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Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2026

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:55:10 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2026

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren & UgoAntonio Troiano & Yang Xie

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
April 1, 2026	Shanjun Li, Stanford University
April 8, 2026	Marianne Page, UC Davis
April 15, 2026	Nico Voigtlaender, UCLA
April 22, 2026	Melissa LoPalo, Montana State
April 29, 2026
May 6, 2026	Ronja Helensdotter, MIT
May 13, 2026	David Schönholzer, USC
May 20, 2026	Samuel Bazzi, UCSD
May 27, 2026	Sam Norris, UBC
June 3, 2026	Emily Weisburst, UCLA

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2026

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:45:47 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2026

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins, Steven Helfand & Ajin Lee

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/7/2026	No Seminar
1/14/2026	Pierre Mouganie, Simon Fraser	Role Models and the Formation of Long-Run Gender Norms
1/21/2026	No Seminar
1/28/2026	Jeffrey Clemens, UCSD	Health Impacts of Federal Pandemic Aid to State and Local Governments
2/4/2026 Zoom	Heitor Pellegrina, Notre Dame	Directed Innovation meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution
2/11/2026	Nicolás de Roux, Uniandes	Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity
2/18/2026	Na’ama Shenhav, UC Berkeley	Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children
2/25/2026	Jonathan Kolstad, UC Berkeley
3/4/2026	David Arnold, UCSD
3/11/2026	Distinguished Visitor (DV) in Econometrics, Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2025

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:31:15 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2025

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Michael Bates, Kevin Shih or Miriam Venturini

When available, the papers can be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/1/2025	Begum Tunc, UC Riverside
10/8/2025	Pete Pridanonda, UC Riverside	Criminal Histories, High School Misconducts, and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. College Applications
10/15/2025	Ruinan Zhao, UC Riverside	How Does a Four-Day School Week Affect High School Students? Evidence from Colorado
10/22/2025	David Ford, UC Riverside
10/29/2025	Paola Giuliano, UC Los Angeles	Herding, Armed Conflict, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
11/5/2025	Greg Wright, UC Merced	Monopsony Across and Within Firms: Evidence from H1B Workers
11/12/2025	Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Pomona College	The Asymmetric Effect of Wage Floors: A Natural Experiment with a Rising and Falling Minimum Wage
11/19/2025	Dan Bogart, UC Irvine	From Sail to Steam
11/26/2025	No Seminar (Day before Thanksgiving)
12/3/2025	Michael Dinerstein, Duke	Student Loan Forgiveness

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:30:09 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2025

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Ajin Lee & Michael Bates & Joe Cummins & Steven Helfand

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/4/25	Isaac Opper (RAND)	A Global Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Empirical Application to Grade Retention Policies
4/11/25	Katherine Meckel (UCSD)	The Trade-offs of Privatizing Benefit Distribution: Evidence from Mississippi WIC
4/18/25	SoCCAM (No seminar)
4/25/25	Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London)	Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India
5/02/25	Farhan Majid (UPenn)	Parental Response to Fetal Shocks and Macroeconomic Volatility
5/9/25	David Chan (UC Berkeley)	Are Guidelines Worth Following? Treatment Decisions Under Scientific Uncertainty
5/16/25	Carlos Dobkin (UC Santa Cruz)	Real-world Eﬀectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine in Young Children
5/23/25	Guojun He (HKU)	The Demand, Supply, and Market Responses of Corporate ESG Actions: Evidence from a Nationwide Experiment in China
5/30/25	Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley)	Appropriate Technology Use and Autonomy: Evidence From Mexico
6/6/25	Mitchel Hoffman (UC Santa Barbara)

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:31:35 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2025

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren & Ugo Antonio Troiano

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/10/2025
1/17/2025
1/24/2025 *Sproul 4128	Bernardo Silveira (UCLA)	Bureaucratic Training and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Peru’s Judiciary
1/31/2025	Ricardo Perez-Truglia (UCLA)	From Flat to Fair? The Effects of a Progressive Tax Reform
2/7/2025	Amanda Agan (Cornell University)	Low-Level Leniency: The Recidivism Impacts of a Diversion and Driver’s License Reinstatement Program
2/14/2025	Estefania Saravia (UCLA)	The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children
2/21/2025	Esra Kose (UC Merced)	Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the National Archives
2/28/2025	Heather Royer (UC Santa Barbara)	Disentangling Sources of Variation in C-Section Rates
3/07/2025	Hannah Bolder (MSU)	Does Medicaid Affect Treatment Intensity and Mortality? Evidence from Inpatient Hospital Stays
3/14/2025	Serena Canaan (Simon Fraser University)	The Disparate Long-run Impacts of Academic Probation

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:57:02 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2024

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Sarojini Hirshleifer or Miriam Venturini

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/04/2024	Vaishali Jain (UCR)	Counterintuitive Cash Transfers: Incentivizing Child Marriages in West Bengal, India
10/11/2024	Olga Malkova (UCI)	Alcohol in the Family: How an Anti-alcohol Campaign Transformed Health, Marriage and Childbearing
10/18/2024	Michela Giorcelli (UCLA)	The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes
10/25/2024	Seeun Park (UCR)	Policy, Substance Abuse Treatment Access, and Overdose Deaths
11/01/2024	Tahir R. Andrabi (Pomona College)	Grade Repetition and Household Responses in a Low Income Setting
11/08/2024	Clemence Idoux (UC San Diego)	Overcoming Racial Gaps in School Preferences: The Effect of Peer Diversity on School Choice
11/15/2024	Vladimir Avetian (Paris Dauphine)	Ink and Ire: The Revolutionary Impact of Russian Literature
11/22/2024	Jonathan Robinson (UC Santa Cruz)	The Value of Value Chains: An Experiment Linking Farmers’ Cooperatives with Maize Processors in Rwanda
11/29/2024	Holiday
12/06/2024	Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley)	The Distribution of Power: Decentralization and Favoritism in Energy Infrastructure

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:48:37 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2024

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Yang Xie

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/01/2024	Oliko Vardishvili (UCI)	The Macroeconomic Cost of College Dropouts
4/08/2024 *Hybrid	Seth Pruitt (ASU)	Risk Exposures from Risk Disclosures: What They Said and How They Said It
4/15/2024	Josh Graff-Zivin (UCSD)	Disparities in Pollution Capitalization Rates: The Role of Direct and Systemic Discrimination
4/22/2024	Emily Nix (USC)	Dating and Breaking Up with The Boss: Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers
4/29/2024	Simone Schaner (USC)	Accountability at a Cost? The Impact of Citizen-Led Auditing on Government Service Provision
5/06/2024	Melanie Wasserman (UCLA)	The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military
5/13/2024	Jared Rubin (Chapman)	Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
5/20/2024	Erik Kimbrough (Chapman)	Revealed Norms
6/03/2024	Will Rafey (UCLA)	Conservation priorities and environmental offsets: Markets for Florida wetlands

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:25:25 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2024

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren and Ugo Antonio Troiano

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/29/2024	Rebecca Thornton (Baylor)	Learning More about Teachers: Estimating Teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda
2/05/2024	Emily Nix (USC)	Dating and Breaking Up with the Boss: Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers
2/12/2024	Chris Karbownik (Emory)	Integrating Minorities in the Classroom: The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers
2/26/2024	Brian Wheaton (UCLA)	Are Preconceptions Postconceptions? Evidence on Motivated Political Reasoning
3/04/2024	Eric Chyn (Austin)	The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux
3/11/2024	Manisha Goel (Pomona)	Shared Identity and Entrepreneurship
3/18/2024	Kelly Bedard (UCSB)	The Roles of Information and Overconfidence for College Application Behavior

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:58:22 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2023

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Sarojini Hirshleifer and Michael Bates

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/02/2023	Siddharth Kishore (UCR)	Impact of Dust Exposure on Farmland Market: An Application of the Ricardian Model
10/09/2023	Da Gong (UCR)	Formation and Evolution of Beliefs: Famine Experience and Trust in Neighbors
10/16/2023	Jingyan Guo (UCR)	Sleep and Fatal Vehicle Crashes: Evidence from Sunset Time in the United States
10/23/2023	Andong Yan (UCR)	Crisis Control in a Top-down Bureaucracy: Evidence from China’s Zero-Covid Policy
10/30/2023	Mark Hoekstra (Baylor)	Are American juries racially discriminatory? Evidence from over a quarter million felony grand jury cases
11/06/2023	No Seminar
11/13/2023	Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford)	Effects of Caste-Based Affirmative Action in Governance on Socio-Economic Networks and Resource Provision
11/20/2023	Augustin Bergeron (USC)	Does Collecting Taxes Erode the Accountability of Informal Leaders? Evidence from the DRC
11/27/2023	Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)	Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility
12/04/2023	Felipe Goncalves (UCLA)	Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:55:58 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2023

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/05/2023	No Seminar
4/12/2023	No Seminar
4/19/2023 *Sproul 2206	Marianne Bitler (UC Davis)	Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC
4/26/2023 *Sproul 2206	Laura Giuliano (UC Santa Cruz)	Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?
5/03/2023 *Sproul 2206	Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA)	Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga
5/10/2023	No Seminar
5/17/2023 *Sproul 2206	Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin)	Brokering Votes with Information Spread via Social Networks
5/24/2023 *Sproul 2206	Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)	Nudging Marriage Norms through Cash Transfers
5/31/2023 *Sproul 2206	Briana Ballis (UC Merced)	Early Life Health Conditions and Racial Gaps in Education
6/07/2023 *Sproul 2206	Anaka Aiyar (University of Nevada, Reno)	The impacts of health insurance on child health: evidence from India