ECON 3107: Seminar in Public Economics and Fiscal Policy
This Course website is for both Fall 2018 and Spring 2019.
Harvard Public Economics Seminar Econ 3107
Monday 4:30-5:45 Littauer M-16 Unless otherwise noted
Spring Term 2019
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
Monday, January 28 |
No Meeting |
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Monday, February 4 |
No Meeting |
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Wednesday, February 13 Joint with Labor Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Crystal Yang (Harvard Law School) |
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Wednesday, February 20 Joint with Labor Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Gianluca Violante (Princeton University) |
"Optimal Progressivity with Age-Dependent Taxation" (with J. Heathcote and K. Storesletten) |
Wednesday, February 27 Joint with Labor Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Sara Heller (University of Michigan) |
"Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs" |
Monday, March 4 |
No Meeting |
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Monday, March 11 Joint with Macro Littauer Hansen-Mason Room Note Time: 3:00-4:15 |
Alan Auerbach (University of California, Berkeley) |
“Local Fiscal Multipliers and Fiscal Spillovers in the United States” (with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy) |
Monday, March 20 |
No Meeting |
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Monday, March 25 Joint with Labor Littauer M-16 |
Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago) |
"How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?" (with S.Bonhomme, K. Holzheu, B. Setzler, T. Lamadon, and E. Manresa) |
Wednesday, April 10 Joint with Labor and Behavioral Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Arin Dube (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
“Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers” |
Wednesday, April 17 Joint with Labor Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Matt Notowidigdo (Northwestern University) |
"Plan Value-Added: Evaluating Medicaid Managed Care Plans Using Random Assignment" (co-authored with Craig Garthwaite) |
Wednesday, April 24 Joint with Labor and Behavioral Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics) |
"Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias” |
Wednesday, May 1 Joint with Labor Littauer Hansen-Mason Room |
Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) |
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Course Summary:
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