Calendar - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, Department of Economics and the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing

Yao Luo, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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► CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

This seminar has been canceled.

Price Fishback, Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter 125

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

Baxter B125

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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► CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

This seminar has been canceled.

John Joseph Wallis, Mancur Olson Professor of Economics, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting

Peter Buisseret, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006

Allison Shertzer, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century South

Elizabeth Cascio, Professor of History, Dartmouth College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter 125

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

Baxter 237

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237

Re-Thinking "Distance from": Lessons from Wittenberg and Mainz

Qiyi Zhao, PhD Student in Economics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

Ethnic churches delayed immigrant assimilation in the historical United States

Leah Platt Boustan, Professor of Economics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter B125

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter B125

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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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

Organizing a Kingdom

Nico Voigtlander, Professor of Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

The Confederate Diaspora

Martin Fiszbein, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237

Bank Branching and Local Shocks

Sarah Quincy, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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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► CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

This seminar has been canceled.

Stefanie Stantcheva, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange

Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237

Towns and Agriculture in Times of Serfdom: An Economic Success or an Economic Failure?

Alex Klein, Deputy Head of School and Reader in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

Impacts of the Clean Air Act on The Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation

Edson R. Severnini, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

This seminar has been postponed.

Scott Gehlbach, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237

Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages

Chicheng Ma, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Hong Kong Business School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Baxter Lecture Hall

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,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237

The Evolution of the Chinese Firm: Contracts, Hierarchical Management, and Corporate Personality in Shanxi Merchant Enterprises

Matthew Lowenstein, Hoover Fellow, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

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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