Seminar Series
Coordinators: Michael Taylor (Committee Chair), Frank Fossen, Anna Solokova, Dilek Uz, and Jingjing Yang (Economics)
All seminars are Fridays, 3-4:30pm in Ansari Business 408A Unless Otherwise Noted
| Date | Location | Time | Speaker Name | Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | ||||
| Friday, Aug 24th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | David Albouy (University of Illinois) | Skills, Migration, and Urban Amenities over the Life Cycle |
| September | ||||
| Friday, Sept 7th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Siobhan O'Keefe (UC Davis) | Baby's Gone: The Effects of Increased Sentencing Severity on Fertility and Family Formation |
| Friday, Sept 14th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Matthew Naven (UC Davis) | When Does Human Capital Formation Matter Most? Evidence from School Quality and Postsecondary Success |
| Friday, Sept 21st | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Mariana Zerpa (University of Leuven, Belgium) | Preschool Education and Child Development and Health: Evidence from State Pre-K Programs |
| Friday, Sept 28th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Julia Bredtmann (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Germany) | Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany |
| October | ||||
| Friday, Oct 5th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University) | Stranded: The Effects of Inaccessible Public Land on Local Economies in the American West |
| Friday, Oct 12th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | T. Scott Findley (Utah State) | Dynamic Consistency and Regret |
| Friday, Oct 19th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Gi-Eu Lee | Improving Allocation of Water Rights under Prior Appropriation Doctrine: The Effect of Permitted Place of Use Transfers |
| Friday, Oct 26th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Nevada Day – No Seminar | |
| November | ||||
| Friday, Nov 2nd | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Timm Boenke (Free University Berlin, Germany) | Lifetime Income Inequality, Redistribution and Longevity |
| Friday, Nov 9th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Sarah Quincy (UC Davis) | Loans for the Little Fellow: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression |
| Friday, Nov 16th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Steven Buck (University of Kentucky) | Heterogeneous Effects of Real-time Consumption Analytics on Residential Water Consumption |
| Friday, Nov 23rd | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Thanksgiving Friday – No Seminar | |
| Friday, Nov 30th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Laura Grant (Claremont McKenna) | Household Electricity Demand, Revisited Again |
| December | ||||
| Friday, Dec 14th | 408A | 3:00-4:30 | Matt Woerman (UC Berkeley) | Market Size and Market Power: Evidence from the Texas Electricity Market |