Public Policy & Economics Workshop

September 27

Jon Gruber, MIT
"Do Expensive Hospitals Achieve Better Outcomes? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns & Dispatch-Area Boundaries"

October 4

Sebastian Galiani, Washington University
"The heterogeneous impact of conditional cash transfers in Honduras"

October 11

John Ham, Maryland
"Pollution, Test Scores and the Distribution Of Academic Achievement: Evidence From California Schools 2002-2008"

October 18

Ashley Langer, University of Michigan
"Demographic Preferences and Price Discrimination in New Vehicle Sales"

October 25

Saurabh Bhargava, University of Chicago
"Why are Benefits Left on the Table? Assessing the Role of Information, Complexity, and Stigma on Take-up with an IRS Field Experiment"

November 1

John Friedman, Harvard University
"Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings"

November 8

Olmo Silva, London School of Economics
"Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students’ Outcomes in England"

November 15

Lucas Davis, UC Berkeley
"Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power"

November 22

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
"Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility"

November 29

Hilary Hoynes, UC Davis
"Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health"

December 6

Ioana Marinescu, University of Chicago
"Online job search and unemployment insurance during the Great Recession"

December 13

Jeff Grogger, University of Chicago
"The Effects of Health Insurance on Healthcare Spending, Healthcare Utilization, and Health in a Transition Economy: Longer-Term Results from Mexico’s Seguro Popular Experiment"