Economics Graduate Student Workshop
Venue: Synchronously online via Zoom
Time: Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and Fridays from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Note: Invitations to a Zoom meeting will be emailed in advance of a scheduled workshop.
The Graduate Student Workshop is organized by Hugo Jales and Perry Singleton. This workshop serves as a forum for Ph.D. students to present their research ideas and papers, and to receive feedback from faculty.
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
November 20 Friday | Ross Jestrab | "Do Multilateral and Bilateral Trade Agreements Share the Same Motive? An Empirical Investigation” |
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Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
February 7 Friday | Rachel Jarrold-Grapes | "Teacher Experience and Student Performance in High-Need Schools: Evidence from North Carolina's Return to Work Program" "Investment Subsidies and School Spending: Evidence from Colorado's BEST Program" "Marijuana Legalization and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Oregon" |
February 19 Wednesday | Guanyu Liu | "Estimation of average treatment effects with model averaging" |
February 21 Friday | Tianyun Zhu | "Estimating the Implicit Price Elasticity of the Demand for Neighborhood Amenities: A Hedonic Approach" |
February 26 Wednesday | Samuel Saltmarsh (11:00 am - 11:45 am) & Joaquin Urrego (11:45 am - 12:30 pm) | Samuel : "Durable Housing, Vacancies, and Blight: The Effects of Residential Demolition Programs in Declining Cities." Joaquin: “Better Together: Concentration of Retail and Property Crime” |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
November 8 Friday | Nam Seok Kim | "Attitudes towards globalization and associated voting behavior : Evidence from Swedish national election studies" |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
April 19 Friday | Tianyun Zhu | “The Change of Sorting Equilibrium for Job Access over Time: Evidence from Buffalo MSA” |
May 1 Wednesday | Yinhan Zhang (11:00 am - 11:45 am) & Stephanie Coffey (11:45 am - 12:30 pm) | Yinhan Zhang - "The effect of outward FDI on export quality upgrade: firm-level evidence from China" Stephanie Coffey - "Towering intellects? Sizing up the relationship between height and achievement among NYC students" |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
October 3 Wednesday | Judith Liu | "The Long-Term Impact of Work-Hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply” |
October 31 Wednesday | Krieg Tidemann | "Minimum Wages, Spatial Equilibrium, and Housing Rents" |
November 2 Friday | Dahae Choo, Guanyu Liu, & Yi Yang | Yi Yang: “Mode of Technical Inefficiency in Parametric Stochastic Frontier Model” Dahae Choo: “The cash transfer and fertility decision in South Korea” Guanyu Liu: "Evaluating the economic impact of conflict: A counterfactual analysis of Ukraine" |
November 28 Wednesday | Yanmin Yang | “Innovation in a Networked World: Inventor Team, Social Network and Patent Impact" |
December 5 Wednesday | Jun Cai | “Identification and Estimation of a Nonparametric Panel Stochastic Frontier Model” |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| March 21 | Huong Tran | “The effects of social networks on starting wage” |
| April 12 Thursday 2:00-3:30 p.m. | Jonathan Presler | “Social interactions in NYC elementary schools using reference group intersectionality” |
| April 13 | Seokchae Hwang | "Estimation of Treatment Effects using Korean Administrative Data" |
| April 25 | Yanmin Yang | "Innovation in a Networked World: Inventor Team, Social Networks and Quality of Patents" |
| April 27 | Hoang Pham | "Endogenous Foreign Investment and Dynamics of Firm Productivity: Evidence in China" |
| May 2 | Krieg Tidemann | "Minimum Wages, Spatial Equilibrium, and Housing Rents" |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| October 11 | Yanmin Yang | "Innovation in a networked world: inventor team, social networks and quality of patents" |
| October 23 Monday 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Yang Liang | “Job Creation and Job Destruction: The Effect of Trade Shocks on U.S. Manufacturing Employment” |
| October 27 | Boqian Jiang | “Separating Selection from Spillover Effects: Using the Mode to Estimate the Return to City Size” |
| November 3 | Jindong Pang | “Do Subways Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers?” |
| November 8 | Jessica Sauve-Syed | "Lead Exposure and Student Performance: A Study of Flint Schools" |
| November 15 | Ling Li | “Helping Nurses or Hurting Patients: The Effect of OSHA Inspections in Nursing Facilities” |
| December 1 | Jun Cai | "Deconvolution with Laplacian Error and Unknown Scale" |
| December 6 | Fabio Rueda de Vivero | “Wage Subsidies in Labor Markets with High Informality: Evidence from Colombia’s First Job Act” |
| December 8 | Maeve Maloney | "How centralized is U.S. Metropolitan Employment?" (co-authored with Jason Brown, Jordan Rappaport, and Aaron Smalter Hall) |