CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Monday 08 June 2026 12:00 - 13:30

Committing While We Still Can: Marital Regimes, Labor Supply and Household Intertemporal Behavior

This paper studies how couples use premarital agreements to commit to how marital assets will be divided in case of divorce. We examine a setting in which the cost of such agreements is minimal: by marking their choice o...Read more...

Monday 01 June 2026 12:00 - 13:30

Identity Uncertainty

Social identity is not always directly observable: individuals may choose to mask identity markers, and these strategic decisions may or may not succeed in shifting others? beliefs about their identity. We study the econ...Read more...

Friday 22 May 2026 12:00 - 13:30

The Labor Market Costs of Mental Health: Evidence from Depression, Anxiety, and Self-harm

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Monday 11 May 2026 12:00 - 13:30

Designing Anti-Poverty Policy Experiments from Observed Mobility Patterns

We develop a data-driven method for designing the optimal policy experiment to increase the chances of escaping poverty. We collected original in-person survey data on nearly 1,000 individuals who grew up poor in Memphis...Read more...

Friday 08 May 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CANCELLED: The Effects of Widespread Online Education on Market Structure and Enrollment

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Monday 30 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

Learning to Harm: The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender-Based Violence

Using administrative data from Sweden, this paper provides the first large-scale estimates on the intergenerational transmission of gender-based violence (GBV) and evidence on how this cycle can be broken. We show that s...Read more...

Monday 23 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CANCELLED: The Drafted Nation: Economic and Political Legacies of Conscription

This paper provides the first comprehensive evidence on the multifaceted legacy of military conscription across the world. We construct a new global database of conscription policy reforms linked to hundreds of census an...Read more...

Monday 16 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

The Role of Retail Providers in Antimicrobial Resistance: Audit and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

We study how pharmacies and clinics in Western Kenya make decisions that are critical to local health outcomes and antimicrobial resistance, such as the appropriateness of provided medications, diagnostic efforts, diagno...Read more...

Wednesday 11 March 2026 12:30 - 14:00

Joint with Trade/Urban and EEE seminars

Global Policy Spillovers: How Environmental Policies Propagate through Product Attributes

In a globalized economy, a country?s domestic policies can generate global spillovers when it affects the products designed and manufactured by multinational firms. Standard economic analyses typically abstract from this...Read more...

Monday 02 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

Joint with the Industrial Organisations seminar

Smart Power Limits: Designing Shortage Mechanisms for Extreme Events

As shortages of resources like water and electricity due to extreme weather events become more frequent, high prices alone may fail to curb demand, making shortages more common. We examine a power limit policy for resi...Read more...

Monday 08 December 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Revisiting the Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act

In this paper, we revisit the evidence on the employment effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. The existing literature has assessed the impact of the policy by comparing the labor market outcome...Read more...

Monday 01 December 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Families, Farms and Financial Frictions in Mali

We cannot reject the (static) efficiency of the allocation of consumption within households. In contrast, we show that production choices on farms cultivated by different members of the same household do not satisfy the...Read more...

Monday 24 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Working Time Reduction, Employment, and Productivity: Evidence from France?s 35-Hour Reform

We revisit the longstanding policy debate on working time reductions by studying the effects of France?s 35-hour reform. The policy mandated a reduction in weekly hours from 39 to 35 hours without loss of pay and was acc...Read more...

Monday 17 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers

Stimulus transfers are widely used during economic downturns, yet they are often poorly targeted from an economic perspective. I show that political incentives might help explain this discrepancy. I study one of the larg...Read more...

Monday 10 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

The Worker's Brain Under the Expert's Hat: Tacit Knowledge, Occupation Codes, and Wage-Setting

While economists have long studied the returns to easy-to-measure skills, such as years of schooling, it is widely recognized that many tasks are difficult to codify, and require embodied intuitions and past on-the-job e...Read more...

Monday 03 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Selection and Incentives in Microequity Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Firms often cite financing constraints as key barriers, yet lenders rarely innovate beyond debt products. While theory suggests debt may dominate equity due to adverse selection and moral hazard, these mechanisms are dif...Read more...

Monday 09 June 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Reparations as Development? Evidence from Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

We study the effects of reparations for victims of gross human rights violations in Colombia. Victims of forced displacement, homicide, and other atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict receive a lump-sum...Read more...

Friday 30 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

FRIDAY Seminar: The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization

University-based scientific research has long been argued to be a central source of commercial innovation and economic growth. Yet at the same time, there have been long-held concerns that many university-based discove...Read more...

Monday 19 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions

Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we analyze the longterm effects of a Chilean po...Read more...

Monday 12 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Pushing the Envelope The Effects of Salary Negotiations

Salary negotiations are a widespread phenomenon that can shape important labor market outcomes such as worker welfare, inequality, and the gender pay gap. Using survey and experimental data from job seekers in the U.S....Read more...