Seminar Listing

Seminar Archive

2019

Semester: Spring
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
January 14, 2019	Price and Quality Responses of the Restaurant Industry to Increases in the Minimum Wage Chelsea Crain	Middlebush 212 Regular Seminar
January 22, 2019	Universal Public Childcare and Women Labor Force Participation in Brazil Viviane Sanfelice	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
January 24, 2019	Relaxing Conditional Independence in an Endogenous Binary Response Model Alyssa Carlson	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
January 25, 2019	The Impact of Economic Opportunity on Criminal Behavior: Evidence from the Fracking Boom Brittany Street	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
March 1, 2019	Investigating the Biomedical Workforce: Gender, Field of Study, and Retention Ann Winkler	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
March 15, 2019	Finite-Sample Improvement for IV Quantile Regression Xin Liu	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
April 12, 2019	The Economic Impact of Data Regulation Liad Wagman	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
April 19, 2019	TBA Zack Miller	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
May 3, 2019	TBA Jinhui Bai	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar

2018

Semester: Fall
Date	Title/Speaker	Location/Seminar Type
October 5, 2018	Smoothed GMM for Quantile Models Xin Liu	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
October 5, 2018	High-Order Frequentist Coverage Probability of Bayesian Bootstrap Credible Intervals for Quantiles Lonnie Hofmann	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
October 12, 2018	Manufacturer's Entry in the Product-Sharing Market Baojun Jiang	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
November 2, 2018	On the Instability of Banks and other Financial Intermediaries Chao Gu	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
November 9, 2018	Violence and Economic Growth: How the Past Informs the Present Lisa Cook	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
December 7, 2018	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
January 17, 2018	The value of randomized trials for efficacy in oncology: Lessons from off-label prescribing Rebecca McKibbin	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
January 19, 2018	Whose help is on the way? The importance of individual police officers in law enforcement outcomes Emily Weisburst	Middlebush 211 Regular Seminar
January 26, 2018	Household Bundling to Reduce Adverse Selection: Application to Social Health Insurance Anh Nguyen, Columbia University	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
February 19, 2018	Endogenous Market Structure: Over-the-Counter versus Exchange Trading Ji Hee Yoon	Mumford Hall, Room 321 Regular Seminar
February 23, 2018	Seminar on big data Thomas Fomby	Middlebush Room 12 Regular Seminar
March 8, 2018	"A Career in Chaos: Early Warnings of Big Changes" William A. "Buz" Brock	Leadership Auditorium (Student Center 2501) Regular Seminar
March 9, 2018	Determinants of Corruption in State Legislatures: Why are Democrats so Dirty? Jeff Milyo	129 Professional Buiding Brown-bag Seminar
March 16, 2018	"The Costs and Benefits of Caring: Aggregate Burdens of an Aging Population" Nicholas Pretnar	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
April 6, 2018	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
April 13, 2018	"A Quantile-Based Approach to Improve Volatility Forecasting and Value-at-Risk Prediction." Professor Heejoon Han	Middlebush Room 211 Regular Seminar
April 27, 2018	The Value of a Liberal Education Richard Wallace	Professional Building 104 Brown-bag Seminar
April 27, 2018	"What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study" Professor Damon Jones	Middlebush Hall Room 211 Regular Seminar
May 4, 2018	"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
September 11, 2017	Should I Sell on an Online Marketplace Platform or Build My Own Website? Oksana Loginova	129 Professional Building, 1-2pm Brown-bag Seminar
September 15, 2017	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
September 22, 2017	Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? Selection and Treatment Effects of a Credit Building Loan Product Dean Karlan	212 Middlebush, 3:30-5pm Regular Seminar
October 2, 2017	Capital Requirement, Bank Competition and the Effects on Welfare Xingpeng Wei	129 Professional Building, 1-2pm Brown-bag Seminar
October 9, 2017	The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to For-profit Schooling Peter Mueser	129 Professional Building, 1-2pm Brown-bag Seminar
October 27, 2017	Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression in Triangular Systems Carlos Martins-Filho	212 Middlebush, 3:30-5pm Regular Seminar
November 3, 2017	Dynamic Factors and Climate Uncertainty in Global Commodity Market Kyungsik Nam	129 Professional Building, noon-1pm Brown-bag Seminar
December 1, 2017	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
January 20, 2017	Lab and Field Experiments in Global Health Julian Jamison	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
January 27, 2017	Stein Combination Shrinkage for Vector Autoregressions Bruce Hansen	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
February 10, 2017	Heterogeneous Production Functions, Panel Data, and Productivity Dispersion Jeremy Fox	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
February 17, 2017	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
March 3, 2017	Spatial Heterogeneity of Climate Change as an Experiential Basis for Skepticism Robert Kaufmann	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
March 10, 2017	Off to the Right Start? The Impact of School Start Times on Student Learning Melinda Sandler Morrill	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
March 16, 2017	Local Climate Sensitivity: A Statistical Approach for a Spatially Heterogeneous Planet Zack Miller	129 Professional Building Brown-bag Seminar
April 7, 2017	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
April 11, 2017	Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions Greg Duncan, University of California - Irvine	Leadership Auditorium, Student Center Regular Seminar
April 21, 2017	How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Gary Solon, University of Arizona	212 Middlebush Regular Seminar
May 1, 2017	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
September 9, 2016	Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development: The Role of Zhaosheng in China Ping Wang - Washington University, St. Louis	Middlebush 132 Regular Seminar
September 14, 2016	Where's the Envelope? David Mandy	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
October 5, 2016	Nonlinear Cointegrating Regression of Earth's Surface Mean Temperature Anomalies on Total Radiative Forcing Kyungsik Nam	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
October 19, 2016	Sourcing Co-Created Products: Should your Suppliers Collaborate? Oksana Loginova	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
October 21, 2016	Identification of Quantity-Quality Trade off with Imperfect Fertility Control Juan Pantano, Washington University	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar
November 4, 2016	Spurious Cross Sectional and Mindless Panel Regressions Donggyu Sul, University of Texas - Dallas	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar
November 9, 2016	Classroom Technology and Econ 1014 Mike Podgursky	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
November 11, 2016	Political Competition and the Dynamics of Parties and Candidates Stefan Krasa, University of Illinois - Urbana	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar
November 18, 2016	Optimal Energy Taxation in Cities Jan Brueckner	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
November 30, 2016	GMM-Type Quantile Regression David Kaplan	129 Professional Bulding Brown-bag Seminar
December 9, 2016	Platform Competition with Endogenous Homing Thomas Jeitschko	Middlebush 309 Regular Seminar