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Thursday, February 12th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies
Ashesh Rambachan, Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Temperature Shocks and Climate Change: A Conceptual Analysis
Christian Traeger, Professor of Economics, University of Oslo,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan, Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation
Leeat Yariv, Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Random Utility with Aggregation
Kota Saito, Professor of Economics, Caltech,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Ernesto Dal Bo, Phillip Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Labor Market Conflict and Technical Change: The Impact of the Legalization of Unions on the Industrial Revolution
Jeremiah Dittmar, Associate Professor of Economics, The London School of Economics & Political Science,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Tax Preferences and Housing Affordability: Explorations using a Life-Cycle Model
Michael Keane, Professor of Economics, Carey Business School, John Hopkins University,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Experiments on Monotonicity and Complexity
John Rehbeck, Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio State University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Competing for Attention: Quality Provision in Digital Markets
Odilon Camara, Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment
Michela Giorcelli, Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA,
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Foreign Sponsor's Dilemma
Xiaoyan (Christy) Qiu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bias and Accuracy in Jury Selection
Amna Salam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economic, Stanford University,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data
Phil Haile, Professor of Economics, Yale University,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Talking across the Aisle
Peter Schwardmann, Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A General Framework for Estimating Preferences Using Response Time Data
Federico Echenique, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Trust but Verify? Experimental Evidence on Disclosure, Deception and Punishment in the Data Economy
Ginger Jin, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland,
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Social Sciences History Seminar

This seminar has been postponed.
Menaka Hampole, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Theory of Electoral Turnout Based on Free-Riding Aversion
Laurent Bouton, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification
Aislinn Bohren, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Mariagiovanna Baccara, Professor of Economics, Olin School of Business, Washington University St. Louis,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Loss and Damage Today: How Climate Change is Impacting Output and Capital
James Rising, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware,
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Noam Yuchtman, Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Oxford and All Souls College,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
Shakeeb Khan, Professor of Economics, Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, Boston College,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Psychological Principles Underlying Bursty Power-law Activity in Human Behavior
Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Caltech,
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Using Organizational Flexibility: Inside the GmbH
Tim Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
Jean-Francois Houde, Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk

Average Treatment Effects in Exchangeable Random Arrays
Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Quantifying Inefficiency
Yannai Gonczarowski, Professor of Economics and of Computer Science, Harvard University,
Monday, May 5th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Science Talk

Empirical Analysis of Market Entry with Many Potential Entrants
Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He, James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition
Eddie Dekel, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

What Makes a World War? A Structural Analysis of Integration
Joseph Ruggiero, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Repression and Autocratic Consolidation
Livio Di Lonardo, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Declarations of Independents: Open-Ended Survey Responses and the Nature of Non-Identification
Paul Kellstedt, Professor, Department of Political Science, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University,
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Medieval Markets and Migration: Paris c. 1300
Nathan Sussman, Full Professor, International Economics & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, Geneva Graduate Institute,