Introducing the Spring 2025 Research Seminar speakers:
Past Research Seminars
September 5, 2024
Presenter: Adrien Bilal
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard
September 19, 2024
Presenter: Andrés Moya
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes
October 3, 2024
Presenter: Jesse Bruhn
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
October 10, 2024
Presenter: Ray Fisman
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics, Boston University
October 24, 2024
Presenter: Harold D. Chiang
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 7, 2024
Presenter: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute-Delhi
November 14, 2024
Presenter: Claudia Goldin
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 105 Shillman Hall
Bio: Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2023 for advancing understanding of women’s labor market outcomes
November 21, 2024
Presenter: Matthew Jaremski
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: F. Ross Peterson Endowed Professor of Economic History, Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
February 29, 2024 (Virtual – Zoom)
Presenter: Kwok Ping (Byron) Tsang
Title: “Agree to Disagree: Measuring Hidden Dissents in FOMC Meetings”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Bio: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech.
March 7, 2024
Presenter: Amanda Y. Agan
Title: “Removing the Mark: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Associate Professor, Rutgers University Department of Economics.
March 14, 2024
Presenter: Anna Aizer
Title: “What Happens when the Public Invests in Training Women? Community Colleges, Public Funding, and the Training of Nurses in the US.”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics, Brown University. Labor & health economist, co-director of the NBER’s program on Children.
March 21, 2024
Presenter: Nicolás de Roux
Title: “Temperature Shocks and Land Fragmentation: Evidence from Transaction and Property Registry Data”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Applied microeconomist in development economics.
March 28, 2024
Presenter: Marta Boczoń
Title: “Screen vs Scene: Impact of News and TV on Belief Formation”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School. Research interests in Applied Econometrics, Crime Economics, and Statistical Methods and Methodology.
April 4, 2024
Presenter: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Title: “Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University. Concurrent appointments in the School of Management and the Department of Economics.
April 11, 2024
Presenter: Angelino Viceisza
Title: “Fintech Visual Attention, and Financial Inclusion: A Field Experiment on Migrant Remittances”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Professor of Economics, Spelman College. Expertise in behavioral and experimental economics, with applications in development, household finance, and entrepreneurship.
April 18, 2024
Presenter: Patrick Button
Title: “Gender Identity, Race, Ethnicity, and Health Insurance Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Correspondence Field Experiment”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Associate Professor of Economics, Tulane University.
April 25, 2024
Presenter: Romaine A. Campbell
Title: “What Does Federal Oversight Do to Policing and Public Safety? Evidence from Seattle”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Richards 165
Bio: Research interests in labor economics, the economics of crime, and the economics of education.
May 9, 2024
Presenter: Kei-Mu Yi
Title: “Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 220 Shillman Hall
Bio: M.D. Anderson Professor of Economics, University of Houston. Research interests in trade, growth, global value chains, and structural change.
September 14, 2023
Presenter: Raisa Sherif
Title: “Are pro-environment behaviours substitutes or complements? Evidence from the field.”
Bio: Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich. Research focuses on pro-environmental behaviours and policy interventions.
September 21, 2023
Presenter: Laura Gee
Title: “Measuring Discrimination When Subjects Are Told They Are in an Experiment.”
Bio: Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University. Behavioral economist with interests in designing institutions to influence individual decisions.
September 28, 2023
Presenter: Cuneyt Eroglu
Title: “How Do Market Competition and Religiosity Affect Workplace Health and Safety Regulation Compliance.”
Bio: Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Management at Northeastern University. Research interests include inventory management, retail operations, and judgmental forecasting.
October 12, 2023
Presenter: Tsegay Tekleselassie
Title: “Wage Information and Applicant Selection.”
Bio: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. Specializes in Labor Economics, Industrial Policy and Structural Transformation, Political Economy, Economic Growth, and Human Capital.
October 19, 2023
Presenter: Konstantinos Matakos
Title: “Victim-blaming Norms and Violence Against Women: Correcting Misperceptions or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Research fields include Political Economy, Positive Political Science, Public Economics, and Applied Microeconomics.
November 2, 2023
Presenter: Brantly Callaway
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Georgia. Research interests are Microeconometrics and Labor Economics.
November 9, 2023
Presenter: Onur Altındağ
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Associate Professor of Economics at Bentley University. Applied economist with interests in population health, migration, and economic development.
November 16, 2023
Presenter: Hazal Sezer
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tilburg University. Research focuses on empirical microeconomics with interests in labor economics, political economy, and economic history.
November 30, 2023
Presenter: Meiping (Aggie) Sun
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Assistant Professor, Fordham Department of Economics. Primary research interests are Development and Health.
December 7, 2023
Presenter: Thomas Barnay
Title: “The impact of COVID-19 policies on self-reported depression among adults aged 50 and over in the US & Europe.”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 415
Bio: Visiting Professor in Economics at Northeastern University. Health Economist with research on working conditions, employment, COVID-19, and mental health issues with a public health policy dimension.
February 16, 2023
Presenter: Eliana La Ferrara
Title: “A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Vice-President of the Econometric Society, Program Director of Development Economics for CEPR, and J-PAL Affiliate.
March 2, 2023
Presenter: Andrew Ching
Title: “How Does a Firm Adapt in a Changing World? The Case of Prosper Marketplace”
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Full professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, jointly appointed at the Department of Economics and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
March 16, 2023
Presenter: Alexander MacKay
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Assistant professor at Harvard Business School, studies the economics of competition and industrial organization.
March 30, 2023
Presenter: Michael Gechter
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Penn State University, focuses on methodological issues in development economics.
April 13, 2023 (Virtual)
Presenter: Erica Field
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Bio: Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University, specializes in Development Economics, Health Economics, and Economic Demography.
April 20, 2023
Presenter: Michael Owyang
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Shillman 425
Bio: Assistant vice president in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, focuses on applications of Bayesian econometrics.
June 1, 2023
Presenter: Ron Boschma
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: 316 Lake Hall
Bio: Full Professor in Regional Economics at Utrecht University, holds a Chair in Innovation Studies at UiS Business School, Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research.
- Elizabeth Cascio, Professor of Economics and DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy presented on December 1, 2022 (12:00 pm – 1:15 pm), in 322 Hayden.
- Rodrigo Pinto, Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA and a research affiliate of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) presented on November 29, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm via Zoom.
- Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Utrecht University, presented The new paradigm of economic complexity on November 10, 2022 (12:00 pm – 1:15 pm) in Shillman 415.
- Wayne Sandholtz, Assistant Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics, presented Secondary school access raises primary school achievement in Tanzania on November 2, 2022 (12:00 pm – 1:15 pm) in Shillman 420.
- Daniel Björkegren, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University, presented Causal Inference from Hypothetical Evaluations on October 26, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm. in 221 Hayden.
| March 21 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) | Meri Davlasheridze, assistant professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Meri will present her paper The persistent effect of natural disasters on Opioid deaths. | Zoom Meeting |
| Mar 7, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) | Ross Levine, Chair in Banking and Finance at Haas School of Business, UC Berkley, will present his paper Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-employment. | Zoom Meeting |
| December 6 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Yu Xiao, Associate Professor in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University (PSU)
“Community Businesses as Social Units in Post-Disaster Recovery” |
Zoom Meeting |
| November 8, 12:00 – 1:15pm |
Jose Berrospide, Chief of Financial Institutions Risk Evaluation Section at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
“Un-used Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply Shocks at SMEs during the Pandemic” |
Zoom Meeting |
| October 21 | Yongqiang Chu, Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of North Carolina
“Political Risk and Toxic Release” |
Zoom Meeting |
| November 8 | Jose Berrospide, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System “Un-used Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply Shocks at SMEs during the Pandemic” |
Zoom Meeting |
| November 29 | Yu Xiao, University of Portland | 316 Lake Hall |
| Thursday, April 29, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm |
Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
Maria Micaela Sviatschi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Her research interests are labor and development economics, with a focus on human capital, gender-violence and crime. |
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| Thursday, April 15, 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
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October 26
- Justin Gallagher, Montana State University
November 16
- Gautam Rao, Harvard
The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
November 23
- Jenny Aker, Tufts
Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel
- September 19 Nidhiya Menon
The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American WayBrandeis University - September 23 Michael Kremer
Is Development Innovation a Good Investment? Which Innovations Scale? Evidence on Social Investing from USAID’s Development Innovation VenturesHarvard University - October 7 Florian Ederer
Killer AcquisitionsYale University - November 7 Leila Agha
Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: Evidence from Industry PaymentsDartmouth College
| January 24 (Thursday) | Shahid Alam | Northeastern |
| February 7 (Thursday) | Kevin Boudreau | Northeastern |
| February 11 (Monday) | Michael Mueller-Smith | University of Michigan |
| February 21 (Thursday) | Felipe Barrera | Harvard |
| February 25 (Monday) | Klaus Desmet | Southern Methodist University |
| March 14 (Thursday) | David Atkin | MIT |
| CANCELED March 21 (Thursday) will be rescheduled for the Fall series. | Jonathan Zinman | Dartmouth |
| April 4 (Thursday) | David Yang | Harvard |
| April 8 (Monday) | Judith Chevalier | Yale |
| April 18 (Thursday) | James Nason | North Carolina State |
| April 22 (Monday) | Alicia Sasser Modestino | Northeastern |
| 17-Sep | Nina Pavcnik | Dartmouth College |
| 24-Sep | Chloe East | University of Colorado, Denver |
| 1-Oct | Matt Lowe | Briq Institute of Behavior & Inequality |
| 11-Oct | Chang-Jin Kim | University of Washington |
| 22-Oct | Adriaan Soetevent | Groningen University |
| 5-Nov | Rebecca Thornton | University of Illinois |
| 8-Nov | Heikki Rantakari | University of Rochester |
| 15-Nov | Peter Hull | University of Chicago |
| 19-Nov | Ludovica Gazze | University of Chicago |
| 28-Nov | Arindrajit Dube | (U-Mass Amherst) |
| 29-Nov | Andrew Foster | Brown |
| 6-Dec | Jere Berhman | U Penn |
- February 22, 2018 Ariel Dora Stern, HBS
- February 26, 2018 Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois
- March 14, 2018 Alicia Sasser Modestino, Northeastern University
- March 19, 2018 Leemore Dafny, HBS
- March 29, 2018 John Maluccio, Middlebury Development
- April 2, 2018 Debi Prasad Mohapatra, Umass Amherst IO
- April 9, 2018 Rafael Dix Carneiro, Duke Development/Trade
| 18-Sep | Chris Udry | Northwestern University |
| 2-Oct | Enrico Spolaore | Tufts |
| 30-Oct | Seema Jayachandran | Northwestern |
| 8-Nov | Petra Moser | New York University School of Business |
| 13-Nov | Stephen O’Connell | Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT SEII |
| 4-Dec | Bruce Sacerdote | Dartmouth College |
| 11-Dec | Tanya Byker | Middlebury College |