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Wednesday, July 27
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9:00 am
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The Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University and NBER
Steven Shavell, Harvard University and NBER
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9:55 am
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How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
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11:05 am
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Tipping the Scales? Testing for Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions
Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College
Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia
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1:00 pm
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Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs?
New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Ian Burn, University of Liverpool
Patrick Button, Tulane University and NBER
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1:55 pm
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US
Mirco Tonin, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Michael Vlassopoulos, University of Southampton
Corrado Giulietti, University of Southampton
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3:05 pm
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Local Labor Markets and Criminal Recidivism
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
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Thursday, July 28
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8:30 am
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From Proliferation to Parsimony in Behavioral Economics: New Elicitation Methods, Summary Statistics, and Links to Real-World Outcomes
Victor Stango, University of California at Davis
Joanne Yoong, National University of Singapore and RAND Corporatio
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
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9:25 am
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A Positive Theory of Retirement Plan Design
Ryan Bubb, New York University
Patrick L. Warren, Clemson University
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10:35 am
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Cancer Diagnoses and Household Debt Overhang
Arpit Gupta, New York University
Edward Morrison, Columbia University and NBER
Catherine R. Fedorenko, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Scott D. Ramsey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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1:15 pm
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Financially-Constrained Lawyers: An Economic Theory of Legal Disputes
Claudia M. Landeo, University of Alberta
Maxim Nikitin, International College of Economics and Finance - NRU HSE
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2:25 pm
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Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation
Albert Choi, University of Michigan
Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER
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3:20 pm
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Pension Fund Board Composition and Investment Performance:
Evidence from Private Equity
Aleksander Andonov, University of Amsterdam
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER
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