Seminar and Speaker Series

Olivier Bochet, NYU Abu Dhabi
"Manipulation games in rationing problems"
*As part of the Joint Seminar Series with University of Haifa

Elliot Ash, ETH Zurich
"Words Matter: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining Agreements"
*As part of the Economics Brown Bag Series

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

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"

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

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

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

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

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"

Dilip Abreu, NYU NY
"Bargaining with the Threat of Exclusion"

Vasiliki Skreta, University of Texas at Austin
"Information Design by an Informed Designer"

Noam Yuchtman, London School of Economics (LSE)
"AI-tocracy" joint work with Martin Beraja and David Y. Yang

Alessia Russo, Norwegian Business School
"Optimal Sustainable Intergenerational Insurance"

Béatrice Cherrier, ENSAE-Ecole Polytechnique
"Cities, Land and Space: a history of ‘Urban Economics’ as a field"

David Dillenberger, University of Pennsylvania
"Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction"

Bettina Rockenbach, University of Cologne
"Gender Differences Across Economic Games: Expectations, Norms, and Behavior"

Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology
"Social Learning in Groups: an Experimental Study"

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"

Yuhua Wang, Harvard University
"Elite Kinship Networks and State-Building Preferences in Imperial China."

Elias Dinas, Oxford/EUI
"The Normalization of Stigmatized Political Symbols"

Ken Benoit, London School of Economics
"More than Unigrams Can Say: Detecting Meaningful Multi-word Expressions from Political Texts"

Amanda Robinson, Ohio State University
"The Political Implications of Ethnic Visibility"

Anja Neuendorf, University of Glasgow
"Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy"

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"

Christopher Bail, Duke University
"How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media: Evidence from a Mixed-Method Field Experiment on Twitter"

Sonja Vogt, Institute of Sociology
"Creating a Market for Integrity to Reduce Corruption in Education"

Maureen Eger, Umeå University
“When I Was Growing Up: The Lasting Impact of Immigrant Presence on Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Immigration"

Kim Weeden, Cornell University
"Still a Small World? University Course Enrollment Networks before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Arnout van de Rijt, European University Institute
"The Matthew Effect in Science Funding"

Thomas Donaldson, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"A practical reasoning perspective on corporate values"

Jose Uribe, Indiana University
"Colliders in the Boardroom? Why Women's Compensation Suffers from Having a Woman CEO"

Yuliya Shymko, Audencia Business School
"Trying on a Female Face: Corporate Philanthropic Foundations as Mitigation of CEO Status Liability"

Lakshmi Ramarajan, Harvard University
"Navigating Client Status and Expert Power: How Professionals Integrate Prosocial and Professional Identity"

Thomas Roulet, University of Cambridge
"Playing with Trash: Emotions, Community Building and the Adoption of Socially Beneficial Practices" (Co-authored with Olivier Cristofini, Sorbonne U)

David Waldman, Arizona State University
"Organizational Neuroscience and Leadership Research"

Jan Stuckatz, Copenhagen Business School
"Strategic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying"

Eva Panetti, University of Naples Parthenope
"Transformative Strategic Thinking: The Art of Disciplined Business Creativity"

Christos Genakos, University of Cambridge
"What can Greek Islands Teach us About Pass-through and Competition?"

Sam Yam, National University of Singapore
"Pushing the Boundaries of Organizational Research: Examining Cannabis use at Work, Human-animal Work, and Technology-induced Cultural Change"

Giacomo Negro, Emory University
"Social Structure and the Refraction of Social Control: Naming Names During the Hollywood Blacklist"

Balázs Kovács, Yale School of Management
"The Stickiness of Category Labels: Audience Perception and Evaluation of Change in Creative Markets"