Events
Upcoming Events
2024
Alex Sollaci (International Monetary Fund)
"Expanding Frontiers: Fiscal Policies for Innovation and Technology Diffusion"
Friday, September 13, SSC 4161, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
John Singleton (University of Rochester)
"Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers"
Wednesday, October 30, SSC 4161, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
(joint with Applied Economics/Econometrics)
2025
Ying Fan (University of Michigan)
"TBA"
Wednesday, March 26, SSC 4161, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
(joint with Applied Economics/Econometrics)
Previous Events
2024
Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (Cornell University)
"Endogenous Production Networks Under Supply Chain Uncertainty"
Thursday, April 25, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan)
"Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective"
Thursday, April 18, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Dominic Smith (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
"Productivity Dispersion and Structural Change in Retail Trade"
Thursday, April 11, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Tasso Adamopoulos (York University)
"Trade Risk and Food Security"
Thursday, March 21, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
2023
Kurt See (Bank of Canada)
"Uncovering the Difference among Displaced Workers: Evidence from Canadian Job Separation Records"
Thursday, November 30, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Nata Duvvury (University of Galway)
"TBA"
Wednesday, October 4, SSC 6120, 3:30-5:00 pm
Javier Cano-Urbina (Florida State University)
"Assessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less-Educated Workers"
Thursday, September 28, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Hamish Low (University of Oxford)
"Fertility and Family Labor Supply"
(joint with Katrine M. Jakobsen and Thomas H. Jorgensen)
Thursday, September 14, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Faculty Seminar
Hamish Low (University of Oxford)
"Welfare Reform"
Wednesday, September 13, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Graduate Seminar
Fabian Lange (McGill University)
"On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages"
(joint with Braz Camargo and Elena Pastorino)
Wednesday, May 10, SSC 4161, 3:30-5:00 pm
Dr. Aristides Vara Horna (USMP)
"Unraveling the Hidden Costs: The Economic Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women on Business Performance"
Wednesday, May 3, SSC 6210, 3:30-5:00 pm
John Kennes (Aarhus University)
"Job Qualities in the Market for CEOs"
Thursday, May 4, SSC 4161, 12:00-1:00 pm
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
"U.S. Healthcare: Problems and Promises"
Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, March 30, McKellar Room, UCC, 3:00-4:30 pm
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
"Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices"
Departmental Seminar
Friday, March 31, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Attila Gyetvai (Bank of Portugal)
"The Option Value of Occupations"
Thursday, April 6, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Louis-Pierre Lepage (Stockholm University)
"Learning to Discriminate on the Job"
(joint with Alan Benson)
Thursday, April 27, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
2022
Laura Lasio (McGill University)
"Stigma as a Barrier to Treatment and Adoption of Innovation"
Thursday, October 13
Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto)
"A Manufactured Tragedy: The Origins and Deep Ripples of the Opioid Epidemic"
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Chris Taber (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
Short-Term Visitor
(Joint with Tim Conley, Joe Altonji, and Todd Elder)
“Methods for using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables”
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
2020
Pascual Restrepo (Boston University)
May 13, 2020 - CANCELLED
Hamish Low (University of Oxford)
April 20, 2020 - CANCELLED
2019
Shakeeb Khan (Boston College)
"Dynamic Discrete Choice with Unobserved Heterogeneity"
May 8, 2019
Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University)
"Publish or Perish: Selective Attrition as an Unifying Explanation for Patterns in Innovation over the Career"
April 25, 2019
Michela Tincani (University College London)
"Promoting Access to University: An Evaluation Using a Structural Model and a Randomized Policy"
April 4, 2019
Seth Sanders (Duke University)
"Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the United States: A Panel Analysis"
March 7-8, 2019
John Ham (New York University)
"Selection, Gender and the Impact of Schooling Type in the Dhaka Slums"
September 24, 2019
Michael Gilraine (New York University)
October 17, 2019
Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia)
Short Term Visitor
December 4-6, 2019
2018
Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania)
Short-Term Visitor
"A Dynamic Model of Personality, Schooling, and Occupational Choice"
"Structural Estimation and Policy in Development"
November 22-23, 2018
Cecilia Diaz Campo (Western University)
"Shape-Preserving Approximation Methods"
November 16, 2018
Guerogui Kambourov (University of Toronto)
"Use It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation"
(Joint with Fatih Guvenen, Burhan Kuruscu, Sergio Ocampo, and Daphne Chen)
November 15, 2018
Kegon Tan (University of Rochester)
"Bequest Motives and the Social Security Notch"
October 18, 2018
Francisco Agnostinelli (University of Pennsylvania)
"Money vs. time: Family Income, Maternal Labor Supply, and Child Development"
October 4, 2018
2017
Richard Blundell (University College London)
“Consumption and Income Dynamics”
November 24, 2017
Richard Blundell (University College London)
“Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance”
November 23, 2017
Stéphane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)
"Discretizing Unobserved Heterogeneity"
November 22, 2017
David Blau (Ohio State University)
"Intergenerational Correlation in Family Structure:
A New Look with Data from the NLSY79 Female Respondents and their Young Adult Children"
November 15, 2017
Todd Schoellman (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
“The Changing Roles of Family Income and Academic
Ability for US College Attendance”
November 7, 2017
Nicolas Roys (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
"Skill Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men"
(with Chris Taber)
September 17, 2017
UM-MSU-UWO Labour Day Conference
May 10, 2017
