Seminar Series
Fall 2022 Schedule
Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM in the Finch Conference Room (AL 660) or via Zoom at https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/81548195804.
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Economics
The Fall 2022 series is supported in part by the SDSU Student Success Fee.
Seminar Archives
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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