Seminar Series

Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: a Polygenic Score Analysis**
Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota
with William Iacono, James Lee, Matt McGue

Optimal Overspecified Contracts**
Francesco Squintani, Warwick University  

Discretion and Destruction: Personnel Management Lessons from the World's Most Successful Navy**
Hans Joachim Voth, University of Zurich  

Caution and Reference Effects**
Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University 
with David Dillenberger and Simone Cerreia-Vioglio

Size-Dependent Discounts for Matching Markets and Auctions**
Alexandru Nichifor, University of Melbourne  
with David Delacrétaz (Oxford University) and Scott Kominers (Harvard University)

Global Giants and Local Stars: How Changes in Brand Ownership Affect Competition**
Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po

The Baltic Exchange: Weather Risk and International Trade in Early Modern Europe**
Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia  
with Simon Alder and Jonathan Colmer

A Dynamic Theory of Spatial Externalities**
Raouf Boucekkine, IMeRA, Aix-Marseille  

Optimal Project Design**
Balázs Szentes, London School of Economics  
with Daniel Garrett, George Georgiadis, Alex Smolin

A First Welfare Theorem for Time-Inconsistent Discounters: Efficiency and Patience Convexity**
Michael Richter, Royal Holloway  

The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion**
Christine Exley, Harvard University

Fairness Preferences in the Face of Limited Information: Are People Bayesian Meritocrats?**
Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics

The Habit-Forming Effects of Feedback: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment*
Lorenz Goette, University of Bonn

Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games with Patient Players*
Dilip Abreu, New York University

Motivated Errors*
Christine Exley, Harvard University

Procuring Lemons*
Pino LoPomo, Duke University

Optimal Taxation with Homeownership and Wealth Inequality*
Pietro Reichlin, LUISS

Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment*
Raquel Fernandez, New York University

Space and Cities: a History of Urban Economics*
Beatrice Cherrier, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Monetary Policy for a Bubbly World*
Alberto Martin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Investor Ideology over Time: A Spatial Analysis*
Enrichetta Ravina, Northwestern University

Time Lotteries and Stochastic Impatience*
David Dillenberger, University of Pennsylvania

Self-justified equilibria: Existence and computation*
Felix Kubler, University of Zurich

Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity on Skill Acquisition (with G. Navarro and R. Reyes-Heroles)
Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics

Navin Kartik, Columbia University

Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics

Elyes Jouini, University of Dauphine

Maria Montero, University of Nottingham

Anna Raute, Queen Mary University

Jose Apesteguia, UPF

Felix Kubler, University of Zurich

Barbara Petrongolo, Queen Mary University

Paolo Siconolfi, Columbia Business School

Hulya Eraslan, Rice University

Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania

Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick

Yotam Margalit, Tel Aviv University**

Andy Eggers, University of Oxford**

Orit Kedar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem**

Noam Gidron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem**

Kenneth Benoit, London School of Economics*

Cecilia Mo, UC Berkeley*

Cesi Cruz, University of California San Diego*

Scott Gelbach, University of Chicago*

Miriam Golden, European Union Institute*

Ethan Kaplan, University of Maryland*

Arthur Spirling, New York University*

Race, Representation and Local Governments in the US South: the Effect of the Voting Rights Act
Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham

How Programmatic Policies Impact Clientelism: Evidence from Snow Subsidies in Japan
Amy Catalinac, New York University

Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effects of Immigration on Race Relations in the US (with Shom Mazumder and Marco Tabellini)
Vicky Fouka, Stanford University

Under the Gun: Explaining Party Violence in Karachi, Pakistan
Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany-State University of New York

A Silent Corrupting Force? Recall Elections and Criminal Sentencing
Sanford Gordon, NYU Politics

Imperial Machinations and (B)Uganda’s Struggle for Independence
Apollo Makubuya, MMAKS Advocates

From Research to Policy: Health Reform in the United States
Sherry Glied, NYU Wagner

Bureaucracies, Advisers, and Interstate Crises
Robert Schub, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Prestige, Duty, or Fear? Why U.S. Supreme CourtJustices Follow Public Opinion
Matt Hall, University of Notre Dame

Leverage and Governance under US Hierarchy
Giacomo Chiozza, American University of Sharjah

Kristin Surak, SOAS University of London*

Wendy N. Espeland, Northwestern University*

Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts: The Museum of Primitive Arts as Case Study*
Jennifer Lena, Columbia University

Kim Weeden, Cornell University*

Christopher Winship, Harvard University

Sanaz Mobasseri, Questrom School of Business - Boston University

Gender differences in choice of major field of study. Experimental evidence on gendered risk and return preferences – and what to do about it
Marita Jacob, University of Cologne

Privateers of the Atlantic: Merchant Elite Networks in Saint-Malo under the Ancien Régime
Henning Hillmann, Mannheim University

The Hidden Costs of Debt: The Case of Student Loans
Frederick Wherry, Princeton University

Rethinking the GCC and the Middle East's Contemporary Political Economy
Adam Hanieh, SOAS University of London

Self-Negation
Mustafa Emirbayer, University of Wisconsin

How large-scale genetic data is helping us understand health, human behaviors, and our social world
Robbee Wedow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard​

Klarita Gërxhani (EUI)

Marcus Giamattei (University of Passau)

Kristine Koutout (Vanderbilt University)