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 ([email protected]).
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