January 20 - “Did an Information Shock Spark Changes in Vaping and Smoking?”

Donald Kenkel
Cornell University

January 27 - “Putting the "K" in Rank: How Kindergarten Cohorts Impact Long-Run Educational Outcomes”

Derek Rury
University of Chicago

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

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 14: "Misdemeanor Prosecution"

Amanda Agan
Rutgers University

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

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

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 8, 2018: "The Nuanced Effects of State Mandated Financial Education on College Financing Behaviors: student loans go up...and student loans go down."

Carly Urban
Montana State University

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