The seminar series is held on Fridays from 3:00 to 4:30 pm via Zoom. Exceptions are in green. For access to the Zoom link, please contact Erin Callhover. Other colloquia and lectures that may interest economists are also listed.
Fall 2020 |
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September 4, 2020 |
Ohio State University |
Econ seminar: The Green Books and the Georgraphy of Segregation in Public Accommodations |
September 11, 2020 |
Duke University |
Econ seminar: Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination |
September 18, 2020 |
Harvard Kennedy School |
Econ seminar: Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis |
October 2, 2020 |
Harvard University Graduate School of Education |
Econ seminar: TBD |
October 9, 2020 |
University of Nottingham |
Econ seminar: The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation |
October 16, 2020 |
Yale University |
Econ seminar: TBD |
October 30, 2020 (11:45-1:15pm) |
CERGE-EI |
Econ seminar: TBD |
November 6, 2020 |
Harvard Kennedy School |
Econ seminar: TBD |
Spring 2020 |
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February 7, 2020 |
George Mason University |
Econ seminar: Pandemics, Places, and Populations: The Effects of the Black Death on Urban Development |
February 14, 2020 |
Georgetown University |
Econ seminar: A Market for Work Permits |
February 21, 2020 |
Williams College |
Econ seminar: Intergenerational Effects of the EITC: The Case of Grandparents |
February 28, 2020 |
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Econ seminar: Promise Kept? Free Community College, Attainment, and Earnings in Tennessee |
March 4, 2020 (Wed., 12:30-2:00, Tilton 305)
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University of Kentucky |
Econ seminar: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Measurement Error, Non-Response and Administrative Mismatch in the CPS |
March 6, 2020 |
No Seminar |
Tulane Tax Conference |
March 11, 2020 (Wednesday, Tilton 305)
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The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania |
Econ seminar: Information, Relative Performance, and Technology Abandonment |
March 13, 2020 |
No Seminar |
Tulane Health Economics Conference: Cancelled |
March 20, 2020 (Cancelled) |
Harvard Medical School |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
March 27, 2020 (Cancelled) |
Harvard University |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
April 3, 2020 (Cancelled) |
Vanderbilt University |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
April 17, 2020 (Cancelled) |
University of California San Diego |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
April 24, 2020 (Cancelled) |
Cornell University |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
Fall 2019 |
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September 6, 2019 |
Georgetown University |
Econ seminar: Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students |
September 13, 2019 (Cancelled) |
Syracuse University - Maxwell |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
September 20, 2019 |
Tulane University Emeritus |
Econ seminar: The Empirical Determinants of Defined Contribution Pension Plans in Japan |
October 4, 2019 |
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
Econ seminar: The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating |
October 18, 2019 |
University of Texas at Dallas |
Econ seminar: Recruiting and Supporting Low-Income, High-Achieving Students at Flagship Universities |
October 25, 2019 |
New York University |
Econ seminar: Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests: The Roles of Information Sharing and Aggregation |
November 1, 2019 |
National University of Singapore |
Econ seminar: Electoral College versus Popular Vote: Should th U.S. Change Its Presidential Election Scheme? |
November 15, 2019 |
Teachers College, Columbia University |
Econ seminar: Technology, Information, and School Choice: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
December 6, 2019 |
Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Rational Trade Wars and Stupid Trade Disputes |
Spring 2019 |
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February 15, 2019 |
University of Cincinnati |
Econ seminar: Group Contests with Private Information and the "Weakest Link" |
March 15, 2019 (Postponed)
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Cornell University |
Econ seminar: Postponed |
March 20, 2019 (Tilton 301, 3-4:30 pm) |
MIT |
Econ seminar: Simulating U.S. Business Cash Flow Taxation in a 17-Region Global Model |
March 22, 2019 |
CUNY Hunter College |
Econ seminar: The Effect of Military Service on the Next Generation's Criminal Participation: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lottery |
April 5, 2019 (Cancelled)
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Auburn University |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
April 12, 2019 |
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
Econ seminar: The Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts |
Fall 2018 |
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September 21, 2018 |
George Mason University |
Econ seminar: Political Hazards and the Choice of Contracting: The Case of Municipal Bonds |
September 28, 2018 |
Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Is More Always Better? Evidence of Preference Heterogeneity in the 1994 EITC Expansion |
October 5, 2018 |
Georgia State University |
Econ seminar: Assessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less-Educated Workers |
October 19, 2018 |
Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
Econ seminar: Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins |
November 2, 2018 |
Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Price Transparency and Healthcare Expenditure: The Case of New Hampshire Healthcase Market |
November 9, 2018 |
University of Michigan |
Econ seminar: Do Report Cards Predict Future Quality? The Case of Skilled Nursing Facilities |
November 30, 2018 |
Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Behavioral Responses to Mass Shootings: Physical Activity, Mental Health and Labor Outcomes |
December 7, 2018 |
Northwestern University |
Econ seminar: Rosie's Kids: World War II Preschools and Life-Course Outcomes in the U.S., 1943-2015 |
Fall 2017 |
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September 8, 2017 |
University of South Alabama |
Econ seminar: Aircraft Noise and Urban Externalities |
September 15, 2017 |
University of California-Los Angeles |
Econ seminar: Show Them the Money: The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Intergenerational Patterns of Voter Participation (abstract) |
September 29, 2017 (in Tilton 305) |
Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Self-defense Policy, Justified Homicides, and Race |
October 6, 2017 (1:00 pm, in Gibson 325) |
University of Miami |
Econ seminar: Uncertainty-driven Cooperation |
October 27, 2017 |
Tulane University |
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November 3, 2017 |
Cornell University |
Econ seminar: Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device |
November 10, 2017 |
University of California-Davis |
Econ seminar: Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism |
December 1, 2017 |
Tulane University |
Econ seminar: TBA |
December 4, 2017 (new date) |
Tulane University |
Econ seminar: TBA |
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Spring 2018 |
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February 7, 2018 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Econ seminar: TBA |
February 23, 2018 |
University of West Virginia |
Econ seminar: TBA |
March 2, 2018 |
David Miller University of Michigan |
Econ seminar: TBA |
March 9, 2018 (new date) |
University of Colorado |
Econ seminar: TBA |
March 19, 2018 (Monday, in Mayer 101) |
Harvard Medical School |
Econ seminar: The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Disability Insurance Program: Evidence from the Great Recession |
April 6, 2018 (Cancelled) |
Harvard University (Kennedy School) |
Econ seminar: Cancelled |
April 20, 2018 |
University of California-Los Angeles |
Econ seminar: The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and its Sources: Evidence from Germany |
April 27, 2018 (New) |
Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Drug Wars, Crackdowns, and Policy Design under Collusion (abstracts) |
Fall 2016 |
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September 2, 2016 |
Columbia University |
Econ seminar: Contested Property: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum U.S. South |
September 30, 2016 |
University of Michigan |
Econ seminar: Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization |
October 7, 2016 |
Columbia University |
Econ seminar: Auctions with Limited Commitment |
November 4, 2016 (new date) |
University of Southern California |
Econ seminar: Do China’s High-Speed-Rail Projects Promote Local Economy? |
November 11, 2016 (new date) |
Jianjing Lin Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Does Health IT Adoption Lead to Better Information or Worse Incentives? |
November 18, 2016 |
Case Western Reserve University |
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December 2, 2016 |
Rice University |
Econ seminar: Eliciting Maternal Expectations About the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation |
December 9, 2016 |
University of Arkansas |
Econ seminar: Supermarket Access and Childhood Obesity: Evidence from Store Openings and Closings |
Spring 2017 |
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January 20, 2017 |
Stanford University |
Econ seminar: Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D |
January 27, 2017 (New!) |
Wuhan University |
Econ seminar: Haze and Decision Making: A Natural Laboratory Experiment (Abstract) |
February 3, 2017 |
Claremont Graduate University |
Econ seminar: How Did It Get So Late So Soon? The Effects of Time Distortion on Discounting |
February 10, 2017 (Rescheduled) |
Auburn University |
Econ seminar: Resource Depletion, Factor Proportions, and Trade |
February 17, 2017 |
Michigan State University |
Econ seminar: Policy, Prices, Expenditures and Dietary Diversity of Rwandan Households |
February 20, 2017 (Rescheduled) Richardson 204 |
University of Tennessee-Knoxville |
Econ seminar: Flypaper or Attractive Recycling? The Department of Defense 1033 Program and Local Government Spending |
March 10, 2017 |
Benjamin Brooks University of Chicago |
Econ seminar: An Algorithm for Stochastic Games with Perfect Monitoring |
March 24, 2017 |
University of Alabama |
Econ seminar: The Impact of the Cost of Car Ownership on the Housing Price Gradient in Singapore |
April 7, 2017 |
Hani Mansour University of Colorado-Denver |
Econ seminar: Taste-Based Discrimination and the Labor Market Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Men in the United States (paper coming soon) |
April 21, 2017 (cancelled) |
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April 28, 2017 |
University of California-Irvine |
Econ seminar: TBA |
May 5, 2017 Tilton 307 |
SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University |
Econ seminar: The Political Economy of the Upcoming Basic Income Experiments |
(Archived seminars) |
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Spring 2016 |
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January 15, 2016 |
Rand Corporation |
Econ seminar: The Effect of Social Security (Mis)information on the Labor Supply of Older Americans (paper coming soon) |
January 22, 2016 |
Cornell University |
Econ seminar: Cowboys & Indians: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Cigarette Brand Loyalty (paper coming soon) |
January 29, 2016 |
Cancelled |
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February 12, 2016 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Econ seminar: Computing Equilibria of Dynamic Games |
February 26, 2016 1:30 PM -- Tilton 307 |
Harvard University |
Econ seminar: Do Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities Provide Better Post-Acute Care Quality? |
March 4, 2016 |
Chapman University |
Econ seminar: Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games |
March 11, 2016 |
University of Maryland-College Park |
Econ seminar: The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Educational Achievement |
March 18, 2016 |
University of Colorado-Boulder |
Econ seminar: For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Economic Development |
April 1, 2016 |
Vanderbilt University |
Econ seminar: Up from Slavery? Intergenerational Mobility in the Shadow of Jim Crow |
April 8, 2016 |
Steve Durlauf University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Canceled |
Thursday, April 14, 2016 3:30 pm, Tilton 307 |
International Food Policy Research Institute |
Econ seminar: The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program: An Illustration from PROGRESA |
April 15, 2016 |
University of Kansas |
Econ seminar: A Semiparametric Quantile Panel Data Model with an Application to Estimating the Growth Effect of FDI |
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Fall 2015 |
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Sep 4, 2015 note: Tilton 301 |
Bush School of Government, Texas A & M University |
Econ seminar: Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from Resume Randomization and Eye-tracking |
Sep 18, 2015 |
Jianjing Lin Tulane University Economics/Murphy Institute |
Econ seminar: Profit Complementarities in the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records by U.S. Hospitals |
Sep 25, 2015 |
Emilson Silva University of Alberta School of Business |
Econ seminar: Overlapping International Green R&D Agreements |
Oct 2, 2015 |
University of Alabama |
Econ seminar: A Partially Parametric Model |
Oct 9, 2015 |
Robert Trosper Tulane University Economics/Murphy Institute |
Econ seminar: Getting What We Vote For: A Quasi-Experimental Test of Ballot Initiatives |
Oct 23, 2015 |
Gultekin Gollu Tulane University Economics/Murphy Institute |
Canceled |
Oct 30, 2015 |
Bibek Adhikari Tulane University |
Econ seminar: When Does Introducing a Value Added Tax Increase Economic Effciency? Evidence from Synthetic Control Methods |
Nov 6, 2015 |
Ohio State University |
Econ seminar: The National Rise in Residential Segregation |
Nov 9, 2015, 4:00-5:30 pm LBC 203 (Stibbs Room) |
Murphy Institute Yates Lecture: Joel Slemrod University of Michigan |
Murphy seminar: Taxing Beards and Breasts, Wigs and Windows: Weird Taxes of the Past and Their Lessons for Tax Policy Today |
Nov 13, 2015 |
University of Pennsylvania |
Econ seminar: Is Dynamic Competition Socially Beneficial? The Case of Price as Investment |
Nov 20, 2015 |
Sean Higgins Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Banking on Trust: Debit Cards, Cash Transfers, and Savings in Mexico |
Dec 4, 2015 (3:00-4:15) |
Whitney Ruble Tulane University |
Econ seminar: The Effect of Contracting Out Low Performing Schools on Student Performance |
Spring 2015 |
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Feb 27, 2015 |
Raymond Robertson Macalester College |
Econ seminar: Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States |
Thurs, March 5, 4:00 pm: Rogers Memorial Chapel |
Harvard University |
Murphy Yates Lecture: Understanding Long Run Changes in U.S. Wage Inequality |
March 13, 2015 |
Michael Price Georgia State University |
Econ seminar: TBA |
March 20, 2015 |
Ian McCarthy Emory University |
Econ seminar: Understanding the Limited Demand for Long-term Care Insurance: The Role of Financial Literacy |
March 27, 2015 |
Michael Luca Harvard University |
Econ seminar: Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com |
Apr 10, 2015 |
Sebastian Otten Rheinisch-Westfaelisches Institut |
Econ seminar: (New topic) The Role of Source- and Host-Country Characteristics in Female Immigrant Labor Supply |
Apr 17, 2015 |
Christopher Cronin (new!) Notre Dame |
Econ seminar: Insurance-Induced Moral Hazard: A Dynamic Model of Within-Year Medical Care Decision Making Under Uncertainty |
Monday, April 20, 2015, 3:00 pm: Mayer 106 |
University of Tennessee |
Econ seminar: Shareholder Protection and Dividend Policy: An Experimental Analysis |
April 24, 2015 |
Stanford University |
Econ seminar: One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers |
Fall 2014 |
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Sep 12, 2014 |
Nick Sanders William and Mary |
Econ seminar: Coal to Crops: Fuel Makeup, Air Pollution, and Domestic Food Production |
Sep 19, 2014 |
Jonah Gelbach Pennsylvania |
Econ seminar: When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much? |
Sep 26, 2014 |
Tulane University |
Econ seminar: Nontariff Barriers, Integration and the Transatlantic Economy |
Mon, Oct 6, 2014, 12 noon: Gibson 126A |
Oregon |
Econ seminar: Dynamic Dissolutions and Unifications |
Oct 17, 2014 |
Cornell |
Econ seminar: The Incidence of Recent Child Health Improvements |
Oct 24, 2014 |
Murphy Institute Conference: Expanding the Frontiers of Behavioral Public Economics |
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Oct 31, 2014: 12 noon, Tilton 307 |
University of Oregon |
Econ seminar: Lindahl and Equilibrium |
Nov 7, 2014 |
David Malueg University of California-Riverside |
Econ seminar: Private-Information Group Contests |
Nov 21, 2014 |
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
Econ seminar: Positive Spillovers and Free Riding in Advertising of Prescription Pharmaceuticals: the Case of Antidepressants |
Mon, Dec 1, 2014, 3:00 pm: Gibson 126A |
Humboldt University, Berlin |
Econ seminar: Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles |
Dec 5, 2014 |
Florida |
Econ seminar: A Little Bit Nasty, Some of the Time: Mixed Strategy Equilibria in Political Campaigns with Continuous Negativity |
Financial support for the Department of Economics Seminar Series is provided by the Murphy Institute. Seminars marked with an asterisk are funded by the Newcomb-Tulane Duren Professorship.