The Department of Economics Seminar series encourages and explores the latest research by scholars. The seminars for Spring 2021 will be held virtually via Zoom.
| April 8, 12:00 – 1:15 pm | Kristle Cortes | Dr. Kristle Cortés is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Banking and Finance in the Business School at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests include empirical corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, and the structure, optimization, and regulatory practices of the financial services industry. | Zoom |
| April 29, 12:00 – 1:15 pm | Maria Micaela Sviatschi | 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. | Zoom |
Past Research Seminars
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 |