Research

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Economics Seminar Series

The department is holding two types of seminars this spring 2025 semester. The seminar series are held on Fridays from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM in room 231B Gladfelter Hall, College of Liberal Arts. The recruitment series will also run throughout the week, check out the dates and times below for both!

Past Seminar Series Talks

Spring 2024 Seminar Series

January 26: Dr. Aaron Chalfin (University of Pennsylvania)
February 2: Dr. Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez (Fordham University)
February 16: Dr. Francisco Costa (University of Delaware)
March 1: Dr. Pierre Bodere (Princeton University)
April 5: Dr. Jonathan Elliott (Johns Hopkins University)

Fall 2023 Seminar Series

September 15: Enghin Atalay (Philly Fed) “Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy”   
September 29: Xiang Ding (Georgetown) ”Capital Services in Global Value Chains”
October 27: Seth Gitter (Towson) ”Lean and Hungry in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seasonally Representative Evidence of Children’s Malnutrition”
November 10: Sophie Calder-Wang (UPenn) ”Coordinated vs Efficient Prices: The Impact of Algorithmic Pricing on Multifamily Rental Markets”
December 8: Jake Wagner (Washington State University) “The Impacts of Covid-19 on U.S. Containerized Agricultural Exports”

Fall 2022 Seminar Series

September 23: Alejandro del Valle (Georgia State) “Saving Lives with Indexed Disaster Funds: Evidence from Mexico”
October 7: Valerie Bostwick (Kansas State) “Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-Throughs: Mobility Restrictions and Teen Human Capital”
October 21: Daniel Berkowitz (U Pittsburgh) “What Makes Local Governments in Autocracies Accountable? Evidence from China”
October 28: Lukasz Drozd (Philadelphia Fed) “Understanding Growth through Automation: The Neoclassical Perspective”
November 4: Ryan Kim (JHU-SAIS) “Spillovers through Multimarket Firms: The Uniform Product Replacement Channel”
November 11: Ariel Weinberger (GWU) “Surviving Pandemics: The Role of Spillovers”
December 2: Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers) “The Returns to Medical Inventions”

Spring 2022 Seminar Series

February 11: Karen Clay (Carnegie-Melon University) “Industrial Lead Emissions and Infant Mortality”
February: Abhilasha Sahay (World Bank) “Silenced Women: Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence Against Women?”
March 25: Marta Vicarelli (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) ”Impacts of COVID-19 on US Households: a Survey Analysis”
April 8: Matt Freedman (University of California, Irvine) “Firm Response to Local Hiring Subsidies: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Tax Credit Formula”  
April 22: Chloe Gibbs (University of Notre Dame) ”Experimental Evidence on Early Childhood Intervention: The Impact of a Longer School Day”
Apr 29: Hugo Jales (Syracuse University) ”Minimum wage and Informality in a Roy Bargaining Economy: Evidence from a Bunching Estimator”

Fall 2021 Seminar Series

October 1: Patricio Dominguez (Universidad Catolica) “Crime-differential responses to an environmental shock: Evidence from blackouts”
October 8: Stephen Schwab (US Army - Baylor) “The Value of Specific Information: Evidence from Disruptions to the Patient- Physician Relationship”
October 15: Nick Buchholz (Princeton) “The Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides”
October 22: Nic Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal) “Demand Learning, Customer Capital and Exporter Dynamics”
October 29: Felix Tintelnot (U of Chicago) “Who Benefits from Foreign Demand Shocks?”
November 12: Qing Gong (UNC) “Strategic Hospital Responses to the Inpatient Prospective Payment
November 19: Matt Backus (Columbia GSB) “Consumer Surplus and Distributional Concerns”
December 3: Tatsuro Senga (Queen Mary University of London) “Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation over the Firm's Life Cycle”

Spring 2021 Seminar Series

January 29: Mark Anderson (Montana State University)  “The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap”
February 5: Daniel Tannenbaum (University of Nebraska)  “Eviction and Poverty in American Cities: Evidence from Chicago and New York”
March 12:  Rossella Calvi (Rice University) “Til Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families”
March 19:  Aaditya Dar (Indian School of Business) “The Groundwater Constraint: Responses to Falling Water Tables in India”     
April 2:  Mary Evans (Claremont McKenna College) "The Hazards of Unwinding the Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Child Abuse and Neglect"
April 9:  Joseph Sabia (San Diego State University) “Beyond the Draft: Modern Warfare, Veterans' Benefits, and Labor Market Outcomes”

Fall 2020 Seminar Series

September 25: Ludovica Gazze (University of Warwick) "The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom”
October 16: Clementine Van Effenterre (Toronto) “School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap"
October 28: Sarit Weisburd (Tel Aviv University) “Police Response Times and Injury Outcomes”
November 6: Shawn McCoy (UN Las Vegas) “Water in the Time of Corona(virus): The Effect of Stay-at-Home Orders on Water Demand in the Desert”

Spring 2020 Seminar Series

January 31: Corina Boar (New York University) “Who are the hand-to-mouth?”
February 7: Diego Puga (CEMFI) “Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications”
February 21: Maria Rosales-Rueda (Rutgers University) “Social Interventions, Health and Well-being: The Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction program”
February 28: Chris Moser (Columbia Business School) “The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences”

Fall 2019 Seminar Series

August 30: Abby Alpert (Wharton) “Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts”
September 6: Juan Carlos Cordoba (ISU) “Demographic Labor Market Accounting”
September 13: Mark Huggett (Georgetown) “Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective”
October 4: Melanie Guldi (UCF) “Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births”
October 18: Francesco Agostinelli (UPenn) “It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighbourhood and Peer Effects”
November 15: Daniel Dench (CUNY) “Nudges versus incentives: a field experiment to motivate students”

Working Paper Series

The Economics Department has maintained a working paper series since 2010. Papers in the series are authored or coauthored by department faculty and graduate students. Follow the link to view the working paper series.

The Journal of Economics and Business

The Journal of Economics and Business (JEB) provides an outlet for high-quality and innovative research in the intersection of economics and business. The journal publishes both theoretical and empirical research in all areas of Finance, Industrial Organization, International Economics, Managerial Economics, and Personnel Economics.

Center for Competitive Government

The Center for Competitive Government (formerly the Privatization Research Center) deals with description, evaluation and planning of innovations by the government.

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