Eric Verhoogen is a Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics at Columbia University, SIPA. Paper: "Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production" Speaker's website: http://www.columbia.edu/~ev2124/   If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the seminar listserv.

Adam Sacarny is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Paper: “Hospital Allocation and the Evolution of Racial Health Disparities: Evidence from Heart Attacks” Speaker's website: http://sacarny.com/   If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to Read more…

Manuel Garcia Santana is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Paper: "Investment Demand and Structural Change" Speaker's website: https://garciasantana.weebly.com/   If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the seminar listserv.    

Aaron Chalfin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Paper: "Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City" Speaker's website: http://achalfin.weebly.com/   If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, Read more…

Find the paper here. Title: A Model of Enclosures: Coordination, Conflict, and Efficiency in the Transformation of Land Property Rights Abstract: We study a simple general equilibrium model of the transformation of customary, informal property rights to land into exclusive ownership. We characterize the transformation in property rights - the Read more…

Find the paper here Title: Internationalizing Like China Abstract: We empirically characterize how China is internationalizing the Renminbi by selectively opening up its domestic bond market to foreign investors and propose a dynamic reputation model to explain this internationalization strategy. The Chinese government deliberately controlled the entry of foreign investors into Read more…

You can find the paper here. Title: International Migrants and the Human Capital Formation of Their Left-Behind Children Abstract: International migration can disrupt families and affect the human capital investment of left behind children. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, I document that mothers with husbands in the Read more…

You can find the paper here. Title: Commuting and the Value of Marriage Abstract: Over time, as metro-areas sprawled to the suburbs, long commutes became common. In this paper I combine motivating evidence with a structural model to show how policies resulting in long commutes affect singles differently than couples Read more…