Seminar archive

Identifying Challenges and Improving Outcomes for Labor Market Transitions Using Digital Technology Susan Athey , The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford University Abstract: This talk will review several recent papers that focus on labor market...

Race, Racism, and American Tax Attitudes Andrea Louise Campbell , Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT Abstract: What factors explain Americans’ attitudes toward taxes? Previous research has upheld material stakes, with taxes as an...

Stronger Together: Investigating the Democratic Party's "Long Coalition" Paul Pierson , John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley Abstract: The Democratic Party has come to dominate the nation’s metropolitan centers (cities and...

Firm Pay and Worker Search Sydnee Caldwell , Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Abstract: Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay in other firms. Yet little is known about workers’ knowledge of outside pay. We use a...

"Root Causes" of Central American Migration: Cumulative Disadvantages, Enduring Inequalities, and Violence in the Migration Process Cecilia Menjí var , Professor of Sociology, UCLA Abstract: This presentation centers the structural roots of Central...

"If They Only Knew": Informing Whites about the Racial Wealth Gap Vincent Hutchings , Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan...

Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence Paola Giuliano , Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management, Professor of Economics, UCLA Abstract: We examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts. Our...

The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution James Robinson , The Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor, University of Chicago; Institute Director, The...

Whose is the Conventional Thought? Natasha Quadlin , Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA Abstract: When people form beliefs in social life, they often calibrate their own thinking against what they anticipate “most people” think about an...

The Power and Pitfalls of Megastudies for Advancing Applied Behavioral Science Katy Milkman , James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Increasingly, policymakers are turning to behavioral science for...