Our Seminars & Workshops

Title: "IVF as Insurance? Beliefs, Preferences, and the Career--Family Trade-off"

This mock job talk is part of the Applied Research Away Day.

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Title: Search in an Emerging Market (joint with James Dana and Johannes Hörner).

Abstract: We study a growing market in which consumers observe prices, but discovering whether a firm’s product is a good fit is costly. Consumers purchase repeatedly, and their match values are persistent. In equilibrium, firms initially offer the good for free to build a consumer base and later hike their prices. The rate at which firms begin charging positive prices increases as the market matures. Different monetization dates generate persistent differences among initially identical firms. Firms that monetize earlier are smaller, niche providers charging higher prices, whereas firms that monetize later are larger and charge lower, though rising, prices. Consequently, prices and firm sizes remain dispersed, and consumer mass becomes increasingly concentrated among a shrinking set of firms.

Title: Media Gravity: The Production and Political Effect of Watchdog Journalism in China

Abstract: This paper examines the provision and accountability effects of watchdog journalism in China. Based on the coverage of over 2000 highly visible events by 120 general-interest newspapers during 2001-2020, we document that Chinese local newspapers report more negatively on adverse events outside their jurisdictions, and this negative reporting is more intensive where the home market size is larger and where the political barriers in the event source cities are lower. This outside watchdog journalism significantly pressures local governments to reduce corruption, increase responsiveness to citizen complaints, and improve fiscal allocation towards public services. Our findings are consistent with a spatial model of media capture, where the divergence of economic benefit and political control drives investigative reporting and jurisdictional spillover improves local accountability. We derive and estimate a production-location media gravity equation such that investigative journalism is generated from strong economic markets and targets regions with weak political links.

Title: The Supply Component of Monetary Policy Surprises.

Title: The Cultural Premium and Attitudes to Immigrants.

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Title: Paying to be Paid Early: Debt Bondage in India's Brick Kilns.

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Title: Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data

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Title: Can hate speech be banned online? The effects of shutting down toxic forums on Reddit.

Learning to maximize (expected) utility (with Thomas Dohmen (Bonn)).

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Title: Battles and Spoils: Evidence from the British Museum.

Title: Brainrot? The Effect Of Short-Form Content on Long-Form Attention.

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Title: Compatible Explanations.

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Title: Don't (fully) exclude me, it's not necessary! Causal inference with semi-IVs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12667)

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