Since 2025, we have held a series of roundtables involving presentations of early-stage research by faculty and PhD students. Each speaker presents for 10 minutes on a relatively new research project, followed by 20 minutes of discussion and feedback. The main goal is to create an opportunity to get feedback at a much earlier stage than a conventional brown-bag workshop. The meetings are also intended to build a sense of community among PhD students and faculty working in applied microeconomics, and to create an environment in which students become increasingly comfortable with presenting and giving suggestions about colleagues’ research.
We began our online speaker series in the 2020-21 academic year with:
Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M), December 1, 2020
Paul Novosad (Dartmouth), March 10, 2021
David Deming (Harvard), April 14, 2021
Nancy Qian (Northwestern Kellogg), May 12, 2021
Petra Moser (NYU Stern), May 19, 2021
Laura Salisbury (York), May 26, 2021
Our 2021-22 online speaker series included seminars by:
Aaron Chalfin (Pennsylvania), October 20, 2021
Rick Hornbeck (Chicago Booth), November 3, 2021
Sarah Miller (Michigan Ross), November 10, 2021
Natalia Zinovyeva (Warwick), December 1, 2021
Marianne Bitler (UC Davis), December 8, 2021
Jeffrey Clemens (UCSD), March 9, 2022
Eyal Frank (Chicago Harris), March 30, 2022
Our online speaker series continued in 2022-23 with seminars by:
Martin Hackmann (UCLA), September 22, 2022
Anna Dreber Almenberg (Stockholm School of Economics), October 6, 2022
Sarah Baird (Georgetown), November 3, 2022
Peter Hull (Brown), November 10, 2022
Seema Jayachandran (Princeton), December 8, 2022
Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po), March 2, 2023
Anya Samek (UCSD Rady), March 9, 2023
Marion Aouad (UC Irvine), March 23, 2023
Each year from 2017-18 to 2019-20, we held an in-person workshop on a different theme. Our workshops featured one-hour seminar-style presentations.
First Annual Workshop, February 16, 2018
With Francisco Costa (FGV/EPGE), Ricardo Pique (Ryerson), Marc Sangnier (Aix-Marseilles)
Second Annual Workshop, April 26, 2019
Workshop Theme: Political Economy of Development
With Ray Fisman (Boston), Jonas Hjort (Columbia), Ruixue Jia (UCSD), Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown), Yanos Zylberberg (Bristol)
Third Annual Workshop, September 27-28, 2019
Workshop Theme: Women's Economic Empowerment
With Siwan Anderson (UBC), Raquel Fernandez (NYU), Erica Field (Duke), Sara Hernandez (Northwestern), Sonia Laszlo (McGill), Sahar Parsa (NYU), Na'ama Shenhav (Dartmouth), Clementine Van Effenterre (Toronto)
Funded by the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue
In 2019, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa's Graduate Economics Students Association, our PhD student members Fabien Forge and Philippe Kabore held seminars for faculty and graduate students introducing Python and R.
In fall 2021, we held two methodological seminars for graduate students. On October 6, Fabien Forge presented an introduction to statistical learning. On November 24, Jason Garred discussed recent work on difference-in-differences and two-way fixed effects methods, based on the summer 2021 reading group run by Taylor Wright.
From 2017 to 2021, we ran a reading group attended by the lab's organizers and its PhD students. In each session, one of our PhD student members read a recently published paper and presented it to the group.