Seminar Series

Gaia Dossi

When: Tuesday, 11/19/24 Time: 11:45-1pm
Where: WebEx
Title of the Presentation: “Race and Science”

Abstract: What are the consequences of the racial gap in science and innovation? I study this question by combining data on US patents, medical research articles, clinical trials, and research grants with the racial distribution of last names in the US population. Using last names as a proxy for race, I find that the racial composition of scientists affects the direction, as well as the rate, of medical research and innovation. First, scientists with a Black-sounding name are three times as likely to design clinical trials with Black or African American participants and twice as likely to publish articles focused on Black or African Americans. Second, scientists with a Black-sounding name are more likely to research diseases frequent among Black or African Americans, and scientists with a white-sounding name among white Americans. Third, I draw a link between race and the direction of research by focusing on diseases more common in Black (e.g., sickle cell anemia) or white (e.g., melanoma) individuals due to evolutionary advantages in their ancestors’ countries of origin. Fourth, I document the impact of relative disease incidence on the direction of research by studying an exogenous change in HIV-related mortality among Black or African Americans compared to whites. I estimate a general equilibrium Roy model with racial frictions and endogenous choice of occupation. Using the data, I quantify the parameters and estimate that removing barriers would increase the overall number of inventors by 1 p.p., a 10% increase from the baseline.

More Info: https://sites.google.com/view/gaiadossi/home

Catherine van der List

When: Monday,11/04/24 Time: 11:45-1pm
Where: PUP 367
Title of the Presentation: “How do Establishments Choose Their Location? Taxes, Monopsony, and Productivity”

Abstract: To study the distribution of economic activity across space and the effects of place-based policies, I develop a model of the location choice of new establishments incorporating taxes, monopsonistic labor markets, and spillovers. Estimates using administrative data from Germany indicate that establishments generally have a preference for lower taxes, as well a preference for lower worker outside options which enable establishments to pay lower wages. The degree to which various types of productivity spillovers matter in the location decision of establishments varies greatly between industrial sectors. I also quantify the effects of a counterfactual place-based tax policy and find that commuting zones display heterogeneous wage and economic activity responses to the same policy due to differing degrees of labor market power across space.

More Info: https://cvanderlist.github.io/Papers/vanderlist_JMP.pdf

David Alonzo

When: Tuesday,10/15/24 Time: 11:45-1pm
Where: WebEx
Title of the Presentation: “Marrying Your Job: Matching and Mobility with Geographic Heterogeneity”

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of geographic heterogeneity in occupational returns on marriage market outcomes and the impact of family formation on the geographic distribution of labor. I document that workers living in cities that pay relatively lower wages to their occupation (i.e., workers who have higher potential pecuniary returns from migration) are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce. Using a structural model of migration and family formation, I assess individual and aggregate effects of marriage and location choices through counterfactual experiments. I find that, overall, the marriage-market amenity enhances productivity by drawing workers to high-return locations.

More Info: https://davidealonzo.github.io/index.html

 

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Bernard Ganglmair

When: Monday, 9/30/24 Time: 11:45-1pm
Where: In-Person
Title of the Presentation: “Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies”

Abstract: We study how asymmetric enforceability of regulatory rules affects firms’ compliance using a simple inspection model and a large sample of German privacy policies. We exploit the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation, compelling firms to disclose, in accessible language, details of their data use. The specifics of disclosure are objective, whereas readability is subjective and difficult to enforce. We show that firms increased disclosure, but the policy readability did not improve. In line with theory, firms anticipating regulatory scrutiny and those facing higher-budget data protection authorities demonstrated a stronger response in readability compliance without sizeable effects on disclosure.

More Info: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4600876

 

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Marco Errico

When: Tuesday, 9/17/24 Time: 11:45-1pm
Where: WebEx
Title of the Presentation: “Oligopolies in Trade and Transportation: Implications for the Gains from Trade”

Abstract: Transportation services are crucial for goods to move globally; however, given the concentration in the industry, and its interaction with granular importers, the realized gains from trade differ from standard theories. We study the interplay between oligopoly in the transportation industry and oligopsony power retained by non-atomistic importers. We leverage transaction-level data from Chilean customs to document several empirical facts: (i) market concentration in the transportation sector and among importers, and (ii) that transportation prices are highly dispersed and are the outcome of bilateral negotiations. We then develop a trade model that departs from the usual iceberg cost assumption and allows for bargaining with two-sided market power in the transportation industry. We find that transport carriers charge large markups (on average 2), but importers benefit from substantial bargaining power (markdown of 0.85 and Nash bargaining 2.5 times larger). Finally, we embed the bilateral bargaining framework into a quantitative trade model of importing. We show that market concentration reduces the pass-through of tariff shocks to gains from trade, and that the welfare implications of trade liberalization are different when accounting for the strategic interaction between the transportation sector and importers.

More Info: https://www.marcoerrico.net/

Fall 2020

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/30 (W)	Analisa Packham Vanderbilt University	Dying to Work: Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Health	12:00pm WEB
10/13 (W)	Andrew Friedson U Colorado, Denver	Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19a	12:00pm WEB
11/11 (W)	Jamil Scott Georgetown University	TBA	12:00pm WEB

Spring 2020

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
03/03 (T)	Benjamin Liebman Saint Joseph’s University .	Casualties of Trade Wars	1:00 pm PUP 367
03/24 (T)	Jamil S. Scott Georgetown University	Reconsidering Gender Stereotypes with an Intersectional Lens	1:00 pm PUP 367
03/30 (M)	Jonathan Wright Johns Hopkins University	The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates: A Tale of Two Frequencies	1:00 pm PUP 367
04/07 (T)	Isabella Alcañiz University of Maryland	The Role of Race and Immigration in Shaping Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States	1:00 pm PUP 367
04/20 (M)	Stephie Fried Arizona State University	Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation	1:00 pm PUP 367
05/04 (M)	Ayhan Kose The World Bank	Global Confidence Cycles	1:00 pm PUP 367

Fall 2019

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/18 (W)	Anthony Diercks The Federal Reserve Board	Taxes and the Fed: Theory and Evidence from Equities	2:00 pm PUP 367
10/01 (T)	Eunhee Lee University of Maryland, College Park	Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare	2:00 pm PUP 367
10/14 (M)	Lyudmyla Ardan (Sonchak) Susquehanna University	Impacts of Prenatal Care on Early Childhood Health and Health Care Utilization	1:00 pm PUP 367
10/29 (T)	Paul Carrillo George Washington University	Counterfactual Dissimilarity: Can Changes in Demographics and Income Explain Increased Racial Integration in U.S. Cities?	2:00 pm PUP 367
11/04 (M)	Daniel Hammermesh University of Texas, Austin	O Youth and Beauty: Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development	1:00 pm PUP 367
11/06 (W)	Angela K. Henneberger, University of Maryland, Baltimore	Student and School Concentrated Poverty: What Are The Long Term Consequences for Academic and Career Outcomes?	2:00 pm PUP 367
11/12 (TU)	Jose Ciro Martinez University of Cambridge	Site of Resistance or Apparatus of Acquiescence?  Tactics at the Bakery	2:00 pm PUP 367

 

Spring 2019

 

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
02/21 (TH)	Carola Binder Haverford College	Political Pressures on Central Banks	1:00 pm PUP 367
02/26 (T)	George R. La Noue UMBC	Social Sciences as a Contact Sport: Memoirs of Trial Expert	1:00 pm PUP 367
03/4 (M)	Dylan Conger George Washington University	The Effect of Advanced Placement Science on Students’ Skills, Confidence, and Stress	1:00 pm PUP 367
04/1 (M)	Elenev Johns Hopkins University	Quantitative Tightening	1:00 pm PUP 367
04/11 (TH)	Amanda Y. Agan, Rutgers University	The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism	1:00 pm PUP 367
04/16 (T)	Gabriel P. Mathy, American University	A Measure of Our Ignorance: Mismeasuring the Solow Residual and the Implications for Real Business Cycle Models	1:00 pm PUP 367
04/30 (TU)	David Farkas Bureau of Revenue Estimates, the Comptroller of Maryland	Taxpayer Participation Rate: The Decline of Tax Filing and its Repercussions	1:30 pm PUP 367

Fall 2018

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
9/20 (TH)	Paul Morgan Penn State University	Are Students of Color Being Over- or Under-Identified as Having Disabilities as They Attend U.S. Schools?	4:00 pm Commons 329
9/27 (TH)	Jeryl Mumpower Texas A&M University	Mispredicting Behaviors of Racial and Ethnic Minority Group Members: Evidence from Signal Detection Theory in Three Social Policy Domains	12:00 pm PUP 451
10/08 (M)	Cecilia Rouse Princeton University	ROI or RIP? Higher Education and the Future of America	4:00 pm AOK Library, 7th floor
10/11 (TH)	Sophie Osotimehin University of Quebec, Montreal	Misallocation and Intersectoral Linkages	12:00 pm PUP 451
10/15 (TH)	Richard Blissett Seton Hall University	The Ideological Politics of Charter Schools	4:00 pm PUP 367
10/22 (M)	Howard Bloom MDRC	Lessons from New York City’s Small Schools of Choice about High-School Features that Promote Graduation for Disadvantaged Students	12:00 pm PUP 367
11/1 (TH)	Alexander F. McQuoid U.S. Naval Academy	Exposure to International Trade and Mortality	12:00 pm PUP 451
11/5 (M)	Zoe McLaren UMBC School of Public Policy	HIV Treatment as Economic Stimulus: Community Spillover Effects of Mass ART Provision in Rural South Africa	12:00 pm PUP 451
11/29 (TH)	Lynn Addington American University	Using the National Intimate and Sexual Violence Survey to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Experienced by Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals	12:00 pm PUP 451

 

Spring 2018

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
2/23 (F)	Anna Bykova New Research University Higher School of Economics,Russia	Firm Performance and Regional Economic Freedom	12:00 pm PUP 367
3/8 (TH)	Elizabeth Farley-Ripple School of Education University of Delaware	Beyond outcomes: Using and accessing administrative data to understand the educational system.	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/4 (W)	Scott Farrow Economics Department UMBC	Modeling Social Rates of Return Resulting from University R & D on Homeland Security Operations	12:00 pm PUP 451
4/11 (W)	Ira Gang Economics Department, Rudgers University	Migration and household informal activity	12:00 pm PUP 451
4/25 (W)	Bernadette Hanlon City and Regional Planning Knowlton School Ohio State University	From old suburb to post-suburb: The politics of retrofit in an inner suburb of Columbus, Ohio	12:00 pm PUP 451

Fall 2017

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
9/14 (TH)	Erica Schoenberger Johns Hopkins University	State, City, Market	12:00 pm PUP 367
9/28 (TH)	Constance Lindsay Urban Institute	The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/5 (TH)	Michael Hansen Brookings Institute	Opportunity Culture Evaluation	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/26 (TH)	Susan Sterett UMBC School of Public Policy	Collaboration as Big Data Ethics	12:00 pm PUP 367
11/2 (TH)	Joseph Newhouse Harvard University	How Well Can Government Regulate Adverse Selection in Individual Health Insurance?	12:00 pm PUP 367
11/9 (TH)	Matthew Chingos Urban Institute	The Long-Term Effects of Private School Choice: Evidence from Florida	12:00 pm PUP 367
11/16 (TH)	Anna Bykova National Research University Higher School of Economics	Economic Freedom and the Performance of Russian Companies	12:00 pm PUP 367
12/7 (TH)	Bernadette Hanlon The Ohio State University	Global Migration: The Basics	12:00 pm PUP 367

Spring 2017

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
2/2 (TH)	Aaron Kupchik Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware	The Real School Safety Problem: The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/3 (M)	Francesc Ortega Economics Department, Queens College CUNY	Estimating the Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers in the United States	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/13 (TH)	Donald F. Norris School of Public Policy, UMBC	Cyber Security at the Grasssroots: Results of the First Nationwide Survey of American Local Government Cyber Security Problems and Practices	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/20 (TH)	Carl Lin Economics Department, Bucknell University	Can the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Urban China.	12:00 pm PUP 367
5/1 (M)	Robert Margo Department of Economics, Boston University, and Research Associate, NBER	The Persistence of Racial Inequality: An Intergenerational Perspective	4:00 pm Library, 7th Floor
5/3 (W)	Lina Maria Martinez Political Science, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia	Empirical evidence for decision making in a traumatized city	12:00 pm PUP 451
5/11 (TH)	Debin Ma Economic History, London School of Economics	Monetary Integration in Times of Political Disintegration – Silver Exchanges between Shanghai and Tianjin in Early 20th Century China.	12:00 pm PUP 451

Fall 2016

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
9/1 (TH)	Ivo Bischoff University of Kassel	Local Council Members’ View on Inter-Municipal Cooperation: Does Office-Related Self Interest Matter?	12:00 pm PUP 367
9/22 (TH)	Dan Hicks University of Oklahoma	Air Pollution and Pro-Cyclical Mortality: Causal Evidence from Thermal Inversions	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/6 (TH)	Nuria Rodriguez Planas Queens College	Social Norms and Teenager Smoking, The Dark Side of Gender Equality	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/19 (W)	Lora Cohen Vogel University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	TBD	12:00 pm
11/10 (TH)	Jane Lincove UMBC School of Public Policy	Overworked or Overpaid? A Longitudinal Analysis of Principal Compensation in a Context of Increasing School Autonomy	12:00 pm PUP 367
11/17 (TH)	Tim Pawlowski University of Tuebingen	Sport Participation and Social Capital Formation	12:00 pm PUP 367

Spring 2016

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
02/04 (TH)	Seth Gershenson American University	Gender, Peer Advising, and Postsecondary Educational Success	12:00 pm
03/10 (TH)	Soohyung Lee University of Maryland	The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Educational Achievement	12:00 pm PUP 367
3/22 (TU)	Doug Lauen UNC, Chapel Hill Department of Public Policy and Department of Sociology	School Poverty Contextual Effects	4:00 pm PUP 431
3/24 (TH)	Don Norris and Anupam Joshi UMBC	Don Norris, UMBC School of Public Policy — Cyber Security Challenges to American Local Governments; and Anupam Joshi, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering — Policy Driven Approaches to Security	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/14 (TH)	David Deming Graduate School of Education Harvard University	The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/21 (TH)	Paul Ferraro JHU & GSU	The Microeconomics of Technology:  Climate Change Adaptation Through Resource Conserving Technologies	12:00 pm PUP 367
4/28 (TH)	Jessica Sowa University of Baltimore	Retaining Critical Human Capital: Volunteer Firefighters in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania	12:00 pm PUP 367
05/03 (TU)	Ben Castleman UVA Batten School of Leadership and Policy	Knowing When and Who To Nudge in Education:  Evidence from Text Messaging Experiments	12:00 pm PUP 367
05/05 (TU)	Farah Farahati, UMBC Scott Nystrom, U.S. Health and Human Services Department	Economic Spillover Analysis from Public Medical Countermeasure Investments: A Case Study of NexoBrid (R)	12:00 pm PUP 367

Fall 2015

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/10 (TH)	James Fenske Economics Department University of Oxford, U.K.	Dust Exposure and Infant Mortality in West Africa	12:00 pm PUP 367
09/24 (TH)	Tim Brennan Economics/Public Policy UMBC	Opening the ‘Open Internet’	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/2 (F)	Ian Anson Department of Political Science UMBC	Partisan Media and the Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/12 (M)	Todd Nesbit Department of Economics Ohio State University	Impact of Tobacco Taxation and its Influence on Illegal Sales of Tobacco Products	12:00 pm PUP 367
10/23 (F)	Ali Khan Department of Economics Johns Hopkins University	TBA	2:00 pm PUP 367
10/29 (TH)	Evan Perlman Public Policy UMBC	What are the True Employment and Wage Impacts of Casinos?	2:00 pm PUP 367
11/12 (TH)	Kelly E. Carter School of Business Morgan State University	You Pitch In, I Pitch In, We All Pitch In: The Contributions of Labor and Management to Their Complementarities in a Competitive Environment	12:00 pm PUP 367

Spring 2015

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
02/12 (TH)	Peter Henry NYU Stern School of Business	Data and Discipline: The Science of Economic Turnaround	4:00 pm Library Gallery
02/13 (F)	Marc Law University of Vermont	Political Centralization,Federalism, and Urban Development: Evidence from U.S. and Canadian Capital Cities	12:00 pm PUP 367
02/18 (W)	Isaiah Andrews Harvard University	Weak Identification: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions.	4:00 pm PUP 367
02/18 (W)	Jamie Chriqui Health Policy and Administration University of Illinois Chicago	Obesity-related policies: Influences on communities, schools, and individual outcomes	12:00 pm PUP 451
02/19 (TH)	Sanjay Pandey Trachtenberg School, George Washington University	Does Mission Matter for Social Enterprise?: A study of US arts and cultural organizations	2:00 pm PUP 451
03/05 (TH)	Gregory Clark University of California Davis	TBA	4:00 pm Library Gallery
03/05 (TH)	David Deming Grad. School of Education, Harvard University	The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: an experimental study	2:00 pm PUP 451
03/25 (W)	Teresa Romano Department of Economics, Goucher College	Gaming the System? Teacher Responses to Changes in Accountability	2:00 pm PUP 451
04/16 (TH)	Seth Gitter Department of Economics, Towson University	Welfare Impacts of Rising Quinoa Prices: Evidence from Peru	2:00 pm PUP 451
05/01 (F)	Steve Hemelt University of North Carolina	TBA	2:00 pm PUP 451

Fall 2014

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/17 (W)	John Parman Dept of Economics, William and Mary	Adoption and Adult Outcomes in the Early 20th Century.	2:00 pm PUP 203
09/18 (TH)	Stephen F. Ross Institute for Sports Law, Policy and Research, The Pennsylvania State University	The Unforeseen Anticompetitive and Racially Discriminatory Effects of Baseball’s North American Draft	4:00 pm UC 312
09/23 (T)	Darrell Gaskin School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University	Where you live really does matter. The impact of community level factors on the mortality of life insurance enrollees.	2:00pm PUP 204
10/3 (F)	Inas Kelly Dept of Economics, Queens College and CUNY Grad. Center	Proximate and Economic Determinants of Obesity: A Cross-National Analysis.	2:00pm PUP 204
10/13 (M)	Robert A. Lawson O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom, Southern Methodist University	Economic Freedom and the Wealth and Health of Nations.	4:00 pm U Library 7th floor
10/23 (TH)	Sara Heller Dept of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania	The Effects of Summer Jobs on Disadvantaged Youth.	2:00 pm PUP 204
11/20 (TH)	David Autor Dept of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Will the Workplace of the Future Have Any Workers? Technological Change, Employment, and the Structure of Jobs.	4:00 pm Library Gallery

Spring 2014

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
02/7 (F)	Carolyn Moehling Rutgers and NBER Melissa Thomasson Miami U. and NBER	The Swan Song of the Country Doctor: Flexner and the Economics and Practice of Medicine	3:00 pm PUP 204
05/2 (F)	Leah Boustan Dept of Economics UCLA and NBER	To the New World and Back Again: Return Migration and Upward Mobility	12:00 pm PUP 451

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
02/1 (F)	Karen Clay Carnegie Mellon Heinz School	Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating, 1920-1959.	2:00 pm PUP 438
03/8 (F)	Lesley Turner Dept of Economics University of Maryland	The Impact of Financial Aid on Program of Study and Educational Attainment.	2:00 pm PUP 438
04/4 (TH)	Kasey Buckles Dept of Economics Notre Dame University	The Effect of College Education on Health.	2:00 pm PUP 438
04/26 (F)	Robert Kaestner Dept of Economics University of Illinois Chicago	TBA.	2:00 pm PUP 438
05/7 (T)	Christy Chapin Dept of History UMBC	Ensuring America’s Health: The Role of Insurance Companies in the Health Care System’s Development.	2:00 pm PUP 438

 

Fall 2012

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/14	Nadwa Mossaad Public Policy dept UMBC	The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An evaluation of the impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica	12:00 pm PUP 438
09/28	Joanne Tsu Federal Reserve	Aging and Strategic Learning: The Impact of Spousal Incentives on Financial Literacy	12:00 pm PUP 438
10/12	Marv Mandell and Nicole Stewart Public Policy dept UMBC	The Impact of Qualified Census Tract Designation on Low Income Housing Tax Credit Development	12:00 pm PUP 438
10/24	Sean Reardon School of Education Stanford University	The Effect of NCLB on Narrowing Achievement Gaps Between Minority and White Students	12:00 pm PUP 438
11/29	Brent Gibbons Public Policy dept UMBC	Working with a Severe Mental Illness: Stressful or Salubrious for Overall Mental Health?	12:00 pm PUP 438
12/7	David Frisvold  Dept of Economics Emory University	Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement: An Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program	2:00 pm PUP 438

 

Fall 2011

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
9/22 (TH)	Darrell Gaskin School of Public Health Johns Hopkins	Healthcare Disparities — Race, Place, or Both?	12:00 pm PUP 438
10/7 (F)	Timothy Moore Dept of Economics University of Maryland	Employment Effects of Terminating Disability Benefits: Insights from Removing Drug Addictions as Disabling Conditions	12:00 pm PUP 438
10/14 (TH)	Nicola Tynan Dickenson College	TBA	12:00 pm PUP 438
11/10 (TH)	Roy Meyers Dept of Political Science UMBC	Why the Supercommittee isn’t Super: Improving How the Federal Government Allocates Resources and Sets Priorities	12:00 pm PUP 438
11/17 (TH)	Thomas Peeters University of Antwerp	An Empirical Contest Model of the English Premier League	12:00 pm PUP 438

 

Spring 2011

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
03/3 (TH)	Michael Grossman CUNY	The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan	2:00 pm PUP 438
03/16 (W)	Erin Todd Bronchetti Swarthmore College	When a Nudge Isn’t Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers	12:00 pm PUP 438
03/31 (TH)	Damon Clark University of Florida	TBA	2:00 pm PUP 438
04/22 (F)	Roy Meyers Political Science UMBC	How does the Federal Government ‘Set Priorities’ and How Should It?	12:00 pm PUP 438
04/29 (F)	Dennis Coates and Tim Gindling  Economics dept UMBC	Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America’s Small Towns?	12:00 pm PUP 438

 

Fall 2010

 

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/15 (W)	John Rennie Short UMBC	The Postcolonial Creative City: an Antipodean Case Study	12:00 pm PUP 203
09/29 (W)	Peter Hinrichs Georgetown University	Affirmative Action Bans and College Graduation Rates	12:00 pm PUP 203
10/13 (W)	Sergio Prada IMPAQ Intl.	Level-I Trauma Center Effects on Return to Work Outcomes	12:00 pm PUP 203
10/29 (F)	Bing Ma Economics dept UMBC	Socioeconomic Status and Overweight and Obesity: How Does the Gradient Change with Age? New Evidence from China	12:00 pm PUP 203
11/17 (W)	Eric Slade UMBC	Access to VA Assertive Community Treatment Services: Effects on Mental Health Costs	12:00 pm PUP 203
12/13 (M)	Jens Ludwig University of Chicago	The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime	12:00 pm PUP 203

 

Spring 2010

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
02/25	Erdal Tekin Georgia State University	Child Care Subsidies and Child Development	2:00 PM PUP 203
03/4	David Figlio Northwestern University	Competitive effects of means-tested school vouchers	2:00 PM PUP 203
03/10	Lisa Dickson Economics UMBC	Do Universities Practice Gender Sensitive Admissions?	12:00 PM PUP 203
04/14	George LaNoue UMBC	Methodological and Conceptional Issues in Writing a Book on the History of UMBC	12:00 PM PUP 203
04/22	Christelle Viauroux Economics UMBC	Stable Schedule Matchings using a Fixed Point Method	12:00 PM PUP 203
04/29	Scott Farrow Economics UMBC	A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Slot Machine Gambling in Maryland	12:00 PM PUP 203
04/30	Sheila Olmstead Yale University	The Value of Scarce Urban Water	11:00 AM PUP 367
05/6	Burt Barnow Johns Hopkins University	Setting Up Social Experiments: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.	12:00 PM PUP 203

 

Fall 2009

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
10/7	Frances Carter UMBC	Estimation of Average Treatment Effects of On-campus, Academic Year Research on STEM PhD Pursuit for Talented, Underrepresented Minorities	12:00 PM PUP 203
10/9	Martha Bailey University of Michigan	The impact of US Family Planning Programs: Evidence from the War on Poverty and Title X	2:00 PM TBA
10/16	Melinda Miller US Naval Academy	Destroyed By Slavery?: The Effect of Slavery on African-American Family Formation Following Emancipation.	12:00 PM PUP 367
10/21	Gary Burtless  Brooking Institution	Is There Evidence Workers Are Rational in Preparing for Retirement?	12:00 PM PUP 203
11/13	Allen Fawcett  Environmental Protection Agency	Cap-and-trade bill	12:00 PM TBA
11/18	Joseph Sabia American University	Parental Involvment Laws, Sexual Activity, and Youth Suicide	12:00 PM PUP 203
12/2	Laura Hussey  UMBC	TBA	12:00 PM PUP 203
12/ 9	Tim Brennan  Economics UMBC	Behavioral vs. standard economics: A dozen observations against, for & tied.	12:00 PM PUP 203

Fall 2008

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
09/9	Tim Gindling and Sara Poggio Economics UMBC	Family separation and re-unification as a factor in the United States	12:00 PM PUP 204
09/17	Jonah Rockoff Columbia University	Does mentoring reduce turnover and improve skills of new employees? Evidence from teachers in New York City	12:00 PM PUP 203
09/29	Carolyn Hill Georgetown University	Longer-term effects of the Tulsa Public Schools pre-K program	12:00 PM PUP 203
10/8	Bill Rothstein Sociology UMBC	The great twentieth-century pandemic of coronary heart disease: How well do we understand it?	12:00 PM PUP 203
10/15	Judy Shinogle MIPAR UMBC	Determinants and costs of physical inactivity	12:00 PM PUP 203
10/29	Dylan Conger George Washington University	The effects of native language instruction on how quickly English learners can acquire proficiency	12:00 PM PUP 203
11/12	Ted Joyce Baruch College	TBA	12:00 PM PUP 203
11/19	Don Norris UMBC, Public Policy	Disirregardless of the facts, Ma’am: Technology, public opinion, advocacy groups and policy outcomes affection election administration in Maryland	12:00 PM 203 PUP
12/3	Jason Fletcher Yale University	Peer influences on alcohol consumption	12:00 PM 204 PUP

Fall 2007

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
09/26	Betsey Stevenson The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania	Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports	12:00 PM 204 PUP
10/10	Randi Hjmalarsson UMCP(co-sponsored with Public Policy)	Crime and Expected Punishment	12:00 PM PUP 203
10/17	Krishna Ladha UMBC	Paradox of Unbiased Public Information	12:00 PM 367 PUP
10/24	James Hilger Federal trade Commission	TBA	12:00 PM 367 PUP
10/29	David Walker, Government Accountability Office Elmendorf, Brookings Institution Butler, Heritage FoundationBixby, Concord Coalition	U.S. Fiscal Situation	5:00 PM Lecture Hall V Grad Student session 3:00
11/14	Melissa Kearney University of Maryland- College Park	TBA	12:00 PM Public Policy Seminar Room (4th floor PUP)
12/5	David Mitch Dept of Economics UMBC	TBA	12:00 PM Public Policy Seminar Room (4th floor PUP)

Fall 2005

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
10/26	Scott Farrow Department of Economics UMBC	When Is Some Number Better Than No Number	12:00 PM 367 PUP
11/11	Dennis Coates Department of EconomicsUMBC	Spending on Sports: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey	4:00 PM 367 PUP

Fall 2004

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
10/6	Bill Lord Department of Economics UMBC	Family Production and Economic Growth	1:00 PM PUP 367
11/11	William J. Baumol New York University	Independent Entrepreneurs and Giant Enterprises: The David-Goliath Pertnership?	4:00 PM AOK Library 7th Floor
11/12	Nandita Dasgupta Dept of Economics UMBC	Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to India Since the 1990s–Issues and Challenges: Comparison with China	1:00 PM PUP 367
11/19	Roger Betancourt University of Maryland College Park	The Role of the State in a “Democratic” transition: Cuba	1:00 PM PUP 367

Spring 2004

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
03/14	Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Georgetown University	Long-Run International Inequality in Real Income and Human Development: Evidence from Europe and the New World	1:00 pm PUP367
04/2	Kenneth Koford University of Delaware	Experiments on trust and Bargaining in Bulgaria: The Effects of Institutions and Culture	1:00 pm PUP367
04/16	Bryan L. Boulier and Herman Stekler George Washington University	Evaluating National Football League Choices: The Passing Game	1:00 pm Public Policy Seminar Room

Fall 2003

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/24	Mark A. Carlson Federal Reserve Board of Govenors	Were There Other Ways Out? Bank Failures During the Panics of the Great Depression	1:00 pm Admin 829
10/10	Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong National Science Foundation and University of South Florida	Alcohol Availability and Crime: A Robust Approach	1:00 pm Admin 829
10/15	Tim Gindling UMBC	The Effects of Legal Minimum Wages in Costa Rica on Wages, Employment, Hours Worked and Monthly Earnings Throughout the Distribution	1:00 pm Admin 829
11/10	Daniel Hamermesh University of Texas	Time Use, Time Crunch and Work Time in America	3:00 pm AOK Library 7th Floor

Spring 2003

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
03/10	John Robst Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	“Estimation of a Hedonic Pricing Model for Medigap Insurance”	1:00 TBA
04/4	Laura Razzolini University of Mississippi, National Science Foundation	“Raising Revenues for Charity: Auctions Versus Lotteries”	1:00 pm Admin 829
04/4	Stanley Engerman University of Rochester	“Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies”	8:00 pm Commons 318
04/11	Hakan Berument Bilken University	treasury Auction Interest Rates and Economic Performance in Turkey	1:00 Admin 829
04/16	Eva Marikova LeedsMoravian College Michael Leeds Temple University Irina Pistolet Temple University	What’s in a Name? The Value of Naming Rights	1:00 pm Admin 829
05/2	Bill Lord UMBC	“Re-thinking the Early Decline in American Fertility”	1:00 pm Admin 829

Fall 2002

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/26	Phil Cook Duke University	“Evaluating Gun Policy”(Sponsored by Social Sciences Forum)	4:00 pm UC 312
11/14	Gregory Mankiw Harvard University	“Economics Education and Economic Policy: From the Classroom to the White House” 7th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	4:00 pm AOK Library 7th floor
12/6	Robert Goldfarb George Washington University	“Inequality of What Among Whom: Rival Conceptions of Distribution in the 20th Century”	1:00 pm Admin 829

Spring 2002

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
03/4	Malay K. Dey Morgan State	Order Time, Multiple Shocks, and Short Selling in Security Price Adjustment	1:00 pm Admin 829
03/15	Dennis Coates UMBC	Voting on Stadium and Arena Subsidies	1:00 pm Admin 829
04/10	Mike Bailey Georgetown University	Do States Race to the Bottom?	1:00 PM Admin 829
04/15	Burton Malkiel Princeton	A Random Walker Looks Back: Is the Stock Market Predictable After All?Sponsored by a generous donation from TIAA-CREF	4:00 PM AOK Library 7th floor
05/1	Tim Gindling UMBC	Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality in Costa Rica	1:00 Admin 829
05/3	Tim HaabOhio State University	Information Conveyance on Behavioral Changes from Perceived Risks: An Application to Seafood Consumption and Pfiesteria Piscicida	1:00 pm Admin 829
05/8	Shoshana Grossbard-Schectman San Diego State University	Marriage and the Economy	1:00 Admin 829

Fall 2001

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
09/14	George Deltas FTC and University of Illinois U.C.	“Passenger Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on transatlantic Migration”	1:00 pm Admin 829
10/16	Alice Rivlin The Brookings Institution	“Reviving the Economy: What Can Policies Do?” 6th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library (7th floor)

Spring 2001

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time Location
03/30	Nathan Rosenberg Stanford	“America’s University/Industry Interfaces, 1945-2000”	7:45 pm UC 312
02/15	Philip Keefer Development Research Group The World Bank	“When do special interests run rampant? Disentangling the role of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances in banking crises.”	1:00 pm UC Ballroom
03/27	Stanley Black Chapel Hill, IMF	Economic Reform in Mongolia	1:00 pm TBA

Fall 2000

 

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title	Time Location
09/13	Jim Bessen Research on Innovation	“The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution”	1:00 pm Adm 829
09/25	Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge	Resource Policy in Imperfect Economies 5th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
10/3	Tyler Cowan George Mason University	“The Economics of Global Culture” (Lecture sponsored by the UMBC Social Sciences and Humanities Forums)	4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
11/30	Peyton Young Johns Hopkins Univerity	“The Evolution of Social Institutions” (Sponsors: Social Sciences Forum, Department of Economics, Department of Political Science)	4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery