Department of Economics

• Tuesday, February 27, 2024
  H. Evren Damar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  "Within Industry Credit Allocation and Employment Outcomes"
• Tuesday, March 5, 2024
  Sepehr Shahshahani, Fordham University School of Law
  "Judges, Lawyers, and Legal Innovation"
• Tuesday, April 2, 2024
  Alexander Zentefis, Yale University
  "Bank Branch Access: Evidence from Geolocation Data"
• Tuesday, April 16 2024
  Marc Remer, Swarthmore College
  "What's the Difference? Measuring the Effect of Mergers in the Airline Industry"
• Tuesday, April 23, 2024
  Francesco D'Acunto, Georgetown University
  "Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy and the Transmission of Monetary Policy"
• Tuesday, September 12, 2023
  Hunter Rendleman BMC '18, Harvard University
  "Bound Together: Racial Peer Effects and Caucus Control in the U.S. Congress"
• Tuesday, September 26, 2023
  Jeanna Kenney '16, Wharton
  "Costly Entry and Competition: Evidence from Occupational Licensing in the Real Estate Industry"
• Tuesday, October 10, 2023
  Becca Jorgensen, Wharton
  "The Consequences of Mergers Between Real Estate Agencies and Mortgage Lenders"
• Tuesday, November 07, 2023
  Neeraja Gupta, Richmond University
  "Can Temporary Affirmative Action Improve Representation?"
• Tuesday, November 14, 2023
  Xiaoxiao Li, Villanova University
  "Major Complexity Index and College Skill Production"
• Tuesday, November 28, 2023
  Edgard Dewitte, University of Oxford
  "Science under Inquisition: The allocation of talent in early modern Europe"

• Tuesday, September 27, 2022**
  Jiyoon (June) Kim, Bryn Mawr College
  "Spillover Effects of Paid Leave for Mothers - Does It Help Fathers' Health?"
• Monday, October 24, 2022**
  Maria Aristizabal-Ramirez, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  "A North-South Model of Structural Change and Growth"
• Monday, December 5, 2022
  Joshua Hyman, Amherst College
  "Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime"
• Tuesday, March 28, 2023
  Alicia Atwood, Vassar College
  "The Long Term Benefits of Vaccination Campaigns: Evidence from Mexico"
• Monday, April 3, 2023
  Morgan Williams, Jr., Barnard College
  “The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Health and Hospitalization over the Life-Cycle”
• Tuesday, April 18, 2023
  Erin Wolcott, Middlebury College
  “Did Racist Labor Policies Reverse Equality Gains for Everyone?”

**Indicates that the seminar is part of ECON396A. A required talk for Senior Economics Majors.

• Sept 7, 2021
  Matthew Gibson, Williams College
  "Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley"
• Sept 27, 2021
  Sebastian Anti
  "Land Policy and Human Health: Evidence from Land Grabs in Cambodia"
• Oct 19, 2021
  Daniel Stackman '14, New York University
  "Bleaker on Broadway: The Contractual Origins of High-Rent Urban Blight"
• Oct 25, 2021
  Maira Reimao, Villanova University**
  Daycare and Women's Employment: effects in the short-run, in the long-run, and at home
• Nov 16, 2021
  Michael Lipsitz, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
  The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility
• Nov 30, 2021
  Jeff Larrimore, Federal Reserve Board
  Earnings Shocks and Stabilization During COVID-19
• Jan 25, 2022
  Brandyn Churchill, Carleton University
  "‘There She Is, Your Ideal’: Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors"
• Feb 8, 2022
  Taha Ahsin, Duke University
  "Redtape, Greenleaf: Creditor Behavior Under Costly Collateral Enforcement"
• Feb 22, 2022
  Rachel Baker, Penn Graduate School of Education
  Improving the Community College Transfer Pathway to the Baccalaureate: The Effect of California’s Associate Degree for Transfer
• Mar 15, 2022
  Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
  "Mining and Women’s Agency: Evidence on Acceptance of Domestic Violence and Shared Decision-Making in India"
• March 29, 2022
  Paul Ko, Dickinson College
  "Dissecting Trade and Business Cycle Co-movement"
• April 12, 2022
  G. Kemal Ozhan, Bank of Canada
  Interest rate uncertainty as a policy tool?"

**Indicates that the seminar is part of ECON396A. A required talk for Senior Economics Majors.

• Monday, September 28
  Damon Jones, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
  Wealth, Race and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks.

• Friday, October 9
  Martin Schmalz, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
  (Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits?

• Monday, October 26
  Emily Weisburst, Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles
  "Whose help is on the way?" The importance of individual police officers in law enforcement outcomes.

• Wednesday, March 3
  Carly Will Sloan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at Claremont Graduate University
  "Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls"

• Wednesday, March 24
  Christine Strong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Old Dominion University
  "The impact of Fiscal Rules on Government Debt: Evidence from the CFA Zone."

• Monday, April 5
  Hunt Allcott, Associate Professor of Economics, NYU
  "Are High Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending"

• Monday September 9, 2019
  Dan Fragiadakis, Villanova University
  The Belief Elicitation by Superimposition Approach
• Tuesday, September 4, 2019
  Nick Reynolds, Brown University
  A Decline in the Health and Human Capital of Americans Born After 1947
• Tuesday, October 1, 2019
  Amy Guisinger, Lafayette College
  News vs. Noise: What Information is Contained in the Revisions of the JOLTS Data?
• Tuesday, October 22, 2019
  Pablo Montagnes, Emory College
  'Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court
• Monday, November 4, 2019
  Benjamin Lockwood, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
  What is the Optimal Lottery Tax?
• Tuesday, December 3, 2019
  William Carrington, Congressional Budget Office
  Simulating the Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment and Poverty
• Tuesday, Feburary 18, 2020
  Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania
  Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
• Tuesday, March 3, 2020
  Tristan Potter, Drexel University
  Discouragement Traps

• Monday September 10, 2018
  Sonia Gilbukh, Baruch College
  Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle
• Wednesday, September 26, 2018
  Lauren Velasco, Bryn Mawr College
  The Long-term Impact of Preventative Public Health Programs
• Monday, October 1, 2018
  Ben Keys, University of Pennsylvania
  Eyes Wide Shut? The Moral Hazard of Mortgage Insurers during the Housing Boom.
• Monday, October 22, 2018
  Alexis Pozen, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health
  Competition and quality in New York's Medicaid managed care program.
• Thursday, November 1, 2018
  Mark Melitz, Harvard University
  The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence.
• Monday, November 12, 2018
  Jessica Brown, Princeton University
  Does Public Pre-K Have Unintended Consequences for the Child Care Market for Infants and Toddlers?
• Monday, December 3, 2018
  Robert Eisinger ('87), Chief of Staff, Research Science division at The NPD Group
  Whither Presidential Approval?
• Monday, January 28, 2019
  Tucker McElroy, Census Bureau
  "Variable Targeting and Reduction in Large Vector Autoregressions With Applications to Workforce Indicators"
• Monday, February 11, 2019
  Erin Bronchetti, Swarthmore College
  Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health
• Monday, February 25, 2019
  John Burger, Loyola University, Maryland Benchmarking
  Portfolio Flows
• Monday, March 25, 2019
  Dan Hamermesh, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin. Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College
  “O Youth and Beauty:” Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development
• Monday, April 1, 2019
  Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and the co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies
  Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes
• Monday, April 22, 2019
  Kenneth Troske, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach, University of Kentucky
  Ambulance Service Ownership and Management: How It Affects Quality of Service Delivery for Medicare Patients

• Monday, September 18, 2017
  John Klopfer, United States Naval Academy
  Labor supply, learning time, and the efficiency of school spending: evidence from school finance reforms.
• Monday, October 2, 2017
  Chris Ody, Northwestern University
  A Dose of Managed Care: Efficiency in Medicaid Drug Benefits
• Wednesday, October 25, 2017
  Marc Remer, Swarthmore College
  An Empirical Model of Dynamic Price Competition
• Wednesday, November 8, 2017
  Matthew Botsch, Bowdoin College
  Inflation Experiences and Contract Choice: Evidence from Residential Mortgages
• Wednesday, November 29, 2017
  Daniel Lewis, Harvard University
  Identifying Shocks via Time-Varying Volatility: New Evidence of Monetary non-Neutrality
• Monday, February 26, 2018
  Edoardo Grillo, Stanford University, Collegio Carlo Alberto
  Economic and Social-Class Voting in a Model of Redistribution with Social Concerns
• Tuesday, March 20, 2018
  Jeremie Cohen-Setton, Peterson Institute
  Large Fiscal Expansions in OECD Countries: Identification and Effects
• Tuesday, April 24, 2018
  Syon Bhanot, Swarthmore College
  Poverty Identity and Competitiveness

• Monday, September 12, 2016
  Matthew Rablen, University of Sheffield
  Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle (Joint work with Amedeo Piolatto)
• Monday, September 26, 2016
  Ben Ho, Vassar College
  Rank Preserving Preferences
• Monday, October 17, 2016
  Callum Jones, PhD candidate in economics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
  Aging, Secular Stagnation and the Business Cycle
• Monday, October 24, 2016
  Steven Smith, Post Doc in the department of economics, Haverford College
• Monday, November 7, 2016
  Charles Weise, economics professor at Gettysburg College
  Political Pressures on Monetary Policy During the US Great Inflation
• Monday, November 21, 2016
  Shannon Mudd, Visiting Assistant Professor of economics, Haverford College
  Stuck in the Past? Information Processing Individual Experiences and Expectations
• Monday, February 27, 2017
  Michael Curran, Villanova University
  Interest Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Dynamics: a Cross-Country Analysis
• Wednesday, March 1, 2017
  Eric Gaus, Ursinus College
  Not Quite Rational: Expectations and Their Influence on Macroeconomics
• Monday, March 13, 2017
  Matt Jaremski, Colgate University
  Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks
• Monday, March 20, 2017
  Dayna Judge, Princeton University
  Beyond Ethnicity: interviewer gender as a source of response bias in global survey data.
• Wednesday, March 22, 2017
  John Mondragon, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
  Regulating Household Leverage.

• Monday, September 14, 2015
  Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware
  Adult Health Interventions and Children's Schooling: Evidence from Antiretroviral Therapy in Zambia
• Monday, September 28, 2015
  Christopher Kilby, Villanova University
  Aid and democracy redux
• Monday, October 19, 2015
  Claudia Sahm, Federal Reserve Board & Council of Economic Advisors
  Balance-Sheet Households and Fiscal Stimulus: Lessons from the Payroll Tax Cut and Its Expiration
• Monday, November 2, 2015
  Dustin Frye, Vassar College
  Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry
• Wednesday, November 18, 2015
  Erick Sager
  Development, Volatility and Intertemporal Distortions
• Tuesday, January 26, 2016
  Amanda Starc, Wharton
  Ask Your Doctor: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals
• Tuesday, February 9, 2016
  Sutirtha Bagchi, Villanova
  he Effects of Political Competition on the Funding and Generosity of Public-Sector Pension Plans
• Tuesday, March 1, 2016
  Daniel Gross, NBER/HBS
• Monday, March 21, 2016
  George Bulman, UC Santa Cruz,
  Parental Income and College Outcomes
• Wednesday, April 13, 2016
  Jonathan Lafky, Lafayette College
  Quality Versus Quantity in Information Transmission

• February 23, 2015
  Matthew Incantalupo, Princeton University
  The Effects of Unemployment on Voter Turnout in U.S. National Elections
• March 2, 2015
  Andrew Samuel, Loyola University Maryland
  Optimal Inspections Regimes for Regulation - With and Without Collusion
• March 16, 2015
  John Smith, Rutgers University, Camden
  Cognitive Load and Strategic Sophistication
• March 30, 2015
  Jeremy Tobacman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy
• April 13, 2015
  Anne Preston, Haverford College
  Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

• February 10, 2014
  Tim Lambie-Hanson, Haverford College
• Agency and Incentives: Vertical Integration in the Mortgage Foreclosure Industry
• February 24, 2014
  Giri Parameswaran, Haverford College
  Your Ignorance is My Bliss: Learning by Acquaintance, Policy Distortions and the Slippery Slope 
• March 31, 2014
  Lauren Lambie-Hanson, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  When Does Delinquency Result in Neglect? Mortgage Distress and Property Maintenance 
• April 28, 2014
  Tao Wang, Swarthmore College
  Climate Change Policy and Patterns of International Trade