Seminars: Public Economics
| Seminar in Public Economics |
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| Term: Spring 2026 |
| Location: Littauer Center 301, Hansen Mason Lounge (unless noted otherwise*) |
| Meeting Time: Wednesday 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM (unless noted otherwise*) |
Description: Invited speakers present theoretical and empirical research on a broad range of topics related to the design of government policy. |
List Serve/Announcements: Join Public Economics Listserv |
Coordinator: Ursula Ferraro Notes: The seminars in Labor Economics and Public Economics meet jointly through the semester on Mondays and Wednesdays. *Joint with Opportunity Insights: 2/11 Wednesday 4:30-5:45pm, Littauer 301 2/24 Tuesday 12:00 - 1:15 PM, OI 3/11 Wednesday 4:30-5:45pm, OI |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE (some are preliminary) |
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February 4 | Abi Adams (Northwestern University) | "The Economic Impacts of Rape" (with K. Huttunen, E. Nix & N. Zhang) |
February 11* | Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam) | "Tax Misperceptions and Labor Supply: A Two-Wave Survey Experiment" (with Job Harms and Arjan Non) |
February 18 | Luis Armona (Harvard Kennedy School) | "Second-Best Amendment: Market Power and Tax Design in the Firearms Industry" (with Adam M. Rosenberg) |
February 24* Tuesday | Anton Korinek (University of Virginia) | "Public finance in the age of AI: A primer" (with Lee M. Lockwood) |
March 4 | Lorenzo Lagos (Brown University) | "What Do (Thousands of) Unions Do? Union-Specific Pay Premia and Inequality" (with E. Derenoncourt, F. Gerard, and C. Montialoux) |
March 11* | Eric Zwick (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) and Owen Zidar (Princeton) | The Everywhere Millionaire: Who is Really Rich and How They Got There |
March 18 | No Seminar - Spring Break | N/A |
March 25 | Pauline Mourot (Boston University) | |
April 1 | Darrick Hamilton (The New School) | |
April 8 | Rebecca Diamond (Harvard University) | "Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing" (with William Diamond) |
April 22 | Suresh Naidu (Columbia University) | |
April 29 | Trevon Logan (Ohio State University) | “Competition and Consumer Discrimination” (with Maggie EC Jones, David Rose, and Lisa D. Cook) |
May 6 | Cody Cook (Yale University) | "Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location" (with Pearl Li and Ariel Binder) |