Seminar Archives
Fall 2024
Department Seminars will be held in person (McCain building -听6135 University Avenue, room 2198) unless otherwise advertised.
| Date | Time | Location | Guest Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Marion McCain, 2198 | University of Toronto | Misperceptions and Demand for Democracy under Authoritarianism.听with Daron Acemoglu, Cevat Aksoy, Carlos Molina, and Gamze Zeki. |
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| Sep 20 | 1:30pm | Virtual via Microsoft Teams. Meeting Link:听 |
Weiyi Li | 麻豆传媒 | PhD Thesis defense: Health Insurance, Health States, Retirement and Work. Evidence from China. |
Sep 27 |
2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Marion McCain, 2198 |
Faculty of Management, 麻豆传媒 | From Schmattes to Riches: Intergenerational Mobility of American Jewish Immigrants in the Interbellum. |
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| Oct 4 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Marion McCain, 2198 | University of Calgary | Measuring the Value of Disability Insurance from Take-Up Decisions. | |
| Oct 25 - 27 | 听 | 听 | 听 | ||
| Nov 8 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Marion McCain, 2198 | University of Michigan | Women and Work: Evolution and Crisis over the Last 25 Years. | |
| Nov 15 | 听 | Reading week | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| Nov 22 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Macdonald Building,听University Hall听听 | Simon Fraser University, BC |
Graham Lecture:听The Disappearing Middle Ground:听Understanding and Addressing Political Polarization. |
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Winter 2024
Department Seminars will be held in person (McCain building -听6135 University Avenue) unless otherwise advertised.听 Please email听economics@dal.ca听for the link.
Date |
Time |
Location |
Guest Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title of Paper |
Jan 18 |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
McCain #2184 |
McGill University |
Inference for Factor-MIDAS Regression Models |
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Jan 19 |
2:30 - 4:00pm |
McCain #2198 |
University of Toronto |
The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes & Cash Welfare and Health Spending |
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Jan 23 |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
McCain #2016 |
NYU Abu Dhabi |
Obviously Strategy-proof Rules for Object Reallocation |
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Jan 26 |
2:30 - 4:00pm |
McCain #2198 |
European University Institute |
When Incumbency Limits Public Good Provision |
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Feb 1 |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
McCain #2184 |
Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al |
The Minimum Wage in Firms鈥� Organizations: Productivity Implications |
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Feb 8 |
11:30 am - 1:00pm |
Online only (please email听economics@dal.ca for the meeting link) |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Echo Chambers: Choosing Interlocutors and Messages |
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CANCELLED |
2:30 - 4:00pm |
McCain #2198 |
Queen's University |
Dynamic Treatment Effect Estimation with Interactive Fixed Effects and Short Panels |
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Mar 22 |
2:30 - 4:0pm |
McCain #2198 |
Cornell University |
Divergent 听Preferences and Loan Market Consequences of Benchmark Replacement |
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Fall 2023
Department Seminars are held usually on Friday afternoons from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (Room 2198 McCain Building) unless otherwise advertised.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 | Gabrielle Vasey | Concordia University | The Impact of Child Labor on Student Enrollment, Effort and Achievement: Evidence from Mexico |
| Oct 13 | Edda Claus | Wilfrid Laurier University | Purse Strings Versus Heart Strings: Transmission Channels in Economics and Psychology |
| Oct 27 - CANCELLED | Yigit Aydede | St. Mary's University | Understanding the Dynamics of a Viral Spread by Sparse Composite Likelihood Selection |
| Nov 3 | Nicholas Lawson | Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al | Passing the Buck(s): Welfare-Improving International Emission-Reduction Subsidies |
| Nov 10 | Victor Aguiar | University of Western Ontario | Dynamic and Stochastic Rational Behavior |
Nov 24 |
James McNeil | 麻豆传媒 | The term structure of interest rates in a noisy information model |
Summer 2023
The summer seminar will be held Wednesday, June 21st from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Room 2184 McCain Building) and virtual.听 Please email economic@dal.ca for the link.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21 | Lucienne Talba | University of Toronto |
Of Cattle and (Wo)men: Animal Domestication and Gender Disparities in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Winter 2023
Department Seminars are held usually on Friday afternoons from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (Room 2184 McCain Building) unless otherwise advertised.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 (Virtual) | Univeristy of British Columbia |
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| Feb 10 | York University听 | ||
| Mar 3 | Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al | Firms' Organizations and the Minimum Wage | |
| Mar 10 | Carleton University | ||
| Mar 17 | Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al | Aggregate, Regional and Sectoral Implications of Transportation Costs | |
| Mar 24 | Queen's University | Algorithms for Predictive Analysis: Communication, Privacy and Weights | |
| Mar 31 (Virtual) | Simon Fraser University |
Fall 2022
Department Seminars are held usually on Friday afternoons from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (Room 302 Dunn Building) unless otherwise advertised.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16 |
Universit茅 de Montr茅al |
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| Oct 21 | University of Guelph | Market segregation in the presence of customer discrimination | |
| Oct 28 | University of Chicago | Corporate Discount Rates | |
| Nov 4 | University of Toronto | On the validity of the instrumental variable approach | |
| Nov 18 | University of Toronto | ||
Nov 25 |
St. Francis Xavier University | Inflation, Real Stock Returns and Financial Crises | |
| Dec 2听(virtual seminar) | 听听 | Wilfrid Laurier University |
Fall 2021
Department Seminars are held virtually on Friday afternoons from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm unless otherwise advertised.听 Register in advance for the seminars using the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkd-qqqDwrG9Ci9L1FiBwgjAnq2OlQyFc3
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please note you need to register to zoom (if you have not used zoom before) for security reasons.听
| Sep 24 |
Dartmouth College | ||
| Oct 1 | University of Illinois | ||
| Oct 8 |
Georgia State University | ||
Oct 15 (2:30-6:20 pm) |
ACEA Virtual Mini-Conference | 听 | A YouTube recording of the conference is available . |
| Oct 22 | Harvard Business School |
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| Oct 29 | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Mergers, Entry, and Consumer Welfare | |
| Nov 5 | University of Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 19 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era | |
| Nov 26 | University of Oxford | Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design | |
| Dec 3 | UCLA |
Winter 2020
Department Seminars are held usually on听Friday afternoons听from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (Room 302 Dunn Building) unless otherwise advertised.
| 30听 Jan | Kevin Fawcett | University听 of Toronto | Match quality, on the job search and wage-tenure Contracts |
| 31 Jan | James McNeil | Queens University | Monetary policy and the term structure of inflation expectations with information frictions |
| 11 Feb听 | Genevieve Nelson | University of Oxford | Securitization and House Price Growth |
| 6 Mar 听 |
Diana Alessandrini听 | St. Francis Xavier University | Progressive taxation and economic stability |
| 20 Mar |
Steven Lehrer听 | Queens University | |
| 27 Mar |
Ehlers Lars听 | Montreal University | CANCELLED |
Fall 2019
| 20 Sep | Joann Jasiak | York University | Noncausal Processes in Application to Bitcoin Analysis |
| 27 Sep | Vikram Manjunath | Univ. of Ottawa | Strategy-Proof Exchange under Trichotomous Preferences |
| 4 Oct | Dinghai Xu | Univ. of Waterloo | Modelling Asset Returns under Price Limits with Mixture Models |
| 11 Oct | Dave Wozniak | Eastern Michigan University | Diversity Effects for Altruistic Behavior: Evidence from the field and international data |
| 18 Oct | John Roemer | Yale Univ. | What is socialism today? Conceptions 1 of a cooperative economy |
| 25 Oct | Elif Dalkir | UNB | Adverse Selection and Pay-in-kind Debt Contracts |
| 1 Nov | Robin Boadway | Queen's Univ. | Implementing a Basic Income Guarantee in Canada: Prospects and Problems. |
| 8 Nov | Ana Dammert | Carleton Univ. | He Said, She Said: Child Labor Measurement in Ethiopia |
| 22 Nov | Jim Davies Western | Univ. of Western Ontario | The World Distribution of Wealth, 2000 - 2019 |
| 6 Dec | Marcus Taylor | Queen's Univ. | Climate Change, 鈥橬ew Green Revolutions' and the Politics of Rural Development in India |
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Winter 2019
| 11 Jan |
Lars Osberg | 麻豆传媒 | Health Implications of Economic Insecurity |
| 18 Jan听 |
Weina Zhou | 麻豆传媒 Univeristy听 听 听 听 听听 | Group Discrimination in the Classroom and Academic Achievement |
| 25 Jan |
Melvin Cross | 麻豆传媒听 | Railroad Corporations, A.T. Hadley, and the Theory of the Firm in the Late 19th听Century |
| 8 Feb | Elif Dalkir | University of New Brunswick, Fredericton听 | 听[PDF - 52kb] (This seminar was cancelled due to inclement weather) |
| 15 Feb |
Francesco Amodio听 | McGill University听 | 听[PDF - 1.5mb] |
| 1 Mar |
Mrittika Shamsuddin | 麻豆传媒 | Does Higher Rank Deter Risk Taking Behaviour? The Case of Migration |
| 8 Mar |
Ana Ferrer | University of Waterloo | Career progression of immigrant women across Europe |
| 15 Mar |
Onur Kesten | Carnegie Mellon University听 | 听[PDF - 560kb] |
| 22 Mar |
Shankha Chakraborty听 | University of Oregon | Pro-Capitalist Preference and Long-Term Development |
| 29 Mar |
Matthieu Chemin | McGill University | 听[PDF - 1mb] |
| Apr 5 | Xiaodong Zhu | University of Toronto | 听[PDF - 198kb] |
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Fall 2018
| 7 Sep | Yves Sprumont | University of Montreal | 听[PDF - 1.1mb] |
| 14 Sep | Nan Geng | International Monetary Fund听 听 听 听 听 | 听[Off-site] |
| 21 Sep | Matias Cortes | York University | The 鈥淓nd of Men鈥� and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market |
| 28 Sep | Dapel Zuhumnan | CGDEV | 听[PDF - 179kb] |
| 5 Oct | Sripad Motiram | University of Massachusetts - Boston | 听[PDF - 70kb] |
| 19 Oct | Nicholas Li | University of Toronto | 听[PDF - 921kb] |
| 26 Oct | Stephen Clark | 麻豆传媒 - Truro Campus | Output, Yield and Area Response to Economic, Climate and Rotation factors for Grains and Oilseeds in Saskatchewan |
| 2 Nov | Laura Turner | University of Toronto | 听[PDF - 1.2mb] |
| 23 Nov | Gabriel Bruneau听 | Bank of Canada | How do foreign holdings in Canadian bonds affect domestic interest rates and house prices? |
Winter 2018
| Jan 12 | Mevlude Akbulut | 麻豆传媒 | Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes" (joint with Dozie Okoye and Mutlu Yuksel) |
| Jan 19 | Fraser Summerfield | St. Francis Xavier University | Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension |
| Jan 26 | Jean Denis Garon | Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al | 听[PDF - 908kb] |
| Feb 2 | No seminar | 听 | 听 |
| Feb 9 | Xiao Yuan Dong | University of Winnipeg | Childcare Costs and Migrant and Local Mothers' Labor Force Participation in Urban China |
| Feb 16 | Spring break | 听 | 听 |
| Feb 23 | Spring break | 听 | 听 |
| Mar 2 | Dietz Vollrath | University of Houston | 听[PDF - 441kb] |
| Mar 9 | Damba Lkhagvasuren听 | Concordia University听 | The Role of a Persistent Match Shock in a Roy Model: Mobility, Wage-Tenure Profiles and Lifetime Earnings |
| Mar 16 | Abel Brodeur | University of Ottawa | Mines, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the California Gold Rush |
| Mar 23 | Marie Connolly | UQAM | Social Mobility Trends in Canada: Going up the Great Gatsby Curve |
Fall 2017
| Sep 8 | Courtney Ward | 麻豆传媒 | Health Policy in the Face of Heterogeneous Externalities: the Case of Influenza Vaccination |
| Sep 15 | Rene Kirkegaard | Guelph University | Endogenous Correlation and Moral Hazard (joint with Pierre Fleckinger) |
| Sep 22 | Kai Zhao | University of Connecticut听 | (Cancelled) Household Saving, Financial Constraints and the Current Account Surplus 听 |
| Sep 29 | Marco Gonzalez-Navarro | University of Torronto | Vulnerability and Clientelism |
| Oct 6 | Remi Jedwab | George Washington University | The Economics of Missionary Expansion and the Compression of History,听joint with Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Sussex) and Alexander Moradi (Sussex). |
Oct 13 |
Steven Kivinen | 麻豆传媒 | Robust Group Strategy- Proofness |
| Oct 20 | Roland Pongou | Ottawa University | Networked Politics: Political Cycles and Instability under Social Influences |
| Nov 3 | Rene Saran | Yale-NUS College | Level-k Mechanism Design |
| Nov 17 | Harutaka Takamashi听听 | Meiji Gakuin University | [PDF - 836kb] |
| Nov 24 | Andrew Hill | Montana State | Paying for whose performance? Teacher incentive pay and the black-white achievement gap |
| Dec 1 | Kevin Milligan | University of British Columbia | Earnings, Mortality, and the Distribution of Longevity (with听Tammy Schirle) |
Fall 2016
| Sep 23 | Michel Serafinello 听 | University of Toronto 听 | Creativity over Time and Space |
| Sep 30 |
Bob Dimand |
Brock University |
John Maynard Keynes Narrates the Great Depression 听 |
| Oct 14 | Pierre Nguimkeu 听 | Georgia State University 听 | 听[PDF - 356kb] (with Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis) 听 |
| Oct 28 | Christos Ntantamis 听 | 麻豆传媒 |
听[PDF - 1.2mb] |
| Nov 18 | Ismael Mourifie | University of Toronto 听 | The Cobb Douglas marriage matching function: Marriage matching with peer effects |
| Nov 25 | Jonathan Rosborough 听 | St. Franics Xavier University 听 | 听[PDF - 1.2mb] (with Christopher Hajzle) |
Summer 2016
| Aug 31 |
Harutaka Takahashi | Meiji Gakuin University听 听 | 听[PDF - 951kb] |
Spring 2016
| Jun 9 | Matthew Webb | Carleton University | 听[PDF - 451kb] with Brennan S. Thompson听 听 听 听 听 听[PDF - 443kb] with James G. MacKinnon |
Winter 2016
| Jan 15 | Bruce McGough | Oregon | 听[PDF - 798kb] |
| Jan 22听 |
Norovsambuu Tumennasan | 麻豆传媒 | Price Matching and Output |
| Feb 12 | Andrea Brandolini | Statistics and Research of the Bank of Italy | European Inequality (jointly presented with The European Union Centre of Excellence) |
| Feb 26 |
Kuan Xu | 麻豆传媒 听 | 听[PDF - 627kb] rescheduled from Jan 29 |
| Mar 4 | Shintaro Yamaguchi | McMaster University | Childcare Availability and the Well-Being of Extended Family 听 |
| Mar 17 | John F. Graham Memorial Lecuture Michael Wolfson |
University of Ottawa | Freedom 55, Not: Prospects for Canadians鈥� Retirement Incomes 听[Off-site] 听[Off-site] 听[Off-site] |
| Mar 18 听 | Michael Wolfson 听 | University of Ottawa | Contingent Inequalities 鈥� An Exploration of Health Inequalities in the U.S. and Canada |
| Apr 1 | David Yves Albouy | University of Illinois | Housing Demand, Cost-of-Living Inequality, and the Affordability "Crisis" |
| Apr 15 | Sripad Motiram | University of Massachusetts | On Segregation in Indian Cities: The Cases of Hyderabad and Mumbai听 (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) |
Fall 2015
Sept 11听 |
Andrea Giusto | 麻豆传媒听 | Linear Resampling of Vector Autoregressions (with T. Iscan)听 |
| Sep 18听 |
Takanori Adachi | Nagoya听 | [PDF - 196kb] (with T. Hisada) |
| Sep 25听 |
Utku Unver听 |
Boston College听 | Lung Exchange听 |
| Oct 2听 |
Robin Boadway听 |
Queens听 |
听[PDF - 526kb] |
| Oct 9听 |
Fabian Lange听 | McGill听 | Heterogeneity among the Non-Employed: Evidence from Labor Force Status Histories听 |
| Oct 16听 |
Philip DeCicca听 | McMaster听 | 听[PDF - 35kb] (with D.Kenkel and F. Liu) |
| Oct 23听 |
No Talk听 | 听 | ACEA Meeting听 |
| Oct 30听 |
Maggie Jones | Queen's | Incentives, Disincentives, and Academic Achievement |
| Nov 6 听听 |
Mehmet Dalkir听 | UNB听 | Free-rider effect in corporate takeovers: a complete elimination may not be easy |
| Nov 20 |
Cornelius Christian | St. FX |
听[PDF - 422kb] |
| Nov 27 |
Harry Krashinsky | U of T |
The Causal Effect of Education on Overall Fertility: New Evidence from Canadian Data |
Winter 2015
| Jan 23 | Pier-Andre Bouchard St-Amant | INET | [PDF - 750kb] |
| Jan 29 | Norov Tumennasan | Aarhus | 听[PDF - 424kb] (with J. Kennes and D. Monte) |
| Feb 5 | Luc Bridet | Toulouse | Selling dreams: Entrepreneur optimism and collateral use in financial contracting (with P. Schwardmann) |
| Feb 10 | Umberto Garfagnini | ITAM | Is less risk really better? The role of externalities in shaping risk-taking incentives |
| Feb 20 | Branko Milanovic | CUNY | Global income distribution: Current trends and political implications |
| Mar 5 | Miles Corak | Ottawa | 'Inequality is the root of social evil,' or maybe not: Two stories about inequality and public policy |
| Mar 13 | Andrew Davis | Acadia | 听[PDF - 1.7mb]听(with J. Kim) |
| Mar 20 | Conchita D'Ambrosio | Luxembourg | [PDF - 514kb] (with W. Bossert)听 |
| Mar 27 | Francisco HG Ferreira | World | 听[PDF - 703kb] (with V. Peragine) |
| Apr 10 | Santanu Roy | Southern Methodist | 听[PDF - 24kb] (with T. Kamihigashi) |
Fall 2014
| Sep 12 |
Mikal Skuterud | Waterloo | 听[PDF - 426kb] (with A. Clarke) |
| Sep 19 |
Ben Sand | York | In search of labor demand听(with P. Beaudry and D. Green) |
| Sep 26 |
Leonard MacLean | 麻豆传媒 | 听[PDF - 607kb]听(with Y. Zhao and W. Ziemba) |
| Oct 3 |
Michael Pesko | Cornell | 听[PDF - 555kb] |
| Oct 10 |
Georges Dionne | HEC Montreal | The governance of risk management (joint seminar with the School of Business Administration) |
| Oct 17 | Chris Ferrall | Queens | How to design, solve and estimate discrete dynamic programs |
| Oct 24 |
Ana Ferrer | Waterloo | The effect of linguisitic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrants (with A. Adsera) |
| Oct 31 |
Brant Abbott | Yale | 听[PDF - 317kb] |
| Nov 7 |
Steven Kivinen | Dal | Unemployment volatility and networks |
| Nov 14 | Francisco Gonzalez | Waterloo | 听[PDF - 300kb] |
| Nov 21 | Vincent Boucher | Laval | Conformism and self-selection in social networks |
| Nov 28 | Umut Oguzoglu | Manitoba | [PDF - 1.4mb] |
| Dec 5 | Scott Imberman | Michigan State | The effects of targeted recruitment and comprehensive supports for low-income high achievers at elite universities: Evidence from Texas flagships |
Fall 2013
| Sep 17 | Sripad Motiram | IGIDR | Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India |
| Sep 20 | Olave Krigolson | Dal | Why rational choice is not always rational: A neuroeconomic look at human decision making |
| Sep 27 | David Gray | Ottawa | A dynamic analysis of the receipt of Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) status among Canadians |
| Oct 4 | John Cawley | Cornell | 听[off-site] (with Rosemary Avery and Matthew Eisenberg) |
| Oct 11 | Jason Lindo | Texas A&M | Breaking the link between legal access to alcohol and motor vehicle accidents: Evidence from New South Wales |
| Oct 18 | Lars Osberg | Dal | What's so bad about more inequality? |
| Oct 25 | Emilia Simeonova | Johns Hopkins | 听[off-site] (with Meghir, Costas and Palme, M氓rten) |
| Nov 1 | Paul Shea | Bates | Housing and endogenous default |
| Nov 8 | Roland Pongou | Ottawa | 听[off-site] (with Dev, Pritha and Mberu, Blessing) |
| Nov 15 | Francisco Alvarez-Cuarado | McGill | 听[off-site] (with El-Attar Mayssun) |
| Nov 29 | Ryuichi Tanaka | GRIPS | School choices: The effects of immigration and the Great Recession |
Winter 2013
| Jan 18 | Chris Minns | LSE | The Economics of Training in a Pre-Industrial Society: Evidence from English Apprenticeship 听 |
| Jan 25 | Nick Zammit | Warwick | Expectations Reconsidered: A Sectoral Comparison of Canadian-Australian Productivity 1871-2008 |
| Jan 29 | Dozie Okoye | UWO | 听[off-site] |
| Jan 30 | Fernando Leibovici | NYU | Financial Development and International Trade |
| Feb 8 | Joshua Lewis | Toronto | Fertility Child Health, and the Diffusion of Electricity in the Home |
| Feb 12 | Laura Salisbury | Boston | Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the US: Evidence from the Civil War Pension |
| Feb 21 | Nicole Fortin | UBC | John F. Graham Memorial Lecture Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement |
| Feb 22 | Nicole Fortin | UBC | Occupational Tasks and Changs in the Wage Structure (with T. Lemieux and S. Firpo) |
| Mar 8 | Weina Zhou | UBC | China's Saving Rate and Family Structure |
| Mar 15 | Catherine Maclean | Penn | Economic Fluctuations and Drug Abuse Treatment: Evidence From Admissions Data |
| Mar 22 | Sonia Laszlo | McGill | Coordination, Common Knowledge, and an H1N1 Flu Outbreak (with J. Engle-Warnick, N. Mishagina, and E. Strumpf) |
| Apr 5 | Dan Rosenblum | 麻豆传媒 | A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the US Heroin Market |
| May 10 | Jeff Dayton-Johnson | Monterey | 听[off-site] (with R. Avendano) |
Fall 2012
| Sep 14 | Michael Kumhoff | IMF | [off-site] (with Romain Ranciere) |
| Sep 21 | Stephan Klasen | 骋枚迟迟颈苍驳别苍 | 听[off-site] (with Sebastian Vollmer) |
| Oct 5 | Richard Steckel | OSU |
The Long Shadow of American Slavery:听 Human Capital, 1850-1910 |
| Oct 12 | Elaine Liu | Houston | 听[off-site] (with L. Edlund and Jin-Tan Liu) |
| Oct 19 | Paula Adam and Chris Skedgel | Eur Univ Inst and Dal | Panel Discussion:听听Who Should Have Priority in Access to Health Care? European and Canadian Perspectives |
| Oct 26 | Ed Wolff | NYU | 听[off-site] (with Maury Gittleman) |
| Nov 2 | Fabian Waldinger | Warwick | [off-site] |
| Nov 9 | David Wozniak | Eastern Michigan | Effects of Ambiguity in Decisions |
| Nov 16 | Abdul Aleem | 麻豆传媒 | 听[off-site] (with Amine Lahiani) |
| Nov 23 | Thanasis Stengos | Guelph | Structural Threshold Regression (with Andros Kourtellos and Chih Ming Tan) |
| Dec 7 | Richard Akresh | Illinois | Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Conditionaity |
Winter 2012
| Jan 19 | Michele Battisti | Simon Fraser | High Wage Workers and High Wage Peers |
| Jan 27 | Amanda Michaud | Minnesota | An Information Theory of Worker Flows and Wage Dispersion |
| Feb 2 | Xi Chen | Cornell | [off-site] |
| Feb 16 | Mike Veall | McMaster | John F. Graham Memorial Lecture The Top of the Income Distribution in Canada |
| Feb 17 | Mike Veall | McMaster | Possible Causes and Consequences of the Top Income Surge |
| Mar 2 | Andrea Giusto | 麻豆传媒 | An Adaptive Learning Algorithm for Nowcasting Recessions |
| Mar 8 | Casey Warman | Queen's | [off-site] (with S. Imai and D. Stacey) |
| Mar 9 | Jerry Hurley |
McMaster | [off-site] (with J. Li, P. DeCicca, and G. Buckley) |
| Mar 23 | John Parman | William & Mary | Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes: The Shared Burden of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic |
| Mar 30 | Courtney Ward | 麻豆传媒 | The Effects of School Immunization Mandates: Does prenatal exposure to state school immunization policy impact health and well-being in later life? |
Fall 2011
| Sep 16 | Olga Shemyakina | Georgia Tech | Labor Market, Education and Armed Conflict in Tajikistan |
| Sep 23 | Mutlu Yuksel | Dal and IZA | Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Wartime Destruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes (with M. Akbulut-Yuksel and M. Khamis) |
| Sep 30 | Vikram Kaksar | IMF | World Economic and Financial Outlook |
| Oct 7 | Serge Coulombe | Ottawa | [off-site] (with G. Grenier and S. Nadeau) |
| Oct 21 | Michal Horvath | Oxford | Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization: A Theoretical Assessment (with C. Nolan) |
| Oct 28 | David Gray | Ottawa | [off-site] (with R. Finnie and Y. Zhang) |
| Nov 4 | Gustavo Bobonis | Toronto | The Dynamic Effects of Information on Political Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Puerto Rico (with L. Camara Fuertes and R. Schwabe) |
| Nov 18 | Stanley Engerman | Rochester | [off-site] (with K. Sokoloff) |
| Nov 25 | Christos Ntantamis | Mt. Allison | [off-site] |
| Dec 2 | Chinhui Juhn | Houston | Men, Women and Machines: How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality |