The economics department organizes and sponsors a seminar series where scholars present and discuss their research with the LSB community.
Direct any questions to Marianne Farag - mfarag@scu.edu.
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker / Affiliation | Paper Title | Time / Place |
| Wednesday, September 22 |
Stephie Fried SF Fed/Arizona State University |
Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, September 29 |
Asma Benhenda University College London |
Stay a Little Longer ? The Impact of Non-Financial Incentives on Teacher Retention in Disadvantaged Schools | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
Marc Muendler University of California, San Diego |
Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Brazil | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, October 13 |
David Rhys Bernard Paris School of Economics (visiting UC Berkeley |
Estimating long-term treatment effects without long-term outcome data | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, October 20 |
Bill Sundstrom Santa Clara University |
Unintended Consequences of Ban the Box? Replications and Extensions | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
Ben Hyman NY Fed |
Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers |
11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, November 3 |
Youssef Benzarti University of California, Santa Barbara |
Mandating Tax Incidence: Using Price Controls to Better Target Tax Cuts | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, November 10 |
Tong Liu Stanford University SIEPR/NUS |
Protecting the Center: Environmental Regulation and Regional Inequality in China | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Michael Kevane Santa Clara University |
Effects of education on political engagement in rural Burkina Faso | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, December 2 |
Steve Wu University of California, San Diego |
Foreign Reserves Management and Original Sin | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker / Affiliation | Paper Title | Time / Place |
| Wednesday, March 31 |
Tanguy Bernard University of Bordeaux (Gretha) |
Income support, and Compliance with Mobility Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Low-income and Middle-income Countries | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, April 7 |
Jeff Shrader Columbia SIPA |
Adjusting to Rain Before It Falls
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11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, April 14 |
Dylan Glover INSEAD |
Job Search and Intermediation under Discrimination: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks in France | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, April 21 |
Ted Miguel UC Berkeley |
Decomposing Political Favoritism in Kenyan Mass Electrification | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, April 28 |
Craig McIntosh UC San Diego |
Search Cost, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, May 5 |
Sam Bazzi Boston University/UCSD |
Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling |
11:45 am / Zoom |
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Clément de Chaisemartin UC Santa Barbara |
Difference-in-Differences Estimators of Intertemporal Treatment Effects | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, May 19 |
Ellora Derenencourt UC Berkeley |
Spillover effects from voluntary employer minimum wages (Working Paper) | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, May 26 |
Kyle Handley UC San Diego |
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Export Growth:When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, June 2 |
Victoria Xie SCU |
Investor Origin, Host Country Characteristics and Deforestation: Evidence from Global Mining Sites | 1:45 am / Zoom |