Schedule for Spring 2019 semester

• February 4: Marina Dias (Econ): “Voting for Quality? The Impact of School Performance Information on Electoral Outcomes”
• February 18: PRESIDENTS DAY HOLIDAY
• March 11: Shaoda Wang (ARE): “Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Experimental Evidence from China”
• April 1: Mariana Lopes (Max Planck Institute- Visiting Researcher Haas BPP): “Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German States”
• April 22: Benjamin Krause (ARE): “Taxation Toward Representation: Effects of Tax Collection and Public Goods Provision on Democratic Accountability”
• May 6: David Qihang Wu: “Moral Tribes: Why Do People Join Armed Groups?”

Schedule for Fall 2018 semester

• September 17: Alessandra Fenezia, UCB Econ, “Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector” (12:40-2pm)
• October 1: Eric Avis, UCB Econ, “Interest Groups, Campaign Finance and Policy Influence: Evidence from the U.S. Congress” (12:40-2pm)
• October 15: Nick Li, UCB Econ, “Housing Market Channels of Segregation” (12:40-2pm)
• October 29: Katarina Jensen, UCB Econ, “Immigration and Political Selection”(12:40-1:30pm)
• November 26: Caroline Le Pennec, UCB Econ, “TBA” (12:40-1:30pm)

Schedule for Spring 2018 semester

• February 5: Kate Pennington (ARE). “Poisoned by Policy: The Impact of the Flint Water Crisis on Political Participation“
• February 22: Yasmine Bekkouche (Paris School of Economics). “The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014” (with Julia Cagé)
• March 5: Nicholas Li (Econ). “Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity” (with Ernesto Dal Bo, Frederico Finan and Laura Schechter)
• March 19: Johannes Hermle (Econ). “How Strategic are Political Activists? Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment” (with Lukas Hensel, Anselm Rink and Christopher Roth)
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Schedule for the Fall 2017 semester

• September 18: Ceren Baysan (ARE) -Title: “The Persistence of Authoritarianism in an Electoral Democracy”
• October 2: Weijia Li (Econ) -Title: ” Rotation, Meritocracy, and Property Rights”
• October 23: Ferenc Szucs (Econ) -Tile: “Discretion and Corruption in Public Procurement”
• November 6: David Schonholzer (Econ) -Tile: “Valuation and Incidence of Local Public Goods: Evidence from Municipal Boundaries and Annexations“
• November 20: Andres Gonzalez (Haas BPP) -Tile: “The Economics of Enforcement (with Mushfiq Mobarak)”
• December 4: Cathrin Mohr (LMU Munich) -Title: “Carrots or Sticks? Protests and Construction in the German Democratic Republic“

Schedule for the Spring 2016 semester

• January 23: Caroline Le Pennec, UC Berkeley–Department of Economics, “Strict Parity, Female Representations and Political Turnover –Evidence from French Local Elections”
• February 13: Mark Westcott, LMU Munich–Department of Economics, “Shocking Racial Attitudes. Black G.I.s in Eurpoe”
• Febuary 27: Wei LinChen, National Taiwan University–Department of Economics, “Tide over Taiwan: The Effect of 1997 Knowing Taiwan Textbook Reform on National Identity Formation”
• March 13: Ada Gonzalez-Torrezs, European University Institute–Department of Economics, “Epidemics anf Conflict: Evidencefrom the Ebola outbreak in WEstern Africa”
• April 10: Eric Avis, UC Berkeley–Department of Economics
• April 24: Thomas E Monarrez, UC Berkeley–Department of Economics, “Attendance ZOnes and the Segregation of U.S. schools: A Geospatial Analysis”

Schedule for the Fall 2016 semester

• September 19: Ferenc Szucs, Economics, “What’s Going on in the Smoke-Filled Room? Political Motives in the Monopolization of Hungarian Tobacco Shops”
• October 3: Ritadhi Chakravarti, Agricultural & Resource Economics, “Economic Effects of Minority Political Mobilization: Ethnic Politics, Public Sector Employment and Private Investment in Indian States”
• October 17: Weijia Li, Economics, “Rotation, Meritocracy, and ‘Benevolent’ Crony Capitalism”
• October 31: Shaoda Wang, Agricultural & Resource Economics, “Fiscal Competition and Coordination: Evidence from China”
• *November 14: Joint seminar with Economic History (Seminar 211): Davide Cantoni, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Topic TBA | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall*
• November 28: Felipe Gonzalez, Economics, “Collective Action and the Spread of Protests”

Schedule for the Spring 2016 semester

• Feb. 1: Mahendra Prasad, Political Science, “On the Normative Uniqueness of Majority Rule: Generalizing May’s Theorem for Arrovian Social Welfare Functions”
• Feb. 22: Yasir Khan, Haas Business and Public Policy, “Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Candidacy”
• Mar. 7: David Schönholzer, Economics, “The Territorial Expansion of U.S. Local Governments”
• Mar. 28: Yotam Shem-Tov, Economics, “Estimating the Extensive Margin Effect of Incarceration on Recidivism”
• Apr. 11: Laura Boudreau, Haas Business and Public Policy, “Discretion and Disasters: Political Decision Making under Mexico’s Natural Disaster Rules”

Schedule for the Fall 2015 semester

• Sep 21: Abhay Aneja, Haas, “The Effect of Political Representation on Crimes against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India” Note time change: 12:00pm-1:00pm
• Oct 5: Anne Meng, Political Science, “Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change“
• Oct 19: Weijia Li, Economics, “Party-State Relationships in One-Party Regimes”
• Nov 2: Santiago Truffa, Haas, “Housing Scarcity and the Geography of Talent in Cities”
• Nov 9: Yang Xie, ARE, “Machiavellian Experimentation”
• Nov 30: Juliana Londoño Vélez, Economics, “Diversity and Redistributive Preferences: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Colombia” Note time change: 1:10pm-2:00pm
• Dec 14: Ferenc Szucs, Economics, “The Local Resource Curse: National Governmental Control over Municipal Politics”

Schedule for the Fall 2014 semester

• Sep 22: Yang Xie, ARE, “Experimentation with Uncommon Payoffs” (Joint with Oliver Yinxi Xie)
• Oct 6: Jack Paine, Political Science, “Pre-Colonial Kingdoms and the Coup-Civil War Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa”
• Oct 20: David Schönholzer, Economics, “The Origins of the State: From Kinship to Kingship” (Joint with Ernesto Dal Bo)
• Nov 3: Francesco D’Acunto, Haas, “Distrust in Finance Lingers: Jewish Persecution and Households” (Joint with Marcel Prokopczuk and Michael Weber)
• Nov 17: Shinhye Choi, Political Science, “Direct Primaries under Presidential Systems”
• Dec 1: Yotam Shem-Tov, Economics, “As If Random or Not: Testing Balance Across and Within Samples with an Application to Regression Discontinuity Designs”

Schedule for the Spring 2014 semester

• Feb 3: Pat Donnelly, Political Science, “Budgetary Conditions and Party Positions on Welfare Policy: Evidence from OECD Member States”
• Mar 3: Jack Paine, Political Science, “Does Oil Deter Centrist Civil Wars? Comparing State Strength and Vulnerability Effects”
• Mar 17: Carlos Avenancio, Haas, “Wage Disparity and the Relationship between Firm Performance and Lobbying”
• Apr 7: Johannes Buggle, Economics, “Climate Risk, Informal and Formal Institutions and Economic Development”
• Apr 21: Felipe Gonzalez, Economics, “Losing Your Dictator: Firm Investment during Chile’s Transition to Democracy”

Schedule for the Fall 2013 semester

• Sept 16: Jason Poulos, Political Science, “Peer Effects in Political Fundraising Networks” (12:30pm-1:25pm)
• Sept 30: Ryan Hubert, Political Science, “Endogenous Fact Finding and Appellate Standards of Review in U.S. Courts”
• Oct 14: David Schoenholzer, Economics, “Tectonic Tensions: Violence as an Interaction Across Space in Northern Ireland”
• Oct 28: Anne Meng, Political Science, “The Organizational Weapon: Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes”
• Nov 18: Vera L. te Velde, Economics, “How can social pressure influence behavior when norms are heterogeneous?”

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