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2017

Dec 6 Michael Roberts-Univ. of Hawaii Seminar: Variable Pricing and the Social Cost of Renewable Energy 
Nov 30 Lint Barrage - Brown University Seminar (Thursday*)-Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?” (joint with Laura Bakkensen)
Nov 8 Christophe Gouel - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Seminar: The Value of Public Information in Storable Commodity Markets: Application to the Soybean Market: Application to the Soybean Market
Oct 18 Marcel Fafchamps - Stanford University Seminar: Can referral improve targeting? evidence from a vocational training experiment
Sep 20 Charles Sprenger - UC San Diego Seminar: Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing
Sep 13 Jevgenijs Steinbuks - World Bank Seminar: Electricity Access Charges and Tariff Structure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sep 7 Antonio Bento - University of Southern California Seminar (Thursday*)-Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency
Apr 26 Morgan Hardy - New York University Seminar: It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion
Apr 19 Emily Breza - Harvard University Seminar: Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Apr 5 Eric Auerbach - UC Berkeley* Seminar (Rescheduled): Identification and Estimation of Social Interaction Models using Network Data

Mar 29
Emily Wang - University of Massachusetts - Amherst Seminar: Obesity and Self Control: Evidence from Food Purchase Data
Feb 24 Aaron Smith - Univ. of California - Davis Seminar: Residential Building Codes Do Save Energy: Evidence From Hourly Smart-Meter Data
Feb 15 Jing Li - Harvard University* Seminar (Rescheduled, Room 0118 Symons Hall): Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
Feb 14 Rebecca Taylor - UC Berkeley Seminar: Giving Plastic Bags the Sack: The Hidden Costs of Changing Behavior
Feb 8 Erich Battistin - University of London Seminar: School Accountability, Score Manipulation and Economic Geography (The presentation will draw from results in the attached papers and ongoing work on the effects of school quality and score manipulation on house prices in England)
Feb 3 Lutz Kilian - University of Michigan Seminar: A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices with an Application to Crude Oil
Feb 2 Robert Metcalfe - Imperial College London Seminar: Too Much of a Good Thing? Using a Natural Field Experiment To Evaluate the Impact of Low-Income Energy Subsidies
Jan 30 Matias Damian Cattaneo - University of Michigan Seminar: Regression Discontinuity Designs Using Covariates
Jan 27 Isla Globus-Harris - UC San Diego Seminar: An Impossible Goal: When Trade Ratios Can’t Achieve No-Net-Loss
Jan 26 Joshua Linn - Resources for the Future (RFF) Seminar: How Much Do New Vehicle Consumers Value Fuel Economy and Performance? New Estimates and Implications for the Energy Efficiency Gap

Jan 24
Jisung Park - Harvard University Seminar: Temperature, Test Scores, and Human Capital Production
Jan 20 Yinchu Zhu-UC San Diego Seminar: High-dimensional panel data with time heterogeneity: estimation and inference
Jan 19 Derek Lemoine- University of Arizona Seminar: The Climate Risk Premium: How Uncertainty Affects the Social Cost of Carbon
Jan 17 Charles Palmer- London School of Economics Seminar: Was von Thünen Right? Cattle Intensification and Deforestation in Brazil