Research Seminar Series

Vladimir Asriyan, CREÍ
"The Macroeconomics of Data: Scale, Product Choice and Pricing in the Information Age"

Victoria Vanasco, CREÍ
"A New Theory of Credit Lines"

Vasily Korovkin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Trade Sanctions"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

John Quah, National University of Singapore
"Comparative Statics with Adjustment Costs and the Le Chatelier Principle"

Lu Han, Wisconsin School of Business
"Housing Affordability and the Mobility of Renters"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania
"The Disparate Effects of the Retail Apocalypse"

Leopold Soegner, IAS Vienna
"Fully Modified Estimation of a Quantile Cointegration Model with a Spatial Lag"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Fabrizia Mealli, European University Institute
" Causal Inference when Intervention Units and Outcome Units Differ"

Michael Reiter, IAS Vienna
"Generalized Rotemberg Price-Setting"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Abdoulaye Ndiaye, NYU Stern
"Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints"

Carolina Villegas, ESADE
"Climate Change, Firms, and Aggregate Productivity"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Adrien Bilal, Harvard University
"The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature"

Jingting Fan, Penn State
"Learning and Expectations in Dynamic Spatial Economies"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Cezar Santos, Inter-American Development Bank
"Labor Market Regulation and Informality"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Balazs Szentes, Hong Kong University Business School
"Third-party Information Provision"

Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics
"Gendered Change: 150 Years Transformation in US Hours"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Michaela Paffenholz, University of Munich
"Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data"

María Aristizábal-Ramirez, Federal Reserve System
"Arepas are not tacos: On the labor markets of Latin America"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Antonio Ciccone, University of Mannheim
"The Long-Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence Across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement"

Luis Rojas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
"The Bright Side of the Doom Loop: Banks’ Sovereign Exposure and Default Incentives"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Alexis Antoniades, Georgetown, Qatar
"The Convergence of Occupations: Evidence from Online Job Vacancy Data"

Isabelle Mejean, SciencesPo
"Frictions and Adjustments in Firm-to-Firm Trade"

Hasin Yousaf, UNSW Sydney
"Partisan, Tribal, and Hateful: How Politicians Polarize Public Debates"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Chris Busch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
"Dual Labor Markets, Unemployment, and Career Mobility"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Morten Olsen, University of Copenhagen
"The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality"

Fane Groes, Copenhagen Business School
"Bank Lending and Worker Reallocation in the Great Recession"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Jacopo Cimadomo, European Central Bank
"One Scheme Fits All: a Central Fiscal Capacity for the EMU Targeting Eurozone, National and Regional Shocks"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Alberto Bisin, NYU
"Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy"

Jeremy Fox, Rice University
"Measuring the Welfare Gains from Cardinal-Preference Mechanisms in School Choice"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Similan Rujiwattanapong, Waseda University
"Job Search, Job Findings, and the Role of Unemployment Insurance History"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
"Remittance Frictions and Seasonal Poverty"

Olivier Bochet, NYU Abu Dhabi
"Manipulation games in rationing problems"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Elliot Ash, ETH Zurich
"Words Matter: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining Agreements"*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Nitin Bharti, NYU Abu Dhabi
"Justice for all? Evaluating the impact of legal aid clinics in India"*

*Development Research Cluster Seminar

Christian Aleman Pericon, NYU Abu Dhabi
"Kramer vs. Kramer: On the Importance of Children and Divorce Filings for Understanding Divorce Rates in the U.S."*

*Economics Brown Bag Series

Romain Rancière, University of Southern California
"International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share"

Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore (NUS)
"Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap"

Shiran Rachmilevitch, Haifa University
"Auctions with a multi-member bidder"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Yves Zenou, Monash University
"Toward a General Theory of Peer Effects"

David de la Croix, UCLouvain
"The Emergence of the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff - Insights from Early Modern Academics"

Olivier Gossner, École Polytechnique
"Rationalizable Outcome Distributions: a SCAMP Characterization"

Aleksei Chernulich, NYU Abu Dhabi
“A Natural Experiment on the Value of Strategic Unpredictability: Sign Stealing in Baseball" (with Romain Gauriot and John Wooders)*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Marco Caliendo, University of Potsdam
"Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments"

Doron Kliger, University of Haifa
“Time-Induced Stress Effect on Financial Decision Making in Real Markets: The Case of Traffic Congestion”*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Prajit Kumar Dutta, Columbia University
"Climate Change and Transfers: A CoaseTheorem"

David Weil, Brown University
"Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure"

Etienne Wasmer, NYU Abu Dhabi
“A model of land taxation with dynasties of rentiers, capitalists, landlords and tenants”*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Jacob Schwartz, University of Haifa
“The Law of Large Numbers for Large Stable Matchings” (with Kyungchul Song)*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Botond Kőszegi, Central European University
"Misinterpreting Yourself"

Fabio Maccheroni, Bocconi University
"Time-Constrained Sequential Neural Decision Procedures in Multialternative Choice Problems"

Gabriella Conti, UCL
"For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior: An application to lockdown compliance in the United Kingdom"

Songfa Zhong, NYU Abu Dhabi
"Narrowly Rational"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Martin Meier, University of Bath
"Forward Induction in a Backward Inductive Manner"

Russell Cooper, European University Institute
"Covid and Productivity in Europe: A Responsiveness Perspective"

Evi Pappa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
"Greenflation or Greendeflation? The Green Transition in Emerging Economies"

Matt Eliott, University of Cambridge
"Market Segmentation through Information"

Paul Niehaus, UC San Diego
"Targeting Impact Versus Deprivation"

Nippe Lagerlof, York University
"Eurasian Migration: A Simulation"

Patrick Kline, UC Berkeley
"Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers"

Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania
"Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration"

Katherine Casey, Stanford University
"Scaling Political Information Campaigns"

Anne-Laure Delatte, Paris Dauphine University
"Private Credit Under Political Influence: Evidence from France"

Raquel Fernandez, NYU NY
"Coming Out in America: Thirty Years of Cultural Change"

Ori Shai, University of Haifa
"Can Conflict Lead to Pro-social Behavior and Positive Psychological Growth?"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Rohini Pande, Yale University
"Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning"

John Wooders, NYU Abu Dhabi
"Expertise, Gender, and Equilibrium Play"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Yael Elster, University of Haifa
"Minorities and Property Values: Evidence from residential buildings in Israel"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Benjamin Bachi, University of Haifa 
"Naive Calibration" (with Yair Antler)*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Ben Golub, Northwestern University
"Supply Network Formation and Fragility"

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Bocconi University
"Riot networks and the Tullock Paradox: An application to the Egyptian Arab Spring"

Guido Menzio, NYU NY
"The Alpha, Beta and Gamma of the Labor Market"

Julio Davila, Nazarbayev University
"Bank intermediation"

John Ham, NYU Abu Dhabi
"New Rankings of Economics Journals: Documenting and Explaining the Rise of the New Society Journals"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Francis Kramarz, ENSAE-Ecole Polytechnique
"Matching Workers' Skills and Firms' Technologies: From Bundling to Unbundling"

Sevi Rodriguez-Mora, University of Edinburgh
"It’s the Sectors, not the Firms: Accounting for Earningsand Wage Inequality Trends in Italy 1985-2018"

Maia Guell, University of Edinburgh
"Revisiting the Determinants of Unemployment Duration"

Ran Weksler, University of Haifa
"Disclosure in Markets for Ratings"*

*Joint Seminar Series with the University of Haifa

Emi Nakamura & Jon Steinsson, UC Berkeley
"When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870"

Aditya Goenka, University of Birmingham
"Modeling Optimal Quarantines with Waning Immunity"

Tine Paulsen, University of Southern California
"Tending the Grassroots: How Local Institutions Impact National Elections"

Helen Milner, Princeton University
"Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Populist Far Right"

Daniel de Kadt, London School of Economics
"The Tools of Racial Disenfranchisement: Lessons from 135,457 Individual Voter Records"

Cecilia Mo, Berkeley
"Advocacy Training and Women's Political Participation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria"

Pavithta Suryanaryan, London School of Economics
"When Losing The State Drives Opposition to Redistribution: An Experiment in India"

Stathis Kalyvas, University of Chicago
"Why and How to Integrate the Study of Violent Political Conflict"

Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zurich
"The Return of Nationalist Geopolitics: Liberal Backsliding and Conflict"

Sergi Martinez, EAFIT
"Networks and Dynamics of Violent Political Mobilization: Historical Evidence from Spain"

Salma Mousa, UCLA
"Are Minorities Punished More Harshly for Underperformance? Evidence from Premier League Soccer" (with Ala Alrababah, William Marble and Alexandra Siegel)

Kristian Gleditsch, Essex University
"Multilingualism and Conflict"

Vicente Valentim, IE University
"The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Politival Supply and Demand"

Krzysztof Krakowski, King's College London
"Settlement Structure and Social Cohesion"

Steve Monroe, Yale-NUS College
"The Commander's Daughter: Dynastic Ties And Voter Support for Female Candidates in Post-Conflict States"

Sascha Riaz, EUI
"Racial Threat in Public Social Spaces — Evidence from Public Swimming Pools"

Ala' Alrababa'h, University of Bocconi
"Unveiling the Dynamics of Refugee Return: A Panel Study of Return Behavior"

Leah Rosenzweig, University of Chicago
"Survey Sampling in the Global South Using Facebook Advertisements"

Federica Izzo, University of California
"Evolving Parties"

Jon Krosnick, Stanford University
Are Elections in America Unfair? Exploring the Impact of Candidate Name Order

Pablo Querubin, NYU
"Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence" (joint with Massimo Pulejo)

Macartan Humphrey, Columbia University
"Intersectional Discrimination and Candidate Selection: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in Kenya"

Margit Tavits, Washington University, St. Louis
"Women and Men Politicians’ Response to War: Evidence from Ukraine"

Keith Schnakenberg, Washington University
"Pre-registration as pre-play communication in a game of strategic private experimentation"

Melissa Lee, University of Pennsylvania
"Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries"

Peter Dinesen, University College London
"Persuasion or Polarization? Understanding the Effects of Rhetorical References to Identity Politics"

Neil Ketchley, University of Oxford
"Purging to transform the post-colonial state: Elite turnover and survival after the 1952 Egyptian Revolution"

Andrew Little, UC Berkeley
"Communication and Coordination in the Shadow of Repression" (with Tak-Huen Chau and Mai Hassan)

Alexander Coppock, Yale University
"How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: evidence from a large archive of campaigns’ own experiments"

Francesca Jensenius, University of Oslo
"Partisanship, Contingency and Ideology in the Developing World

Horacio Larreguy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
"Accountability Under Polarization" 

Olle Folke, Uppsala University
"The Class Ceiling in Politics"

Julia Payson, NYU NY
"How Local Capacity Shapes Urban Distributive Politics"

Kevin Arceneaux, Sciences Po
"The Effects of Social Media during an Electoral Campaign: Can We Incentivize Citizens to be Better Informed and Less Polarized?"

Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich
"When Voters Challenge International Institutions: Implications at Home and Abroad"

Carles Boix, Princeton University
"Political Emancipation and the Formation of Modern (Jewish) National Identity"

Adam Berinsky, MIT
"Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It"

Ellen Lust, University of Gothenberg
"Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development"

Benjamin Marx, Sciences PO
"Electoral Turnovers"

Tara Slough, NYU NY
"Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability"

Avner De Shalit, Hebrew University
"City of Equals"

Carly Wayne, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)
"Diplomacy by Committee: Assessing Resolve and Costly Signals in Group Settings"

Zach Warner, Purdue University
"Conscription Systems, Political Survival, and Battlefield Deaths"

Daniel Nielson, University of Texas
"Banking Bad? A Global Field Experiment on Risk, Reward, and Regulation"

Joshua Kertzer, Harvard University
"Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making"

Florian Hollenbach, Copenhagen Business School
"The Impact of Beneficial Ownership Transparency on Illicit Purchases of U.S. Property"

Scott Abramson, Rochester University
"The Direct Cost to Voters of Polling-Site Closure & Consolidation"

Hye Young You, NYU NY
"How Are Politicians Informed? Witnesses and Information Provision in Congress"

Arthur Spirling, NYU NY
"Embedding Regression:Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference"

Nathalie Giger, University of Geneva
"How do Elites Assess Policies Designed to Reduce Inequalities and Promote Inclusion?"

Heike Kluever, Humboldt University
"The Effect of Social Influencers on Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"

Jessica Flanigan, University of Richmond
"Testimony, Expression, and Personal History"

Anita Gohdes, The Hertie School
"Global Evidence: Internet Outages and Repression."

Alexandra Scacco, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
"Desegregating Digital Spaces: A Facebook Field Experiment in Jerusalem"

Benjamin Lauderdale, UCL
"The Emergence of Coherent Political Choices from Incomplete Issue Preferences"

Dr Baruani Mshale, Twaweza East Africa
"Nenegotiating the Forest for Social and Climate Justice: Insights from Tanzania"

Jaafar Alloul, Utrecht University
"Doha’s ‘Residents-in-Waiting’: Reflections on Place, Space and Power among the ‘Migrant Nobility’ in Qatar"

Frank Dobbin, Harvard University
"Do Faculty Diversity Programs Work?"

Jevin D. West, University of Washington
"Misinformation In and About Science"

Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University
"Diffusion through multiple domains. The spread of romantic nationalism across Europe, 1770-1930"

Florencia Torche, Princeton University
"The “Rise of Women” and the Persistence of Gender Norms"

Marc Keuschnigg, Leipzig University
"The Multiplicity of Luck and Cumulative Advantage in the Life Course"

Ozan Aksoy, UCL
"Ten years in Balaka, Malawi: An excerpt from book manuscript, An Epidemic of Uncertainty"

Philip Gorski, Yale University
"’Disenchantment of the World’ or Fragmentation of the Sacred, or The Provincialization of Western ‘Secularity’”

Stephanie Mudge, UC Davis
"Political Strategy as a Global Vocation"

Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna
"Africa-China-Europe Relations: What is in it for West Asia?"

Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland
"All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: The Puzzle of Indian Women’s Low Employment"

Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute
"Imagined Futures and Capitalist Dynamics"

Amon Emeka, Skidmore College
"The Making of the African Second Generation in the U.S., 1990-2015"

Misha Teplitskiy, University of Michigan
"How Western and Non-Western Scientists Respond to Rejection: A Hidden Driver of Success in Science?"

Kim Sonderskov, Aarhus University
"Local economic inequality and depression: Evidence from more than two decades of longitudinal individual-level population data"

Jenny Trinitapoli,  University of Chicago
"Ten years in Balaka, Malawi: An excerpt from book manuscript, An Epidemic of Uncertainty"

Marga Torre, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
"Does gender parity foster collaboration? Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980-2019"

Philipp Brandt, SciencesPo
"The Big Apple’s Inner Workings: Structural Stress, Individual Strain, and Relational Footholds in a Labor Market"

Wendy N. Espeland, Northwestern University
"How Quantification Shapes Visibility"

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California
"Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States"

Amanda Sharkey, Arizona State University
"Corporate Social Responsibility at the Margins: Firms’ Responses to Marginal Inclusion on the Vault 100 Law Firms Ranking"

Leah Ruppaner, University of Melbourne
"The Gendered Consequences of COVID-19: Initial Insights from the US and Australia"

Sarah Thebaud, University of California
"Prescriptive Gender Stereotypes in Contemporary America: Content, Dynamics, and Implications for Inequality in Workplaces and Families"

Steve Pfaff, University of Washington
"Fishing for Souls: Contested Diffusion and the Rise of the Protestant Reformation"

Modupe Akinola, Columbia University
"To Delegate or Not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation"

Donald Tomaskovic-Deveym, University of Massachussets
"Relational Inequalities"

Hana Shepherd, Rutgers University
"Understanding Change in Groups and Organizations: The Formation of Consensus in Norm Perceptions"

Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley
"The Making and Unmaking of Black Rights"

Julian Go, University of Chicago
"Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Sociology"

Steven Karceski, University of Washington
"Centrism and Moderation in American Politics"        

Joscha Legewie, Harvard University
"The Enduring Impact of NYC's Stop, Question & Frisk Program. Lessons from "Big Data"

Aharon Moliver Cohen, London Business School
"Where is all the Misconduct? Deviant and Liminal Prescribing in the Prescription Drug Crisis"

Nathan Wilmers, MIT
"Wage Stagnation and the Decline of Standardized Pay Rates, 1974-1991"

Tizie Bene, NYUAD
"Formal Insurance and Risk-Sharing Networks"

Kurt W. Kuehne, NYUAD
"Putting Food on the Table: Migrant Domestic Workers, Food-as-Wages Policy, and the Governance of Labouring Subjects"

Yi Sheng, NYUAD
"Ethnic Salience and Discrimination"

Yufeng Wu, NYUAD
"Family Structures and Identity Integration Among Migrant Workers in Urban China"

Blair Welsh, NYUAD
"The Awareness and Prioritization of Climate Change in Displaced Communities: Evidence from Somalia"

Lixia Ren, NYUAD
"Agricultural Seasonality and Structural Transformation"

Wonjeong Jeong, NYUAD
"Dynamics of Self-Employment Following Motherhood: A Comparison Between South Korea and the United States"

Christian Aleman-Pericon, NYUAD
"A Quantitative Theory of the HIV Epidemic: Education, Risky Sex and Asymmetric Learning"

Hanbo Wu, NYUAD
"Gender Revolution amid Gender Inequality? Uncovering the Multidimensional Complexity of Gender Ideology in Contemporary India"

Aseem Mahajan, NYUAD
"Fifty Shades of Greenwashing: The Political Economy of Climate Change Advertising on Social Media"

Alexander Barron, NYUAD
"What Can We Learn from Speech in Global Radio?"

Sumit Goel, NYUAD
"Luce Contracts"

Perry Carter, NYUAD
"An Impassible Road to Glory: Loss and Displacement in the Republic of Armenia"

Alaa Abdelfattah, NYUAD
"The Effect of Labor Market Tightness on Recruitment Levers: A Covid Study"

Yusuf Magiya, NYUAD
"Taxation and State Building under Diversity"

Nishtha Sharma, NYUAD
"Can't agree to disagree - unfair inequality and conflict: theory and experiment"

Hanbo Wu, NYUAD
"How Do Positive and Negative Shocks to Educational Costs Jointly Affect Individual Outcomes? The Case of Education Reforms in Vietnam"

Orsola Torrisi, NYUAD
"Obstetric violence in the context of community violence: the case of Mexico"

Noam Reich, NYUAD
"When Can States Signal with Sunk Costs?"

Kurt Kuehne, NYUAD
"Low-Wage Migrant Invisibility in the Global City"

Blair Welsh, NYUAD
"The Prioritization of Climate Change in Displaced Communities: Evidence from Somalia"

Sumit Goel, NYUAD
"Project selection with partially verifiable information"

Yooseon Hwang, NYUAD
"The Welfare Effects of Congestion Pricing: Evidence From High-Occupancy Toll Lanes"

Cem Peker, NYUAD
"Peer prediction markets to elicit unverifiable information"

Alexander Barron, NYUAD
"Individuals, institutions, and innovation in the debates of the French Revolution"

Gabriela Stockler, NYUAD
"Asset Pricing and Re-sale in Networks"

Yusuf Magiya, NYUAD
"Strategic Frameworks for Women's Rights: Evidence from Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey"

Dario Romero, NYUAD
"Something Biased This Way Comes: The Effect of Media on Local Elections in the US" (with Haaris Mateen)

Christian Aleman, NYUAD
"Decreasing HIV rates and Increasing Risk of Women to HIV: Evidence from Nearly One Million Blood Test"

Samir Sweida-Metwally, NYUAD
"Not always ‘nice work if you can get it’: The Muslim penalty and other religious disadvantages in job quality in Britain"

Mario Molina, NYUAD
"Exposure to Inequality, Inequality Acceptance, and Fairness: An Experimental Approach"

Soumaila Ouedraogo, NYUAD
"Age Verification of African Older Adults using Parish Registers: Preliminary Results from a Pilot Study in Ouagadougou."

Rafat Mahmood, NYUAD
"Madrassa Identity and Extremism: Is There a Connection?"

Ekrem Baser,  NYUAD
"Conflict, Social Order, and Mutual Dependence in Production."

Yusuf Magiya, NYUAD
"Fiscal Centralization Under the Shadow of War."

Nitin Bharti, NYUAD
"Re-imagining education: Do science experiments improve human capital?"

Nishtha Sharma, NYUAD
"Endogenous Asymmetry in a Repeated Contest."

Orsola Torrisi, NYUAD
"The effect of early union formation on intimate partner violence in Colombia."

Tanguy Le Fur, NYUAD
"Conflict in Unified Growth Theory."

Dario Romero Fonseca, NYUAD
"Pretending to be the law: Violence to reduce the COVID-19 outbreak." (Joint with Diego Martin)

Noam Reich, NYUAD
"Conservation for Sale: International Bargaining over Payment for Ecosystem Services." (co-authored with Kristopher Ramsay)

Aleksei Chernulich, NYUAD
"Endogenous Tracking: Sorting and Peer Effects." (with Romain Gauriot and Daehong Min)