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Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England
Zach Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University,
Chan Shen, Associate Professor, Penn State,
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan, Ph.D. candidate in Economics, Harvard University,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

What History Can Tell Us About How to Assess the State of Voting Rights and How to Amend the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser, Professor of History and Social Science, Emeritus, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Comparative Statics of Persuasion
Ludvig Sinander, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

All Along the Watchtower: Defense Lines and the Origins of Russian Serfdom
Andrea Matranga, Assistant Professor of Economics, Chapman University,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Does Harold Zurcher Have Time Separable Preferences?
Yi Xin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bilateral trade under no subsidies and stochastic mechanisms; Multi-trader pairwise exchange with minimal subsidies
Jernej Copic, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identity-Based Elections
Helios Herrera, Professor of Economics, University of Warwick,
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Informationally Robust Bilateral Trade
Songzi Du, Associate Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Common Agency without Delegation
Siyang Xiong, Professor of Economics, UC Riverside,
Tuesday, March 8th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts
Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Monday, March 7th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Political social-learning: short-term memory and cycles of polarisation
Gilat Levy, Professor, London School of Economics (LSE),
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information aggregation in social networks
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Economics, Florida State University,
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Public Policy Problems
Marco Battaglini, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics, Cornell University,
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Eleonora Patacchini, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy, Cornell University,
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Computationally Tractable Choice
Modibo Camara, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,
Monday, January 24th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
Hanna Schwank, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Boston University,
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Contracting and vertical control by a dominant platform
Ellen Muir, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Preference Regression
Peter Caradonna, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Georgetown University,
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Public Goods Under Financial Distress: Evidence from Cities in the Great Depression
Pawel Janas, PhD Candidate, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects
Paula Onuchic, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University,
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Matching and Prices
Ravi Jagadeesan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Analyzing Text Data Indexed by a Hidden Characteristic: Method and Application to the Study of Media Bias in the U.S.
Yimeng Li, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Policymaking in times of crisis
Federica Izzo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Threshold Tests as Quality Signals: Optimal Strategies, Equilibria, and Price of Anarchy
David Kempe, Professor of Computer Science, USC,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Private Private Information
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Gender, Electoral Incentives, and Crisis Response: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors
Clemence Tricaud, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration
Bernardo Silveira, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UCLA,
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Evaluating Economic Models
Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuel Professor of Economics, MIT,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A rational inattention theory of echo chamber
Anqi Li, Visiting Research Scholar, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been postponed.
Lindsey Gailmard, Graduate Student, Social Science, Caltech,
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been postponed.
Yimeng Li, Graduate Student, Social Science, Caltech,