| Name |
Institution |
Lecture Title |
2022 |
| Danial Lashkari |
Boston College |
"Do events such as Brexit, the pandemic, and the rise of nationalist leaders across the world portend the end of the current wave of globalization?" |
| Tyler Ransom |
University of Oklahoma |
"The Role of Supply and Demand Factors in Explaining the Migration of College Majors" |
| Bruce Sacerdote |
Dartmouth College |
"Where did the Workers in Heavily Covid Affected Occupations Go?" |
| Andres Carvajal |
University of California - Davis |
"Idiosyncratic risk and the equity premium" |
| Alessandra Voena |
Stanford University |
"How the Economics of the Family Can Inform Policy Making in the Developing World" |
| Basit Zafar |
University of Michigan |
"The Role of Information Frictions and Belief Biases in College Major Choice and Labor Market Decisions" |
| Steve Billings |
University of Colorado Boulder |
"Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk" |
| Brad Larsen |
Stanford University |
"The Effect of a Trump Vaccine Endorsement on COVID-19 Vaccinations: Evidence From a Large Scale Ad Experiment on YouTube" |
| David Chan |
Stanford University |
"Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists" |
| Eric Chyn |
Dartmouth College |
"Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolition on Children" |
2021 |
| Melissa Kearney |
University of Maryland |
"A Public Policy Perspective on U.S. Income Inequality" |
| Kevin Lang |
University of Boston |
"Labor Market Discrimination in the United States" |
| John List |
University of Chicago |
"The Science of Using Science" |
2020 |
| David Deming |
Harvard University |
"Inequality in the U.S. and Around the World" |
| Gueorgui Kambourov |
University of Toronto |
"Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes" |
| Jon Kolstad |
University of California - Berkeley |
"What Simple Economics Gets Wrong: How Insights from Behavioral Economics and AI can Improve U.S. Health Policy" |
| Michael Mueller-Smith |
University of Michigan |
"Diversion in the Criminal Justice System" |
| Aysegul Sahin |
University of Texas - Austin |
"The Last Decade of the U.S. Labor Market" |
| Lise Vesterlund |
University of Pittsburgh |
"Gender Differences in Task Allocations: Competition and Volunteering" |
| Yongseok Shin |
Washington University in St. Louis |
"Technological Progress and the Changing Occupational and Industrial Structure" |
2019 |
| Helios Herrera |
University of Warwick |
"Economic Populism" |
| Liran Einav |
Stanford University |
"Long Term Care Hospitals: A Case Study in Waste" |
| Stephen O'Connell |
Emory University |
"Can Employers Inform Government Job Training Programs? Evidence from Brazil" |
| Daniel Rees |
University of Colorado -- Denver |
"The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and its Waning" |
| Asen Kochov |
University of Rochester |
"Risk Sharing, Mortgage Backed Securities, and the 2008 Financial Crisis" |
Abigail Wozniak
|
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
|
"What is the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute?" |
| Seth Zimmerman |
University of Chicago Booth |
"Higher Education Finance and the Returns to College" |
Enrico Moretti
|
University of California -- Berkeley |
"The New Geography of Jobs" |
| Mary Cox |
University of Oxford |
"Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914-1924" |
| Mike Lovenheim |
Cornell University |
"A Bad Bargain? The Role of Teachers Unions in K-12 Education" |
| John Coglianese |
Federal Reserve Board |
"Seasonal Work in the US Labor Market" |
2018 |
| Marie-Louise Viero |
Queens University |
"The Economics of Unknown Unknowns" |
| Chris Chambers |
Georgetown University |
"Economics and Revealed Preference" |
| Jennifer Doleac |
University of Virginia |
"The Unintended Consequences of 'Ban the Box' Policies" |
| Henry Farber |
Princeton University |
"Why Can't You Find a Taxi in the Rain? The Behavioral Critique of Neoclassical Economics" |
| Ben Hansen |
University of Oregon |
"The Highs and Lows of Research with Administrative Data" |
Elena Asparouhova
|
University of Utah
|
"The Efficient Market Hypothesis: The Experimental Evidence" |
| Eric Taylor |
Harvard University |
"Skills, Job Tasks, and Productivity in Teaching: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Instruction Practices" |
| James Feigenbaum |
Boston University |
"A Machine Learning Approach to Historical Census Record Linkage" |
| Jonathan Tan |
University of Nottingham |
"Does Religion Make Us (Economically) Different?" |
| Yan Chen |
University of Michigan |
"Recommending Teams Promotes Pro-Social Lending in Online Microfinance" |
| David Card |
University of California -- Berkeley |
"The Economic Impacts of Immigration -- An Overview" |
| Andreas Leibbrandt |
Monash University |
"Combining Empirical Methods in Economics" |
| Enghin Atalay |
University of Wisconsin -- Madison |
"How Wide is the Firm Border?" |
| Henry Siu |
University of British Columbia |
"Recessions, Jobless Recoveries, and Disappearing Middle-Class Jobs" |
2017 |
| Laura Gee |
Tufts University |
"Do Beliefs About Peers Matter for Donation Matching?" |
| Sharon Traiberman |
Yale/NYU |
"The Effects of Free Trade on Workers: The Basics and Some Current Evidence" |
| Matias Cattaneo |
University of Michigan |
"Regression Discontinuity Designs" |
| Chris Hansen |
University of Chicago Booth |
"Introduction to Estimation and Inference of Structural and Treatment Parameters Using Machine Learning Methods" |
| Pablo Ottonello |
University of Michigan |
"Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy" |
| Jonathan Meer |
Texas A&M University |
"Recent Research on the Minimum Wage" |
| Greg Kaplan |
University of Chicago Booth |
"The Housing Boom and Bust" |
| Ryan Decker |
Federal Reserve Board |
"Entrepreneurship and the U.S Economy" |
| Nathan Seegert |
University of Utah |
"At a Loss: The Real and Reporting Elasticity of Corporate Taxable Income" |
| Barry Hirsch |
Tufts University |
"Earnings Inequality: Stylized Facts, Underlying Causes and Policy" |
| Pawel Krolikowski |
Tufts University |
"Job Displacement" |
| Gordon Dahl |
University of California -- San Diego |
"Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior" |
| Martha Stinson |
Census |
"Government Statistics: How Are They Created and What Can We Learn From Them?" |
2016 |
| Martin Osborne |
University of Toronto |
"Participatory Democracy with Costly Participation: Absenteeism, Extremism, and Factions" |
| Brian Jacob |
University of Michigan |
"The Impact of Comprehensive School Reform: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" |
| Nishith Prakash |
University of Connecticut |
"Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India" |
| Judd Kessler |
University of Pennsylvania |
"Thinking Fast and Slow: Generosity Over Time" |
| Sarah Goldrick-Rab |
University of Wisconsin -- Madison |
"Paying the Price: College Costs and the Betrayal of the American Dream" |
| Ben Bugsley |
NY Fed |
"Firm-Dynamics and the Macroeconomy" |
| Linda Tesar |
University of Michigan |
"Austerity" |
| Thomas Winberry |
University of Chicago |
"Firm Heterogeneity and Aggregate Dynamics" |
| Travis Lybbert |
University of California -- Davis |
"The Economics of Hope and Poverty" |
| Eliza Forsythe |
University of Illinois |
"An Economic Perspective on Career Transitions" |
2015 |
| Brigitte Madrian |
Harvard University |
"Applying Insights from Behavioral Economics to Policy Design" |
| Ping Wang |
Washington University in St. Louis |
"Staged Economic Development" |
| Nicolai Kuminoff |
Arizona State University |
"Improving Estimates for the Monetary Benefits of Environmental Regulations" |
| Prashant Bharadwaj |
University of California -- San Diego |
"Mental Health Stigma" |
| Briggs Depew |
Louisiana State University |
"The ACA's Medical Loss Ratio: What Have We Learned in the First Three Years?" |
| Martha Bailey |
University of Michigan |
"The LIFE-M Project" |
| Mattias Polborn |
University of Illinois |
"Political Polarization" |
| Matt Baird |
Rand Corporation |
"A Course Level Analysis of STEM Retention and the Distribution of Ability: Can it Explain the Racial Gap?" |
| Guillaume Vandenbroucke |
Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
"The Demographic Effects of Wars: An Economic Perspective" |
| Ioana Marinescu |
University of Chicago Harris |
"The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment" |
2014 |
| Tim Cason |
Purdue University |
"Economics is an Experimental Science" |
| Thomas Lemieux |
University of British Columbia |
"Will the Labor Market Ever Recover from the Great Recession?" |
| Larry Kotlikoff |
Boston University |
"The Economics Approach to Personal Financial Planning" |
| David Card |
University of California -- Berkeley |
"The Growing (?) Importance of Who You Work For" |
| John Gruber |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Health Reform in the US: The Past, Present & Future" |
| Frank McIntyre |
Rutgers University |
"The Economic Value of a Law Degree" |
| Kasey Buckles |
Notre Dame University |
"High-Quality Preschool: What We Know, and Directions for Future Research" |
| Eric O'N Fisher |
California Polytechnic State University |
"Does International Trade Hurt the American Worker?" |
| Kenneth L. Judd |
Stanford University |
"Can Economists Be More Useful, Like Engineers?" |
| Justin Sydnor |
University of Wisconsin -- Madison |
"Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes" |
| Jim Albrecht & Susan Vroman |
Georgetown University |
"Search in the Labor Market: The Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides Model" |
| Ariel Kalil |
University of Chicago Harris |
"Closing the Parenting Gap: Insights from Behavioral Economics and Neuroscience" |
| John Morgan |
Berkeley Haas School of Business |
"Voting and Utilitarianism" |
| John Gruber |
Harvard University |
"Synthetic Controls for Policy Evaluation" |
2013 |
| Travis Lybbert |
University of California -- Davis |
"Cell Phones and the Economic Development" |
| Gary Charness |
University of California -- Santa Barbara |
"Cheap Talk About Cheap Talk" |
| Roger Myerson |
Chicago University |
"Moral Hazard and Macroeconomics" |
| Andy Skrzypacz |
Stanford University |
"Auctions, Revelation Principle, and Revenue Equivalence Theorem" |
| Marco Battaglini |
Princeton University |
"Fiscal Policy and Unemployment" |
| Philip Oreopoulos |
University of Toronto |
"Behavioral Economics and Education: Some Puzzles, Progress, and Possibilities" |
| Ben Hansen |
University of Oregon |
"Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Evidence from Regression Kink" |
| Adam Meirowitz |
Princeton University |
"Problems with Doing the Right Thing: Voting, Deliberation and Equilibrium" |
| Rick Gregory |
Provo Police Chief |
"Economics of Crime" |
| Jay Coggins |
University of Minnesota |
"A History of the Clean Air Act and Human Health" |
| Brent Hickman |
University of Chicago |
"A Brief Tour of the Wide World of Structural Methods in Microeconomics" |
| David Figlio |
Northwestern University |
"The Promise and Pitfalls of Market-Based Education Reform" |
2012 |
| Amir Kia |
Utah Valley University |
"The Impact of Monetary Policy Transparency on Risk and Volatility of Interest Rates: Evidence from the United States" |
| Hector Chade |
Arizona State University |
"College Applications and College Admissions" |
| Jesse Rothstein |
University of California -- Berkeley |
"Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession" |
| Steven Callander |
Stanford University |
"Modeling Uncertainty in a Complicated World" |
| Melody Lo |
University of Hong Kong |
"Why Does New Hampshire Matter - Simultaneous vs. Sequential Election with Multiple Candidates" |
| Christopher Stanton |
University of Utah |
"The Labor Market Consequences of Forced CEO Turnover" |
| Ben Cowan |
Washington State University |
"Testing for Educational Credit Constraints using Heterogeneity in Individual Time Preferences" |
| Matt Holt |
University of Alabama |
"Global Hemispheric Temperature Trends and Co-Trending: A Shifting Mean Vector Autoregressive Analysis" |
| Kenneth L. Judd |
Stanford University |
"Can Economists Be More Useful, Like Engineers?" |
| D. Nathan Sheets |
Citigroup |
"Global Economic Outlook" |
| Susan Chen |
University of Alabama |
"Spousal Labor Supply Responses to Government Programs: Evidence from the Disability Insurance Program" |
| Jason DeBacker |
Middle Tennessee State University |
"Corporate Taxation: Economics and Policy" |
| Kevin Huang |
Vanderbilt University |
"China's Macroeconomics Development: Retrospect and Prospect" |
| Zhuan Pei |
W.E. Upjohn Institute |
"Using Discontinuities/Kink in Program Rules to Measure Casual Effects" |
2011 |
| Larry Kotlikoff |
Boston University |
"America is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It" |
| Russel Cooper |
European University Institute |
"Coordination Failures" |
| Kyoungwon Seo |
Northwestern University |
"An Application of Statistics to Business Decision Making" |
| Chris Phelan |
University of Minnesota |
"Interest Rates Run" |
| Brian Aitken |
International Monetary Fund |
"Made in China: The Origin and Implications of China’s Economic Revolution" |
| Glenn Stanton |
Focus on the Family |
"The Emerging Science on Cohabitation" |
| Paul Heaton |
RAND Institute for Civil Justice |
"Correlation and Causation" |
| Sandra Black |
University of Texas -- Austin |
"Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility" |
| Meghan Busse |
Northwestern University |
"'The Best Price You'll Never Get': The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry" |
| Joe Altonji |
Yale University |
"Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use" |
| Henry S. Farber |
Princeton University |
"Job Loss and Unemployment in the Great Recession" |
| Peter Arcidiacono |
Duke University |
"Beliefs about Expected Earnings and the Choice of College Major" |
Whitney Newey
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Panel Data and Treatment Effects" |
| Lant Pritchett |
Harvard University |
"The Rebirth of Modern Education" |
| Randall Lewis |
Yahoo! |
"Econinformatics: Economics and Big Data" |
