- Monday September 10, 2018
Sonia Gilbukh, Baruch College
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle - Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Lauren Velasco, Bryn Mawr College
The Long-term Impact of Preventative Public Health Programs - Monday, October 1, 2018
Ben Keys, University of Pennsylvania
Eyes Wide Shut? The Moral Hazard of Mortgage Insurers during the Housing Boom. - Monday, October 22, 2018
Alexis Pozen, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health
Competition and quality in New York's Medicaid managed care program. - Thursday, November 1, 2018
Mark Melitz, Harvard University
The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence. - Monday, November 12, 2018
Jessica Brown, Princeton University
Does Public Pre-K Have Unintended Consequences for the Child Care Market for Infants and Toddlers? - Monday, December 3, 2018
Robert Eisinger ('87), Chief of Staff, Research Science division at The NPD Group
Whither Presidential Approval? - Monday, January 28, 2019
Tucker McElroy, Census Bureau
"Variable Targeting and Reduction in Large Vector Autoregressions With Applications to Workforce Indicators" - Monday, February 11, 2019
Erin Bronchetti, Swarthmore College
Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health - Monday, February 25, 2019
John Burger, Loyola University, Maryland Benchmarking
Portfolio Flows - Monday, March 25, 2019
Dan Hamermesh, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin. Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College
“O Youth and Beauty:” Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development - Monday, April 1, 2019
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and the co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies
Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes - Monday, April 22, 2019
Kenneth Troske, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach, University of Kentucky
Ambulance Service Ownership and Management: How It Affects Quality of Service Delivery for Medicare Patients
Economics Colloquium
2019-20 Seminar Series
The Haverford Economics Department hosts a regular seminar series.
Spring 2019
| Date and Time | Speaker and Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, January 28, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Tucker McElroy, Census Bureau "Variable Targeting and Reduction in Large Vector Autoregressions With Applications to Workforce Indicators" | Stokes 102 |
| Monday, February 11, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Erin Bronchetti, Swarthmore College Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health | Stokes 102 |
| Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | John Burger, Loyola University, Maryland Benchmarking Portfolio Flows | Stokes 102 |
| Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Dan Hamermesh, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin. Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College “O Youth and Beauty:” Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development | Stokes 102 |
| Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and the co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes | Stokes 102 |
| Monday, April 22, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Kenneth Troske, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach, University of Kentucky Ambulance Service Ownership and Management: How It Affects Quality of Service Delivery for Medicare Patients | Stokes 102 |
Fall 2019
| Date and Time | Speaker and Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday September 9, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Dan Fragiadakis, Villanova University The Belief Elicitation by Superimposition Approach | Stokes 102 |
| Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Nick Reynolds, Brown University A Decline in the Health and Human Capital of Americans Born After 1947 | Stokes 102 |
| Tuesday, October 1, 2019 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Amy Guisinger, Lafayette College News vs. Noise: What Information is Contained in the Revisions of the JOLTS Data? | Stokes 102 |
| Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Pablo Montagnes, Emory College 'Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court | Chase Auditorium |
| Monday, November 4, 2019 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Benjamin Lockwood, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania What is the Optimal Lottery Tax? | Lutnick Library, Room 200 |
| Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:00-5:30 p.m. | William Carrington, Congressional Budget Office Simulating the Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment and Poverty | Stokes 102 |
Past Seminars
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2018-19
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2017-18
- Monday, September 18, 2017
John Klopfer, United States Naval Academy
Labor supply, learning time, and the efficiency of school spending: evidence from school finance reforms. - Monday, October 2, 2017
Chris Ody, Northwestern University
A Dose of Managed Care: Efficiency in Medicaid Drug Benefits - Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Marc Remer, Swarthmore College
An Empirical Model of Dynamic Price Competition - Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Matthew Botsch, Bowdoin College
Inflation Experiences and Contract Choice: Evidence from Residential Mortgages - Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Daniel Lewis, Harvard University
Identifying Shocks via Time-Varying Volatility: New Evidence of Monetary non-Neutrality - Monday, February 26, 2018
Edoardo Grillo, Stanford University, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Economic and Social-Class Voting in a Model of Redistribution with Social Concerns - Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Jeremie Cohen-Setton, Peterson Institute
Large Fiscal Expansions in OECD Countries: Identification and Effects - Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Syon Bhanot, Swarthmore College
Poverty Identity and Competitiveness
- Monday, September 18, 2017
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2016-17
- Monday, September 12, 2016
Matthew Rablen, University of Sheffield
Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle (Joint work with Amedeo Piolatto) - Monday, September 26, 2016
Ben Ho, Vassar College
Rank Preserving Preferences - Monday, October 17, 2016
Callum Jones, PhD candidate in economics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
Aging, Secular Stagnation and the Business Cycle - Monday, October 24, 2016
Steven Smith, Post Doc in the department of economics, Haverford College - Monday, November 7, 2016
Charles Weise, economics professor at Gettysburg College
Political Pressures on Monetary Policy During the US Great Inflation - Monday, November 21, 2016
Shannon Mudd, Visiting Assistant Professor of economics, Haverford College
Stuck in the Past? Information Processing Individual Experiences and Expectations - Monday, February 27, 2017
Michael Curran, Villanova University
Interest Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Dynamics: a Cross-Country Analysis - Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Eric Gaus, Ursinus College
Not Quite Rational: Expectations and Their Influence on Macroeconomics - Monday, March 13, 2017
Matt Jaremski, Colgate University
Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks - Monday, March 20, 2017
Dayna Judge, Princeton University
Beyond Ethnicity: interviewer gender as a source of response bias in global survey data. - Wednesday, March 22, 2017
John Mondragon, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Regulating Household Leverage.
- Monday, September 12, 2016
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2015-16
- Monday, September 14, 2015
Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware
Adult Health Interventions and Children's Schooling: Evidence from Antiretroviral Therapy in Zambia - Monday, September 28, 2015
Christopher Kilby, Villanova University
Aid and democracy redux - Monday, October 19, 2015
Claudia Sahm, Federal Reserve Board & Council of Economic Advisors
Balance-Sheet Households and Fiscal Stimulus: Lessons from the Payroll Tax Cut and Its Expiration - Monday, November 2, 2015
Dustin Frye, Vassar College
Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry - Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Erick Sager
Development, Volatility and Intertemporal Distortions - Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Amanda Starc, Wharton
Ask Your Doctor: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals - Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Sutirtha Bagchi, Villanova
he Effects of Political Competition on the Funding and Generosity of Public-Sector Pension Plans - Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Daniel Gross, NBER/HBS - Monday, March 21, 2016
George Bulman, UC Santa Cruz,
Parental Income and College Outcomes - Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Jonathan Lafky, Lafayette College
Quality Versus Quantity in Information Transmission
- Monday, September 14, 2015
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2014-15
- February 23, 2015
Matthew Incantalupo, Princeton University
The Effects of Unemployment on Voter Turnout in U.S. National Elections - March 2, 2015
Andrew Samuel, Loyola University Maryland
Optimal Inspections Regimes for Regulation - With and Without Collusion - March 16, 2015
John Smith, Rutgers University, Camden
Cognitive Load and Strategic Sophistication - March 30, 2015
Jeremy Tobacman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy - April 13, 2015
Anne Preston, Haverford College
Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
- February 23, 2015
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2013-14
- February 10, 2014
Tim Lambie-Hanson, Haverford College - Agency and Incentives: Vertical Integration in the Mortgage Foreclosure Industry
- February 24, 2014
Giri Parameswaran, Haverford College
Your Ignorance is My Bliss: Learning by Acquaintance, Policy Distortions and the Slippery Slope - March 31, 2014
Lauren Lambie-Hanson, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
When Does Delinquency Result in Neglect? Mortgage Distress and Property Maintenance - April 28, 2014
Tao Wang, Swarthmore College
Climate Change Policy and Patterns of International Trade
- February 10, 2014