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Thursday, May 30th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Controlling for Discrete Unmeasured Confounding in Nonlinear Causal Models
Patrick Burauel, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, Caltech,
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Machine Learning as a Tool for Discovery: Applications to Behavioral Economics and Other Inscrutable Sciences
Sendhil Mullainathan, Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Model Based Revealed Preference
Peter P. Caradonna, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
Friday, May 17th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Games under the Tiered Deferred Acceptance Mechanism
Jiarui Xie, Visiting Student, UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Risk Aversion and Insurance Propensity
Fabio Maccheroni, Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Choose Your Moments: Peer Review And Scientific Risk Taking
Josh Graff Zivin, Professor; Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations; Director, Cowhey Center on Global Transformation; UC San Diego,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Buying from a Group
Elliot Lipnowski, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Stefan Wager, Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Accountability under Polarization
Horacio Larreguy, Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM),
Friday, April 26th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Price & Choose
Matias Nunez, CNRS researcher and Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Optimal Bailouts in Diversified Financial Networks
Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, Department of Economics and the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing
Yao Luo, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
Friday, April 19th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor, Department of Political Science, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Best Complete Approximations of Preference Relations
Efe Ok, Professor of Economics, New York University,
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Speed, Accuracy, and Complexity
Duarte Goncalves, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University College London (UCL),
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework
Max Farrell, Associate Professor of Economics and Mellichamp Chair of Mind and Machine Intelligence, UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Modeling Human Social Behavior
Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology, Caltech,
Nina Rouhani, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Neuroscience, Caltech,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner, Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins, Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor, University of Wisconsin, Business School,
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Is Survey Instability Due to Respondents who Don't Understand Politics or Social Scientists Who Don't Understand Respondents?
Gary King, Weatherhead University Professor, Harvard University,
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Recursive Hurwicz Expected Utility and Neo-Additive Sources
Simon Grant, Professor and John C. Harsany Chair of Economics, Australian National University,
Thursday, March 7th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CSSPP/Bray Seminar

How to Better Predict the Effect of Urban Traffic and Weather on Air Pollution? Norwegian Evidence from Machine Learning Approaches
Cong Cao, Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy, Caltech,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel
John Asker, Professor of Economics, UCLA,
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Peter Buisseret, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University,
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Competing on Information in Selection Markets: Evidence from Italian Auto Insurance
Yi Xin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identification and Inference for Pure Random Coefficients Models with Limited Consideration
Francesca Molinari, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics, Cornell University,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins, Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Friday, November 10th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Stable Matching as Transportation
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Economics, Princeton University,
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,
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,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Deciphering Suboptimal Updating: Complexity, Structure, and Sequencing
Marina Agranov, Professor of Economics, Caltech,
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences
Charles Sprenger, Professor of Economics; Executive Officer for the Social Sciences, Caltech,