Fall 2020
Date | Speaker | Presentation Title/Topic | Time Location |
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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-19 | 12:00pm WEB |
11/11 (W) |
Jamil Scott Georgetown University |
TBA | 12:00pm WEB |
Spring 2020
Date | Speaker | Presentation Title/Topic | Time Location |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Fall 2013
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
FALL 2002
Date | Speaker | Presentation Title/Topic | Time Location |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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