Recent Seminars

FALL 2024

Tim Bersak – Wofford College – Friday, October 4, 12:00pm

 

Spring 2024

  • Faisal Sohail (’11) – University of Melbourne – Friday, February 23, 12:00 pm
    “Gender Gaps in Time Use and Entrepreneurship“
  • Alecia Cassidy – University of Alabama – Friday, March 1, 12:00 pm
    “Policy Trade-offs from Complementary Resource Consumption: PV Adoption and Residential Water Use”
  • Meghan Skira – University of Georgia – Friday, March 29, 12:00 pm
    “The Effect of Hospital Breastfeeding Policies on Infant Health”
  • Eva Dziadula – University of Notre Dame – Friday, April 5, 12:00 pm
    “NACARA: Does Amnesty Affect Marriages of Undocumented Immigrants?”
  • Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter – Vanderbilt University – Thurs, April 11, 7:00 pm.
    “LGBTQ+ Economics and Policy”
  • Kusum Mundra – Rutgers University – Friday, April 19, 12:00 pm
    “Skilled Immigrant Earnings: H-1B Program and Entry Visa Type”

Fall 2023

  • Ben Chartock – Bentley University – Thursday, Sept. 7, 12:15 pm.
    “Quality Disclosure, Demand, and Congestion: Evidence from Physician Ratings”
  • Ibukun James Olaoye and Sarah Edore Edewor – Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) – Friday, Sept. 8, 12:00 pm.
    “Does Crop Diversification Influence Welfare Outcomes of Smallholder Farm Households: Evidence from Nigeria?”
  • Tarana Chauhan – Cornell University – Monday, Oct. 16, 12:00 pm
    “Bank Account Ownership and Women’s Empowerment in India”
  • Joshua Hyman – Amherst College – Monday, Oct. 23, 12:00 pm
    College Counseling in the Classroom: Randomized Evaluation of a Teacher-Based Approach to College Advising
  • Eren Bilen – Dickinson College – Monday, Oct. 30, 12:00 pm
    Nationalism in Online Games: Impacts of International Conflicts on Chess Player Behavior
  • Dana Smith (’18) – Cornell University – Monday, November 6, 12:00 pm
    “Climate Change, Violence, and Remittance Flows in Mexico”
  • Jan Duchoslav (’09) – International Food Policy Research Institute – Monday, November 20, 12:00 pm
    “Welfare Impacts of Seasonal Maize Price Fluctuations in Malawi”
  • Hannah Ruebeck – MIT – Monday, November 27, 12:00 pm
    “Perceived Discrimination at Work”
  • Meiping Sun – Fordham University – Monday, December 4, 12:00 pm
    “Long-term Impacts of Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood”

Spring 2023

  • Emily Moschini – William & Mary – Monday, March 6, 12:00 pm, Zoom link.
    Over-optimism about Graduation and College Financial Aid
  • Paul Ko – Dickinson College – Monday, March 20, 12:00 pm
    Globalization, Gender Wage Gap, and Female Labor Force Participation
  • Sandra Goff – Bates College – Monday, March 27, 12:00 pm
    Who Benefits?: An Experimental Analysis of Sucker Aversion in Charitable Giving
  • Dania Francis – UMass-Boston, Thursday, March 30, 7:30 pm, Oechsle 224.
    Black Economists on Race and Policy
  • Fatima Aqeel – Colgate University – Monday, April 10, 12:00 pm
    Gender Differences in Spousal Search: Evidence from Historic Marriage Ads
  • Yingtong Xie – Carleton College – Monday, April 17, 12:00 pm,
    The Impact of Pension Plan Shift on Household Risk Exposure
  • Allison Luedtke – St. Olaf College – Monday, May 1, 12:00 pm,
    Missing Financial Network Data
  • Dennis Fixler – US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) – April 27 or 28, 12:00 pm.
    TBD
  • Dario Pozzoli – Copenhagen Business School – Monday, May 15, 12:00 pm.
    TBD

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

  • Anne Fitzpatrick – UMass  Boston – Monday, Feb. 7, 12:00 pm, Zoom
    “Teacher Flexibility and School Productivity: Evidence from a Remedial Education Program in India”
  • Sarah Jacobson – Williams College – Monday, March 21, 12:00 pm
    “The Aye of the Storm: Partisan Politics, Informative Events, and Voting on Environmental Legislation”
  • Michael Neugart – Technische Universitat Darmstadt – Monday, March 28, 12:00 pm
    “Effects of Technological Change and Automation on Industry Structure and (Wage-)Inequality: Insights from a Dynamic Task-Based Model”
  • Kate Suslava – Bucknell University – Monday, April 4, 12:00 pm
    “Benefits of Having a Female CFO”
  • Jacob Bastian – Rutgers University – Monday, April 11, 12:00 pm, Zoom
    “Overcoming Credit Constraints and Migrating Out of Rural and Distressed America“

Fall 2021

  • Paul Thompson – Oregon State University – Monday, Sept. 27, 12:00 pm, Zoom
    “Only a Matter of Time? The Role of Time in School on Four-Day School Week Achievement Impacts”
  • Carly Trachtman (’16) – UC Berkeley – Monday, Oct. 18, 12:00 pm, Zoom
    “How much do our neighbors really know?: The limits of community-based targeting”
  • Dede Long – CSU Long Beach – Monday, Nov. 1, 12:00 pm, Simon 125.
    “Urban parks and infant health: a matching and equilibrium sorting approach“
  • Marwil Dávila Fernández – Bucknell University – Monday, Nov. 15, 12:00 pm, Zoom
    “Seeing what Can(not) be seen: Confirmation Bias, Employment Dynamics and Climate Change”
  • Pinar Gunes – University of Alberta – Monday, Dec. 6, 12:00 pm, Zoom
    “Labor Market Conditions and Adult Health in Mexico”
  • Pritha Chaudhuri – Hamilton College – Monday, Dec. 13, 12:00 pm, Zoom

Spring 2021

  • John Komlos – University of Munich, Monday, Feb. 15, 12:00pm, Zoom
    “The Hidden Racism in Economics“
  • Rajiv Sethi and Homa Zarghamee – Barnard College, Monday, Feb. 22, 12:00pm, Zoom
    “Building a Vibrant Department of Economics: A View from Barnard”
  • Josh Staveley-O’Carroll – Babson College, Monday, March 1, 12:00pm, Zoom
    “Exchange Rate Targeting in the Presence of Foreign Debt Obligations“
  • Matt Larsen – Lafayette College, Monday, March 8, 12:00pm, Zoom
    “Spillover Effects of Retention Policies“
  • Nayana Bose – Scripps College, Monday, March 22, 12:00, Zoom
    “Women’s Inheritance Rights & Fertility Decisions: Evidence from India”
  • Jimena González Ramírez – Manhattan College, Monday, April 5, 12:00pm, Zoom
    “The Effectiveness of a Green Default Nudge in Achieving Resource Conservation“
  • Margaret (Gretchen) Lay – Mount Holyoke, Monday, April 19, 12:00pm, Zoom
    “Firm Financing and Liquidity Insurance with a Defined Benefit Pension”

Fall 2020

  • **CANCELED due to COVID

Spring 2020

  • **CANCELED – Shiliang (John) Cui – Georgetown University, Monday, 2/10, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • David Rojo-Arjona – Chapman University, Monday, 2/17, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Rob Lester – Colby College, Monday, 3/9, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Erin Cottle Hunt – Lafayette, Brown Bag,  Monday, 3/23, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy – Lehigh University, Monday, 3/30, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Marie Hull – UNC-Greensboro, Monday, 4/6, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Jimena Gonzalez Ramirez – Manhattan College, Monday, 4/13, Simon 125
  • Tomas Williams – George Washington University, Monday, 4/20, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Lena Ogrokina – Lafayette, Brown Bag, Monday, 4/27, 12:00pm, Simon 125

Fall 2019

  • Phil Levine – Wellesley College, Monday, 9/30, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Hongxing Liu – Lafayette, Brown Bag, Monday, 10/7, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Catherine MacLean – Temple University, Monday, 10/21, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Stephen Bruestle’07 – Penn State-Behrend, Monday, 10/28, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • James Sullivan – University of Notre Dame, Public Lecture, Tuesday, 10/29, 7:30pm, Oechsle 224
  • Wendong Zhang – Iowa State University, Monday, 11/4, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Krishna Regmi – Miami University of Ohio, Monday, 11/11, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Seth Neumuller – Wellesley College, Monday, 11/18, 12:00pm, Simon 125
  • Margaret Lay – Mt. Holyoke College, Monday, 12/2, 12:00pm, Simon 125