January 30*
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Andrei Shleifer
,
Harvard University
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"The Regulation of Labor" (joint with Departmental Seminar)
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February 4
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Philip Oreopoulos
,
University of Toronto
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"Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? Evidence Using Changes in School-Leaving
Laws"
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February 10
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Michael Boskin
,
Stanford University
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"Deferred Taxes in Macroeconomics and Public Finance"
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February 18*
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Abhijit Banerjee
,
M.I.T.
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"History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems
in India" (joint with Departmental Seminar)
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February 26*
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Steven Levitt
,
University of Chicago
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"An Economic Analysis of Names: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Distinctively
Black First Names" (joint with Departmental Seminar)
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March 3
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Chris Hennessy
,
UC Berkeley
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"The Optimal Mix of Bank and Bond Market Debt: An Asset Pricing Approach"(coauthors Hayne
Leland and Dirk Hackbarth; joint with Macro Seminar)
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March 12*
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David Laibson
,
Harvard University
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"Pricing and Product Design with Boundedly Rational Consumers" (joint with Departmental
Seminar)
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March 17
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Vernon Henderson
,
Brown University
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"Why Countries are Fiscally Decentralizing"
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March 24
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Spring Break
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March 31
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Amy Finkelstein
,
Harvard University
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Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets: Evidence and Explanations from the Long-Term
Care Insurance Market" (coauthor Kathleen McGarry)
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April 8*
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Gerard Roland
,
UC Berkeley
|
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"The European Parliament and Europe's Coming Constitution" (joint with Departmental
Seminar) 4-6pm., 639 Evans
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April 14
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Ivan Werning
,
M.I.T.
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"Optimal Paternalism",with Manuel Amador (joint with Macro Seminar)
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April 22*
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Robert Hall
,
Stanford University
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"Wage and Matching Frictions and Employment Fluctuations" (joint with Departmental
Seminar) 4-6pm., 608-7 Evans
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April 28
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Wojciech Kopczuk
,
University of British Columbia
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"Tax Bases, Tax Rates and the Elasticity of Reported Income:Can Policy Makers Control the
Marginal Cost of Taxation?"
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May 5
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Matthew Rabin
,
UC Berkeley
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"Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes" (coauthor Ted
O'Donoghue)
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May 12
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Julie Cullen
,
University of Michigan
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"The Impact of School Choice on Enrollment and Achievement: Evidence from over 1,000
Randomized Lotteries" (coauthors Brian Jacob and Steven Levitt)
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* Note different day, room and/or time
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