Applied Micro Seminar (ECN)
Applied Micro Seminar
Venue: Eggers 112
Day: Wednesday
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Note: Any change to the venue, day, or time will be indicated with the date of the event.
The Applied Micro Seminar is organized by 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.
All fall seminars will be held in person. This page will be updated regularly with the seminar links if they are moved to Zoom. Presentations start at 11:00 a.m.
To be added to the email list for this seminar please contact the department.
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) | "Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock" |
| April 12 | Parag Pathak (MIT) | "Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York" |
| April 19 | Damon Clark (UC Irvine) | "How Do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers" |
| April 26 | Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) | "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) | "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” |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 23 | Analisa Packham (Vanderbilt University) | “Effects of Unemployment Insurance Duration on Nonemployment, Wages, and Health” |
| March 9 | Manasi Deshpande (University of Chicago) | “The (Lack of) Dynamic Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment" |
| April 4 | Karthik Mulralidharan (UC San Diego) | "General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India" |
| April 6 | Zhanhan Yu and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Syracuse University) | “Monopsony in Academia and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from California" |
| April 13 | Joshua Goodman (Boston University) | "The COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted Both School Bullying and Cyberbullying" |
| April 20 | Kalena Cortes (Texas A & M) | "A Bridge to Graduation: Post-Secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams" |
| April 27 | Ashvin Ghandi (UCLA) | "Minimum Wage and Employment Composition" |
Fall 2021
| 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) |
Fall 2020
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
August 26 | Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon) | "Entrepot: Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs" |
September 9 | Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) | "Spatial Economics for Granular Settings" |
September 23 | Gerard Padro-i-Miquel (Yale University) | |
October 7 | Nina Harari (Wharton) | |
October 21 | Robert Fairlie (UC Santa Cruz) | "Isolating the 'Tech' from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China" |
October 28 | Rebecca Diamond (Stanford GSB) | "The Effect of Foreclosures on Homeowners, Tenants, and Landlords" |
November 4 | Seth Sanders (Cornell University) | "Using Response Time to Model Cognition, Cognitive Decline and Mortality and Health in Social Science Surveys" |
November 18 | Juan Carlos Suarez Seratto (Cornell University) | "Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" |
Fall 2019
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
August 28 | Dan Black (University of Chicago) | “Simple Tests for Selection Bias” |
October 2 | Sergio Urzua (University of Maryland) | "Shooting stars? Firms and Education as Mediators of the Returns to Skills" |
October 16 | Renata Narita (University of São Paulo) | "The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach" |
October 23 | Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell) | "Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effect" |
October 30 | Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth) | "You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings" |
November 13 | Xiuming (Audrey) Dong (Syracuse University) | "The Effect of Recreational Marijuana Sales Legalization on Workplace Injuries: Evidence from Oregon" |
November 20 | Evan Riehl (Cornell) | "Isolating Peer Effects in the Returns to College Selectivity" |
December 4 | Elizabeth Willoughby (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) | Holding a seminar and workshop on writing in Economics |
Spring 2019
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 5 | (University of Miami) | "Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs” |
| October 3 | Judith Liu (Syracuse University) | "The Long-Term Impact of Work-Hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply." |
| October 10 | (INSEAD) | "Division of Labor and Productivity Advantages of Cities: Theory and Evidence from Brazil" |
| October 17 | (HEC-Montreal) | "Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer" (Co-authored with Erika Deserranno and Nicola Perisco) |
October 24 (Joint with CPR) | (University of Colorado) | “The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement” |
October 26 Friday 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | (Shanghai University) | "The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Family Planning Policies in China" |
October 31 | Krieg Tidemann (Syracuse University) | "Minimum Wages, Spatial Equilibrium, and Housing Rents" |
November 1 Thursday | (University of British Columbia) | “Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Entry of Immigrants into Firm Ownership” |
| November 7 | (University of California at San Diego) | "Geometrically Stopped Markovian Random Growth Processes and Pareto Tails" |
November 9 Friday 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | (George Washington University) | "Returns to Experience and the Misallocation of Labor" (co-authored with Asif Islam (World Bank), Paul Romer (NYU) and Daniel Pereira (GWU))Jedwab Paper |
November 14 CANCELLED | (Cornell University) | "Information Mobile Communication Patterns, and Social Referrals" (co-authored with Panle Jia Barwich, Yanyan Liu & Qi Wu) |
Spring 2018
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 Tuesday 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Kyle Mangum (Georgia State University) | "Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning" |
| January 18 Thursday 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Alexander Rothenberg (RAND Corp.) | "Improving Mobility in Developing Country Cities: Evaluating Bus Rapid Transit and Other Transport Policies in Jakarta" |
| January 22 Monday 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Juan Pablo Chauvin (Havard University) | "Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and the Effects of Local Demand Shocks" |
| March 2 Friday 3:00-4:30 p.m. | Andrew Friedson (UC Denver) | "The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Services" |
| March 28 | Christian Moser (Columbia Business School) | "Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil" (co-authored with Niklas Engbom) |
| April 11 | Lorenzo Magnolfi (University of Wisconsin - Madison) | "Political Connections and Market Structure" (co-authored with Camilla Roncoroni) |
| April 18 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Leah Boustan (Princeton University) | "The Role of Condominiums in Urban Gentrification" (co-authored with Robert A. Margo, Matthew M. Miller and Justin Steil) |
| May 3 Thursday Note change in day | Stuart Gabriel (UCLA) | “A Crisis of Missed Opportunities? Foreclosure Costs and Mortgage Modification During the Great Recession” (co-authored with Matteo Iacoviello and Chandler Lutz |
Fall 2017
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
September 6 | Steven Lehrer (Queen's University) | "Estimating Context-Independent Treatment Effects in Education Experiments" (co-authored with Weili Ding) |
| September 27 | Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University) | "Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How" (co-authored with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Henry Swift) |
| October 18 | Wilbert van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) | “Echoes of Rising Tuition in Students’ Borrowing, Educational Attainment, and Homeownership in Post-Recession America” (co-authored with Zachary Bleemer, Meta Brown, Donghoon Lee and Katherine Strair) |
| October 25 | Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University) | "Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States" (co-authored with Hazem Alshaikhmubarak and R. Richard Geddes) |
| November 1 | Janis Skrastins (Washington University in St. Louis) | "Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion" (co-authored with Bernardus Van Doornik and David Schoenherr) |