Monday, 11 Oct 2021
Seminar: Maya R. Eden (Brandeis University)
"The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate" How should policy discount future returns? The standard approach to this normative question is to ask how much society should care about future generations relative to people alive today.
Thursday, 14 Oct 2021
Seminar: Chad Cotti (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
"An Evaluation of Unemployment Insurance Work Search Requirements: A Wisconsin Case Study"
Friday, 15 Oct 2021
Seminar: "Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease"
"Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease" Kaivan Munshi (Yale University) This research provides a single explanation for: (i) the persistence of malnutrition and (ii) the increased prevalence of metabolic disease (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease) among normal weight individuals with economic development.