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.
Friday, 22 Oct 2021
Seminar: "International Student Applications in the United Kingdom After Brexit"
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (University of California Merced) On June 23, 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. We examine how this decision (henceforth, Brexit) has impacted international student applications in the United Kingdom. Using administrative data spanning from 2013 through 2019, we find evidence of Brexit curtailing the growth rate of international student applications by seven percent.
Monday, 25 Oct 2021
Seminar: "Heterogeneous Asset Replacement with Failure Costs: An Empirical Model of Livestock Replacement"
Speaker: Jared Hutchins ( UIUC)
Thursday, 28 Oct 2021
"Immigrant Self-Employment across the United States"
Speaker: John V. Winters (ISU)
Friday, 29 Oct 2021
Seminar: "More Competitive Than You Think? Pricing and Location of Processing Firms in Agricultural Markets"
Richard Sexton (UC Davis) The spatial distribution of production is a defining characteristic of agriculture, and the location choice in geographic space and the spatial pricing policies adopted by agricultural processing/packing firms are key determinants of the competitiveness and efficiency of agricultural product procurement markets.