Public Affairs Research Speaker Series

• April 10: David Keiser, Professor, University of the Massachusetts Amherst: “Gross External Damages of Water Pollution in the United States”
• April 3: Phillip Connor, Senior Demographer and Director of the Immigration Fellows Program, Princeton University: “Plyler Power: Mobility Gains of Immigrant Children Benefiting from Public K-12 Education”
• March 6: Alan Zarychta, Associate Professor, University of Chicago: “Municipal Government Corruption and Responsiveness under Decentralization: Evidence from a List Experiment”
• February 20: Kenneth Lowande, Associate Professor, University of Michigan: “Does Executive Action Work? Evidence from Military Subsidies to Policing”
• February 13: Aya Okada, Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Sciences in Japan: “Understanding Giving in Japan: Donor Motivation and Vocabularies of Motive”
• January 23: Ed Glaeser, Professor, Harvard University: “What Will Make Places Successful in the 21st Century”
• January 16: Kevin Bryan, Associate Professor, University of Toronto: “Tools for an AI-driven Research Process”

• December 5: Sarah Miller, Associate Professor, University of Michigan: “The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children”
• November 7: Fengxiu Zhang, Assistant Professor, George Mason University: “Balancing growth and impacts: A conjoint design on residents’ preferences for data center policy”
• October 17: Krista Ruffini, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University; “Is a Dollar a Dollar? The Impact of Recurrent and One-Shot Food Vouchers and Cash Transfers on Grocery Purchases”
• September 26: Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University: “Barriers to Innovation, Coping Strategies, and The National Context”
• September 19: Nicole Marwell, Professor, University of Chicago, “Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector”
• September 5: Gregory Porumbescu, Associate Professor, Rutgers University; “From Street-Level to Screen-Level: Representative Bureaucracy in Digital Service Environments”
• August 29: Kurt Lavetti, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, “The Earnings Incidence of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance”
• April 25: Briana Ballis, Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Merced, “Early Life Health Conditions and Racial Gaps in Education”
• March 28: Neil Malhotra, Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business: “The Politics of Small Business Owners”
• March 7: Donald Moynihan, J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School: “Administrative Checkpoints, Burdens, and Human-Centered Design: Increasing Interview Access to Raise SNAP Participation”
• February 28: Keith Teltser, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University: “Ridesharing and External-Cause Mortality”
• January 31: Mirae Kim, Associate Professor at George Mason University:“From Allies to Adversaries: Understanding Nonprofit Policy Engagement Through Revenue Sources.”
• January 17: David Schwegman, American University-“The Community-Wide Benefits of Wind Energy”

• December 6: Jaclyn Piatak, University of North Carolina: “Experimental Examinations of Prosocial Rule Breaking”
• November 15: Margaret Jones, Emory University “A Vaccination Scar: The Cutter Incident and Medical Mistrust in America”
• November 8: Mark Chin, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College: “Not-so-free markets? The impact of voucher and charter school expansion on school finance outcomes and mechanisms”
• November 1: Sanghee Park, Associate Professor at O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Indianapolis: “Cutbacks, Representation, and Goal Tradeoffs”
• October 25: Elizabeth Bell, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin:”Does improving customer experience increase employment assistance uptake? Experimental evidence from Ticket to Work”
• October 18: Susan Parker, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University: “The Effects of Permit less Concealed Carry Laws on Crime”
• October 4: Mary Evans, Professor at The University of Texas at Austin: “Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children”
• September 20: Woody Powell, Stanford University: “Civic Life Reexamined: How Do Organizational Practices Influence Participation?”
• September 13: Jonathan Tebes, University of Notre Dame,”Racial Disparities in Police Stopping Decisions”
• September 6: Daniel Jones, Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, “Relative exposure to negative economic shocks, racial animus, and voting”
• August 30: Danae Hernandez Cortes, Arizona State University: “The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil”
• April 26: Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter, Vanderbilt University: “Transgender Earnings Effects in the United States: Evidence from Administrative Data”
• March 1: Samantha Zuhlke, University of Iowa:”The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government”
• February 16: Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University: “The Economics of Coastal Resilience”
• February 2: Wendy Wong, University of British Columbia: “We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age”
• January 12: Bhagyashree Katare, Purdue University: “Minimum Wage and Food Safety: Evidence from US Meat and Poultry Processing Industry”

• December 1: Jhacova WIlliams, American University: “The Highway to Displacement: Interstate 10 and Black Residents in New Orleans”
• October 6: Mary Evans, University of Texas at Austin- “Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children”
• September 29: Lars Hansen, Nobel Laureate, University of Chicago, “How Should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy”
• September 22: Craig Gundersen, Baylor University: “The Impact of Charitable Food Assistance on Food Insecurity”
• April 14: Anthony Amoah, UESD, Ghana: Access to Water and Billing Issues in a Developing Country”
• March 31: Alberto Ortega, IU O’Neill School: “Psychiatric Treatment Centers and Police Officer Safety”
• March 24: Imke Reimers, Northeastern University
• March 3: Erdal Tekin, American University: “The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence”
• February 24: Marion Aouad, UC-Irving: “The Intracorrelation of Family Health Insurance and Job Lock”
• January 27: Koji Chavez, Indiana University: “’Hiring Folks for Diversity’:The Commodification of Gender and Racial Diversity in Hiring by Job Level”

• November 11: Iuliia Shybalkina, University of Kentucky: “When Are Property Taxes the Most Hated? When House Prices Drop.”
• October 28: Catherine Kling, Cornell University: “The Social Cost of Water Pollution”
• October 21: Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland: “Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality” and “The Family Gap: How Inequality in Family Structure is Contributing to Class Gaps in Society”
• September 30: Rosalie Pacula, University of Southern California: “The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Laws on Cannabis Related Health Encounters: Measuring Medical Markets Matters”
• September 9: Chris Goodman, Northern Illinois University: “What Lies Beneath These Creatures of the State: Understanding the Death of U.S. Local Governments”
  

Friday, August 30

Sarah Jacobson

Host: Denvil Duncan

Friday, September 13

Ithai Lurie and Jacob Goldin

Lurie is with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Goldin is an assistant professor with the Stanford Law School.

Host: Brad Heim

Friday, October 4

Michael Anderson

Host: Alex Hollingsworth

Friday, October 18

Spencer Banzhaf

Host: Andrew Chupp

Friday, November 1

Eric Zou

Host: Nikos Zirogiannis

Friday March 8

Sayeh Nikpay
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Host: Alex Hollingsworth

Friday March 29

Pete Boettke
University Professor of Economics and Philosophy
George Mason University

Host: Justin Ross

Friday March 29

Seth Blumsack
Pennsylvania State University

Hosted by: David Konisky, Environmental Policy Seminar and Sanya Carley, PAPF Speaker Series

Friday April 5

Don Fullerton
Gutgsell Professor
Department of Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: Anthony Liu

Friday April 12

Lucy Qiu
Assistant Professor
School of Public Policy
University of Maryland

Host: Sanya Carley

Friday, October 6

David Bradford
Busbee Chair in Public Policy
Department of Public Administration and Policy
School of Public and International Affairs
University of Georgia

Friday, October 13

Nolan Miller
Professor of Finance and Julian Simon Faculty Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, October 27

Sean Nicholson
Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University

Friday, November 17

Jinhau Zhao
Professor
Department of Economics
Michigan State University

Friday, January 20

Arturo Herrera (hosted by Claudia Avellaneda)
Sector Manager: Governance Global Practice
The World Bank Organization

Increasing Transparency, Fighting Corruption, Improving Revenue Mobilization, and Strengthening Service Delivery at the Local Level

Friday, March 3

Beth Shinn (hosted by Shahzeen Attari)
Professor, Dept. of Human & Organizational Development
Vanderbilt Peabody College

Friday, March 31

Ron Shadbegian (hosted by David Konisky)
U.S. EPA

Co-sponsored by the Policy Analysis and Public Finance faculty group and the Environmental Science faculty group

Friday, April 21

Kate Bundorf (hosted by: Victoria Perez)

Friday, September 9

Shanjun Li (hosted by Anthony Liu)

Associate Professor, Cornell University

Friday, September 23

Haiwai Tang (hosted by Ahn Tran)

Assistant Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, September 30

Workshop on Data Visualization
with Jonathan Schwabish (hosted by Kosali Simon and Diane Henshel)

Senior Research Associate at The Urban Institute and Founder of PolicyViz.com

Co-sponsored by the Policy Analysis and Public Finance faculty group, Governance and Management faculty group, and the O’Neill Dean’s Office

Wednesday, October 12

Brown Bag with Patrick Cummins

Senior Policy Advisor, Lead on Western States Clean Power Plan Initiative, Colorado State University

Co-sponsored with Environmental Policy Seminar

Friday, October 28

Whitney Afonso (hosted by Justin Ross)

Albert and Gladys Coates Distinguished Term Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Friday, November 18

Johannes Urpelainen (hosted by: David Konisky)

Associate Professor, Columbia University

Cosponsored by the Policy Analysis and Public Finance faculty group, Governance and Management faculty group, and the O’Neill Dean’s Office.

Friday, January 29

Benjamin Chupp
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Georgia Tech

Friday, Feb. 12

Tom Birkland
William T. Kretzer Professor of Public Policy
North Carolina State University

Friday, February 26

Anthony LoSasso
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago

Friday, April 1

Ted Joyce
Professor of Economics and Finance
Baruch College

Friday, April 22

Tom DeLeire
Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University

Friday, Sept. 18

Daniel McMillen
Professor of Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, Sept. 25

Maureen Brown
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Friday, Oct. 16

Gregory Burge
Associate Professor of Economics
Oklahoma University

Thursday, Oct. 22

Fay Cook 
Assistant Director and head of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate National Science Foundation
and
School of Education and Social Policy and Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University

Friday, Oct. 23

Thomas Cook
Department of Sociology, Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy, and Department of Psychology
Northwestern University

Friday, Dec. 4

Douglas Almond
Associate Professor of Economics
Columbia University

Friday, Feb. 20

Zach Miller
Department of Economics
University of Missouri

Friday, Feb. 27

James Shortle
Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
Penn State University

Thursday, March 5

Fay Cook 
Assistant Director and head of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate National Science Foundation
and
School of Education and Social Policy and Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University

Friday, March 6

Thomas Cook
Department of Sociology, Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy, and Department of Psychology
Northwestern University

Friday, March 27

Greg Duncan
School of Education
UC Irvine

Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2

Public Finance Conference

Federal, State, and Local Budgets in Jeopardy: A Conference on America's Fiscal Future

Monday, Sept. 8

Friday, Sept. 19

Friday, Sept. 19

Tuesday, Sept. 23

Friday, Sept. 26

Friday, Oct. 17

Friday, Dec. 12