The Department of Economics Seminar series encourages and explores the latest research by scholars. The series is hosted and organized by Professors Imke Reimers, Bilge Erten, Ivan Petkov and Alicia Sasser Modestino. The seminars for Fall 2020 will be held virtually via Zoom.
| October 26, 2020, 12:00pm-1:15pm | Justin Gallagher, Montana State University | Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: The Role of Cash Grants on Household Finance and Business Survival | Zoom | |
| November 16, 12:00pm-1:15pm | Gautam Rao, Harvard | The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor | Zoom | |
| November 23, 12:00pm-1:15pm | Jenny Aker, Tufts | Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel | Zoom |
Past Research Seminars
- 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 |