Date

Speaker

Discussant

Topic (Click to download the paper if available)

January 28

Cancelled.

February 4

Francesco Drago

NA

The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

February 11

Mariesa Herrmann

Ayako Kondo

The Effect of Workplace Smoke Bans on Heart Attack Mortalities

February 18

Rajeev Cherukupalli

Kensuke Teshima

Federal taxes, state regulations and health insurance for the
self employed

February 25

Ayako Kondo

Joshua Goodman

Money Can't Buy Love: Gender-specific labor market conditions and family formation

March 3

Kensuke Teshima

Rajeev Cherukupalli

Beyond TFP: The effects of trade policies on the innovative activities of Mexican plants.

March 10

Canceled

March 17

Spring Recess

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March 24

Johannes Schmieder

Cecilia Machado

Sorting, Risk and Frictions. Wages in New Establishments.

March 31

Yinghua He

Fang He

College Availability, Labor Market Performance and Schooling Decision: Short-Run Effects of a College Expansion in China

April 7

Cecilia Machado

Johannes Schmieder

Can Expected Fertility Rates Address the Gender Wage Gap?

April 14

Joshua Goodman

Alice Henriques

The Returns to High School Coursework

April 21

Evan Borkum

Beliyou Haile

Geographically targeted user fee elimination: Evidence on enrollment from South Africa's no-fee schools

April 28

Beliyou Haile

Evan Borkum

Employment Protection Laws and Labor Market Inequalities in the US: The Case of Common Law Exceptions

May 5

Alice Henriques

Mariesa Herrmann

Accounting for Compositional Changes: The Case of Poverty for Elderly Females