The workshop "Causal Inference: Current Trends and the Future of Research" will be held on the 4th-5th of May 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by Marcelo C. Medeiros, ...
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Guilherme Amorim
Job Market Paper: Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance and Health: Evidence from Brazil
Fields of Concentration: Health Economics, Public Finance, Labor Economics
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Dan Bernhardt (Chair)
Alex Bartik
Ben Marx
Julian Reif
Andrea Atencio-De-Leon
Job Market Paper: Contracting out Labor Market Dynamism
Fields of Concentration: Empirical Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Gender and Development
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Dan Bernhardt
Eliza Forsythe
Claudia Macaluso
Susan Houseman
Andrew Garin
Hongqi Chen
Job Market Paper: On the Analysis of Quantile Forward Regression
Fields of Concentration: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Quantile Methods, High-Dimensional Econometrics
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Ji Hyung Lee (Chair)
Marcelo C. Medeiros
EunYi Chung
Xiaofeng Shao
Felipe Diaz Klaassen
Job Market Paper: Crime and Monetary Punishment
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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Rebecca Thornton (Chair)
Alexander Bartik
Benjamin Marx
Andrew Garin
Heejin Kim
Job Market Paper: The Effects of a Local Improvement on Housing Markets and Neighborhoods : Evidence from Chicago
Fields of Concentration: Urban Economics, Public Economics, Real Estate Economics
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David Albouy (Chair)
Daniel McMillen
Seung-Hyun Hong
Alexander Bartik
Jieun Lee
Job Market Paper: Testing Endogeneity of Spatial Weights Matrices in Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models
Fields of Concentration: Spatial Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Socioeconomics (Quantitative)
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Anil K. Bera (Chair)
Eun Yi Chung
Vladimir Hlasny
Eduardo Medina-Cortina
Job Market Paper: Deportations, Network Disruptions, and Undocumented Migration
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Migration Economics, Development Economics
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Dan Bernhardt (Co-Chair)
Mark Borgschulte (Co-Chair)
Adam Osman
Darren Lubotsky
Italo Morais Santos
Job Market Paper: Towards Robust Local Projections
Fields of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Bayesian Econometrics
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Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi (Chair)
Mark Daniel Bernhardt
Greg Howard
Maria Noelia Romero
Job Market Paper: The Venezuela diaspora: Evidence from the Peruvian labor market
Fields of Concentration: Labor and Development Economics
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Rebecca Thornton (Chair)
Darren Lubotsky
Mary Arends-Kuenning
Alexander W. Bartik
Irina Valenzuela
Job Market Paper: Do Low-stakes Visits to Schools Affect Student Performance? Evidence from a Large-scale Monitoring Program in Peru
Fields of Concentration: Education, Political Economy, Gender Economics, Health Economics
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Elizabeth Powers (Chair)
Rebecca Thornton
Mark Borgschulte
The workshop "HDMetrics: Big Data, High-Dimensional Methods, and Machine Learning" will be held on the 21st-22nd of April 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by Marcelo C. Medeiros, ...
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will be hosting the fourth Great Lakes Political Economy Theory Conference (GLPET) on Saturday, April 1st, 2023. This event will take place from 8:30 am through 5:30 pm at 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. We hope to build on the success of previous GLPET conferences, held at the University of Chicago (Peter Buisseret) in 2019, Michigan State U. (Jon...
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- This fall, we had 76 students begin their study in the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 12 different countries: Belarus, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, and the USA. These students joined the 68 continuing students in the MSPE...
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