Spring 2024 Schedule

• February 6, 2024

  Daron Acemoglu (MIT)

  "Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown" (w/ A. Wolitzky)

• February 13, 2024

  Wouter Dessein (Columbia)

  "Test-Optional Admissions" (w/ A. Frankel & N. Kartik)

• February 27, 2024

  Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE)

  "Organizational Purpose and the Dynamics of Motivation" (w/ T. Besley & L. Xu)

• March 5, 2024

  Saumitra Jha (Stanford)

  "Wars and Freedoms" (w/ S. Wilkinson)

• March 12, 2024

  Renee Bowen (UCSD)

  *Held in E52-324 from 1:00 to 2:30* "Dynamics of Risky Agreements" (w/ M. Lammert & A. Levkun)

• March 19, 2024

  NO SEMINAR

  Department-wide seminar in the Economics Department on this date

• April 2, 2024

  Danielle Li (MIT Sloan)

  "Generative AI at Work" (w/ E. Brynjolfsson & L. Raymond)

• April 9, 2024

  Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard KSG)

  "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions" (w/ S. Gulesci, S. Jindani, D. Smerdon, M Sulaiman, & P. Young)

• April 16, 2024

  Jose Vasquez (LSE, visiting MIT)

  "Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica" (w/ A. Alfaro-Ureña, C. Gaubert, B. Faber, & I. Manelici)

• April 23, 2024

  Chiara Aina (Harvard)

  "Weighing Competing Narratives"

• April 30, 2024

  Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley)

  "Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption" (w/ W. Kim & E. Linos)

• May 7, 2024

  Raffaella Sadun (HBS)

  TBD

• May 14, 2024

  Nicola Persico (Northwestern)

  "Gender Disparities in the Welfare Effect of the Minimum Wage" (w/ D. Coviello & E. Deserranno)