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Seminars Archive

Fall 2025

DateNameAffiliationTitleTime / Venue
Aug. 22Leila SafaviPomona CollegeCan Vertically Integrated Firms Evade Pricing Regulation? Evidence from Energy Utilities pdf3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Aug. 29Joaquin PobletePUC ChileMeasuring the Output Reduction due to Incentive Ratcheting
in the Field pdf		3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Sep. 19Martin SaavedraRutgers Legislating Longevity: State-Level Public Health Laws and the Mortality Transition3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Sep. 26Stefan FaridaniGeorgia TechLINEAR ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS"3:10-4:30
PACCAR 202 In person"
Oct. 3Alberto GalassoUniversity of TorontoFractional Ownership and Copyright Licensing:
Evidence from the Music Industry
3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Oct. 10Danae Hernandez-CortesArizona State UniversityThe Transboundary Health Effects of Saline Lakebed Dust (Abstract)3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Oct. 17 Pierre MérelUC DavisThe Geographic Footprint of U.S. Dairy Policy
"3:10-4:30
PACCAR 202 In person
"
Oct.24Brian GreaneyUniversity of WashingtonAre We Consuming Too Much Groundwater (pdf)3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Oct. 31Nicole SiegalIndiana UniversityControlled Substance Designation and Medical Substitution: Evidence from Gabapentin Monitoring and Upscheduling (pdf)3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Nov. 7Hector BotelloPhD Student WSUVaccination Mandates and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from Peru’s COVID-19 Employment Requirement .pdf3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27
Nov. 14Nickson CabotePhD Student WSUTime-Consistent Fiscal Policy and Business-Cycle Amplification in Emerging Markets .pdf3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27
Nov. 21Mengshan ZhaoPhD Student WSUWhen the Worst Compete: Strategic Responses to Environmental Protection Interviews in China .pdf

"3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27"
Dec. 5Nabittun NaharPhD Student WSUThe Impact of Piped-Water Reliability on Household Time Allocation in 12 Towns in Kenya .pdf3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
Dec. 12Jose Ignacio CuestaStandford UniversityPublic Procurement vs. Regulated Competition in Selection Markets .pdf

3:10-4:30
ZOOM®

Spring 2025

DateName AffiliationTitleTime / Venue
February 7David BradfordUniversity of GeorgiaTHE EFFECT OF A LARGE PRESCRIPTION OPIOID DIVERSION EVENT ON OPIOID
MORTALITY IN THE U.S. pdf		3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
February 21Lindsey NovakReed CollegeThe Economics of Abduction Marriage: Evidence from Ethiopia pdf3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
February 28Jorge LemusUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignA Comparison of Contests and Contracts
to Deliver Cost-Effective Energy Conservation pdf		3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
March 21Xin LiuWashington State UniversityFinite-Sample Auction Inference
Using Transaction Prices pdf		3:10-4:30
In Person Hulbert 27
March 28Dirk ForemnyUniversity of BarcelonaInequality, Efficiency, and Taxation:
Understanding Fiscal Policy Preferences pdf		3:10-4:30
ZOOM®
April 4Reserved
April 11Martin Lopez-DaneriUS Congress, Joint Committee on TaxationCancelled
April 25Dr. Dean Karlan pdf
Dept. Seminar

Leigh Lecture		Northwestern University
UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS: A BAYESIAN META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED EVALUATIONS IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES Google doc. pdf

The Future of Foreign Aid		10:00 am
PACAR 202

4:30 pm
CUE 203
May 2Catalina Amuedo-DorantesUniversity of California MercedCancelled

Fall 2024

DateName AffiliationTitle
Sep. 6Shahe EmranColumbia UniversityOportunity and Risk pdf
Sep. 13Catherine MacleanGeorge Mason UniversitySOCIAL INSURANCE SPILLOVERS:
EVIDENCE FROM PAID SICK LEAVE MANDATES
AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION pdf
Sep. 20Soran MohtadiJohn Hopkins UniversityGendered Impacts of Oil Price Shocks: Analyzing Women’s Labor Force
Participation in Petrostates pdf
Oct. 4Alex HollingsworthOhio State UniersityThe power of reading: How in-class pedagogy and out-of-class environment affect academic performance Abstract pdf
Oct. 11Ben CowanWashington State UniversityPolitical Partisanship and Remote Work: Evidence from U.S. States pdf
Oct. 25Katherine HauckUC DavisCrops Vs. Fences: Did Homesteaders and Purchasers Follow
Different Investment Strategies in Their Land? pdf
Nov. 1William OttenheimerWashington State UniversityThe Role of the Courts in Environmental Property Rights Disputes: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Army Corp of Engineer Dams pdf
Nov.8Dipanwita BaraiWashington State UniversityCosts, Market Conditions, and Inventories Impact on Uncompleted Oil Wells pdf
Nov. 15Aditi SurveWashington State UniversityDo more empowered women vaccinate more against East Coast
Fever?
Evidence from lab-in-the-field experiment pdf
Nov. 21Illhoon ChoiWashington State UniversityThe Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and
Low-Wage Routine Workers: Evidence from South Korea pdf
Dec. 6Awad KorolesWashington State UniversityPink Brick Road: The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage
Legalization in the US on the Inflow of Skilled Labor pdf

Spring 2024

DateNameAffiliationSeminar TitleTime & Venue
February 2Hassan BenchekrounMcGill UniversityOn the Limits of Monopolization through Acquisitions and Mergers in Nonrenewable Resource Industries3:10-4:30
February 9Cezar SantosInter-American Development BankFinancing Cost and Development3:10-4:30
March 1Juan Carlos ConesaStony BrookThe Evolution of Income and Wealth Inequality in China3:10-4:30
March 22Viviane SanfeliceTemple UniversityHousing Improvement and Crime3:10-4:30
March 29Di FangUniversity of FloridaExpertise Overlap and Team Productivity:
Evidence from the Hospital Industry		3:10-4:30
April 11Leigh Lecture
Alvin Roth		Stanford UniversityEconomists as Engineers: Matchmaking and Market Design4:30-5:45
CUE 203
April 12 Alvin RothStanford UniversityControversial Markets and Prohibited Transactions3:10-4:30
PACCAR 202
April 19Donn FeirUniversity of VictoriaInstitutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties3:10-4:30
April 26 Brady HornUniversity of New MexicoSubstance Use Disorder Treatment Centers And Local Crime3:10-4:30

Fall 2023

DateNameAffiliationSeminar TitleTime & Venue
August 25Syed BadruddozaTexas Tech UniversitySubstitutes or complements? The effects of opening a food store on customer visits to neighborhood food retailers3:10-4:30
September 8Pascual RestrepoBoston UniversityAutomation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Inequity, Productivity, and Welfare3:10-4:30
September 15Marcos Vera HernandezUniversity College LondonMonetary Incentives and Image Motivation: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment with Nigerian Midwives3:10-4:30
September 22Tamar OostromOhio State UniversityThe Effect of Insurance on Disparities in Trial Enrollment (Abstract)3:10-4:30
September 29Tiemen WoutersenUniversity of ArizonaJackknife Estimation of a Cluster-Sample IV
Regression Model with Many Weak Instruments		3:10-4:30
PACCAR 202
October 6William KingWashington State UniversityPharmaceutical competitors and their effect on clinical trial completion3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27
October 13Modhurima Day AminTexas Tech UniversityDemystifying AI and Machine Learning: Potential Applications in Agriculture, Economics and Business3:10-4:30
PACCAR 202
October 20Kairon GarciaWashington State UniversityChildcare Responsibilities and Parental Labor Market Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27
October 27Andres CarvajalUniversity of California DavisIdiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium3:10-4:30
ZOOM
November 3Mingi YangWashington State UniversityReal Inflation Dynamics, Path Integrals, and Macroeconomics3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27
November 17Andre MurryWashington State UniversityImitation Game: The Rise of Central Bank
Digital Currencies		3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27
In Person / ZOOM
December 1Mohammad DavoodalhosseiniCentral Bank of CanadaCentral Bank Digital Currency and
Banking: Macroeconomic Benefits of a Cash-Like Design		3:10-4:30
December 8Bin ZhaoWashington State UniversityA Grand Socioeconomic Reshuffling: The One-Child Policy and Intergenerational Mobility in China3:10-4:30
Hulbert 27

Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Thomas Heckelei

Zoom
October 3, 3:10-4:30 pm
Identifying effects of farm subsidies on structural change using recurrent neural networks

Joseph Navelski

Zoom
December 9, 3:10-4:30 pm
The Expert Effect on Network Formation: An Application to Genome Editing Opinions on Twitter

Spring 2022

Thomas Sterner

CUE 203
March 31, 3:10-4:30
Leigh Lecture: Making climate policy feasible

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Fall 2020

Spring 2020

Dr. Robert Axtell

Hulbert 27
February 14, 3:10-4:30 pm
Dynamics of Firms: Data, Theories, and Models

Ph.D. Student Moses Luri

Hulbert 27
February 21, 3:10-4:30 pm
Water Storage and Economic Resilience in a Managed Hydrologic System

Fall 2020

Spring 2020

Dr. Robert Axtell

Hulbert 27
February 14, 3:10-4:30 pm
Dynamics of Firms: Data, Theories, and Models

Ph.D. Student Moses Luri

Hulbert 27
February 21, 3:10-4:30 pm
Water Storage and Economic Resilience in a Managed Hydrologic System

Fall 2019

PhD Student Mr. Nick Potter

Hulbert 27
September 20, 3:10-4:30 pm
On the Frontier of Water Rights: The Why of Forfeiture
Read Abstract (pdf)


Associate Professor Ben Cowan

PACCAR 202
October 18, 3:10-4:30 pm
College Access and Adult Health


Associate Professor Brady Horn

PACCAR 202
October 18, 3:10-4:30 pm
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime


Assistant Professor Shanthi Manian

PACCAR 202
October 18, 3:10-4:30 pm
Health Certification in the Market for Sex Work: A Field Experiment in Dakar, Senegal


Jia Yan

Hulbert 27
November 1, 3:10-4:30 pm
Measuring the benefits of ride-hailing services to urban travelers: The case of San Francisco Bay area.


Dr. Danila Serra

Hulbert 27
November 8, 3:10-4:30 pm
Gender differences in top leadership roles:Does worker backlash matter?


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