Fall 2025 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2025

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:33:18 +0000

Thursday, 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Tianyan Tu and Yuxuan Fan

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
10/16/2025	Xin Sun, UC Riverside	Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups
11/20/2025 *Zoom (5:00pm)	Shuting Zhang, National University of Singapore	From Stocks to Bricks: Equity Shocks and Local Reallocation into Housing https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94208768832 Meeting ID: 942 0876 8832

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

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

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

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:16:18 +0000

Tuesday, 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 Ruoyao Shi

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
9/30	Saerom Lee (UCR)	Improving Forecast Combinations
10/2 (Thursday, 4:00-5:20 pm, Room TBA)	Mahrad Sharifvaghefi (Pittsburgh)	Robust GMM Estimation and Testing in a Weak Instrument Setting: Bridging Theory and Practice
10/21	Mengsi Gao (USC)	Endogenous Interference in Randomized Experiments
10/28	Max Farrell (UCSB)	Nonlinear Binscatter Methods
11/4	Keren Fang (UCR)	Inference for Moment Inequalities with Nuisance Functions
11/18	Chuqing Jin (Toulouse)	Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market
12/2	Takuya Ura (UC Davis)	PRTE with Multidimensional Unobserved Heterogeneity with Lina Zhang

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:51:05 +0000

Monday, 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.

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
9/29/2025	Paulo Natenzon, Washington University in St. Louis
10/6/2025	Orestis Vravosinos, University of Chicago
10/13/2025	Paul H. Y. Cheung, University of Texas at Dallas (ZOOM)	Revealed Attentional Influence https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
10/23/2025 (Thurs)	Xiaoyu Cheng, Florida State University (ZOOM)	On the Monotonicity of Information Costs https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
10/27/2025	Collin B Raymond, Cornell University (ZOOM)	https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
11/3/2025	Mark Whitmeyer, Arizona State University (ZOOM)	Outside Options and Risk Attitude https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121
11/10/2025	Jonathan A. Libgober, University of Southern California	Optimally Selecting Competing Proposals (Joint with Peiran Xiao)
11/17/2025	Teddy Kim, Emory University (ZOOM) https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121	Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests (With R. Vijay Krishna and Dmitry Ryvkin)
11/24/2025	Udayan Vaidya, Duke University	Delegated Contracting https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121
12/1/2025	Teck Yong Tan, University of Rochester (ZOOM)	Profiling and Hold-up Risk (a joint work with Anh Nguyen) https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:48:55 +0000

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

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
10/03/2025	Jeffrey Allen, UC Riverside	The Benefit of Known Unknowns: Estimating the Cost of Unplanned Power Outages on Firms in Developing Countries
10/10/2025	Ilsoo Han, UC Riverside	Educational-Specific Decompositional Effects of Skill Loss on TFP.
10/17/2025	Bessy Liao, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	Search Frictions and Rent Control Policies on the Rental Market: Theory and Evidence
10/24/2025, ZOOM	Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington (ZOOM)	The Impact of Rising Oil Price on Remittances and Migrant Workers in a Small Developing Economy
10/31/2025	Yeonjoo Son, UC Riverside	Home Renovation and Search Frictions in the Housing Market.
11/7/2025	Zeliha Begum Tunc, UC Riverside	The Effect of Salary History Bans on Labor Market Reattachment
11/14/2025	Simon Margolin, UC Santa Barbara	Micro vs. Macro Corporate Tax Incidence
11/21/2025	Vincenzo Quadrini, USC Marshall School of Business	Digital Economy, Stablecoins, and the Global Financial System
11/28/2025	No Seminar, Thanksgiving Break
12/5/2025	Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon (ZOOM)	Patriarchy and Household Labor Supply in Developing Countries Zoom Meeting ID: 955 9179 7061 Passcode: 108202