The breadth of research conducted by members of the Department of Economics is currently on display at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute this week.
On Tuesday, the Workshop on Aging included Michael Stepner on Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Black-White Race Gaps in Life Expectancy.
Wednesday’s session of the Labour Studies group, as well as Public Economics, includes Eva Vivalt’s presentation of the newly-released paper The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States. Vivalt will present the results of a companion paper Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income to the Economics of Health meeting.
Later the same day, during the Economics of Education meeting, Phillip Oreopoulos is scheduled to deliver Teaching Teachers To Teach Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence.
Michael Baker and Kory Kroft will present The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector: Evidence from Higher Education to the Personal Economics section on Wednesday as well.
During the Children and Families meeting on Thursday, postdoctoral research Jeffrey Hicks is scheduled to deliver “Intergenerational Effects of Opioid Exposure and Child Health, Human Capital, and Well-being Using Linked Microdata.”
Stephan Heblich will act as the discussant of Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change during the Urban Economics session on Thursday.
Catch Up with Video
NBER is making recordings of some sessions available on YouTube for a limited time. To catch up with what University of Toronto economists have been sharing, see below.
Joseph Steinberg presented Trade War and Peace: U.S.-China Trade and Tariff Risk from 2015–2050 to the International Trade and Investment meeting. The recording of the whole session is here.
In the Innovation section, new faculty member Mitsuru Igami presented Welfare Gains from Product and Process Innovations: The Case of LCD Panels, 2001–2011.
Michelle Alexopoulos presented on Mixed Signals? How Media Distills Central Bank Messages to the Impulse and Propagation group. The full session video is also available.
Guangbin Hong presented Scalable vs. Productive Technologies to the Micro Data and Macro Models meeting. See the session here on YouTube.
Yanyou Chen’s delivery of Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment to the Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence group was recorded and posted here.
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