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Note: Any change to the venue, day, or time will be indicated with the date of the event.
The Applied The Applied Micro Seminar is organized by Alexander Rothenberg and Maria Zhu and Thomas Pearson. Topics will include theoretical and applied microeconomics, with speakers from SU and other universities. Speakers will discuss their own work or important recent contributions to microeconomics.
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Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 28 | David Lagakos (Boston University) | "Technology and Tax Capacity: Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana" |
| March 6 | Kevin Lang (Boston University) | "Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations" |
| March 7 | Alex Willen (Norwegian School of Economics) | "Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation" |
| March 20 | Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (University of California Merced) | "Managing Migration Crises: Evidence from Surge Facilities and Unaccompanied Minor Children Flows" |
| March 27 | Siqi Zheng (MIT) | "Tariff Wall Jumping at the China-Vietnam Border" |
| April 10 | Dean Yang (University of Michigan) | "War Mobilization and Economic Development: World War II and Structural Transformation in India" |
| April 17 | Tanner Regan (George Washington University) | "Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam" |
| April 24 | Jason Lindo (Georgia Tech) | "Marriage and Cohabitation as Economic Safety Nets" |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 13 | Yinhan Zhang (Syracuse University) | "Catching Up By Going Abroad: Chinese FDI and Quality Improvement." |
| September 20 | Jorge Valdebenito (Syracuse University) | “The Other Side of the Coin: The Effects of Foreign Antidumping Duties on Brazilian Firms” |
| September 27 | Maria Padilla-Romo (University of Tennessee) | "Persistence of the Spillover Effects of Violence and Educational Trajectories" |
| October 4 | Scott Imberman (Michigan State University) | "The Returns to College Major Choice: Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability" |
| October 11 | Kyuhan Choi (Syracuse University) | "Do Bad Apples Make Teachers Quit?" |
October 11 12:45 PM | Jingxuan Du (Syracuse University) | "Internal Migration, Structural Transformation and Intergenerational Educational Mobility" |
October 13 10:00 AM | Fan Yang (Syracuse University) | "A Dirichlet Generalized Ordered Logit Model of Women’s Labor Supply After Childbirth" |
October 18 | Zeyuan Xiong (Syracuse University) | "Privatization Reform and Trade Liberalization in China: A Quantitative Analysis" |
October 18 12:45 PM | Brian Green (Syracuse University) | "The Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Multinational Profit Shifting" |
| October 25 | Andrea Velasquez (University of Colorado Denver) | "Responses to Temperature Shocks: Labor Markets and Migration Decisions in El Salvador" |
| November 1 | Jooyoung Kim (Syracuse University) | "Acceptance and Educational Sorting of Same-sex Couples" |
| November 8 | Donghyuk Kim (Iowa State University) | "Quantifying the Welfare Impact of State Competition for Firms: The Case of Craft Brewers" |
| November 15 | Meiping Sun (Fordham University) | |
| December 6 | Santiago Pérez (University of California Davis) |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| March 8 | Scott Carrell (UC Davis) | "The Impact of School Quality on Postsecondary Success: Evidence in the Era of Common Core" |
| March 22 | Jamein Cunningham | "The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians" |
| March 29 | Shu Shen (UC Davis) | "Panel IV with Dynamic Treatment Effect" |
March 31 at 12:00 | Javed Younas (American University of Sharjah) | “The Economic and Environmental Effects of Infrastructure Improvements: Evidence from Pakistan’s Electricity Sector” |
| April 5 | Lisa Kahn (University of Rochester) TBA | "Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock" |
| April 12 | Parag Pathak (MIT) TBA | "Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York" |
| April 19 | Damon Clark (UC Irvine) TBA | "How Do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers" |
| April 26 | Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) TBA) | "Monitoring, Organizational Culture and Procurement" |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 7 | Jan Brueckner (UC Irvine) | "Taxes and Telework: The Incidence of State Income Taxes in a Work-from-Home Economy" |
| September 14 | Zhanhan Yu (Syracuse University) | “Does Air Pollution Impair Work Safety? The Impact of PM2.5 on Severe Workplace Injuries" |
| September 21 | Radine Rafols (Syracuse University) | “Economic Consequences of Climate Change: Evidence from the Philippines” |
| September 28 | Dan Zhang (Syracuse University) | "Size of Export Markets and Trade Shock: Analysis on Chinese Firms and US Tariff Change" |
| October 5 | Shuyuan Li (Syracuse University) | "No Child Left Behind: Differentiated Efforts and Achievement Gaps" |
| October 12 | Wenzhen Lin (Syracuse University) | "A Dirichlet Nested Logit Model of Household Mortgage Payment in the CARES Act Forbearance Program" |
| October 12 | Rui Xu (Syracuse University) | "Staying in Higher Education During a Recession: Does It Pay Off? Presenting at 12:45PM |
| October 19 | Panle Jia Barwick (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | "Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting" |
| October 26 | Samuel Saltmarsh (Syracuse University) | "Durable housing, vacancies, and blight: The effects of residential demolitions in Detroit" |
| November 2 | Darren Lubotsky (University of Illinois, Chicago) | TBA"Immigration and Inequality in the Next Generation" |
| November 9 | Maeve Maloney (Syracuse University) | TBA |
| November 16 | Zhe He (Syracuse University) | “Partial Identification of the Marginal Treatment Effect with an Invalid Discrete Instrument” |
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| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 8 | Steve Billings (University of Colorado-Boulder) | “Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk” |
| September 15 | Yao Wang (Syracuse University) | “Linguistic Difference, Migration, and Welfare: Evidence from Indonesia" |
| October 6 | Joanne Song McLaughlin (University at Buffalo) | Cancelled |
| October 13 | Rachel Jarrold-Grapes (Syracuse University) | "Marijuana Legalization and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Oregon" |
| October 27 | Kristian Behrens (UQAM) | "Prime Locations" (joint with Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Thilo Albers) |
November 10 | Matthew Turner (Brown University) | "The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago" |
| November 17 | Stephanie Coffey (Syracuse University) | "Did Rosie D. Improve Special Education? Evidence from Massachusetts" |
Spring 2021
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
March 3 | Simon Burgess (University of Bristol) | |
March 10 | Celeste Carruthers (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) | |
March 24 | Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University) | |
April 7 | Elizabeth Setren (Tufts University) | |
April 21 | Adam Storeygard (Tufts University) |
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