Past seminar speakers (2017-2023)

  • Abhishek Nagaraj, UC Berkeley, The Private Impact of Public Information: Landsat Satellite Maps and Gold Exploration
  • Alessandra Cassar, University of San Francisco, It Makes a Village: Allomaternal Care and Prosociality 
  • Alice Evans, Senior Lecturer in the Social Science of Development, Ten Thousand Years Of Patriarchy
  • Amelia Gibbons, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pornography and Rapes: Evidence from Major YouTube Outage
  • Anustubh Agnihotri, UC Berkeley, Politics of Bureaucratic Rotation: Causes and Consequences
  • Andrew Ayres, UC Santa Barbara
  • Andrew Chang, Federal Reserve System, Nothing is Certain Except Death or Taxes: The Lack of Policy Uncertainty from Expiring "Temporary" Taxes
  • Andrew Hobbs, UC Davis, Household Decision Making Under Risk: Evidence from Samburu, Kenya
  • Anna Tompsett, Stockholm University, Time is Not Money: An Experiment with Community Contribution Requirements in Cash and Labour
  • Ariel Stern, Harvard Business School, Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation
  • Aurélie P. Harou, McGill University, When Does Information Make a Difference? A Field Experiment with Plot-Specific Soil Information in Tanzania
  • Battista Severgnini, Copenhagen Business School, Time for Growth
  • Belinda Archibong, Columbia University    
  • Benjamin Harell, Vanderbilt, Conversion Therapy Bans, Suicidality, and Mental Health
  • Ben Ho,  Vassar College, Why Trust Matters: An Economics guide to the ties that bind us
  • Berenger Djoumessi, Research Scientist at Meta, Floods, Agricultural Production, and Household Welfare: Evidence from Tanzania
  • Brett McCully, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Structural Transformation and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Bangladesh
  • Brian Dowd-Uribe, University of San Francisco, Can GM Crops 2.0 Address Poverty and Food Security in Africa?: Drawing lessons from the adoption of Bt cotton in Burkina Faso and South Africa
  • Brian Dillon, Cornell University, How Important is the Yellow Pages? Evidence from Tanzania
  • Brigitte Roth Tran, Economist, Sustainable Growth Research, Climate change, Applied micro, Finance, Sellin’ in the Rain: Weather, Climate, and Retail Sales
  • Carly Trachtman, UC Berkeley
  • Catherine Tucker, MIT
  • Ceren Baysan, UC Berkeley, Can More Information lead to More Voter Polarization? Experimental Evidence from Turkey
  • Charles N'Cho-Oguie, University of San Francisco, The Business Cycle: British vs. American Experience and the Consequences for the Historical Narrative, 1914 - 2008
  • Charles Taylor, Columbia University, Cicadian Rhythm: Insecticides, Infant Health and Long-term Outcomes
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University, Altruism, Insurance, and Costly Solidarity Commitments
  • Chuan Yu, Stanford University, The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising
  • Daniel Prudencio, Rice University, Elections and Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico
  • Daniel Salicath, Max Planck Institute for Research into Collective Goods, Information Intervention to Promote Safe Water Consumption: An RCT in areas affected by groundwater arsenic in India
  • Daniel Stein, ID Insight, The Effectiveness of Agricultural Extension via Mobile Phone: Evidence from Mozambique
  • Darwyyn Deyo, San Jose State University, Does municipal massage therapist licensing reduce crime? A natural experiment in three states
  • David Philips, Notre Dame, Do homelessness prevention programs prevent homelessness?
  • David Wu, University of California, Berkeley, Employing Agencies and Hiring Frictions in Ethiopia
  • David Yang, Stanford, Media Censorship in China: 1984 or Brave New World?
  • Douglas Almond, Columbia University, Perinatal Health Among 1 Million Chinese Americans
  • Eilin Liz Francis, UC Santa Cruz, Paying to Repay? An Experiment with Malawian Micro-entrepreneurs
  • Elaine Denny, UC Merced, Losing it About Losing it All: Income Insecurity and Implications for Political Action
  • Emanuele Colonelli, Stanford, Corruption and Firms: Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil
  • Emily Oster, Brown University, Academia and Beyond: Economics, Parenting, Pregnancy and COVID
  • Emil Palikot, Stanford University, "Effective and scalable programs to facilitate labor market transitions for women in technology," co-authored with Susan Athey
  • Emily Robinson, Senior Data Scientist at Warby Parker, Build a Career in Data Science
  • Eva Vivalt, Australian National University, How do Policy Makers Update?
  • Eyal Frank, University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, Reversing Local Extinctions: The Economic Impacts of Reintroducing Wolves in North America
  • Felipe Valencia, University of British Columbia, Trust Unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War
  • Fernando Stipanicic Márquez, Postdoctoral Researcher; Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from the Jet Age
  • Francis Annan, UC Berkeley, Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information
  • Francesco Cecchi, University of Cambridge, Ambiguity Attitude and Willingness to Pay for Weather Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Rural Kenya
  • Gabriel Englander, UC Berkeley, Conflict & Elephant Poaching
  • Gary Charness, UC Santa Barbara, Biases Over Biased Information Structures: Confirmation, Contradiction and Certainty Seeking Behavior in the Laboratory
  • Giacomo De Giorgi, Editor of Journal of European Econ Association, Farmers to Entrepreneurs
  • Irene Yuan Lo, Stanford, Designing School Choice for Diversity in the San Francisco Unified School District
  • Itziar Lazkano, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Jake Grumbach, University of California, Berkeley, "The Insulation of Local Governance from Black Electoral Power: Northern Cities and the Great Migration" with Rob Mickey and Dan Ziblatt
  • Jeff Bloem, USDA, Neighborhood Violence, Poverty, and Psychological Well-Being
  • Jeffrey Sachs Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University
  • Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Oregon State University    
  • Jing Cai, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, Indirect Effects of Access to Finance
  • John Ifcher, Santa Clara University, Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment
  • Jonathan Robinson, UC Santa Cruz, The Enduring Effects of Cash Transfers on Household Food Security: Evidence from Rural Liberia and Malawi
  • Jordan Adamson, Chapman University, Agglomeration and the Extent of the Market: An Experimental Investigation into Spatially Coordinated Exchange
  • Joshua Blumenstock, UC Berkeley, Migration and the Value of Social Networks
  • Julian Arteaga, University of California, Davis, Land-Market Restrictions and Agricultural Productivity under Market Power
  • Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University, The Performance of Time-Preference and Risk-Preference Elicitations in Surveys
  • Juan Felipe Riano, Postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford King Center on Global Development, Bureaucratic Nepotism
  • Junyi Hou, Robinhood, UC Berkeley PhD, Starting Out as a Tech Economist
  • Justin Grider, Facebook, Impact of the Human Education Accelerator (HEA) Program at UNICEF and Mixed-Method Research at Facebook
  • Justine Davis, UC Berkeley, Wartime Experiences of Civic Leaders: Legacies of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kate Pennington, UC Berkeley, Poisoned by Policy: The Impact of the Flint Water Crisis on Political Participation
  • Katherine Casey, Stanford University, Scaling Political Information Campaigns
  • Katina Jessoe, University of California, Davis, External Costs of Climate Change Adaptation: Agricultural Wells and Access to Drinking Water
  • Kelsey Jack, University of Santa Barbara, Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning∗
  • Kira Villa, University of New Mexico
  • Konrad Posch, University of San Francisco, More than Mere Deadweight: The Variety of Regulators, Imaginaries that Shape How Regulators, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs Coproduce Disruptive Technological Innovation
  • Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Center for Effective Global Action, Evaluating the Credibility Revolution in African Development
  • Lawrence De Geest, Suffolk University, Norm Enforcement with Incomplete Information
  • Liam Rose, UC Santa Cruz, Retirement and Health: Evidence from England
  • Liz Lyons, UC San Diego
  • Lizhi Liu, Georgetown
  • Longyuan Du, University of San Francisco, Reference Effect in Crowdfunding
  • Luke Stein, Babson College, Financial Inclusion, Human Capital, and Wealth Accumulation: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
  • Maksim Isakin, Cleveland State University, Divisia Monetary Aggregates with Unobserved Assets
  • Mansi, Anchal, and Grant, University of San Francisco Economics Graduate Student Panelists, Fieldwork and Ethics
  • Marianne Bitler, UC Davis, How place and need intersect: How lack of retail and enrollment offices deters nutrition assistance take-up
  • Michael Carter, UC Davis, Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture
  • Mike Lehmann University of San Francisco, Wealth, Debt, and Economic Power
  • Mike Lehmann, University of San Francisco, The Business Cycle: British vs. American Experience and the Consequences for the Historical Narrative, 1914 - 2008
  • Mo Alloush, UC Davis, Income, Psychological Well-Being, and the Dynamics of Poverty
  • Monica Capra, Claremont Graduate University, Volunteer Now or Later: The Effects of Effort Time Allocation on Donations 
  • Nandita Krishnaswamy, University of Southern California, Missing and Fired: Worker Absence, Labor Regulation, and Firm Outcomes
  • Nir Hak, Uber, Harvard PhD, Starting Out as a Tech Economist
  • Nina Buchmann, Stanford University, Paternalistic Discrimination
  • Nora Pankratz, UCLA
  • Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley    
  • Petra Persson, Stanford, The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Information
  • Philip Verwimp, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Civil War and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Burundi
  • Prachi Jain, Loyola Marymount University, The Effect of Stress of Economic Decision-Making
  • Prateek Bhan, University of Glasgow    
  • Puja Singhal, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Qianmiao Chen, University of California, Berkeley, Corruption in Public Procurement Auctions: Evidence from Collusion between Officers and Firms
  • Rachid Laajaj, University of Los Andes, Opportunities for Social Mobility Promote Effort
  • Rachid Laajaj, University of Los Andes, On the Complexity of Learning in Agriculture
  • Robizon Khubulashvili, University of San Francisco, Behavioral Market Design For Online Gaming Platforms 
  • Rob Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz, Affirmative Action, Caste, and Quality of Instruction: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India
  • Robert Donnelly, Instacart, Stanford GSB PhD, Starting Out as a Tech Economist
  • Sandra Aguilar Gomez, Columbia University, Inside the black box of child penalties: Extended families and unpaid labor
  • Sarah Lowes, UC San Diego
  • Sarah Walker, UNSW Sydney, Assessing the Direct and Spillover Effects of Hosting Refugees: Evidence from Kenya
  • Scarlet (Sijia) Chen, Google, Chefus.com, Stanford PhD, Starting Out as a Tech Economist
  • Scott Rozelle, Stanford University, China's Invisible Crisis: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Future Growth and Stability
  • Sean Higgins, UC Berkeley, Financial Technology Adoption and Firm Competition
  • Simon Halliday, Associate professor of Economics Education in the School of Economics at the University of Bristol, UK, What do we think economists should know? A machine learning investigation of research and intermediate-level textbooks
  • Stephen Pitts, University of Minnesota, Where You Go Depends on Who You Know: The Role of Social Networks in Mexican Internal Migration
  • Shunyao Yan, Assistant Professor in Marketing at Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Does Polarizing Content Pay Off?
  • Tamma Carleton, UC Berkeley, Mortality Damages of Climate Change
  • Thomas Cao, Stanford University, The Weaknesses of Selective Sanctions Against Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from U.S. Sanctions on Chinese Surveillance Technology Firms
  • Thomas Dreesen, UNICEF, Impact of the Human Education Accelerator (HEA) Program at UNICEF and Mixed-Method Research at Facebook
  • Travis Lybbert, UC Davis, Leveraging the Lottery for Financial Inclusion: Lotto-linked Savings Accounts in Haiti
  • Venoo Kakar, San Francisco State University, “How does Student Debt Repayment affect Wealth?”
  • Y. Jane Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Yingdan Lu, Stanford University, Competing for Attention: How the Chinese Government Uses Social Media for Propaganda
  • Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania, Underrepresented Outperformers: Female legislators in the Chinese Congress.
  • Yu (Sonja) Chen, University of Calgary, A Directed Search Model of Crowding Out
  • Zanele Munyikwa, MIT, The Last Mile of Broadband: Examining the Economic Impacts of the Connect America Fund
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  • Zheng Liu, San Francisco Federal Reserve, The Weak Job Recovery in a Macro Model of Search and Recruiting Intensity