Seminar Listing

Seminar Archive

2020

Semester: Fall
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Friday, August 28, 2020 3:30pm	Advances in Structural Vector Autoregressions with Imperfect Identifying Information Christiane Baumeister	Zoom Regular Seminar
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 3:30pm	Transparency in Climate Policy: Using Forecasting Tools to Evaluate Emission Mitigation Efforts Joseph Aldy	Zoom Regular Seminar
Friday, November 6, 2020 3:30pm	Tort Reform, Public Harm, and Welfare Jeffrey Wagner	Zoom Regular Seminar
Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm	Big Data and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from the Hotel Booking Market Andrey Minaev	Zoom Brown-bag Seminar

Semester: Spring
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Friday, February 7, 2020 3:30pm	The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations Trevon Logan	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, February 28, 2020 12:00pm	Inference for Stochastic Dominance on Sets of Utility Functions David Kaplan	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 3:30pm	Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study Laura Gee	Swallow Hall 101 Regular Seminar

2019

Semester: Fall
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Friday, August 30, 2019 3:30pm	The Economics of Negative Interest Rates and Exemption Thresholds Romina Ruprecht	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, September 13, 2019 3:30pm	Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans Jennifer Doleac	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, September 27, 2019 12:00pm	Honest Signaling in Academic Publishing Karthik Panchanathan	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, October 11, 2019 3:30pm	Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina Tatyana Deryugina	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm	What Can Climate Science Learn from Econometrics? Zack Miller	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30pm	When Don't Developing Countries Benefit from Capital Account Liberalization? The Role of Labor Market Institutions Jun Nie	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm	How Can an Applied Economist Help? Topics on Child Health Research, Energy Policy, and Research Design Adreinne Ohler	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, November 15, 2019 3:30pm	Informality, Frictional Markets and Monetary Policy Mohammed Ait Lahcen	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar

Semester: Spring
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Monday, January 14, 2019 3:30pm	Price and Quality Responses of the Restaurant Industry to Increases in the Minimum Wage Chelsea Crain	Middlebush 212 Regular Seminar
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:30pm	Universal Public Childcare and Women Labor Force Participation in Brazil Viviane Sanfelice	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:30pm	Relaxing Conditional Independence in an Endogenous Binary Response Model Alyssa Carlson	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, January 25, 2019 3:30pm	The Impact of Economic Opportunity on Criminal Behavior: Evidence from the Fracking Boom Brittany Street	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, March 1, 2019 3:30pm	Investigating the Biomedical Workforce: Gender, Field of Study, and Retention Ann Winkler	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, March 15, 2019 12:00pm	Finite-Sample Improvement for IV Quantile Regression Xin Liu	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:30pm	Taking a Knee: Effect of NFL Player Protests on Subsequent Employment Christopher Jepsen	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, April 5, 2019 3:30pm	Job Market Signaling through Occupational Licensing Peter Blair	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, April 19, 2019 3:30pm	Why Did Indian Female Labor Force Participation Decline? Evidence from a Model of Household Labor Supply Smriti Bhargava	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, May 3, 2019 3:30pm	The Welfare and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Volatility: a Quantitative Evaluation Jinhui Bai	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar

2018

Semester: Fall
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm	Smoothed GMM for Quantile Models Xin Liu	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, October 5, 2018 12:30pm	High-Order Frequentist Coverage Probability of Bayesian Bootstrap Credible Intervals for Quantiles Lonnie Hofmann	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, October 12, 2018 3:30pm	Manufacturer's Entry in the Product-Sharing Market Baojun Jiang	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, November 2, 2018 12:00pm	On the Instability of Banks and other Financial Intermediaries Chao Gu	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, November 9, 2018 3:30pm	Violence and Economic Growth: How the Past Informs the Present Lisa Cook	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, December 7, 2018 3:30pm	Down to the Last Strike: The Effect of the “Jury Lottery” on Conviction Rates Scott Kostyshak	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar

Semester: Spring
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 3:30pm	The value of randomized trials for efficacy in oncology: Lessons from off-label prescribing Rebecca McKibbin	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, January 19, 2018 3:30pm	Whose help is on the way? The importance of individual police officers in law enforcement outcomes Emily Weisburst	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, January 26, 2018 3:30pm	Household Bundling to Reduce Adverse Selection: Application to Social Health Insurance Anh Nguyen, Columbia University	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
Monday, February 19, 2018 3:30pm	Endogenous Market Structure: Over-the-Counter versus Exchange Trading Ji Hee Yoon	Mumford Hall, Room 321 Regular Seminar
Friday, February 23, 2018 3:30pm	Seminar on big data Thomas Fomby	Middlebush Room 12 Regular Seminar
Thursday, March 8, 2018 4:00pm	"A Career in Chaos: Early Warnings of Big Changes" William A. "Buz" Brock	Leadership Auditorium (Student Center 2501) Regular Seminar
Friday, March 9, 2018 12:00pm	Determinants of Corruption in State Legislatures: Why are Democrats so Dirty? Jeff Milyo	129 Professional Buiding Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, March 16, 2018 3:30pm	"The Costs and Benefits of Caring: Aggregate Burdens of an Aging Population" Nicholas Pretnar	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, April 6, 2018 12:00pm	The Labor Market Effects of U.S. Reemployment Policy: Lessons from an Analysis of Four Programs during the Great Recession Peter Mueser	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, April 13, 2018 3:30pm	"A Quantile-Based Approach to Improve Volatility Forecasting and Value-at-Risk Prediction." Professor Heejoon Han	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, April 27, 2018 12:00pm	The Value of a Liberal Education Richard Wallace	Professional Building 104 Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, April 27, 2018 3:30pm	"What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study" Professor Damon Jones	Middlebush Hall Room 211 Regular Seminar
Friday, May 4, 2018 3:30pm	"Do Firms Skimp on Quality in Competitive Markets? Evidence from Drug Manufacturing" Professor David Ridley	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar

2017

Semester: Fall
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Monday, September 11, 2017 1:00pm	Should I Sell on an Online Marketplace Platform or Build My Own Website? Oksana Loginova	129 Professional Building, 1-2pm Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm	Dating Hiatuses: A Statistical Model of the Recent Hiatus in Global Warming – and the Next One Zack Miller	129 Professional Building, noon-1pm Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, September 22, 2017 3:30pm	Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? Selection and Treatment Effects of a Credit Building Loan Product Dean Karlan	212 Middlebush, 3:30-5pm Regular Seminar
Monday, October 2, 2017 1:00pm	Capital Requirement, Bank Competition and the Effects on Welfare Xingpeng Wei	129 Professional Building, 1-2pm Brown-bag Seminar
Monday, October 9, 2017 1:00pm	The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to For-profit Schooling Peter Mueser	129 Professional Building, 1-2pm Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, October 27, 2017 3:30pm	Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression in Triangular Systems Carlos Martins-Filho	212 Middlebush, 3:30-5pm Regular Seminar
Friday, November 3, 2017 12:00pm	Dynamic Factors and Climate Uncertainty in Global Commodity Market Kyungsik Nam	129 Professional Building, noon-1pm Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, December 1, 2017 3:30pm	The Effects of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy: A New Identification Procedure Atsushi Inoue	212 Middlebush, 3:30-5pm Regular Seminar

Semester: Spring
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Friday, January 20, 2017 3:30pm	Lab and Field Experiments in Global Health Julian Jamison	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, January 27, 2017 3:30pm	Stein Combination Shrinkage for Vector Autoregressions Bruce Hansen	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, February 10, 2017 3:30pm	Heterogeneous Production Functions, Panel Data, and Productivity Dispersion Jeremy Fox	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, February 17, 2017 3:30pm	Impacts of Education, Occupational Skills Training, Employment Services, and Mentoring for Young At-Risk Parents: Preliminary Impact Findings from the Young Parents Demonstration Evaluation Burt Barnow	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, March 3, 2017 3:30pm	Spatial Heterogeneity of Climate Change as an Experiential Basis for Skepticism Robert Kaufmann	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30pm	Off to the Right Start? The Impact of School Start Times on Student Learning Melinda Sandler Morrill	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:00pm	Local Climate Sensitivity: A Statistical Approach for a Spatially Heterogeneous Planet Zack Miller	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, April 7, 2017 3:30pm	Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health Charles Courtemanche, Georgia State University	212 Middlebush, 3:30 p.m. Regular Seminar
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 3:30pm	Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions Greg Duncan, University of California - Irvine	Leadership Auditorium, Student Center Regular Seminar
Friday, April 21, 2017 3:30pm	How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Gary Solon, University of Arizona	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
Monday, May 1, 2017 3:30pm	Haze and Decision Making: A Natural Laboratory Experiment Chew, Soo Hong, National University of Singapore	211 Middlebush, 3:30 pm Regular Seminar

2016

Semester: Fall
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
Friday, September 9, 2016 3:30pm	Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development: The Role of Zhaosheng in China Ping Wang - Washington University, St. Louis	Middlebush 132 Regular Seminar
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 12:00pm	Where's the Envelope? David Mandy	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:00pm	Nonlinear Cointegrating Regression of Earth's Surface Mean Temperature Anomalies on Total Radiative Forcing Kyungsik Nam	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 12:00pm	Sourcing Co-Created Products: Should your Suppliers Collaborate? Oksana Loginova	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, October 21, 2016 3:30pm	Identification of Quantity-Quality Trade off with Imperfect Fertility Control Juan Pantano, Washington University	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar
Friday, November 4, 2016 3:30pm	Spurious Cross Sectional and Mindless Panel Regressions Donggyu Sul, University of Texas - Dallas	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 12:00pm	Classroom Technology and Econ 1014 Mike Podgursky	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, November 11, 2016 3:30pm	Political Competition and the Dynamics of Parties and Candidates Stefan Krasa, University of Illinois - Urbana	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar
Friday, November 18, 2016 12:00pm	Optimal Energy Taxation in Cities Jan Brueckner	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 12:00pm	GMM-Type Quantile Regression David Kaplan	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
Friday, December 9, 2016 3:30pm	Platform Competition with Endogenous Homing Thomas Jeitschko	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar