Seminars

ACADEMIC YEAR 2022 - 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Except where otherwise indicated, seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 12pm - 1:30 pm in 3121 Symons Hall.

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title	University/Institution
May 3 (Hybrid)	Jacob French	Technological Change, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility: The Case of Early 20th Century Agriculture	New York University
April 26 (Hybrid)	S Anukriti	Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India	World Bank
April 19 (Hybrid)	Edson Severnini	Price Stabilization Policy, Gasoline Consumption, and Health Externality: Evidence from Brazil	Carnegie Mellon University
April 12 (Hybrid)	Saher Asad	Race to the Top or Bottom? Competition, News Quality and Political Polarization in Pakistan's TV Industry.	World Bank
March 8 (Hybrid)	Guo Xu	Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age	University of California, Berkeley
March 1 (Hybrid)	Muriel Niederle	Trickle-Down Effects of Affirmative Action: A Case Study in France	Stanford University
February 27 *(Monday) (Hybrid)	Stephan Sommer	How Resilient is Support for Carbon Pricing? Evidence from Germany	RWI-Essen
February 22 (Hybrid)	Tihitina Andarge	Threshold Manipulation and Lead Monitoring in U.S. Drinking Water	University of Massachusetts Amherst
February 15 (Virtual)	Antoine Dechezlepretre	Fighting Climate change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies	LSE / OECD
February 8 (Virtual)	Matthew Kotchen	On the Feasibility, Costs and Benefits of an Immediate Phaseout of Coal for U.S. Electricity Generation	Yale University
December 7 (Hybrid)	Marco Castillo	Incentivized Learning, Selective Attention and Durable Treatment Effects in Energy Usage	Texas A&M University
November 30 (Hybrid)	Ritam Chaurey	Implementation of Labor Laws and Informality	Johns Hopkins University
November 16 (Hybrid)	Hoyt Bleakley	The Economic Effects of American Slavery: Tests at the Border	University of Michigan
November 9 (Hybrid)	Steve Puller	Transportation as a Barrier to Education Access: Evidence from Chicago Public Schools	Texas A&M University
November 2 (Hybrid)	Molly Lipscomb	How important are investment non-convexities for development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda	University of Virginia
October 26 (Hybrid)	Nancy Qian	The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy	Northwestern University
October 19 (Hybrid)	Mario Macis	Is the price right? The role of morals, ideology, and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges	John Hopkins University
*Monday-October 17 (Hybrid)	Edward Okeke	When a Doctor Falls from the Sky: The Impact of Easing Doctor Supply Constraints on Mortality	RAND
October 5 (Hybrid)	Jishnu Das	Randomized Regulation: The impact of minimum quality standards on health markets	Georgetown University
September 28 (Hybrid)	Kyle Hyndman	Late Payments in Procurement: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation	University of Texas at Dallas
September 14 (Hybrid)	Paul Novosad	The Long-Run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India	Dartmouth University
September 7 (Virtual)	Christine Exley	The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected But Not Accounted For	Harvard Business School
August 31(Virtual)	Tavneet Suri	Universal Basic Income: Experimental Evidence from Kenya	MIT
May 11 (3:30pm-Hybrid)	Jim Murphy	The Endogenous Formation of Common Pool Resource Coalitions	University of Alaska Anchorage
May 4 (Hybrid)	Ashley Langer	Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	University of Arizona
April 27 (Virtual)	Dilip Mookherjee	Networks, Entrepreneurship and Structural Change: Evidence from China	Boston University
April 20 (Virtual)	Ali Cheema	Making Police Officers Responsive to Women in Gender Segregated Societies: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan	Lahore University of Management Sciences and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives
April 6 (Hybrid)	Nick Hagerty	Adaptation to Surface Water Scarcity in Irrigated Agriculture	Montana State University
March 30 (Hybrid)	Belinda Archibong	Protest Matters: The Effects of Protests on Economic Redistribution	Barnard College (Columbia University)
March 16 (Hybrid)	Matt Neidell	When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution	Columbia University
March 9 (Virtual)	Priya Mukherjee	Political Accountability for Populist Policies: Lessons from the World's Largest Democracy	University of Wisconsin Madison
March 2 (Hybrid)	Paul Gertler	Why are firms slow to adopt profitable opportunities?	UC Berkeley
February 23 (Hybrid)	Jean-Marc Bourgeon	Optimal Green Technology Adoption and Policy Implementation	University of Paris-Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique
February 16 (Virtual)	Lise Vesterlund	Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	University of Pittsburgh
February 9 (Virtual)	Gary Charness	Improving Food Choices	UCSB
January 26 (Virtual)	Johanna Mollerstrom	A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour	George Mason University