Applied Microeconomics Seminars

The Economics Department is pleased to announce our upcoming Applied Microeconomics seminars.

All Applied Microeconomics seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM (Eastern time), unless indicated otherwise. If a seminar is being held via Zoom, please contact Marie Browne if you would like to attend: mpbrown@emory.edu

Please note: Seminars are added throughout the academic year.

Friday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Edward Norton, UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management, University of Michigan
Location: Rich 104
Title:  "Why Transform Y? The Pitfalls of Transformed Regressions with a Mass Point at Zero"
Host: Sara Markowitz

Note: This seminar is sponsored by the Hightower Fund. All are invited to attend.

Tuesday, September 26    CANCELLED
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Ranae Jabri, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Location: R. Randall Rollins (Room R577)
Title: TBA
Host: Chris Karbownik

Tuesday, October 17
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Lauren Hoehn Velasco, Georgia State University
Location: R. Randall Rollins (Room R577)
Title: "Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition"
Host: Maggie Jones

Tuesday, October 24
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Laura Zimmerman, University of Georgia
Location: R. Randall Rollins (Room R577)
Title: "Political Organizations and Political Scope"
Host: Stephen O'Connell

Thursday, October 26
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto
Location: R. Randall Rollins (Room R577)
Title: "Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution" 
Host: Maggie Jones/Nels Lind

Note: This is a joint seminar with Macroeconomics.

Tuesday, October 31
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Bocar Ba, Duke University
Location: Goizueta Business School (Room W131)
Title: “Forecasting the Impact of Racial Uprisings, Who Are the Experts?"
Host: David McMillon/Maggie Jones

Please note: Seminars are added throughout the academic year.

Tuesday, February 6
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Olga Stoddard, Brigham Young University
Location: TBA
Title: TBA
Host:  Stephen O'Connell

Thursday, February 22
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Jonathan Dingel, Chicago Booth
Location: TBA
Title: TBA
Host: Nels Lind/Maggie Jones

Note: This is joint seminar with Macroeconomics.

Tuesday, April 9
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Molly Schnell, Northwestern University
Location: TBA
Title: TBA
Host: Maggie Jones

Tuesday, April 16
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Robin Lee, Harvard University
Location: TBA
Title: TBA
Host: Evan Saltzman