Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo (JHU)
"Beliefs, Stock Holding, and Wealth Accumulation Throughout the Life Cycle"
"Beliefs, Stock Holding, and Wealth Accumulation Throughout the Life Cycle"
"Demand Spillover and Inequality in the WIC Program" (co-authored with Kathleen Hui, Yuval Salant, and Kosuke Uetake)
"Authoritarian Social Control"
"Heterogeneity in the Credit Card Market" (co-authored with Burcu Eyigungor)
"Optimal Urban Transit Policy: Evidence from Chicago" Abstract: We quantify optimal urban transportation policies in the presence of congestion, network, and environmental externalities. We show theoretically that, beyond externality distortions, a budget constrained social planner introduces additional inefficiencies similar to those of a monopolist. We then move to an empirical analysis of the transportation system […]
A discussion led by Dr. Lily Odarno (Clean Air Task Force) in Wyman 350.
"Random Choice and Differentiation" (co-authored with Junnan He) Abstract: Measuring product differentiation and substitutability is a key concern in the analysis of consumer demand. We develop and analyze a general yet tractable model of random choice with product differentiation in a multi-attribute setting. We show the analyst can separately identify vertical and horizontal product differ- […]
"Inequality Testing in the Presence of Linear Nuisance Parameters"
Location: Wyman Park BuildingMore details can be found here
Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT and founder and director of MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research laboratory based in the MIT Economics department which uses tools from market design and research design to produce rigorous evidence that can help decision-makers design and implement social policy. Pathak is most […]
Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT and founder and director of MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research laboratory based in the MIT Economics department which uses tools from market design and research design to produce rigorous evidence that can help decision-makers design and implement social policy. Pathak is most […]