan Soltas |
Microsoft Research NYC |
| Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Sustainable Intermediation: Using Market Design to Improve the Provision of Sanitation" |
Jean-François Houde |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
1:20–2:50 p.m. |
Harper 3B |
"Stakes and signals: An empirical investigation of muddled information in standardized testing" |
Evan Riehl |
Cornell University |