Winter 2020 – UCR | Department of Economics

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:07:39 +0000

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul Hall 2206

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
01/10/2020	Ugo Troiano, University of Michigan	SOCIAL CAPITAL, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND GROWTH
01/17/2020	No Seminar
01/24/2020	Neha Bairoliya, USC Marshall	Demographic Transition, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China
01/31/2020	Ariel Burstein, UCLA	Bottom-up Markup Fluctuations
02/07/2020	Florian Madison, Claremont McKenna College	Entrepreneurial Finance, Home Equity and Monetary Policy
02/14/2020	No seminar
02/21/2020	Paul Jackson, UC Irvine	Equilibrium Underemployment
02/28/2020	Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, UCSC	Increasing the Cost of Informal Workers: Evidence from Mexico
03/06/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
03/13/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:06:18 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

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
1/8/2020	Janet Currie, Princeton	What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality
1/15/2020	Grant Jacobsen, University of Oregon	Are Resource Booms a Blessing or a Curse? Evidence from People (not Places)
1/22/2020	No seminar
1/29/2020	No seminar
2/5/2020	Orgul Ozturk, University of South Carolina	Hunger Pains? SNAP Timing and Emergency Room Visits
2/12/2020	Nick Huntington-Klein, CSU Fullerton	Instruments with Heterogeneous Effects: Bias, Monotonicity, and Localness
2/19/2020	Isaac Sorkin, Stanford	Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
2/26/2020	Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA	Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
3/04/2020	Daniel MacDonald, CSU San Bernardino	Do Mating Strategies Drive Consumption Decisions? Evidence for the Lipstick Effect During the Great Recession
3/11/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
3/18/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:04:14 +0000

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah.

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
1/6/2020	Jie Wei, HUST, Wuhan, China	A Panel Probit Model with Time-Varying Individual Effects
1/13/2020	Resul Cesur, University of Connecticut	Did the War on Terror Ignite a Veteran Opioid Epidemic?
1/24/2020	Seolah Kim, UCR (NOTE: Seminar is FRIDAY, 01/24 2:30 – 3:50 p.m.)	A Consistent Nonparametric Test for Endogeneity
1/27/2020	Ali Mehrabani, UCR	Efficient Shrinkage Estimation in Heterogeneous Panel Data Models with Application to Returns to Scale for U.S. Banks
2/3/2020	Jim Powell, UC Berkeley	Kernel Estimation for Dyadic Data
2/10/2020	No Seminar
2/17/2020	No Seminar
2/24/2020	Aaron Smith, UC Davis	Causality in Structural Vector Autoregressions: Science or Sorcery?
3/2/2020	Shu Shen, UC Davis	Dynamic Regression Discontinuity
3/9/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
3/16/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:29 +0000

Wednesdays, 12:00 – 12:50 pm (unless otherwise stated)
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong.

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
02/26/2020	Ritesh Jain, Academia Sinica	A Systematic Test of the Independence Axiom: Around Certainty
03/11/2020	Chuan Zhang, UCR	TBA
03/18/2020	Andong Yan, UCR	TBA