The goal of the 3Ms reading group is to learn tools and ideas that are useful to answer interesting economic questions to be addressed in the context of heterogenous agent models. The group is composed of graduate students, faculty, and Fed economists. Some presentations are by outside speakers and others by members of our group.

Presentations

• March 20, 2024, Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota) "Health and Health Types," with Margherita Borella, Francisco Bullano, Benjamin Krueger, and Elena Manresa.
• November 30, 2022, Elena Capatina (Australian National University) ``Health Shocks and the Evolution of Earnings over the Life Cycle," with Mike Keane and Shiko Maruyama.
• November 16, 2022, Karen Kopecky (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) ``The Downward Spiral," with Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner.
• November 16, 2022, Roozbeh Hosseini (University of Georgia) ``How Important is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality?" with Karen Kopecky and Kai Zhao.
• October 5, 2022, Markus Poskche (McGill University) ``Modeling Wealth Inequality over time."
• September 21, 2022, Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn) ``Long-Run Trends of Income and Wealth Inequality in the United States."
• August 29, 2022, Mitchell VanVuren (University of Southern California) "Aggregate Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansion: The Role of Delayed Medical Care."
• December 1, 2021, Angela Denis (Central Bank of Spain) "Heterogeneous and Uncertain Health Dynamics and Working Decisions of Older Adults."
• November 8, 2021, Ines Xavier (Board of Governors) "Wealth inequality in the U.S.: the role of heterogenous returns."
• October 4, 2021, Marta Morazzoni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Female entrepreneurship and financial frictions?" with Andrea Sy.
• July 12, 2021, Kurt Mitman (IIES) "Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries?"
• June 7, 2021, Brandon Kaplowitz (NYU) "Introduction to Reinforcement Learning."
• May 24, 2021, Fabrizio Zilibotti (Yale) "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids," with Matthias Doepke.
• May 3, 2021, Uta Bolt (UCL) "The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: exploring the mechanisms," with French, Hentall-MacCuish and O'Dea.
• April 26, 2021, Barbara Biasi (Yale) "School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from a Simulated-Instruments Approach."
• April 12, 2021, George-Levi Gayle (Washington University in St. Louis) "What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?" with Golan and Soytas.
• March 22, 2021, Cristian Aguillera Arellano (Minnesota) "Introduction to Neural Networks."
• March 8, 2021, Diego Ascarza (Minnesota) "Annuity Demand Models."
• February 22nd, 2021, Francesca Salvati (UCL) "Health Inequality, Labor Supply, and Retirement Policies"
• February 8, 2021, Cristian Aguilera (Minnesota) "Lasso Regression."
• January 11, 2021, Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago) " Income Risk Inequality. Evidence from Spanish Administrative Records, " with Arellano, De Vera, Wei, and Hospido.
• December 14, 2020, Simona Abis (Columbia Business School) "Do Mutual Funds Keep Their Promises?"
• December 4, 2020, Diego Daruich (USC) "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Investment Policies."
• December 2, 2020, Emily Nix (USC) "Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India," joint with Attanasio and Meghir, Review of Economic Studies, 2020.
• November 23, 2020, Dhanajay Ghei (Minnesota) "Wage Prediction Using Machine Learning Methods."
• October 9, 2020, Jeanne Commault (Science Po) "Why Does Consumption Fluctuate in Old age and How Should the Government Insure It?" Joint with Blundell, Borella, and De Nardi.
• October 2, 2020, Serdar Ozkan (Toronto) "Preventive vs. Curative Medicine: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Health Care Over the Life Cycle."
• September 30, 2020, Karen Kopecki (Atlanta Fed) "Old, Frail, and Uninsured: Accounting for Features of the U.S. Long-Term Care Insurance Market," joint with Braun and Koreshkova, Econometrica, 2019.
• August 4, 2020, Caitlin Carroll (Minnesota) "Physician Response to Malpractice Allegations: Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments," joint with David Cutler and Anupam Jena.
• June 30, 2020, Martin Garcia-Vasquez (Minnesota) "Collective models of the household."
• June 23, 2020, Teodora Boneva (University of Zurich) "Socio-economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns," joint with Christopher Rauh.
• June 16, 2020, Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Vanderbilt) "Using Difference-in-Differences to Identify Causal Effects of COVID-19 Policies," joint with Jan Marcus.
• June 9, 2020, Florian Oswald (Science Po) "Land use and City Expansion," joint with Nicolas Coeurdacier and Marc Teignier.
• June 2, 2020, Michele Fornino (MIT) and Andrea Manera (MIT) "Automation and the Future of Work: Assessing the Role of Labor Flexibility."
• May 26, 2020, Milena Almagro (NYU) "Location sorting and endogenous amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam," joint with Tomas Dominguez-Lino.
• May 5, 2020, Jeanne Commault (Science Po) "Does consumption respond to a transitory income shock?"
• April 14, 2020, Michela Tincani (UCL) "Incentive effects of preferential admissions under subjective beliefs" joint with Fabian Kosse and Enrico Miglino.
• April 9, 2020, Alessandra Fogli (Minneapolis Fed) "Germs, social networks and growth," joint with Laura Veldkamp; Fabrizio Perri (Minneapolis Fed) "Social distance policies in ECON-EPI networks," joint with Marina Azzimonti, Alessandra Fogli, and Mark Ponder.
• March 31, 2020, Jo Mullins (Minnesota) "Discrete choice models"
• February 28, 2020, Uta Bolt (UCL) "Intergenerational altruism and transfer of time and money: a life cycle perspective," joint with Eric French, Jamie Hentall MacCuish, and Cormac O'Dea
• February 26, 2020, Nicolo' Russo (Minnesota) "Kmeans clustering and Bonhomme, Lamadon, and Manresa."