Microeconomics and Health Seminar Series

Fall 2026

Tuesdays at 3:30 pm unless otherwise noted

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title

Host

Modality
9/8/2026

3:30-5:00

Sirui Qiu, Keuncheol Lee
Job market talks
Help or Harm? Unintended Consequences of Paid Family Leave Policy on Elderly Health (Qiu)

 

Commercial Real Estate Distress and Residential Mortgage Pricing: Evidence from U.S. Banks (Lee)

In-person
Herbst 337
9/15/2026

3:30-5:00

Meng Song, Xiaofeng Gong
Job market talks
When Less is More: School Schedule Reform and Student Outcomes (Song)

 

Measuring Open Source from Firms: Placing public software in the patent technology space (Gong)

In-person
Herbst 337
9/22/2026

3:30-5:00

Arin Dube
(UMass Amherst)
Are We There Yet? The Search for a Turning Point in the Effect of Minimum Wage on Jobs Simon In-person
Herbst 337
9/29/2026

3:30-5:00

Janet Currie
(Yale)
TBD Simon and Ross In-person
Herbst 337
10/6/2026

3:30-5:00

Matt Brown, Xinrui Wang
Job market talks
TBD In-person
Herbst 337
10/13/2026

3:30-5:00

Matt Ross
(Northeastern)
TBD Cooper In-person
Herbst 337
10/20/2026

3:30-5:00

Brittany Street
(University of Missouri)
TBD Ross In-person
Herbst 337
10/27/2026

3:30-5:00

Jesse Bruhn
(Brown University)
TBD Ross In-person
Herbst 337
11/3/2026

3:30-5:00

Levon Barseghyan
(Cornell)
TBD Levin In-person
Herbst 337
11/10/2026

3:30-5:00

Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere
(UBC visiting Yale)
Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System Cosgel In-person
Herbst 337
11/17/2026

3:30-5:00

Nicholas Vreugdenhil
(Arizona State)
TBD Peters In-person
Herbst 337
11/24/2026

3:30-5:00

THANKSGIVING RECESS
12/1/2026

3:30-5:00

Subhash Ray
(UConn)
TBD In-person
Herbst 337
12/8/2026

3:30-5:00

Ujjayant Chakravorty
(Tufts)
TBD Ray In-person
Herbst 337

Spring 2026

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars (including virtual ones) will take place on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 5:00pm in SHH 337.

Date Time Presenter Title Host Modality
March 24 3:30 p.m. Ramiz Üzümçeker

Brown University

In-person
April 14 3:30 p.m. Bernhard Ganglmair

University of Mannheim / ZEW

In-person
April 21 3:30 p.m. Yongjoon Park

UMass Amherst

In-person

 

Fall 2025

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars (including virtual ones) will take place on Wednesdays from 2:30 – 4:00pm in SHH 337.

Date Time Presenter Title Host Modality
Sept. 3 2:30 p.m. Xibo Wan

UConn ARE

Employment Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from the Clean Water Act Baggio/Peters In-person
Sept. 24 2:30 p.m. Sarah Armitage

Boston U, Questrom

Cutting Costs or Cutting Corners: Ownership across the Life Cycle of Oil and Gas Wells  Peters In-person
Oct. 15 2:30 p.m. Erik Katovich

UConn ARE

Dynamic Firm Adaptation to Sanctions: Evidence from the Russian Oil Industry Levin In-person
Oct. 22 2:30 p.m. Jakina Debnam Guzman
Amherst
Does racial animus undermine support for the U.S. Social Safety Net? Shor In-person
Oct. 29 2:30 p.m. Melanie Meng Xue

LSE

Women and Asylums
Cosgel/Furtado In-person
Nov. 5 2:30 p.m. Larry Samuelson
Yale
Robust Latent Data Representations Levin In-person
Nov. 12 2:30 p.m. Sijia Chen

UConn ARE

Revisiting the Effects of Trade Remedies on U.S. Agricultural Imports Levin In-person
Nov. 19 2:30 p.m. Andreas Ferrara

University of Pittsburg

Frontline Leadership: Evidence from American Civil War Captains Cosgel In-person

Spring 2025

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars (including virtual ones) will take place on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 5:00pm in SHH 337.

Date Time Presenter Title Host Modality
Feb. 25 3:30 p.m. Yanhui WuHKU Business School
TBA
Huang In-person
Mar. 4 3:30 p.m. Subhash RayUConn (Internal)
Opportunity Cost of CO2 Emission Control: An Inter-country Inter-industry Analysis
In-person
Mar. 25 3:30 p.m. Maria-Jose Carreras-Valle
Penn State
TBA Peters In-person
Apr. 1 3:30 p.m. Kara Dimitruk
Hamilton College
TBA Vidart In-person
Apr. 15 3:30 p.m. Karthik Sastry
Princeton
TBA Levin/Vidart In-person
Apr. 23 3:30 p.m. Boaz Abramson
Columbia Business School
TBA Levin/Vidart In-person
Apr. 29 3:30 p.m. Nuno Palma
University of Manchester
TBA Vidart In-person

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