THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Past Applications of Economics Workshops
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April 1
Susan Athey, Stanford
"Adapting AI Methods to Model Career Transitions, Wage Disparities, and Causal Effects"
April 15
Luigi Zingales, Chicago Booth
“ The Impact of Digitalization on Bank Stability"
April 22
Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University
“AI Bros? Gender Disparities in the Research on AI and its Workplace Footprint"
May 6
Josh Lerner, Harvard University
“The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization"
October 1
Michele Modungo, Board of Governors of the Fed Reserve System
“Decoding Equity Market Reactions to Macroeconomic News"
October 15
Orazio Attanasio, Yale University*
"Subjective Earnings and Employment Dynamics”
October 22
Eric Budish, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
"Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains”
November 12
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Corporate Discount Rates”
November 19
Anup Malani, University of Chicago Law School
“Effective Fertility: A New Measure of Surviving Children to Analyze Fertility Decline”
December 3
Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago
“Can Price Ceilings Increase Prices? Reference Pricing and the Inflation Reduction Act”
*Please note that this workshop only will begin at 3:45 p.m.
April 9
Rachel Glennerster, UChicago
"Nudging at Scale: Combining Random and Quasi-Random Variation to Evaluate the Scale-Up of Incentives for Immunization in Pakistan”
April 16
Anup Malani, UChicago
"Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India"
April 23
Bruce D. Meyer, UChicago
“Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation"
April 30
Casey Mulligan, UChicago
"Difference-in-Differences in the Marketplace"
May 14
Christina Brown, UChicago
"Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers"
October 17
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University
"A Technology-Gap Model of Premature Deindustrialization"
October 24
Furkan Kılıç, UChicago
“Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs”
October 31
Jim Heckman, UChicago
"The Microdynamics and Measurement of Early Childhood Learning"
November 7
Santiago Franco, UChicago
"Output Market Power and Spatial Misallocation"
November 14
Michael Kremer, UChicago
"Improving Secondary School Through Vocational Education"