Seminars

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Spring 2023

(Please note that masks are required to attend these seminars.)

Wednesday, February 22, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  CDE Rm 211.  Martin Guzman, former Minister of Economy for Argentina, CDE Seminar, Addressing Sovereign Debt Crises After COVID-19 and War.

Tuesday, March 7, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Pascual Restrepo, Boston University, joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar, “The Task Approach to the Labor Market”.  Background readings 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Thursday, March 16, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 7.  Alex Albright ’14, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute), Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Hidden Effects of Algorithmic Recommendations.

Tuesday, April 4, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Vicki Bogan, Cornell Dyson, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Fear and Risk: Do Visceral Factors Affect Risk Taking?

Tuesday, April 18, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Uwe Sunde, Ludwig Maxmillian Univ of Munich, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Title TBA.

Wednesday, April 19, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Will Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Explaining the decline in domestic migration.

Tuesday, April 25, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Raffi Garcia, RPI, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Title TBA.

Thursday, April 27, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Jenny Aker, Tufts, joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar, Title TBA.

Friday, May 5, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Tomáš Jagelka, University of Bonn, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach.

Tuesday, May 9, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Jing Li, MIT Sloan, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Title TBA.

Fall 2022

Thursday, September 15, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net.

Tuesday, September 20, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Billur Aksoy, RPI, Economics Department Seminar, Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey.

Thursday, September 29, 7:30pm-8:45pm.  Griffin 6.  Josh Tucker, NYU, joint Economics/Political Science/Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Social Media and Democracy (and Using Social Media Data to Study Politics)”.

Tuesday, October 4, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Anthony Fowler, University of Chicago, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Extreme Leaders, Partisan Constituents, and Congressional Polarization.

Thursday, October 6, 4:15pm-5:30pm.  CDE Rm 211.  Phil Gerson, IMF, CDE Seminar, Fiscal Rules and COVID – Preliminary Evidence.

Thursday, October 13, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Daniel Hamermesh, UT Austin, Economics Department Seminar, Aging in Style: Does How We Write Matter?

Thursday, October 27, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Nick Pretnar, UCSB, Economics Department Seminar, Measuring Inequality with Consumption Time.

Wednesday, November 2, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Felix Owusu ’11, Harvard, Economics Department Seminar, Presumptive Declination and Diversion in Suffolk County, MA.

Thursday, November 3, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Quentin Wodon, World Bank, joint CDE and Economics Department Seminar, Investing in Human Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.

Thursday, November 10, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  CDE Rm 211.  Salifou Issoufou, IMF, CDE Seminar, “The roles of the IMF in fragile and conflict-affected countries”.

Tuesday, November 15, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Garrett Anstreicher ‘15, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD program, Economics Department Seminar, Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility.

Thursday, November 17, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Mark Aguiar, Princeton, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto Improving Policies.

Wednesday, November 30, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Katie Gutierrez, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, “Grocery taxes and household purchasing patterns: evidence from the NielsenIQ Consumer Panel Data”.

Thursday, December 1, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Erica Moszkowski ‘15, Harvard PhD program, Economics Department Seminar, Option Value and Storefront Vacancies in New York City.

Tuesday, December 6, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Andrew Hessler, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, “A New Keynesian Unobserved Components Model”.

Thursday, December 8, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Michael Norton ‘97, Harvard, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Wanting, Voting, and Paying for Greater Equality.

Prior year seminars