Events

Research Seminars

Upcoming

Thursday, November 9, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Onur Altındağ, Associate Professor of Economics at Bentley University

Onur Altındağ is an applied economist with interests in population health, migration, and economic development.
Thursday, November 16, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Hazal Sezer,Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tilburg University

Hazal Sezer’s research focuses on empirical microeconomics with an interest in labor economics, political economy, and economic history.
Thursday, November 30, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Meiping (Aggie) Sun, Assistant Professor, Fordham Department of Economics

Professor Sun’s primary research interests are Development and Health.
Thursday, December 7 , 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 415

Thomas Barnay, Visiting Professor in Economics at Northeastern University, will present “The impact of COVID-19 policies on self-reported depression among adults aged 50 and over in the US & Europe.”

Prof. Barnay is a Health Economist. His research deals with working conditions, and employment, C-19 and mental health issues, with a public health policy dimension.

Recent

Thursday, September 14

Raisa Sherif, Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich

Dr. Raisa Sherif presented “Are pro-environment behaviours substitutes or complements? Evidence from the field.” The goal of Dr. Sherif’s research is to better understand pro-environmental behaviours and policy interventions.
Thursday, September 21

Laura Gee, Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University, presented “Measuring Discrimination When Subjects Are Told They Are in an Experiment.”

Professor Laura Gee is a behavioral economist with a broad interest in how we can design institutions to influence individual decisions when individual decisions are intertwined with the actions of a group.
Thursday, September 28

Cuneyt Eroglu, Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Management at Northeastern University, presented “How Do Market Competition and Religiosity Affect Workplace Health and Safety Regulation Compliance.”

Cuneyt Eroglu’s main research interests are inventory management, retail operations, and judgmental forecasting.
Thursday ,October 12

Tsegay Tekleselassie, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, presented “Wage Information and Applicant Selection.”

Professor Tekleselassie’s areas of research specialization are Labor Economics, Industrial Policy and Structural Transformation, Political Economy, Economic Growth and Human Capital.
Thursday, October 19, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Konstantinos Matakos, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer in the UK) of Economics in the Department of Political Economy and at King’s College London presented Victim-blaming Norms and Violence Against Women: Correcting Misperceptions or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?

The primary research fields of Professor Matakos are Political Economy, Positive Political Science, Public Economics and Applied Microeconomics.
Thursday, November 2, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Brantly Callaway, Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Georgia

Professor Callaway’s research interests are Microeconometrics and Labor Economics. He has worked on understanding the effects of job displacement, minimum wage policies, intergenerational mobility, and unions.

Seminar Organizers

Jianfei Cao

Assistant Professor of Economics

Jianfei Cao studies applied and theoretical econometrics. His research has chiefly been in the areas of machine learning methods in economic applications, causal inference in comparative case studies, and weak identification. His most recent research…
Shariq Mohammed

Assistant Professor of Economics

Shariq Mohammed is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor economics, economic history, and development economics. His current research focuses on two central and related…

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule

Eliana La Ferrara presented “A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions”

on February 16, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm in Shillman 425

Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Vice-President of the Econometric Society and Program Director of Development Economics for the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is also a J-PAL Affiliate,
Andrew Ching presented “How Does a Firm Adapt in a Changing World? The Case of Prosper Marketplace”

on Thursday, March 2, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm in Shillman 425

Andrew Ching, PhD, is a full professor in the Carey Business School at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is also jointly appointed at the Department of Economics, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Thursday, March 16, 2023 Location: 425 Shillman Hall

Alexander MacKay

Alexander MacKay is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. He studies the economics of competition and other topics in industrial organization using a combination of theory and data.
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm, Location: 425 Shillman Hall

Michael Gechter

Michael Gechter is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Penn State University. Proressor Gechter’s research focuses on methodological issues in development economics.
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm (Virtual)

Erica Field

Erica Field is a Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University specializing in the fields of Development Economics, Health Economics and Economic Demography.
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm, Location: 425 Shillman Hall

Michael Owyang

Michael T. Owyang is an assistant vice president in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His current research agenda is built around applications of Bayesian econometrics.
Jun 1, 2023, 03:00 PM ET, 316 Lake Hall

Ron Boschma

Ron Boschma is a Full Professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. He also holds a Chair in Innovation Studies at the UiS Business School, Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research

Past Research Seminars

Fall 2022

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.

Spring 2022

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

Fall 2021

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

Spring 2021

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.

Thursday,
April 15, 12:00 – 1:15 pm

Police Force Size and Civilian Race

Morgan Williams, Jr. (Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University) presented, “Police Force Size and Civilian Race.”

Co-authors are Aaron Chalfin (Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania), Benjamin Hansen (Department of Economics, University of Oregon, NBER, IZA), and Emily K. Weisburst (Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California Los Angeles).

Fall 2020

October 26

Justin Gallagher, Montana State University

Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: The Role of Cash Grants on Household Finance and Business Survival

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

Spring 2020

February 27

Kasey Buckles

University of Notre Dame

https://www3.nd.edu/~kbuckles/

Fall 2019

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

Spring 2019

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

Fall 2018

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

Spring 2018

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

Fall 2017

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

Research Seminars

Upcoming

Thursday, November 9, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Onur Altındağ, Associate Professor of Economics at Bentley University

Thursday, November 16, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Hazal Sezer,Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tilburg University

Thursday, November 30, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Meiping (Aggie) Sun, Assistant Professor, Fordham Department of Economics

Thursday, December 7 , 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 415

Thomas Barnay, Visiting Professor in Economics at Northeastern University, will present “The impact of COVID-19 policies on self-reported depression among adults aged 50 and over in the US & Europe.”

Recent

Thursday, September 14

Raisa Sherif, Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich

Thursday, September 21

Laura Gee, Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University, presented “Measuring Discrimination When Subjects Are Told They Are in an Experiment.”

Thursday, September 28

Cuneyt Eroglu, Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Management at Northeastern University, presented “How Do Market Competition and Religiosity Affect Workplace Health and Safety Regulation Compliance.”

Thursday ,October 12

Tsegay Tekleselassie, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, presented “Wage Information and Applicant Selection.”

Thursday, October 19, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Konstantinos Matakos, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer in the UK) of Economics in the Department of Political Economy and at King’s College London presented Victim-blaming Norms and Violence Against Women: Correcting Misperceptions or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?

Thursday, November 2, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm. in Shillman 425

Brantly Callaway, Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Georgia

Seminar Organizers

Jianfei Cao

Assistant Professor of Economics

Shariq Mohammed

Assistant Professor of Economics

Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule

Eliana La Ferrara presented “A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions”

on February 16, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm in Shillman 425

Andrew Ching presented “How Does a Firm Adapt in a Changing World? The Case of Prosper Marketplace”

on Thursday, March 2, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm in Shillman 425

Thursday, March 16, 2023 Location: 425 Shillman Hall

Alexander MacKay

Thursday, March 30, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm, Location: 425 Shillman Hall

Michael Gechter

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm (Virtual)

Erica Field

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm, Location: 425 Shillman Hall

Michael Owyang

Jun 1, 2023, 03:00 PM ET, 316 Lake Hall

Ron Boschma

Past Research Seminars