"A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity" abstract Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the safety of a home or placing them in compromised circumstances. This study uses national, prospective, longitudinal data from the…

"Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory"

"The Effects of the Transition from Home-based Community Nurseries to Childcare Centers on Children in Colombia" abstract Colombia’s national early childhood strategy launched in 2011 aimed at improving the quality of childcare services offered to socio-economically vulnerable children, and included transferring children from small non-parental family daycare units into large childcare centers in urban areas.…

"The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants"

"Weak dominance: A mystery cracked" Download the relevant papers: http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/weak.pdfhttp://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/npce.pdf

"Healthcare and Consumption with Aging" Abstract Health-care benefits individuals by slowing the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility through consumption over a longer lifetime. This paper solves the problem of household dynamic healthcare, consumption, and saving when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect the Gompertz' law, while both utility and health-care are isoelastic. The…

"Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program"

CANCELLED

"Inference in markets with algorithmic learning agents"

(Note: the seminar is on Tuesday)

"Multiproduct Pricing Made Simple"

"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"

"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides an alternative and informative perspective on the wage flexibility puzzle,…

"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"

"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…

"Aid Effectiveness Revisited: The Trade-Off Between Needs and Governance" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday @ 12:45) jointly organized with Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano

"Communication with Unknown Perspectives"

"Contests for Experimentation"