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Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
Sandeep Baliga, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information acquisition and strategic investment timing
Erik Madsen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
Giovanni Compiani, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Designing Research for Practical Social Innovation
Sera Linardi, Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Bridge Too Far?: Examining Bridging Assumptions in Common-Space Estimations
Jeffery A. Jenkins, Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Getting Settled in Your New Home: The Costs of Moving on Voter Turnout
Seo-young Silvia Kim, 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

Collusion in Brokered Markets
John Hatfield, Professor, McCombs Business School, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been cancelled.
Erik Eyster, Alec P. Alexander Chair of Economics and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Belief Meddling in Social Networks: an Information-Design Approach
Jacopo Perego, Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate Business School, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been cancelled.
Shigeo Hirano, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

An Impossibility Theorem for Wealth in Heterogeneous-agent Models with Limited Heterogeneity
Alexis Toda, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Attention and Selection Effects
Colin Stewart, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Political Economy of Discrimination
Torun Dewan, Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics & Political Science,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice
Jean-Robert Tyran, Professor of Economics, Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics, and Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Tea Party Movement: Evidence from Nationwide Campaign Finance and Real Estate Transactions
Zhao Li, PhD Candidate in Political Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States
Milan Svolik, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard: From Theory to Practice
George Georgiadis, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
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
Francesco Trebbi, Professor of Economics, 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

Correlated Large Contests
Juuso Välimäki, Professor, Department of Economics, Aalto University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Searching for Approval
Ali Hortacsu, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma
Pedro Dal Bo, Professor of Economics, Brown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Persuasion Meets Delegation
Anton Kolotilin, Associate Professor, UNSW Business School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Informational roles of pre-election polls
Jinhee Jo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kyung Hee University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Jaap Abbring, Professor of Econometrics, University of Tilburg,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Strategically Simple Mechanisms
Tilman Börgers, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Endogenous Intractability: Why Some Persistent Problems Persist
Bob Powell, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Heterogeneity of Gain-Loss Attitudes and Expectations-Based Reference Points
Charlie Sprenger, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Collective Hold-Up
Santiago Oliveros, Professor of Economics, University of Essex,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Estimation of Peer Effects in Endogenous Social Networks: Control Function Approach
Hyungsik Roger Moon, Professor in Economics, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

How Do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Sevgi Yuksel, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara ,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Demand Analysis with Many Prices
Whitney Newey, Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Preferences for the Resolution of Uncertainty and the Timing of Information
Kirby Nielsen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures
Chenzi Xu, PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

When Are Robust Contracts Linear?
Gabriel Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
Azeem Shaikh, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Semiparametrically Efficient Estimation of the Average Linear Regression Function
Bryan Graham, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation
Peng Shi, Assistant Professor, Marshall School of Business, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Consistency of Other-regarding Preferences
Han Seo, 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

A Theory of Recursive Aggregation with Applications
Hamed Hamze Bajgiran, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Solving the Common-Pool Resource Problem Using Markets? A Study of the Surface Water Trading and Groundwater Depletion in CA
Hao Zhao, 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

Estimation with Aggregate Shocks
Jinyong Hahn, Professor of Economics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Road to Efficiency Through Communication and Commitment
Joao Ramos, Assistant Professor, Marshall School of Business, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Tampering with Information
Odilon Camara, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices
Yi Xin, Assistant Professor of Economics, 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

Stochastic Dominance under Independent Noise
Luciano Pomatto, Assistant Professor of Economics, 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

Efficient Coding and Risky Choice
Lawrence Jin, Assistant Professor of Finance, 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

Election Coverage and Slant in Television News
Gregory Martin, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

New Centrality Measures in Networks and their Application
Fuad Aleskerov, Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty
Emanuel Vespa, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Words and Weapons: Analyzing Reactions to Gun Violence with a Social Media Panel
Nicholas Adams-Cohen, 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

When Fair Isn't Fair: Understanding Choice Anomalies Involving Social Preferences
Jeffrey Naecker, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wesleyan University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Imperfect Beliefs Voting Model
Benjamin Ogden, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements
Alessandro Lizzeri, Professor of Economics, New York University; Moore Distinguished Scholar, 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

Sequentially Optimal Mechanism Design
Laura Doval, Assistant Professor of Economics, 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

Network Effects in Information Acquisition
Tommaso Denti, Assistant Professor (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

Estimating Signaling Games in International Relations: Problems, Solutions, and an Application to Economic Sanctions
Michael Gibilisco, Assistant Professor of 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

The Times They Are A-Changing: Dynamic Adverse Selection in the Laboratory
Stephanie Wang, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh; Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This talk has been cancelled.
Azeem Shaikh, Professor and Thornber Research Fellow, 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

Social Learning Equilibria
Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, 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

Frictions in a Competitive Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis
Alessandro Lizzeri, Professor of Economics, New York University; Moore Distinguished Scholar, 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

Optimal Invariant Tests in an Instrumental Variables Regression With Heteroskedastic and Autocorrelated Errors
Marcelo Moreira, Professor of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks
Lydia Mechtenberg, Professor of Economics, University of Hamburg; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Diplomatic Relations and Conflict Management: A Dynamic Analysis
Brenton Kenkel, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility
Alfred Galichon, Professor of Economics and Mathematics, New York University, FAS and Courant Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Ruling the Ruling Coalition: Information Control and Autocratic Governance
Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Updating
Martin Cripps, Professor of Economics, University College London,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Voter Turnout and Preference Aggregation
Kei Kawai, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Additive-Belief-Based Preferences
David Dillenberger, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Shared Knowledge and Competition for Attention in Information Markets
Simone Galperti, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD; Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
Jesse Shapiro, George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics, Brown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Cognitive Empathy in Conflict Situations
Christoph Kuzmics, Professor of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Graz; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Causal Inference through the Method of Direct Estimation
Marc Ratkovic, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from the UK
Kirill Pogorelskiy, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,