SoCCAM – Friday, April 18, 2025
The Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College invites economists to attend the 14th Annual Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics (SoCCAM) on Friday, April 18, 2025. This year, all sessions will be back in Freeberg Forum at Claremont McKenna College. The keynote address will be held on at CMC's Athenaeum.
Program
| 8:00–8:30am Registration and breakfast | ||||||
8:30-9:50am Session I: Labor policies & employment effects Chair: Kevin Shih (UCR) | ||||||
| Paper | Presenter | Discussant | ||||
| Does regional variation in wage levels identify the effects of a national minimum wage? | Daniel Haanwinckel | Emiliano Huet-Vaugn | ||||
| Hiring subsidies for the disadvantaged: Evidence from the work opportunity tax credit | Manisha Jain, Corina Mommaerts, Jeffrey Weaver | Michael Bates | ||||
| 9:50 – 10:00am Break and refreshments | ||||||
10:00 – 11:20 am Session II: Market competition & regulation Chair: Justin Marion (UCSC) | ||||||
| Paper | Presenter | Discussant | ||||
| Competing under information heterogeneity: Evidence from auto insurance | Marco Cosconati, Yi Xin, Fan Wu, Yizhou Jin | Simon Quach | ||||
| Advertising-funded attention markets and antitrust: Evidence from the YouTube platform | H. Tai Lam | Jiawei Chen | ||||
| 11:20 – 11:30 pm Walk to Athenaeum at CMC | ||||||
| 11:30 – 1:00 pm Lunch and Keynote – Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, CMC | ||||||
How Real is Hypothetical? And Other High Incentives Observations Uri Gneezy
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| 1:00-1:20pm Walk to Freeberg Forum in Kravis Center at CMC | ||||||
1:20 – 2:40 pm Session III: Institutional corruption & state capacity Chair: Emily Owens (UCI) | ||||||
| Paper | Presenter | Discussant | ||||
| The imperfect union: Labor racketeering, corruption exposure, and its consequences | Miriam Venturini | Brian Wheaton | ||||
| Can automation overcome low state capacity? | Bhanu Gupta, Tejaswi Velayudhan, Vedant Vohra | Juliana Londono-Velez | ||||
| 2:40-2:50 pm Short break and refreshments | ||||||
2:50-4:10pm Session IV: Decision-making & strategic behavior Chair: Alex Wellsjo (UCSD) | ||||||
| Paper | Presenter | Discussant | ||||
| How do business owners run governments? Evidence from Brazilian municipalities | Socorro Pardo Martinez | Liz Lyons | ||||
| The 2-meter stride: A natural experiment measuring peer influence on system gaming | Jiatong Han, Xiaozhi Yang, Yubai Yuan, Fadong Chen, Colin F. Camerer | Josh Tasoff | ||||
| 4:10-4:20 pm Short break and refreshments | ||||||
4:20-5:40 pm Session V: Public health policies & responses Chair: Heather Royer (UCSB) | ||||||
| Paper | Presenter | Discussant | ||||
| Family planning, now and later: Infertility fears and contraceptive take-up | Natalie Bau, David Henning, Corinne Low, Bryce Millett Steinberg | Prashant Bharadwaj | ||||
| Alcohol in the family: How an anti-alcohol campaign transformed health, marriage & childbearing | Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova | Ajin Lee | ||||
| 6:00-8:00 pm Dinner al fresco at the Home of David Bjerk | ||||||
Call for Proposals
The Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College invites paper submissions for the 14th Annual Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics (SoCCAM) to be held at the Claremont Colleges on Friday, April 18, 2025. The keynote address will be given by Uri Gneezy, a prominent behavioral economist and professor at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). We encourage paper submissions in all areas of applied microeconomics including (but not limited to) development, environmental, experimental, health, industrial organization, labor, law, population, public, trade, and urban economics. We invite submissions from faculty and graduate students from all colleges and universities in California. 2025 Call for Proposals [pdf]
Submission
The deadline for paper submissions is extended to Friday, February 7, 2025. The SoCCAM Organizing Committee will select the papers to be presented at the conference. Please submit a paper or extended abstract here: https://forms.gle/qCU1HG4m9Y7AoBT1A
Travel Honorarium
All presenters and discussants are offered a $300 honorarium to cover travel expenses and accommodations in the room block. Rooms are limited please inquire with Kelly Alexander to reserve a room. To receive the honorarium, please submit this form to Kelly Alexander at the Lowe Institute by April 30, 2025.
SoCCAM 2025 Organizing Committee:
Justin Marion, UC Santa Cruz
Heather Royer, UC Santa Barbara
Alex Wellsjo, UC San Diego
Kevin Shih, UC Riverside
Emily Owens, UC Irvine
Laura Grant, CMC (Chair)
Details for Attending SoCCAM
Lodging
Casa 425 – Claremont
425 W. 1st St., Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 624-2272
Presenters and discussants, please inquire with Kelly Alexander at the Lowe Institute about a room block.
DoubleTree – Claremont
555 W. Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 626-2411
Parking
Free parking is available in the Bauer Center Parking Lot on the east side of campus. Additional street parking can be found on Claremont Blvd, Mills Ave, 10th Street, 11th Street, and Columbia Ave.
