Fall 2020 Seminar

Schedule

Unless noted in bold below, all seminars take place at 5 pm UK time on Thursdays. All seminars will take place on Zoom, links will be shared one week prior via email. Please note that titles are subject to change.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper

17.9	No seminar
24.9	Dean Karlan	Northwestern University and NBER	“Does lasting behavior change require knowledge change? Evidence from savings interventions for young adults”
01.10	Sandra Black	Columbia University and NBER	“Where Does Wealth Come From? The Determinants of Wealth Over the Lifetime”
08.10	Joshua Goodman	Boston University and NBER	“Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time”
15.10	Leah Bouston	Princeton University and NBER	“Automation before Robots: Machine Tools and the US Labor Market”
22.10 15:30	Seema Jayachadran	Northwestern University and NBER	“Counterfactual-specific Effects of Scholarships to Attend Kindergarten on Child Development in India”
29.10	Michael Clemens	Center for Global Development	“Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries”
05.11	No Seminar
12.11	James Feigenbaum	Boston University and NBER	“How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities”
19.11	Erica Field	Duke University and NBER	“A signaling model of the persistence of child marriage in Bangladesh”
26.11	No seminar, Thanksgiving
03.12	No seminar
10.12	Peter Bergman	Columbia University and NBER	“Hiring as Exploration”