Name | Lecture Title | Institution |
2020 |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D | "Common Agent or Double Agent? Pharmacy Benefit Managers in the Prescription Drug Market" | Brigham Young University |
2019 | | |
Christian vom Lehn, Ph.D. | "The Returns to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D | "Secular and Transitory Declines in Econ 110 Enrollment" | Brigham Young University |
Riley Wilson, Ph.D. | "Publicly Provided Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from Three Head Start Natural Experiments" | Brigham Young University |
Christian vom Lehn, Ph.D. | "Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey" | Brigham Young University |
Elena Patel, Ph.D. | "The Long-Term Effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data" | University of Utah |
Jeff Denning, Ph.D. | "Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes" | Brigham Young University |
Christian vom Lehn, Ph.D. | "The Investment Network, Sectoral Comovement, and the Changing U.S. Business Cycle" | Brigham Young University |
2018 | | |
Daniel Moncayo, Ph.D. | "Loopholes: Optimal Income Taxes with Tax Avoidance" | Brigham Young University |
Michael Ransom, Ph.D. | "Meritocracy in Academic Pay: Evidence from Three Fields" | Brigham Young University |
John Stovall, Ph.D. | "Equal Sacrifice Taxation" | Brigham Young University |
Michael Kofoed, Ph.D. | "For-Profit Higher Education Responsiveness to Price Shocks: An Investigation of Changes in Post 9-11 GI Bill Allowed Maximum Tuitions" | United States Military Academy West Point |
Eric Eide & Jeff Denning, Ph.D. | "Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?" | Brigham Young University |
2017 | | |
Jeff Denning, Ph.D. & Devon Gorry | "Causes and Consequences of Fragmented Care Delivery: Theory, Evidence and Public Policy" | Brigham Young University & Utah State University |
Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Cherry-Picking with Asymmetric Information: A Model of Wage Dispersion, Sorting and Unemployment Stigma" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "The Other 1%: Class Contamination and Voting for Redistribution" | Brigham Young University |
Scott Bradford, Ph.D. | "Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing versus Services" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "The Long-Run Consequences of Occupation Destruction" | Brigham Young University |
Michael Ransom, Ph.D. | "Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Partially Identifying the Distribution of Treatment Effects: Bounds on the Distribution of Returns to Schooling" | Brigham Young University |
Jim Kearl, Ph.D. & Kevin Williams | "Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice" | Brigham Young University & University of Utah |
Scott Bradford, Ph.D. | "Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing versus Services" | Brigham Young University |
Lars Lefgren, Olga Stoddard, & John Stovall, Ph.D. | "Utility Maximization with Sensory Limitations: Theory and Evidence" | Brigham Young University |
2016 | | |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | “Partially Identifying the Distribution of Treatment Effects: Bounds on the Distribution of Returns to Schooling” | Brigham Young University |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "The Simple Geometry of Causal Regression," or "Butler's Last Stand" | Brigham Young University |
Mark Showalter, Ph.D. | "Increasing the Number of Organ Transplants in the U.S.: The Effect of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 2006" | Brigham Young University |
Val Lambson, Ph.D. | "Trait-Augmented Extensive Form Games" | Brigham Young University |
Michael Ransom, Ph.D. | "Rail Transit and Highway Congestion in Los Angeles" | Brigham Young University |
Eunice Han, Ph.D. | "The Impact of Teachers Unions on Teachers' Well-being under Different Legal Institutions: Evidence from Districts-Teachers Matched Data" | University of Utah |
Luiz Maykot and Tyler White | "Using Big Data to Measure the Economy" | Adobe |
Joseph McMurray, Ph.D. | "Polarization and Pandering in a Spatial Model of Common-Value Elections" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "The BYU Record Linking Lab: Linking the Entire U.S. Population Together" | Brigham Young University |
2015 | | |
Ryan Pratt | "Captive Finance and the Coase Conjecture" | |
Brigham Frandsen & Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "A Test for Rank Similarity and Partial Identification of the Distribution of Treatment Effects" | Brigham Young University |
Kevin Mumford, Ph.D. | "The Effect of Teacher Pay for Performance on Adult Outcomes in the United States" | Purdue University |
Joseph McMurray, Ph.D. | "The Marginal Voter's Curse" | Brigham Young University |
Christian vom Lehn, Ph.D. | "Life Cycle Labor Supply and the Generational Accounts Tax Burden" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Haskell | "The Effects of Student Dual-Credit Enrollment on Secondary and Higher Education Outcomes: The Utah Case ... and Beyond" | Westminster College |
Jeff Denning, Ph.D. | "Born Under a Lucky Star: The Effects of Financial Aid on Enrolled Students" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Inferring Ascending Auction Participation from Observed Bidders" | Brigham Young University |
2014 | | |
Mark Showalter, Ph.D. | "Wages, Health Insurance Benefits, and Worker Sorting Under Asymmetric Information" | Brigham Young University |
Eric Bettinger, Ph.D. | (Title) | Stanford University |
Joshua Price, Ph.D. | "Evidence of Productivity Responses to Status Awards: Evidence from NBA All-Star Selections" | Southern Utah University |
Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "State Policies and Intergenerational Economic Mobility" | Brigham Young University |
Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Hidden Orders on the NASDAQ" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "A Big Data Approach to Optimal Sales Taxation" | Brigham Young University |
Val Lambson, Ph.D. coauthored with John van den Berghe | "Skill Complexity and Strategic Dynamics" | Brigham Young University |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | "Treatment Effects with Censoring and Endogeneity" | Brigham Young University |
Griffin Edwards, Ph.D. | "A 50 State Database of Involuntary Commitment Laws and Their Effect on Crime" | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Val Lambson & Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Entropic Discounting of Geometric Means: An Index for Lotteries and Portfolios" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Escaping the Fire Sale: Post-Shock Dynamics with Endogenous Price Dispersion" | Brigham Young University |
2013 | | |
Jared Woolstenhulme, Ph.D. | “Evaluating Higher Education's Two Body Problem” | Washington State University |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | "Moral Hazard in Physician Teams: The Case of ACOs" | Brigham Young University |
Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "Death of the American Dream?" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball" | Brigham Young University |
Olga Bogach, Ph.D. | "Luck, Entitlement, and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "State-Dependent Monetary Policy" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Book of Mormon Words: Foundation for a Post-Modern Tradition?" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "E-bay or Amazon? Time-Sensitive Retail Purchases via Auctions" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Heideggerian Temporality and the Demand for Insurance" | Brigham Young University |
Jaren Pope, Ph.D. | "Walmart and Housing Prices" | Brigham Young University |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | "Partisan Bias in Union Representation Elections: Testing for Manipulation in the Regression Discontinuity Design when the Running Variable is Discrete" | Brigham Young University |
Lars Lefgren & Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | "Competition and Collusion Among Gas Stations: A Toy Model and a Picture" | Brigham Young University |
2012 | | |
Jason Riis, Ph.D. | "A 2-Phase Labeling and Choice Architecture Intervention to Improve Healthy Food and Beverage Choices" | Harvard Business School |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "Using Behavioral Economics to Encourage Fruit and Vegetable Consumption during School Lunch" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Age Determinants of Marital Search Decisions" | Brigham Young University |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | "Exact Inference for a Weak Instrument, Small Sample, or Extreme Quartiles" | Brigham Young University |
Scott Bradford, Ph.D. | "Protection and Skills: Is Trade Policy 'Progressive'?" | Brigham Young University |
Shinji Takagi, Ph.D. | "The Political Economy of Foreign Exchange Market Intervention" | |
Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Information Inertia" | Brigham Young University |
Val Lambson, Ph.D. | "Stimulus and Monetary Policy: A Tale of Two Agencies with Conflicting Objectives" | Brigham Young University |
Kerk Phillips & Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "Utah State Pension System" | Brigham Young University |
Catherine Pakaluk, Ph.D. | "What Good is a Good Fit? The Value of Religious Matching in Education" | Ave Maria University |
Kevin Mumford, Ph.D. | "Personal Income Tax Salience" | University of Purdue |
Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "The Yield Curve and the Business Cycle" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph McMurray, Ph.D. | "Why the Political World is Flat: An Endogenous 'Left' and 'Right' in Multidimensional Political Competition" | Brigham Young University |
Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "Outcome Based Accountability: Theory and Evidence" | Brigham Young University |
2011 | | |
Clayne Pope, Ph.D. | “Experimental and Conceptual Innovators in the Sciences: The Cases of Darwin and Einstein” | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Lars Lefgren, & Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "Sticking with What (Barely) Worked" | Brigham Young University |
Jaren Pope, Ph.D. | "National Evidence on the Non-Market Economy" | Brigham Young University |
Brigham Frandsen, Ph.D. | "Union Wage Setting and the Distribution of Employees Earnings: Evidence from Certification Elections" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Workplace Benefits Overlap, Claimant Learning, and Benefit-Expenditure Concentration" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Running Out of Time: Limited Unemployment Benefits and Wage Dispersion" | Brigham Young University |
Dave Hansen, Ph.D. | "The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence and Analysis" | |
Scott Bradford, Ph.D. | "The Global Welfare and Poverty Effects of Rich Nation Immigration Barriers" | Brigham Young University |
Michael Ransom, Ph.D. | "Fame and Fortune in Economics Departments -- How Research Influence Determines Pay and Position" | Brigham Young University |
Elena Asparouhova, Ph.D. | "Market Bubbles and Crashes as an Expression of Tension Between Social and Individual Rationality" | University of Utah |
Jeff Thurk, Ph.D. | "Is U.S. Patent Protection Too Strong?" | University of Notre Dame |
Arden Pope, Ph.D. | "Air Pollution, Death, and the Shape of the Marginal Cost Curve" | Brigham Young University |
2010 | | |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Motivated Buyers: Real Estate Prices over the Search Spell" | Brigham Young University |
Matthew Butler, Ph.D. | "To Choose or Not to Choose Multiple Choice Answers: Measuring Risk Aversion in an Educational Setting" | |
Lars Lefgren, David Sims, & Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Value Added" | Brigham Young University |
Jim Kearl, Ph.D. | "The Economics and Perplexing Law of Prejudgment Interest" | Brigham Young University |
Val Lambson, Ph.D. | "Sunk Costs and Uncertainty" | Brigham Young University |
Matthew Baird, Ph.D. Candidate | "Occupational Choice and Learning in a Stochastic Dynamic Programming Framework: Preliminary Motivation and Model" | University of California -- Los Angeles |
Kerk Phillips, Ph.D. | "Linearization About the Current State: A Computational Method for Approximating Nonlinear Policy Functions" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph McMurray, Ph.D. | "A Spatial Model of Common-Value Elections: Electoral Mandates, Minor-Party Candidate, and the Signaling Voter's Curse" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Evans & Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Bailouts vs. Regulation" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "Incentives, Default Options, and Choices: Which Small Changes Work in Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption During School Lunch?" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "Chapter 11: Bankruptcy and Industry Turnover" | Brigham Young University |
Lars Lefgren & Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Coaches on the Hot Seat: Testing Models of Moral Hazard and Screening" | Brigham Young University |
Michael McBride, Ph.D. Candidate | "Peace, Conflict, and the Shadow of the Future" | University of California -- Irvine |
Daniel Sullivan & Frank McIntyre, Ph.D. | "Long Term Stagnation Among the Bankrupt" | |
Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "Home Prices and Household Balance Sheets Through the Bubble" | Brigham Young University |
2009 | | |
Frank McIntyre, Ph.D. | "The Effect of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform on the Income Distribution of Filers" | |
Jim Kearl, Ph.D. | "Entertainment Shopping" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "NCAA Bowl Finance Dynamics: A Structural Estimation of the Effect of Playoffs" | Brigham Young University |
Barret Kirwan, Ph.D. | "The Impact of Multiperil Crop Insurance on Farm Survival" | University of Maryland |
Michael Ransom, Ph.D. | "Trains and Traffic on Utah's Highways" | Brigham Young University |
Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Monitoring Costs" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Measuring Disparities and Their Impact: Examples from Health Care" | Brigham Young University |
Mark Showalter, Ph.D. | "Intertemporal Sleep Choice" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Savings and Wage Dispersion" | Brigham Young University |
Kerk Phillips, Ph.D. | "A Simple Financial Model of Maize Storage and an Assessment of External Threat" | Brigham Young University |
David Sims, Ph.D. | "Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Evans, Ph.D. | "State-Dependent Optimal Monetary Policy" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "Marriage and Infant Health" | Brigham Young University |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Pay-to-Bid Auctions" | Brigham Young University |
2008 | | |
Kerk Phillips, Ph.D. | "Simulating Open Economy Multisectoral Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models: Theory and Hints at Applications" | Brigham Young University |
Heather Howard, Ph.D. | "Debt Collection on the Frontier" | |
Phillip Garner, Ph.D. | "Productivity Revolutions and Science Driven Growth" | |
Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "The Dynamics of Partially-Revealing Rational Expectations Equilibria" | Brigham Young University |
Barrett Kirwan, Ph.D. | "Cash Flow and Agricultural Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" | University of Maryland |
Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Grants" | Brigham Young University |
2007 | | |
Brennan Platt, Ph.D. | "Search, Moral Hazard, and Price Dispersion" | Brigham Young University |
John Stovall, Ph.D. | "Temptation and Self-Control as Duals" | California Sate University -- Bakersfield |
Lars Lefgren, Ph.D. | "The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity" | Brigham Young University |
Scott Condie, Ph.D. | "Ambiguity and Partially-Revealing Expectations Equilibria" | Brigham Young University |
Joseph Price, Ph.D. | "Time vs. Money: Which Resources Matter More for Children?" | Brigham Young University |
Grant McQueen, Ph.D. | "The Home Boy Bias: Evidence for and Determinants of" | |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Regression Decomposition: Welfare Implications Using Stochastic Dominance" | Brigham Young University |
Richard Butler, Ph.D. | "Medical Cost Adjustments Using Regression" | Brigham Young University |