Seminar

Seminar Series

Department Seminar

Howard Economics 2024 Spring Seminar

The default date and time each week is Friday at 12:30-2 p.m., EST, by Zoom, unless stated otherwise. Faculty within the department are encouraged to present their research, and graduate students are welcome to attend these meetings to get to know potential advisors and committee members.

If you would like to present, you know of someone who would like to present, or you would like to be added to the seminar email list, please email elizabeth.asiedu@howard.edu.

Spring 2024 Schedule

 

Date Presenter Affiliation Paper Title
March 1  Dr. Eleni Yitberak University of Pretoria TBA
       
March 15 Dr. Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere Agnes Scott College TBA
       
March 22  Dr. Ama Baafra Abebrese Wellesley College TBA
       
March 29  Dr. Angeline Viceisza Spelman College TBA
       
April 5 Dr. Belinda Achibong Barnard College Firm Culture
       
April 12 Dr. Leonce Ndikumana UMASS Amherst Capital Fight from Africa: The Takers and the Enablers
       
April 19 Dr. Kosali Simons Indiana University TBA
       
April 26 Dr. William Hulk University of South Carolina TBA

 

Student Seminar

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Past Seminar Series

Fall 2022

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Topic

31-Aug

Claus Portner

Seattle University

Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence From Uganda

7-Sep

Alex Henke

Howard University

Increased UI Payments and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from the CARES Act

14-Sep

     

21-Sep

Jevay Grooms

Howard University

Social Security Interactions with Child Tax Credit Expansion

28-Sep

Marco Schwarz

DICE

Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies

5-Oct

     

12-Oct

Felix Owusu

Harvard University

Presumptive Declination and Diversion in Suffolk County, MA (ONLINE)

19-Oct

Seth Gitter

Towson University

Marriage, Taliban Rule, Norms and Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan

26-Oct

Samuel Kerns

 

An Introduction to Machine Learning Methods

2-Nov

Yana van der Muelen Rodgers

Rutgers University

Conversion Therapy, Suicidality, and Running Away: An Analysis of Transgender Youth in the U.S.

9-Nov

     

16-Nov

Gerald Jaynes

Yale University

Efficiency and Distributional Effects of Federal College Subsidies in the 1930s

Spring 2023

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Topic

January 31 @ 11 am

Emma Kalish

Johns Hopkins

Job Market Talk (TUESDAY)

February 1 @ 11 am

Mieke Meurs

American University

Paid Domestic Workers and the Care Deficit in Brazil

February 7 @ 10:30 am

Kyle Coombs

Columbia University

Job Market Talk (TUESDAY)

February 8 @ 11 am

Sergio Barrera

Virginia Tech

Learning From My Environment: Does Social Environment Predict Beliefs and Future Outcomes of Teenagers?

February 14 @ 11 am

Keisha Solomon

Howard University

Job Market Talk (TUESDAY)

February 22 @ 11 am

Isaac McFarlin

University of Florida, NBER

How Much Do Tuition Subsidies Promote College Access? Evidence From Community College Taxing Districts

1-Mar

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Spring Recess

15-Mar

     

22-Mar

     

29-Mar

     

5-Apr

Nathaniel Burke

West Virginia University

 

12-Apr

Meiping Sun

Fordham University

Money for MetroCards: How a New Card Fee Made New York Transit Riders Invest More and Lose More

19-Apr

     

Fall 2023

Fall 2023 Schedule

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Paper Title

October 6 @ 12:30-2 pm

Gregory N. Price

University of New Orleans

What Effect Does Being A Historically Black College/University Have On Endowments? Some Counterfactuals and Decompositions

October 13 @ 12:30-2 pm

TBA

   

October 20 @ 12:30-2 pm

Gary Hoover

Tulane University

Bank Deregulation and Racial Disparities in Income

October 27 @ 12:30-2 pm

Yoseph Getachew

University of Pretoria

Fiscal Policy with Risky Human Capital Investment

November 3 @ 12:30-2 pm

Kehinde Ajayi

Global Development Network

The Effects of Childcare on Women and Children: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso

November 17  @ 12:30-2 pm

Sebastain Laumer

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Monetary Policy Under Supply Chain Pressure

December 1 @ 12:30-2 pm

Belinda Achibong

Barnard College

Firm Culture