Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2026
Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.
Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins, Steven Helfand & Ajin Lee
When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.
| DATE | NAME | TITLE OF PRESENTATION |
|---|---|---|
| 1/7/2026 | No Seminar | |
| 1/14/2026 | Pierre Mouganie, Simon Fraser | Role Models and the Formation of Long-Run Gender Norms |
| 1/21/2026 | No Seminar | |
| 1/28/2026 | Jeffrey Clemens, UCSD | Health Impacts of Federal Pandemic Aid to State and Local Governments |
| 2/4/2026 Zoom | Heitor Pellegrina, Notre Dame | Directed Innovation meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution |
| 2/11/2026 | Nicolás de Roux, Uniandes | Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity |
| 2/18/2026 | Na’ama Shenhav, UC Berkeley | Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children |
| 2/25/2026 | Jonathan Kolstad, UC Berkeley | Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity, decision making and medical diagnosis |
| 3/4/2026 | David Arnold, UCSD | The Labor-Market Impacts of a Major Merger: Evidence from the Security Guard Industry |
| 3/11/2026 | No Seminar |