Labor, Development & Health Workshops Archive

Spring 2023

 

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
1/30/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Dan Hamermesh
(UT Austin)
In-Person
Oak 337
TBD
2/06/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 TBD
2/13/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 TBD
2/20/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 TBD
2/27/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Yizhi Zhu
(UConn)		 TBD
3/06/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Allan Hsiao (Princeton)WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex  Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta 
3/13/2023 Spring Break (No Seminar)
3/20/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Emily Cook
(Tulane University) and
Riley Acton
(Miami University)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 

The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread: Evidence from College COVID-19 Mandates
3/27/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Barbara Biasi
(Yale School of Management)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments in the U.S.
4/03/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Laura R. Wherry
(NYU Wagner )
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 Covering Undocumented Immigrants: The Effects of a Large Scale Prenatal Care Intervention.
4/10/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Marco Tabellini
(Harvard Business School)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 

“Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.” (pdf) 
4/17/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 TBD
4/24/2023
2:30 – 4:00		 Marcella Aslan
(Harvard Kennedy School)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 Something Works: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program

 

Fall 2022

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
8/30/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Patti Ritter
(UConn)
In-Person
Oak 337

The Protective Effect of Early Childhood Eligibility to Medicaid on Covid-19 Mortality” coauthored with Michael Dinardi. 
9/6/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Miranda Mendiola-Valdez
(UConn)
In-Person
Oak 337		 Can HIV/AIDS Treatment Hurt Women? Evidence from Malawi
9/13/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Brian Phelan
(DePaul University)
Hybrid: Oak 337 orhttp://s.uconn.edu/oak337webexOR		 “The Labor Market Consequences of Competing and Non-Competing High Skill Immigrants: Evidence from College Majors.” 
9/20/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Todd Jones
(Mississippi State)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex		 “School and Crime”
9/27/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 David Simon
and Lindsey Buck
(UConn)
In-Person
Oak 337		 Investigations for Child Abuse and Neglect and Family Outcomes.
10/4/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Katharina Wedel
(ifo Center for the Economics of Education)
In-Person
Oak 337		 Perceptions of circumstances vs. effort in education and the demand for redistribution: evidence from a survey experiment
10/11/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Jinning Wang
(UConn)
In-Person
Oak 337		 The Impact of Intergenerational CoResidence and Female Labor Supply in Urban China
10/18/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Martin Saavedra
(Oberlin)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		   Vaccines, Verdicts, and Vitriol: The Effect of Smallpox Court Decisions on Anti-Vaccine Sentiment
10/25/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen
(UConn)
In-Person
Oak 337		 Immigration Enforcement and the Institutionalization of the Elderly
11/1/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Kasey Buckles
(Notre Dame)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data.
11/8/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Wayne Sandholtz
(Nova School of Business and Economics)
In-Person
Oak 337

Secondary school access raises primary school achievement in Tanzania
11/15/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 No Seminar this week No seminar this week
11/22/2022 Thanksgiving Recess (No Seminar)
11/29/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Karmini Sharma
(Stanford University)
(University of Maryland)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 TBD
12/6/2022
3:30 – 5:00		 Melissa Kearney
(University of Maryland)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 TBD

Spring 2022

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
1/24/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Jason Baron
(Duke University)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 

Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime
2/14/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Basit Zafar
(University of Michigan)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex

A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior
2/21/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Shiyi Chen
(UConn)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex		 TBD
2/28/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Kelsi Hobbs
(University of Maine)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex		 TBD
3/7/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen
(UConn)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex		 Refugee Influx and Immunization Among Native Children in Jordan
3/14/2022 Spring Break (No Seminar)
3/21/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Economic Society
(UConn)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 TBD
3/28/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Joshua Dean
(University of Chicago)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex		 TBD
4/4/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Inés Berniell
Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 TBD
4/11/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Jaime Arellano-Bover
(University of Rome Tor Vergata)
In-Person
Oak 337		 Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms
4/18/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Dean Yang
(University of Michigan)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 TBD
4/25/2022
2:30 – 4:00		 Ana Maria Mayda
(Georgetown University)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 TBD

 

Fall 2021

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
9/7/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Ajay Shenoy
(University of California Santa Cruz)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 

The Workforce of Clientelism: The Case of Local Officials in the Party Machine.pdf
9/14/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Patti Ritter
(UConn)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex		 The Effects of Access to Health Insurance on Children’s Health. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Peru
9/20/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 TBD
9/28/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Deepak Saraswat
(UConn)
WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 Labor Market Impacts of Exposure to Affordable Housing Supply: Evidence from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program
10/5/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Theresa Kuchler
(NYU Stern School of Business).WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex 		 Social Networks Shape Beliefs and Behavior: Evidence from Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
10/12/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Erdal Asker (UConn) The Effect of Compulsory Education on Age at First Marriage and Teenage Fertility: Evidence from a Difference-in-Discontinuity Design
10/19/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Misty Heggeness (Census)WebEx at http://s.uconn.edu/oak337webex  Telework Did Not Save Us
10/26/2021
3:30 – 5:00
Justin Sydnor
(Wisconsin-Madison)
 The Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice
11/2/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Treena Goswami
(UConn)
In Person in Oak 337		  Immigrants and Labor Market Decisions of Older Natives
11/9/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Heli Xu
(UConn)
In Person in Oak 337
11/16/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Lindsey Buck
(UConn)

 
11/23/2021 Thanksgiving Break (No Seminar)
11/30/2021
Jesse Gregory
(Wisconsin-Madison)
 The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences
12/7/2021
3:30 – 5:00		 Jason Lindo
(Texas A&M)

 

Spring 2021

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
2/22/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Andreas Steinhauer
(University of Edinburgh)		 Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation
2/26/2021
Friday Brownbag
2:00 – 3:00		 Deepak Saraswat
(UConn)		 Housing Assistance, Labor Force Participation, and Welfare Dependence: Evidence from LIHTC
3/1/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Austin Smith
(Miami University)		 Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings
3/5/2021
Friday Brownbag
2:00 – 3:00		 Lindsey Buck
(UConn)		 The Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Effect of Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from Nepal
3/8/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Pietro Biroli
(University of Zurich)
3/12/2021
Friday Brownbag
2:00 – 3:00		 Heli Xu
(UConn)
3/15/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 CarlyWill Sloan
(Claremont Graduate University)
3/22/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Prashant Bharadwaj
(UC San Diego)
3/29/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Ama Baafra Abeberese
(Wellesley)
4/5/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Chloe East
(University of Colorado Denver)
4/12/2021 Spring Break (No Seminar)
4/19/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Andrea Velasquez
(University of Colorado Denver)
4/26/2021
2:30 – 4:00		 Namrata Kala
(MIT Sloan)

Fall 2020

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
9/1/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Sofia Amaral
(IFO Institute at University of Munich)		 Women in Policing Teams and Domestic Violence
9/8/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Antonella Bancalari(London School of Economics) Can White Elephants Kill? Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development in Peru
9/11/2020
Friday Brownbag
2:00 – 3:00		 Lindsey Buck
(UConn)		 Understanding Behavioral Barriers to Demand for Domestic Violence Services
9/15/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 TBD
9/22/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Onur Altidnay
9/29/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 David Cuberes

he Birth and Persistence of Cities: Evidence from the Oklahoma’s First Fifty Years of Urban Growth.pdf
10/2/2020
Friday Brownbag
2:00 – 3:00		 David Simon
(UConn)		 Financial Incentives for Permanency: Foster care in MN
10/6/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Manuela Angelucci
(University of Texas at Austin)
10/9/2020Friday Brownbag

2:00 – 3:00

 Deepak Saraswat
10/13/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Hilary Hoynes
10/20/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Wei Zheng
(UConn)		 The Child Tax Credit and Maternal Labor Supply
10/23/2020
Friday Brownbag
2:00 – 3:00		 Heli Xu
(UConn)		 The Impact of Universal Childcare on Maternal Labor Supply
10/27/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Jingwei Huang
(UConn)
11/3/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Shiyi Chen
(UConn)		 Affirmative Action Policies and Interracial Marriage
11/10/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Perry Singleton
(Syracuse University)
11/13/2020Friday Brownbag

2:00 – 3:00

 Miranda Mindiola Valdez(UConn)
11/17/2020
3:30 – 5:00		 Girjia Borker
(World Bank)
11/24/2020 Thanks giving Recess
12/1/2020 Uta Schönberg(University College London) The Effects of Business Taxation on Local Labor Markets, Firms and Workers
12/4/2020Friday Brownbag

2:00 – 3:00

 Erdal Asker(Uconn)
12/8/2020 Peter Blaire(Harvard)

Spring 2020

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
1/27/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Juliana Londoño Vélez (UCLA)
Can Wealth Taxation Work in Developing Countries? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
2/17/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Johannes Haushofer
(Princeton)
2/24/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Remy Levin
(UCSD)		 Adaptive Risk-Taking: Theory and Evidence from Developing Countries
3/2/2020
2:30 – 4:00Room: Gentry 144 , reception with food afterwards		 Brian Jacob
(University of Michigan)
3/9/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Tim Moore
(Purdue University)		 Shaping the Habits of Young Drivers
March 15th – March 21st:  Spring Recess
3/30/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Erdal Tekin
(American University)
4/6/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Perry Singleton
(Syracuse University)
4/8/2020

Brownbag

12:30 – 1:30

 Erdal Asker
4/13/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Sofia Amaral
(IFO Institute at University of Munich)
4/15/2020

Brownbag

11:15-12:15

 Wei Zheng
4/20/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Manuela Angelucci
(University of Texas at Austin)
4/22/2020

Brownbag
11:15 – 12:15

 Pat Ukil

(Uconn)
4/27/2020
2:30 – 4:00		 Giovanni Peri
(UC Davis)
4/29/2020

Brownbag
11:15 – 12:15

 Kevin Wood
May 1st: Last Day of Class

Fall 2019

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
8/27/2019
3:30 – 5:00		  Haiyang Kong (Uconn)
Job Market Candidate		 How Do Low Skilled Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence using English Language Proficiency
9/3/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Albert Zevelev
(Baruch College)		 Does Bankruptcy Protection Affect Asset Prices?
9/10/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Pat Ukil
(UConn)Job Market Candidate		 Economic Shocks & Infant Health: the Effect of Import Competition in the U.S.
9/17/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Ina Ganguli
(UMass Amherst)		 Biased Beliefs and the Academic Labor Market 
9/19/2019

11:25-12:25

BROWNBAG

 Patti Ritter
9/24/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Frank Schilbach
(MIT)		 Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor
10/01/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Mica Sviatschi
(Princeton)

Gangs, labor mobility and development
10/08/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Monica Deza (CUNY)

Local access to mental healthcare and crime
10/15/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Quamrul Ashraf
(Williams College)		 Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
10/22/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Yunlu Shu

Job Market Candidate
(UConn)

 Unilateral Divorce and Black-White Interracial Marriages
10/29/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Xizi Li (Uconn)

Job Market Candidate
11/5/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Bryce Steinberg
(Brown University)
11/12/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Kevin Wood
(UConn)		 Health Insurance Reform and Retirement: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
11/19/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Francisco Galarza
11/24 – 11/30: Thanksgiving Recess
12/3/2019
3:30 – 5:00		 Joanna Lahey
(Texas A&M University)
12/6: Last Day of Class

Spring 2019

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
1/23/2019
Wednesday Brown Bag Seminar
12:15 – 1:15		 Deepak Saraswat
(UConn)		 Gender Composition of Children and Sanitation Behavior In India
1/28/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Delia Furtado
(UConn)		 Who Goes on Disability when Times are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up among Immigrants
2/4/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Marianne Bitler
(UC Davis)		 The Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program
2/11/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Nuria Rodriguez Planas
(Queens College NY)		 Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms.
2/18/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Dean Lillard
(Ohio State)		 Understanding the Correlation Between Alzheimer’s Disease Polygenic Risk, Wealth, and the Composition of Wealth Holdings
2/25/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Aprajit Mahajan
(UC Berkeley)		 Financial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence from Mexico
2/27/2019
Wednesday Brown Bag Seminar
12:15 – 1:15		 Jorge Agüero
(UConn)
3/4/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Bryce Steinberg
(Brown University)		 Brain vs. Brawn: Child Labor, Human Capital Investment, and the Role of Dynamic Complementarities
3/6/2019

Wednesday Brown Bag Seminar

12:15 – 1:15

 Nishith Prakash Street Police Patrols and Violence Against Women in Public Spaces
3/11/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Daniel Bennett The Economic Impact of Mental Health Care in India
3/13/2019

Wednesday Brown Bag Seminar

12:15 – 1:15

 Patti Ritter
3/17 – 3/23:  Spring Break
4/1/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Matthew Ross
(Wagner School of Public Service)		 The Impact of Network Structure on the Quality and Quantity of Innovation
4/8/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Michela Carlana
(Harvard Kennedy School)		 Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
4/10/2019
Wednesday  Seminar3:30 – 4:30
Reception to Follow!
 Caroline Hoxby
(Stanford University)
NOTE: this seminar will be located in Konover Auditorium 
4/15/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Phil DeCicca
(Ball State)
4/17/2019
Wednesday Brown Bag Seminar
12:15 – 1:15		 Patralekha Ukil
(UConn)
4/22/2019
2:30 – 4:00		 Oded Galor
(Brown University)
4/24/2019
Wednesday Brown Bag Seminar
12:15 – 1:15		 David Simon
(UConn)
4/29/2019
3:00 – 4:30

Reception to Follow!		 Phil Oreopoulos
(University of Toronto)
NOTE: this seminar will be located in Gentry 144
5/6: Final Exam Week

Fall 2018

Date and Time

Presenter

Paper Title
8/28/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Jennifer Hunt

(Rutgers University)

 Why Are Fewer Workers Earning Middle Wages and Is It a Bad Thing?
9/4/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Patralekha Ukil
(UConn)		 Parental Economic Conditions and Infant Health
9/11/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Andrew Ju
(UConn)		 Teachers’ Unions During the Great Recession and its Impact on School District Finance and Student Achievement
9/25/2018
3:30 – 5:00Reception to Follow!		 Kirabo Jackson

(Northwestern University)

NOTE: this seminar will be located in Gentry 142

 Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending
10/2/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Michael Kremer The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans.
10/9/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Haiyang Kong
(UConn)		 Foreign Trade Policy as Education Policy? The Impact of Import Competition on K-12 Public Education Expenditures
10/16/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Yunlu Shu
(UConn)		 Unilateral Divorce and Black-white Interracial Marriages
10/23/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Rossella Calvi
(Rice University)		 Sharing the Pie: Undernutrition, Intra-household Allocation, and Poverty
10/25/2018
Thursday Seminar
12:25 – 1:55		 Kevin Wood
(UConn)		 Early Retirement and the Affordable Care Act
10/30/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Samantha Trajkovski
(UConn)		  California Paid Family Leave and Parental Time Use
11/1/2018
Thursday Seminar
12:25 – 1:55		 Jan Ondrich
(Syracuse University)
The Effects of Civil Conflict on Women’s Labor Force Participation:
A Causal Mechanism Approach
11/2/2018
Friday Seminar
12:20 – 1:50		 Zeljko Bogetic
(World Bank)
11/6/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Heather Royer
(University of California Santa Barbara)
11/13/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Mike Grossman

(City University of New York Graduate Center, National Bureau of Economic Research, and IZA)

 Does E-Cigarette Advertising Encourage Adult Smokers to Quit?
11/15/2018
Thursday Seminar
12:25 – 1:55		 Mark McInerney
(UConn)		 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Mortality
11/20/2018
Thanksgiving Break
11/27/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Kathleen Mullen

The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
12/4/2018
3:30 – 5:00		 Janet Currie
Physician
Decision Making: The
Case of Depression

Spring 2018

Date

Time

Presenter

Paper Title

Host
1/22/2018 2:30 – 4:00   Mark McInerney The Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Expansion, and Opioid Overdose Mortality
1/29/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Stelios Michalopoulos Folklore  Nishith Prakash
2/5/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Kevin Lang The Determinants of Teachers’ Occupational Choice
2/12/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Nicole Maestas The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Disability Insurance Program:  Evidence from the Great Recession Ken Couch
2/19/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Delia Furtado Do Immigrant Inflows Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?
2/26/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Matthew Steinberg Shaun Dougherty
3/5/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Michael Anderson Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine David Simon
3/12/2018 SPRING BREAK
3/19/2018 No Seminar Due to AGES Distinguished Lecture
3/26/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Doug Staiger School District Reform in Newark: Within- and Between-School Changes in Achievement Growth
3/30/2017 12:30 – 2:00  Justine Hastings Ken Couch
4/2/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Sheetal Sekhri Repelling Rape: Foreign Direct Investment Empowers Women Patricia Ritter
4/9/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Thomas Fujiwara Nishith Prakash
4/16/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Doug Miller Selection into Identication in Fixed Eects Models
with Application to Head Start		  David Simon
4/23/2018 2:30 – 4:00  Nishith Prakash Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High Stem Economy

Fall 2017

Date Time Presenter
 Paper Title Host
8/29/2017 3:30 – 5:00
9/5/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Mike Dinardi
(UConn)		 Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions and the Impact on Nurses.pdf
9/12/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Anjali Adukia
(University of Chicago – Harris School of Public Policy)		 “Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction”.pdf Steve Ross
9/19/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Caroline Theoharides
(Amherst College)		  The Impact of Healthcare Worker Migration on Sending Country Human Capital: Evidence from Filipino Nurse Migration. Jorge Aguero and Josh Hyman
9/26/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Chris Ruhm
(University of Virginia)		 Fatal Overdoses: Deaths of Despair or Drug Problems? David Simon
10/3/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Xiupeng (Jeff) Wang
(UConn)		  Labor Market Polarization In Britain and Germany: A Cross-national Comparison Using Longitudinal Household Data
10/10/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Sarah Turner
(University of Virginia)		  Measuring Opportunity in U.S. Higher Education Steve Ross
10/17/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Asim Khwaja
(Harvard – Kennedy School)		  Crossing Boundaries: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints for Women Nishith Prakash
10/24/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Nathan Nunn
(Harvard)
 “Social Structure and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”.pdf Metin Coşgel
10/31/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Jonathan Gruber
(MIT)		 Defensive Medicine: Evidence from military Immunity David Simon
11/7/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Sungoh Kwon
(UConn)		  The Effects of Affirmative Action Bans on Low-Income College Access, Upward Mobility, and College Quality
11/14/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Chris Blattman
(University of Chicago – Harris School of Public Policy)		 Pushing crime around the corner? Estimating experimental impacts of large-scale security interventions.pdf Nishith Prakash
11/21/2017  THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/28/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Hannes Schwandt
(University of Zurich)		 Delia Furtado
12/5/2017 3:30 – 5:00 Lucie Schmidt
(Williams College)		  Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes:  Evidence From Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs Ken Couch

Spring 2017

Date Time Presenter
 Paper Title Host
1/30/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Matt Ross
(Ohio State University)		 Transformative Science and the Age Composition of Fields in Biomedical Research
2/6/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Subha Mani
(Fordham University)		 Cognitive, Socio-emotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality: Evidence from India Jorge Aguero
2/13/2017 2:30-4:00 Hannes Schwadt
(University of Zurich)		 Due to Weather Postponed until next semester Delia Furtado
2/15/2017 2:30-4:00 Tianxu Chen
(Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)		 Health Insurance Coverage and Marriage Behavior: Is There Evidence of Marriage Lock?
2/20/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Emily Oster
(Brown University)		 Nishith Parkash
2/27/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Kaspar Wuthrich
(UC San Diego)		 Jungbin Hwang
3/6/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Bill Evans
(University of Notre Dame)		 David Simon
3/13/2017 SPRING BREAK
3/24/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Rodrigo Soares (Columbia)
NOTE: this seminar will be located in Oak 268
 Jorge Aguero (Note: This is a Friday presentation)
3/27/2017 2:30 – 4:00

 

Reception to Follow!

 Susanna Loeb

(Stanford University)
NOTE: this seminar will be located in Gentry 144

 One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers Philip E. Austin Research Seminar in Education Policy

(Stephen Ross)
4/3/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
(Harvard University)		 Jorge Aguero
4/10/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Ray Fisman
(Boston University)
4/17/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Kevin Shih, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Delia Furtado and David Simon
4/24/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Kitt Carpenter
(Vanderbilt University)		 David Simon
5/1/2017 2:30 – 4:00 Byoung Park
(Albany)		 Jungbin Hwang

Fall 2016

Date Time Presenter
 Paper Title Host
8/30/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Christopher Udry (Yale) External Validity in a Stochastic World Nishith Parkash
9/06/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Andy Foster (Brown) Household Recombination, Retrospective Evaluation, and Educational Mobility over 40 Years Nishith Parkash
 9/13/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) The Shape of Mortality: Implications for
Economic Analysis		 Nishith Parkash
 9/20/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania) Jorge Aguero
9/27/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Erica Field (Duke) Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape Nishith Parkash
10/04/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Tian Lou (UConn)  Ethnic Segregation, Education, and Immigrants’ Labor Market Outcomes
10/11/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Sungoh Kwon (UConn)
 10/18/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Rajeev Dehejia (NYU) The Effect of Fertility on Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries Nishith Parkash
 10/25/2016 3:00 – 4:30

Reception to Follow!

 Amy Schwartz
(Syracuse University)NOTE: this seminar will be located in Gentry 144		 Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Outcomes Austin Chair and CEPA Economics of Education Seminar

(Stephen Ross)
11/1/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Tao Song (UConn) “Honey, Robots Shrunk My Wage! Native-Immigrant Wage Gaps and Skill Biased Technological Change”
11/8/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Chinhui Juhn
(University of Houston)		 The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and non-cognitive Skills Delia Furtado
 11/15/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Xiupeng (Jeff) Wang (UConn)
Thanksgiving Recess
11/29/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Raji Chakrabarti (NY Fed) How Does For-profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Earnings? Steve Ross

 

Spring 2016

Date Time Presenter / Host Paper Title
1/20/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Byunghoon Kang / Job Market Talk (Econometrics)
1/22/2016 3:30 – 5:00 Yichong Zhang / Job Market Talk (Econometrics)
1/25/2016 2:30-4:00 Aaron Cooke (UConn)
2/1/2016 2:30 – 4:00 Josh Hyman (UConn) Framing, Timing, and Take-Up of Online College Application Assistance: Evidence From a Statewide Experiment in Michigan
2/8/2016 TBA Sara Moreira / Job Market Candidate
2/15/2016 2:30 – 4:00 Blige Erten
2/22/2016 2:30 – 4:00 Hyun Lee, University of Chicago Job Market Talk
2/29/2016 2:30 – 4:00 Shaun Dougherty (UConn)
3/7/2016 2:30-4:00 Peter Hinrichs (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
3/14/2016 Spring Break
3/21/2016 2:30-4:00 Nathaniel Hilger (Brown University) / hosted by Delia Furtado Intergenerational Mobility and Discrimination: the Case of Asian-Americans
3/28/2016  2:30 – 4:00 Aaron Cooke (UConn) Those Who Can: Teacher Quality and the Labor Market
4/4/2016 2:30- 4:00 Leshui He
4/11/2016  2:30-4:00
4/18/2016 2:30 – 4:00 Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business) / hosted by Nishith Prakash
4/22/2016 3:30 – 5:00
 4/25/2016 2:30 – 4:00 David Figlio (Northwestern)/ hosted by David Simon
 5/02/2016 2:30 – 4:00 Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan) / hosted by Nishith Prakash

 

Fall 2014

Date Time Presenter
Tues., Aug. 26 3:30 p.m. Shaun Dougherty, UConn
Tues., Sept. 2 3:30 p.m. Delia Furtado, UConn
Tues., Sept. 9 3:30 p.m. Talia Bar, UConn
Fri, Sept. 12 3:30 p.m Russell Toth, Sydney/Yale FRIDAY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR LED BY NISHITH“Environmental Spillovers of the Take-up of Index-Based Livestock Insurance”
Fri., Sept. 19 2:30 p.m. Sean Nicholson, Cornell University
Tues., Sept. 23 3:30 p.m. Don Vandegrift, TCNJ
Tues., Sept. 30 3:30 p.m. Resul Cesur, UConn
Fri, Oct 3rd 2:30 PM Chris Barrett, Cornell FRIDAY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR LED BY NISHITH
Fri., Oct. 10 2:30 p.m. Joseph Doyle, MIT
Tues., Oct. 14 3:30 p.m. Matthew Ross, UConn
Tues., Oct. 21 3:30 p.m. Gautam Rao, Harvard University
Tues., Oct. 28 3:30 pm. Joshua Hyman
Tues., Nov. 4 3:30 p.m. Damien Sheehan, Wesleyan University
Tues., Nov. 11 3:30 p.m. Lakshmi Lyer, Harvard University
Fri, Nov. 14th 2:30 PM Ameet Morjaria, Harvard FRIDAY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR LED BY NISHITH.
Tues., Nov. 18 3:30 p.m. Dhaval Dave, Bentley University
Fri, Nov, 21 2:30 pm Claudia Olivetti, Boston University JOINT WITH MACRO
Tues., Dec. 2 3:30 p.m. Mathew Kraft, Brown University
Tues., Dec. 9 3:30 p.m. Will Olney, Williams College