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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing
Yao Luo, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor, Department of Political Science, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Best Complete Approximations of Preference Relations
Efe Ok, Professor of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Speed, Accuracy, and Complexity
Duarte Goncalves, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University College London (UCL),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework
Max Farrell, Associate Professor of Economics and Mellichamp Chair of Mind and Machine Intelligence, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Modeling Human Social Behavior
Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology, Caltech,
Nina Rouhani, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Neuroscience, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins, Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor, University of Wisconsin, Business School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Is Survey Instability Due to Respondents who Don't Understand Politics or Social Scientists Who Don't Understand Respondents?
Gary King, Weatherhead University Professor, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Recursive Hurwicz Expected Utility and Neo-Additive Sources
Simon Grant, Professor and John C. Harsany Chair of Economics, Australian National University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CSSPP/Bray Seminar

How to Better Predict the Effect of Urban Traffic and Weather on Air Pollution? Norwegian Evidence from Machine Learning Approaches
Cong Cao, Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel
John Asker, Professor of Economics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Peter Buisseret, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Competing on Information in Selection Markets: Evidence from Italian Auto Insurance
Yi Xin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identification and Inference for Pure Random Coefficients Models with Limited Consideration
Francesca Molinari, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins, Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Knowing Your Lemon Before You Dump It" joint work with Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Alessandro Pavan, Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Spending Constraints: Why City Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods
Julia Payson, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Elicitability
Nicolas Lambert, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Rationalizable Information Design
Olivier Gossner, Professor, London School of Economics; Senior Researcher, CNRS; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Adapting to Misspecification
Tim Armstrong, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Difference-in-Differences with Interference: A Finite Population Perspective
Ruonan Xu, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Art and Sciences, Rutgers,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Deciphering Suboptimal Updating: Complexity, Structure, and Sequencing
Marina Agranov, Professor of Economics, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences
Charles Sprenger, Professor of Economics; Executive Officer for the Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Scenario Sampling for Large Supermodular Games
Bryan Graham, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Social Science Thesis Defense

Unexpected Partisan Unity Among Legislators and their Leaders Using New Latent Variable Estimation Techniques and Frameworks
Danny Ebanks, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture in Political Economy

Algorithms, Incentives, and Democracy
Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Labor Union and Social Insurance
Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020
Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Department of Economics, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The role of network structure in the diffusion of investment decisions
Wade Hann-Caruthers, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Nonparametric Identification of Differentiated Products Demand Using Micro Data
Steven Berry, David Swensen Professor of Economics and Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Representation in Collective Policymaking: the Veto's Appeal
Gleason Judd, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Attribute-based Subsidies and Market Power: an Application to Electric Vehicles
Panle Jia Barwick, The Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Donations and Dollars: Characterizing the Policy Views of Donors and the Affluent
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Steven Tadelis, Professor of Economics and Sarin Chair in Leadership and Strategy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle
John Quah, Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Evaluating Instrument Validity using the Principle of Independent Mechanisms
Patrick F. Burauel, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been postponed.
Scott Gehlbach, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier
Annie Liang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added
Ben Handel, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley,
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
Frederico Finan, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Screening with Persuasion
Stephen Morris, Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Cursed Sequential Equilibrium
Thomas R. Palfrey, III, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies
Michihiro Kandori, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Marcos Nazareth Gallo, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Prizes and effort in contests with private information
Sumit Goel, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Air Pollution and School Absences in New York City
Daniel Guth, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reference Dependence and Goal Motivation: Evidence From Online Chess
Jeff Zeidel, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Gerrymandering the Swing Voters
Allison Stashko, Assistant Professor, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Costly monitoring in signaling games
Tommaso Denti, Assistant Professor and Salvatore Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
Giulia Brancaccio, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Innovation Adoption by Committee: Evidence from the FDA
Nathan Canen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning And Informational Robustness
Anne-Katrin Roesler, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Placing People at the Centre of a Just Transition
Dr. Ramit Debnath, Inaugural CambridgeZero Fellow, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance, IESE Business School, University of Navarra,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Blackwell Correlated Equilibrium
Doron Ravid, Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Simplicity, Risk, and Financial Choice
Indira Puri, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Distributions of Posterior Quantiles and Economic Applications
Kai Hao Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management.,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises
Cesi Cruz, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Estimating Social Network Models with Missing Links
Arthur Lewbel, Barbara A. and Patrick E. Roche Professor of Economics, Boston College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Data driven nests in nested logit models
Elena Manresa, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach
Dana Foarta, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identification and Estimation of Social Interactions with Endogenous Group Formation
Shuyang Sheng, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England
Zach Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University,
Chan Shen, Associate Professor, Penn State,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,