Seminar Announcements 
The CMEPR’s Micro-Economic Policy Seminar (MEPS) has upcoming research seminars – all are welcome!
Spring 2025 seminars will be held every Tuesday from 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST in VMH 322 at the Arlington campus of George Mason University.
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this seminar, please contact Sungbin Park (spark224@gmu.edu).
Schedule:
January 28th: David Newhouse (World Bank) – Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data
February 4th: Gregory Clark (UC Davis and SDU) – Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021
February 11th: Hie Joo Ahn (Federal Reserve Board) – The Dual U.S. Labor Market Uncovered
February 14th: 7th Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium (WALES)
February 18th: Laurent Bouton (Georgetown) – Pack-Crack-Pack: Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout
February 25th: Daniel Ramos-Menchelli (JHU-SAIS) – Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico
March 4th: Adam Bloomfield (FDIC) – The Allure of Round Number Prices for Individual Investors
March 11th: Spring break
March 18th: Gopi Shah Goda (Brookings) – Subsidizing Medical Spending through the Tax Code: Take-Up, Targeting and the Cost of Claiming
March 25th: Thomas Hegland (AHRQ) – How do Firms Design Their Health Insurance Benefits Packages?
April 1st: Arpita Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Board) – Productivity and Quality of Multi-product Firms
April 8th: Scott Kaplan (U.S. Naval Academy) – Taxing Volume, Targeting Sugar: A Framework and Empirical Assessment of Excise Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
April 15th: Breno Braga (Urban Institute) – The Effects of Price Caps on Open-End Loans: Evidence from the 2015 Expansion of the Military Lending Act
April 22nd: Garance Genicot (Georgetown) – Mobility and Inequality
April 29th: Nicholas Li (GWU) – Non-Parametric Evidence of Nonlinear Effects Using Instrumental Variables
May 6th: TBA