Past Speakers
2025–26
| Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Baum-Snow | Toronto | Housing Affordability and the Mobility of Renters |
| Jiwon Choi | Brandeis | Save the Banks, Save the People? Long-run Impact of Banking Access on Households |
| Linh Tô | BU | The Child Penalty and an Age-Old Problem |
| Joanna Venator | Boston College | Reproductive Policy Shocks and Defensive Investments in Contraception |
| Nathan Franz | UT Austin | Cheaper and Better? Explaining a Newborn Mortality Advantage at Public Versus Private Hospitals in India |
| Monica Agarwal | Northwestern | The Role of Affirmative Action in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality: Evidence from India |
| Balazs Zelity | Wesleyan | Demographics and International Capital Flows: An Empirical Assessment |
| Mehedi Hasan Oni | Clark | — |
| Edson Severnini | Boston College | Carbon Rollercoaster: A Historical Analysis of Decarbonization in the United States |
2024–25
| Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Doug Gollin | Tufts | The Long-Run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India |
| Stefania Garetto | BU | No Sugar Coating: Quantifying the Welfare Losses from the US–Cuba Trade Policy |
| Hong Ma | Tsinghua | Tariffs Tax the Poor More: Evidence from Household Consumption During the US–China Trade War |
| Laura Gee | Tufts | Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement |
| Eoin McGuirk | Tufts | Development Mismatch? Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa |
| Jesse Bruhn | Brown | Path Dependence in the Labor Market: The Long-run Effects of Early Career Occupational Experience |
| Moshi Alam | Clark | — |
| Mindy Marks | Northeastern | Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility |
| Federico Esposito | Tufts | Input Sourcing under Risk: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms |
2023–24
| Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Oster | Brown | COVID-19 and Education in the United States |
| Yuhei Miyauchi | BU | Supply Chain Disruption and Reorganization: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine’s War |
| Bryce Steinberg | Brown | Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Beliefs and Contraceptive Take-Up |
| Danial Lashkari | NY Fed | Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy |
| Nishith Prakash | Northeastern | Science on the Move: How Mobile Pedagogy Shapes Human Capital |
| Sadia Priyanka | Connecticut | Intergenerational Effect of an Education Stipend Program on Child Development: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| Ana Cecília Fieler | Yale | The Margins of Trade |
| Marcella Alsan | Harvard Kennedy School | Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying: The Rise of Private Health Insurance in the United States |
| Conor Carney | Holy Cross | Strategic Grain Reserves and Deforestation |
| Gib Metcalf | Tufts | — |
| Kensuke Suzuki | Clark | Structural Change in the Global Economy |
2022–23
| Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Aizer | Brown | What Happens When an Industry Runs Dry? Long-Term Evidence from Prohibition |
| Jacob Bor | BU | Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho |
| Stelios Michalopoulos | Brown | The Songs of Refugees |
