Center for Micro-Economic Policy Research (CMEPR)

Current Seminars

Spring 2025 Seminars will be, unless otherwise indicated, at 11-12:15, in Van Metre Hall 322.

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: Pablo Acosta (World Bank) – Skilled Immigrants and Credential Recognition in Peru

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)

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 Impact of Hospital Closures on Medical Debt in Collections: Analysis Using Consumer Credit Bureau Data

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