IO, Public, Labor, and Urban Seminar (IOPLUS)

The IO, Public, Labor, and Urban Seminar (IOPLUS) at Stanford features invited lectures by visiting faculty across applied microeconomic fields. Seminars are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

IO seminars are held on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

Winter 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Feb 14
3:30pm-5:00pm
B400
John Friedman
Brown University
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Casual Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges joint paper with Raj Chetty and David J. Deming
Feb 20
12:00pm-1:15pm
C105
Gabriel Kreindler
Harvard University
Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World’s Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta joint paper with Arya Gaduh, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken
Feb 27
12:00pm-1:15pm
C105
Tim Ederer
The University of Chicago
Labor Market Dynamics and Teacher Spatial Sorting
Mar 05
12:00pm-1:15pm
C105
Minseon Park
Yale University
joint paper with Dong Woo Hahm
Mar 13
2:30pm-4:00pm
P106
Solomon Hsiang
University of California, Berkeley
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Global Migration
Mar 19
12:00pm-1:15pm
BC130
Michael Rubens
University of California, Los Angeles
Colluding Against Workers joint paper with Vincent Delabastita

Spring 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 02
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Pietro Tebaldi
Columbia University
 
Apr 09
3:30pm-5:00pm
C106
TBD
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
 
Apr 16
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Nick Buchholz
Princeton University
 
Apr 23
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Winnie Van Dijk
Yale University
 
Apr 30
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Enrico Moretti
University of California, Berkeley
 
May 07
3:30pm-5:00pm
C106
TBD
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
 
May 14
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Pierre Bodéré
New York University
 
May 21
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Jessie Handbury
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 
May 28
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Julie Mortimer
University of Virginia
 
Jun 04
12:00pm-1:15pm
C106
Tobias Salz
MIT Economics
 
Jun 11
12:00pm-1:15pm
BC104
Steve Tadelis
UC Berkeley
 
 

Fall 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 26
12:00pm-1:15pm
P102
Michael Sullivan
Yale University
Price Controls in a Multi-Sided Market 
Oct 03
12:00pm-1:15pm
P102
Audrey Tiew
Harvard University
Flailing Firms and Joint Operating Agreements: An Application to U.S. Local Daily Print Newspapers from 1932 to 1992 (
Oct 11
3:30pm-5:00pm
Z301
Zoe Cullen
Harvard Business School
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
What’s My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking joint with Shengwu Li and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Oct 17
12:00pm-1:15pm
P102
Stephen Redding
Princeton University
Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London joint paper with Daniel M. Sturm 
Oct 24
12:00pm-1:15pm
P102
Peter Hull
Brown University
 
Design-Based Estimation of Structural Parameters, with an Application to Demand joint paper with Kirill Borusyak
Oct 31
12:00pm-1:15pm
BC104
Yanyou Chen
University of Toronto
Nov 08
3:30pm-5:00pm
B400
Dave Donaldson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
 
Nov 14
12:00pm-1:15pm
P102
Jean-Pierre Dube
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Nonparametric Estimation of Habitual Brand Loyalty
joint paper with Xinyao Kong, Oystein Daljord 
Nov 28
12:00pm-1:15pm
P102
Mathilde Muñoz
University of California Berkeley
Wealth Taxation and Migration Patterns of the Very Wealthy joint paper with Katrine Jakobsen, Henrik Kleven, Jonas Kolsrud, and Camille Landais
Dec 06
3:30pm-5:00pm
P106
Abhijit Banerjee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Applied Micro Seminar
 
Dec 12
12:00pm-1:15pm
BC104
El Hadi Caoui
University of Toronto
joint paper with Brett Hollenbeck and Mathew Osborne

Seminar Organizers

Assistant Professor of Economics
Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Humanities and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Economics
The Class of 1988 Professor of Economics