Event Date
Past Ph.D. students from the Department of Economics at UC Davis, who are currently faculty and researchers in different institutions around the world, will visit and present papers from their area of research. This is the first meeting with Alumni. There will also be mentoring and networking happening at the event.
Agenda
Friday, May 19
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8:30 – 9:00AM |
WELCOME & BREAKFAST |
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9:00 – 9:30AM |
Teny Shapiro, Santa Clara University Maternal Sleep and Infant Health Outcomes |
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9:30 – 10:00AM |
Nick Sanders, Cornell University Long Run Pollution Exposure and Adult Mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program |
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10:00 – 10:30AM |
Jeremy Moulton, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill You are 16 going on 17: An Examination of Income Reductions on Household Expenditures Using the Child Tax Credit |
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10:30 – 11:00AM |
COFFEE BREAK |
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11:00 – 11:30PM |
Ariel Weinberger, University of Oklahoma Banking Deregulation and the Labor Share: Evidence from US States |
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11:30AM– 12:00PM |
Brock Smith, Montana State University Left in the Dark? Oil and Rural Poverty |
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12:00 – 1:30PM |
LUNCH |
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1:30 – 2:00PM |
Jessamyn Schaller, University of Arizona Caution! Men not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Maltreatment |
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2:00 – 2:30PM |
Florence Bouvet, Sonoma State University Estimating the Impact of the Economic and Monetary Union on National Income Inequality: A Synthetic Counterfactual Approach |
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2:30 – 3:00PM |
COFFEE BREAK |
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3:00 – 3:30PM |
Chad Sparber, Colgate University The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity |
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3:30 – 4:00PM |
Elira Kuka, Southern Methodist University and IZA Staying in School to Stay in the States: The Impact of Conditioning Immigration Policy on Educational Attainment |
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4:00 – 4:30PM |
Seema Sangita, TERI University Poverty and Migration: Evidence of Distress Migration from India |
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5:30PM |
MENTORING/ POFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT |
Saturday, May 20
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9:00 – 10:00AM |
JUNIOR FACULTY/ OTHER MENTORING & BREAKFAST |
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10:00 – 10:30AM |
Matt Larsen, Lafayette College Socially Promoted, Academically Retained: The Effects of Nuanced Grade Retention Policies |
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10:30 – 11:00AM |
Joseph Cummins, UC Riverside Age-Profile Estimates of the Relationship between Economic Growth and Child Health |
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11:00 – 11:30AM |
COFFEE BREAK |
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11:30 – 12:00PM |
Lisa Schulkind, University of North Carolina at Charlotte The Effects of Perceived Disease Risk and Access Costs on Infant Immunization |
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12:00 – 12:30PM |
Greg Wright, UC Merced Patenting and Performance in the Global Economy |
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12:30PM |
LUNCH Future planning |
