Seminar Series
Fall 2023 Schedule
Thursdays, 2 PM - 3:15 PM in the Finch Conference Room (AL 660) or via Zoom at https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/88923406625.
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Economics
August 24 - “Little Divergence in America — Market Access and Demographic Transition in the United States”
Melanie Guldi
University of Central Florida
August 31 - “Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children”
Tom Vogl
University of California, San Diego
September 7 - “Competition in the Black Market: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gangs in Chicago”
Jesse Bruhn
Brown University
September 28 - “Convictions, Incarceration, and Earnings in an Event Studies Framework”
Brittany Street
University of Missouri
October 12 - “Reconstruction-Era Education & Black-White Inequality”
Dan Jones
University of Pittsburgh
October 26 - “Does Physicians’ Female Socialization Influence Female Patients’ Health?”
Tianyi Wang
University of Toronto
November 2 - “The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality”
Alex Hollingsworth
The Ohio State University
November 30 - “Culpable Consumption: Shame & Water Conservation”
James Sears
Michigan State University
December 7 - “Taking a Chance on Workers: Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT”
Patrick Turner
University of Notre Dame
The Fall 2023 series is supported, in part, by the SDSU Student Success Fee and external
funding from CHEPS.
Seminar Archives
Spring 2023
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Economics
January 19 - “Mental Health and Short-Term Environmental Exposures”
Jamie Mullins
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
January 26 - “TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of Abortion Provider Regulations on Fertility & Education”
Mayra Pineda-Torres
Georgia Institute of Technology
February 9 - “The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income”
Sarah Miller
University of Michigan
February 16 - “Stopped by the Police: The End of “Stop-and-Frisk” on Neighborhood Crime and High School Dropout Rates”
Jonathan Tebes
University of Notre Dame
March 2 - “Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments”
Jaerim Choi
University of Hawaii
March 16 - “Restricting Flavored Tobacco Product Sales in the US: Cross-Product Effects”
Abigail Friedman
Yale University
March 23 - “COVID-19 Restrictions Reduced Abortion Clinic Visits, Even in Blue States”
David Slusky
University of Kansas
April 6 - “Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910”
Mark Anderson
Montana State University
April 7 - Applied Economics Research Workshop on SDSU Campus
For graduate students and junior faculty pursuing academic careers in economics, public policy, and public healthDaniel Rees
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Mark Anderson
Montana State University
May 4 - “Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees”
Giovanni Peri
University of California, Davis
Fall 2022
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Economics
August 25 - “The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 years of Major League Baseball Games”
Melissa LoPalo
Montana State University
September 1 - “Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes”
Roman Rivera
Columbia University
September 8 - “Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia”
Alessandra Fenizia
George Washington University
September 22 - “Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being”
Jeffrey Denning
Brigham Young University
September 29 - “The Effect of Research Universities on Student Partisanship and Turnout”
Daniel Firoozi
University of California, Irvine
October 13 - “The Effect of Hospital Postpartum Care Regulations on Breastfeeding and Maternal Time Allocation”
Emily Lawler
University of Georgia
October 20 - “Firm Responses to State Hiring Subsidies: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Tax Credit Formula”
Matthew Freedman
University of California, Irvine
October 27 - “Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I”
Desmond Ang
Harvard University
November 10 - “Can Tax Incentives Bring Brains Back? Returnees Tax Schemes and High-Skilled Migration in Italy”
Giuseppe Ippedico
University of California, Davis
December 1 - “If You Build it, Will They Vaccinate? The Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Sites on Vaccination Rates and Outcomes”
Jonathan Cantor
RAND Corporation
December 8 - “Unconditional Cash and Family Investments in Infants: Evidence from a Large-Scale Cash Transfer Experiment in the U.S.”
Lisa Gennetian
Duke University
The Fall 2022 series is supported in part by the SDSU Student Success Fee.
Spring 2022
February 10 - “Fairness versus deterrence: Evidence from speeding enforcement”
Steve Mello
Dartmouth University
Due to data use agreements, video available upon request.
February 17 - “Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia”
Kelly Bishop
Arizona State University
February 24 - “Cooling off or burdened? The effects of mandatory waiting periods on abortions and births”
Caitlin Myers
Middlebury College
Due to data use agreements, video available upon request.
March 3 - “Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era”
Richard Patterson
Brigham Young University
Due to data use agreements, video available upon request.
March 10 - “The Demand-Side of the H-1B Visa Process: Examining firm behavior”
Kevin Shih
CUNY Queens College
Due to data use agreements, this session was not recorded.
March 17 - “The Effect of State-Level Rate Bill Abolition on School Attendance in the 19th Century United States”
Richard Uhrig
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara
March 24 - “Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks” (9:30am-11am via zoom)
Brian Kovak
Carnegie Mellon University
March 24 - “Where Do Doctors Work? Medical School Access and the Rural Physician Shortage” (3:30-4:45pm in-person & via zoom, AL 660)
Adam Shumway
Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
April 7 - “Historical Roots of Educational Disadvantage and Progress for Mexican Americans”
Stephen Trejo
University of Texas, Austin
April 14 - “Diversity and Legitimacy: Evidence from Clinical Trials”
Marcella Alsan
Harvard University
April 21 - “The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from College COVID-19 Mandates”
Scott Imberman
Michigan State University
The Spring 2022 series is supported in part by the SDSU Student Success Fee.
Fall 2021
Co-Sponsored with the SDSU School of Public Health
August 19: "Do State Tobacco 21 Laws Work?"
Joseph J. Sabia
CHEPS, San Diego State University
August 26: "The Labor Supply Consequences of the Opioid Crisis"
David Powell
RAND Corporation
September 2: "Migrants, Information, and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garment Factories"
Rachel Heath
University of Washington
September 9: "Intergenerational and Sibling Peer Effects in High School Majors"
Gordon Dahl
University of California, San Diego
September 30: "Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation"
Lucie Schmidt
Williams College
October 7: "Importing the Opioid Crisis? Trade, Smuggling, and Fentanyl Overdoses"
William Olney
University of Hawaii
October 21: "How do Public Health Interventions affect Educational Outcomes?"
Marianne Page
University of California, Davis
October 28: "Do Public Programs Mediate the Effects of Job Loss on Family Health Insurance Coverage?"
Jessamyn Schaller
Claremont McKenna College
November 4: "How Do People Value Covid-19 Risks? Evidence From Contingent Valuation Experiments"
Kosali Simon
Indiana University
November 18: "COVID-19, Gender Identity, Race and Ethnicity in Access to Mental Health Care"
Patrick Button
Tulane University
December 2: "The Effect of Participation Incentives on Student Evaluations of Teaching"
Bree Lang
University of California, Riverside
Spring 2021
Co-Sponsored with the SDSU School of Public Health
January 28: “The Blessing of Leisure or the Curse of Unemployment? Effects of Unemployment Insurance Duration on Health”
Analisa Packham
Vanderbilt University
February 4: “Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes”
Claudia Persico
American University
February 11: “Full Practice Authority for Certified Nurse-Midwives: Healthcare Utilization and Patient Safety”
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
Georgia State University
February 18: “(Cash) Welfare Under (American) Federalism”
Andrew Goodman-Bacon
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
February 25: “Abandoned Retirement Savings”
Anita Mukherjee
University of Wisconsin - Madison
March 4: “Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid & the Next Generation's Health”
Chloe East
University of Colorado - Denver
March 11: “Hazardous Waste and Home Values”
Dennis Guignet
Appalachian State University
March 18: “The Effect of Firearm Seizure on Criminal Activity”
Viviane Sanfelice
Temple University
March 25: “Police Force Size and Civilian Race”
Aaron Chalfin
University of Pennsylvania
April 1: “Inside Trump's CEA: Evaluating LBJ's War on Poverty”
Richard Burkhauser
University of Texas - Austin
April 8: “Does Peer Motivation Impact Educational Investments? Evidence From DACA”
Briana Ballis
University of California - Merced
April 22: “What Do Families Want from Schools? Evidence from Real Choices and a Survey of Choosers”
Damon Clark
University of California - Irvine
April 29: “The Price of Protection: Landlord-Tenant Regulations and the Decline in Rental Affordability, 1960-2017”
Jacob Vigdor
University of Washington
May 6: “Can the Saliency of Race Mitigate Gaps in Disciplinary Outcomes? Evidence from School Fights”
Glen Waddell
University of Oregon
Fall 2020
Co-Sponsored with the SDSU School of Public Health
August 27: “Marriage Markets and Family Formation: The Role of the Vietnam Draft”
Marianne Bitler
University of California-Davis
September 3: “Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: Cash Grants, Household Finance & Business Survival”
Justin Gallagher
Montana State University
September 10: “How Valuable are Civil Liberties? Evidence from Gang Injunctions and Housing prices in Southern California”
Emily Owens
University of California-Irvine
September 17: “The Dynamic Impact of Internet Access on Student Learning”
Leah Lakdawala
Wake Forest University
September 24: “The Rise of Healthcare Jobs”
Joshua Gottlieb
University of Chicago
October 1: “Hospital Desegregation and Infant Mortality in the South”
Mark Anderson
Montana State University
October 15: “Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?”
Heather Royer
University of California-Santa Barbara
October 22: “Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-throughs: Mobility Restrictions and Teen Outcomes”
Valerie Bostwick
Kansas State University
October 29: “Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls”
Mark Hoekstra
Texas A&M University
November 5: “Mortality Trends Across Education Quartiles”
Christopher Ruhm
University of Virginia
November 19: “Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of “Early Mover” Marriages”
Terra McKinnish
University of Colorado Boulder
December 3: “Covid-19 and Vaping”
Michael Lovenheim
Cornell University
December 10: “Including Males: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents”
Manisha Shah
University of California-Los Angeles
Spring 2020
January 23, 2020: "O Youth And Beauty: Children’s Looks And Cognitive Development"
Daniel Hamermesh
UT-Austin & Barnard College
January 23, 2020: "Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?"
Daniel Hamermesh
UT-Austin & Barnard College
January 30, 2020: "E-Cigarette Taxes, Smoking Among Pregnant Women, and Birth Outcomes"
Michael Pesko
Georgia State University
February 6, 2020: "Hunger Pains? SNAP Timing and Emergency Room Visits"
Orgul Ozturk
University of South Carolina
February 20, 2020: "Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch"
Daniel Grossman
West Virginia University
Fall 2019
August 30, 2019: "Craigslist Erotic Services and Violence Against Women"
Scott Cunningham
Baylor University
September 5, 2019: "The Role of Unintended Births in U.S. Fertility Trends, 1980-2017"
Kasey Buckles
University of Notre Dame
September 12, 2019: "SNAP Access and Young Adults’ Educational Engagement"
Sarah Hamersma
Syracuse University
September 26, 2019: "Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects"
Nicolas Ziebarth
Cornell University
October 3, 2019: "Long-term Effects of Violent Media Content"
Jason Lindo
Texas A&M University
October 10, 2019: "Prenatal Substance Use Laws & Foster Care Admission"
Christine Durrance
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
October 31, 2019: "Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Mandates, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare"
Charles Courtemanche
University of Kentucky
November 14, 2019: "Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India"
Jeff Weaver
University of Southern California
November 21, 2019: "My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement"
Scott Carrell
University of California Davis
December 5, 2019: "Effects of the Colorectal Cancer Control Program"
Christopher Carpenter
Vanderbilt University
Spring 2019
January 24, 2019: "Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the Hands of Humans"
Jennifer Doleac
Texas A&M University
January 31, 2019: "The Long-term Health Consequences of Childhood Food Insecurity"
Angela Fertig
University of Minnesota
February 7, 2019: "Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records"
Joe Price
Brigham Young University
February 14, 2019: "The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers"
Seth Gershenson
American University
February 21, 2019: "Opioid Use, Health and Crime: Insights from a Rapid Reduction in Heroin Supply"
Kevin Schnepel
Simon Frasier University
March 7, 2019: "Marijuana Dispensaries & Quit Attempts"
Rosalie Pacula
RAND Corporation
March 14, 2019: "The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks"
Brian Cadena
University of Colorado-Boulder
March 29, 2019: "Access to Mental Healthcare Providers and Local Crime"
Catherine Maclean
Temple University
April 5, 2019: "Does E-Cigarette Advertising Encourage Adult Smokers to Quit?"
Dhaval Dave
Bentley University
April 11, 2019: "The WIHO Model: Tying Together Applications of Household Economics"
Shoshana Grossbard
San Diego State University
April 18, 2019: "Can Digital Loans Deliver? Take Up and Impacts of M-Shwari in Kenya?"
Prashant Bharadwaj
University of California San Diego
May 2, 2019: "Driving Curfews and Teen Labor Market Outcomes"
Melinda Pitts
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
May 9, 2019: "The Effect of Immigration on Job Creation, Business Survival, and Firm Mobility"
Pia Orrenius
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Fall 2018
August 30, 2018: "Information and Safe Sex: Are Better Informed Youth More Likely to Use Contraceptives and Condoms?"
Dean Lillard
The Ohio State University
September 6, 2018: "Losing Public Health Insurance: TennCare Disenrollment and Personal Financial Distress"
Sebastian Tello-Trillo
University of Virginia
September 13, 2018: "Measuring Social and Externality Benefits of Influenza Vaccination"
Corey White
Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo
September 27, 2018: "Do Immigrant Inflows Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?"
Delia Furtado
University of Connecticut
October 4, 2018: "The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement"
Hani Mansour
University of Colorado-Denver
October 11, 2018: "Scope of Practice Laws: The Most Influential Health Care Laws You’ve Never Heard Of"
Sara Markowitz
Emory University
October 18, 2018: "Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality"
Chris Herbst
Arizona State University
October 25, 2018: "Quality Information Disclosure and Health Insurance Demand: Evidence from VA Hospital Report Cards"
Xiaoxue Li
University of New Mexico
November 1, 2018: "The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women’s Earnings"
David Neumark
University of California-Irvine
November 15, 2018: "Physician Fraud Deterrence"
Alice Chen
University of Southern California
November 29, 2018: "The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Detailing"
David Bradford
University of Georgia
December 6, 2018: "Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Explore Police-Related-Deaths in the United States"
Audrey Beck
San Diego State University
Spring 2018
January 25, 2018: "You Can Never Be Too Rich But You Can Be Too Thin: Wage Outcomes in a Developing Country"
Inas Kelly
Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), CUNY Graduate Center & NBER
February 1, 2018: "Marijuana Decriminalization and Labor Market Outcomes"
Timothy Young
University of California-Irvine
February 8, 2018: "Why are we Dying of Cancer Instead of Diarrhea and Tuberculosis"
Daniel I. Rees
University of Colorado Denver & IZA
February 15, 2018: "Do Income Tax Breaks for the Elderly Affect Economic Growth?"
Karen Conway
University of New Hampshire
February 22, 2018: "Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies?"
Jenna Stearns
University of California-Davis
March 15, 2018: "The Impact of War Deployments on Economic Transitions of Veterans: New Evidence from Administrative Data"
Joseph J. Sabia
San Diego State University, University of New Hampshire & IZA
April 5, 2018: "Ex Ante Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: Lessons from the Affordable Care Act and Risky Sex"
Barton Willage
Cornell University
April 19, 2018: "Drug Trafficking Under Partial Prohibition: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana"
Ben Hansen
University of Oregon & NBER
May 3, 2018: "The Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, and Worker Welfare"
Jeffrey Clemens
University of California, San Diego
Fall 2017
September 7, 2017: "The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times"
Andrew Friedson
University of Colorado Denver
September 21, 2017: "How did the Affordable Care Act Impact Army Reenlistment?"
Michael Kofoed
United States Military Academy-West Point
September 28, 2017: "Medicaid Benefit Generosity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Medicaid Adult Vision Benefits"
Brandy Lipton
San Diego State University
October 5, 2017: "Cell Phone Coverage and Traffic Accidents: Evidence Using Cell Phone Towers"
Matthew Lang
University of California-Riverside
October 12, 2017: "The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services: Evidence from Texas"
Stefanie Fischer
Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo
October 19, 2017: "With a Little Help from My Friends: The Impact of Naloxone Access Laws and Good Samaritan Laws on Opioid-Related Deaths"
Joseph J. Sabia
San Diego State University, University of New Hampshire and IZA
November 7, 2017: "Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce"
David Ribar
University of Melbourne, Duke University & IZA
November 14, 2017: "The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Health"
Ryan Brown
University of Colorado Denver & IZA
November 30, 2017: "Let's Talk About Sex Education"
Brittany Bass
University of California-Irvine
December 7, 2017: "Effects of Welfare Reform on Youth Crime and Substance Use"
Hope Corman
Rider University & NBER