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Stanford
Department of Economics
School of Humanities and Sciences

Public and Environmental Economics

Organizers: Clare Kroesche
Emails: clarek [at] stanford.edu (clarek[at]stanford[dot]edu)

iCal feed: https://economics.stanford.edu/seminar/61/ical
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Upcoming Events

Spring 2024

April
23
Maggie Shi - University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Controlling Costs Through Soft Spending Limits: Evidence from the Medicare Therapy Cap

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
April
30

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
May
8
Jesse Shapiro - Harvard University

Real-Time Surveillance of Repression: Theory and Implementation

Date
-
Location:
GSB Gunn Building, G101
635 Knight Way, Stanford
Link to Paper

Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Co-authors: Veli Andirin, Yusuf Neggers, and Mehdi Shadmehr

May
14
Tal Gross - Boston University

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
May
21
Patrick Kennedy - National Bureau of Economic Research

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
May
28
Peter Ganong - University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
June
4
Joseph Doyle - MIT Sloan

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom

Past Events

Spring 2024

April
16
Richard Hornbeck - Chicago Booth

Black Wealth and Opportunity after Emancipation: Freedman Bank Depositors and Their Descendants after the 1874 Collapse

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
April
10
Oriana Bandiera - London School of Economics

Meritocracy Across Countries

Date
-
Location:
GSB Bass Center, Room B400
655 Knight Way, Stanford
Link to Paper

Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Co-authors: Ananya Kotia, Ilse Lindenlaub, Christian Moser, and Andrea Prat

April
2
Natalie Bau - UCLA

Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom

Abstract:

Winter 2024

March
19
David Silver - UC Santa Barbara

Invisible Wounds: Health and Well-Being Impacts of Mental Disorder Disability Compensation on Veterans

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
March
13
Solomon Hsiang - University of California, Berkeley

Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Global Migration

Date
-
Location:
GSB Patterson Building, Room P106
663 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford
Link to Abstract

Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Co-authors: Suraj Nair, Guanghua Chi, Nicholas Depsky and Joshua Blumenstock

March
5
Christopher Campos - University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Social Interactions, Information, and Preferences for Schools: Experimental Evidence from Los Angeles

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
February
27
Barbara Biasi - Yale School of Management

What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom

Co-authors: Julien Lafortune and David Schonholzer

February
20
Abigail Ostriker - Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment

The Effects of Floodplain Regulation on Housing Markets

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
February
14
John Friedman - Brown University

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges

Date
-
Location:
GSB Bass Center, Room B400
655 Knight Way, Stanford
Link to Paper

Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Co-authors: Raj Chetty and David Deming

February
6
Heather Royer - University of California, Santa Barbara

Disentangling Sources of Variation in Cesarean Delivery Rates

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom

Abstract: