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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Knowing Your Lemon Before You Dump It" joint work with Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Alessandro Pavan, Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Spending Constraints: Why City Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods
Julia Payson, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA,
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Privacy Preserving Signal
Kai Hao Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Management, Yale University,
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Elicitability
Nicolas Lambert, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), USC,
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Mild Government Failure
Shang-Jin Wei, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Rationalizable Information Design
Olivier Gossner, Professor, London School of Economics; Senior Researcher, CNRS; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Adapting to Misspecification
Tim Armstrong, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, USC,
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Difference-in-Differences with Interference: A Finite Population Perspective
Ruonan Xu, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Art and Sciences, Rutgers,
Thursday, October 12th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar

Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The Effects of Information about Trade-Offs
Beatrice Magistro, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science, Caltech,
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew J. Sinclair, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Caltech,
Monday, October 2nd, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar

A Data-Driven Approach to Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
Tamma Carleton, Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Scenario Sampling for Large Supermodular Games
Bryan Graham, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley,
Friday, September 22nd, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Ex-Ante Design of Persuasion Games
Daniel Luo, PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, MIT,
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
8:00am 9/15 5:00pm
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Near-Optimal Policies for Dynamic Matching
Süleyman Kerimov, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University,
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Social Science Thesis Defense

Unexpected Partisan Unity Among Legislators and their Leaders Using New Latent Variable Estimation Techniques and Frameworks
Danny Ebanks, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture in Political Economy

Algorithms, Incentives, and Democracy
Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Labor Union and Social Insurance
Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020
Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Department of Economics, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po),
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The role of network structure in the diffusion of investment decisions
Wade Hann-Caruthers, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Nonparametric Identification of Differentiated Products Demand Using Micro Data
Steven Berry, David Swensen Professor of Economics and Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University,
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Representation in Collective Policymaking: the Veto's Appeal
Gleason Judd, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University,
Friday, May 12th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Arrovian Social Choice and Decentralizability: An Integrated Approach
Wonki Jo Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Korea University,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Attribute-based Subsidies and Market Power: an Application to Electric Vehicles
Panle Jia Barwick, The Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Friday, May 5th, 2023
3:00pm 5:00pm
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12:15pm 1:30pm
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Caltech Y Student Activism Speaker Series (SASS)

Pre-Keynote Lunch Q & A on Generative AI and Society
Kevin Roose, New York Times Tech Columnist,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Allocating with Priorities and Quotas: Algorithms, Complexity, and Dynamics
David Kempe, Professor of Computer Science, USC,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Donations and Dollars: Characterizing the Policy Views of Donors and the Affluent
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Friday, April 28th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy
Misha Khodak, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Steven Tadelis, Professor of Economics and Sarin Chair in Leadership and Strategy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, April 21st, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Behavioral Causal Inference
Ran Spiegler, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University and University College London,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar

The Great Carbon Arbitrage
Alissa Magdaleen Kleinnijenhuis, Research Fellow, Department of Finance, Imperial College Business School - London,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
Friday, April 14th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

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Information Discrepancy in Strategic Learning
Juba Ziani, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle
John Quah, Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Evaluating Instrument Validity using the Principle of Independent Mechanisms
Patrick F. Burauel, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been postponed.
Scott Gehlbach, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago,