Virtual 95th Annual Conference

Virtual Program (as of 5/27/20)

We are excited to present WEAI's first ever virtual conference program including over 140 sessions! All are welcome to attend free of charge. Program participants, registrants, and WEAI members will be automatically invited to attend.

Not on the program or a WEAI member? To receive your invitation to attend the sessions, please email [email protected] to be added to the attendee list. When the conference platform is launched about June 8th, you will receive an invitation via email to join the conference!

Conference Schedule

All times are Mountain Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -6).

Friday, June 26
10:15 am-12:00 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm-2:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
2:30 pm-4:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm-6:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions

Saturday, June 27
8:15 am-10:00 am -- Concurrent Sessions
10:15 am-12:00 n -- Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm-2:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
2:30 pm-4:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm-6:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions

Sunday, June 28
8:00 am-6:30 pm -- Registration Open
8:15 am-10:00 am -- Concurrent Sessions
10:15 am-12:00 n -- Keynote Address by Maurice Obstfeld, University of California, Berkeley
12:30 pm-2:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
2:30 pm-4:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm-6:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions

Monday, June 29
8:15 am-10:00 am -- Concurrent Sessions
10:15 am-12:00 n -- Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm-2:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
2:30 pm-4:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm-6:15 pm -- Concurrent Sessions

Tuesday, June 30
8:15 am-10:00 am -- Concurrent Sessions
10:15 am-12:00 n -- Concurrent Sessions

Conference Close

Pre-cancellation Preliminary Program

We invite you to browse the original Denver preliminary program as of April 8, 2020. 

Virtual Conference Registration

There is no charge to attend the virtual conference sessions. All program participants, registrants, and WEAI members will automatically be invited to attend free of charge!

Not on the program or a current WEAI member? You are still welcome to join us. To obtain an invitation for the conference, please email [email protected] to be added to the attendee list.

The event platform will be launched about June 8th, at which time emails will go out with invitations and instructions for log in.

Designed to help students prepare for the highly-competitive job market, this program offers selected Ph.D. candidates hands-on experience in job-market paper presentation skills and interview techniques. Since 2009, the workshop has been held in conjunction with WEAI’s Annual Conference, which was planned to be held June 26-30, 2020, at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Denver, Colorado. 

2020 Selected Students and Workshop Groups

Group #1 |  Development & Labor
Advisor: Francisca M. Antman, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Maria Caballero, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Economics
  The Impact of Destination Immigration Policies on Origin-Country Human Capital Investment
• Eduardo Cenci, University of Wisconsin, Madision - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
  Internal Migration and the Spread of Long-Term Impacts of Historical Immigration in Brazil
• Grant Graziani, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
  Provider Practice Styles and Patient Race: Evidence from Primary Care
• Ezra Karger, University of Chicago - Department of Economics
  The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s

Group #2 | Health, Labor and Welfare Economics
Advisor: Jane Ruseski, West Virginia University 

• Anne Burton, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  Smoking Bans in Bars and Restaurants, Alcohol Consumption, and Social Welfare
• Luciana Etcheverry, University of Oregon - Department of Economics
  Effect of Paid Paternity Leave on Paternal Involvement and Labor Market Outcomes
• Alexa Prettyman, Georgia State University - Department of Economics
  Happy 18th Birthday, Now Leave: The Hardships of Aging Out of Foster Care
• Siddhartha Sanghi, Washington State University, St. Louis - Department of Economics
  Health Inequality: Role of Insurance and Technological Progress

Group #3 | Games, Experiments & Rationality
Advisor: Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming 

• Jefferson A. Arapoc, University of Newcastle, Australia - Department of Economics
  Impacts of Wealth Distribution Systems on Individual Trust
• Chelsea Pardini, Washington State University - Department of Economic Sciences
  Game-Theoretic Analysis of US Settlement Allowing for Coercion and Activism
• Yuxin Su, Claremont Graduate University - Department of Economics
  How to Improve Motivation Using Pro-social Bonuses: An Experiment

Group #4 | Dan's World of Applied Micro
Advisor: Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado, Denver

• Nicolas Carollo, University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics
  The Effect of Occupational Licensing and Certification Policies on Wage and Employment Dynamics
• Christina Kent, Stanford University - Department of Economics 
  When A Town Wins the Lottery: Evidence from Spain
• James Sayre, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
  Make Avocados not Drugs: Export Opportunities, Criminal Organizations, and Rural Development in Mexico
• Katherine Wen, Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis & Management
  Influenza Vaccination Requirements in Nursing Homes: Impacts on Elderly Hospital Events and Mortality

WEAI members are invited to submit their revised conference papers for possible publication in one of WEAI's two journals, Contemporary Economic Policy (CEP) or Economic Inquiry (EI), published quarterly in partnership with Wiley Publishing. The normal submission fee is waived if the paper is submitted before December 31, 2020. Scheduled paper presenters will receive submission waiver information by email in the coming weeks.

Contemporary Economic Policy

First published in 1982 as Contemporary Policy Issues, CEP strives to communicate results of high-quality economic analysis to policymakers; to focus high-quality research and analysis on current policy issues of widespread concern; to increase awareness among economists of aspects of the economy key to understanding the impact of policy; and to advance policy analysis methodology. CEP welcomes three categories of articles: 1) essays analyzing specific policy issues; 2) surveys of important general subject areas; and 3) research articles devoted to developing new methods for policy analysis

Economic Inquiry

EI (formerly Western Economic Journal), is widely regarded as one of the top scholarly journals in its field. Besides containing research on all economics topic areas, a principal objective is to make each article understandable to economists who are not necessarily specialists in the article's topic area. More than 20 Nobel Laureates are among EI's long list of prestigious authors.

Review the manuscript submission guidelines for more information about submitting your manuscript. Questions? contact [email protected]

Program Chairs

• Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley
• Wade Martin, California State University, Long Beach, and Western Economic Association International

Contemporary Economic Policy Session Chair

• Jack W. Hou, California State University, Long Beach, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Session Organizers

• James H. Alleman, University of Colorado Boulder
• Hannah Altman, Queensland University of Technology
• Morris Altman, University of Dundee
• Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California, Merced
• Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder
• Rojhat Avsar, Columbia College
• Laura H. Baldwin, RAND Corporation
• Atin Basuchoudhary, Virginia Military Institute
• Tim A. Bersak, Wofford College
• Jane M. Binner, University of Birmingham
• Diana Bonfim, Banco de Portugal and Católica Lisbon
• Metin Cakir, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon
• C. Monica Capra, Claremont Graduate University
• Beryl Y. Chang, New York University
• David S. C. Chu, Institute for Defense Analyses
• Lucas Coffman, Boston College
• Cynthia Cook, RAND Corporation
• Kevin Cooksey, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Kalena Cortes, IZA
• William D. Craighead, U.S. Air Force Academy
• Laura Crispin, Saint Joseph's University, Pennsylavnia
• Mario J. Crucini, Vanderbilt University
• Darwyyn Deyo, San Jose State University
• David S. Dixon, University of New Mexico
• Takero Doi, Keio University
• Zadia M. Feliciano, Queen's College, CUNY, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and NBER
• Tom Geraghty, CNA Corporation
• Jacob Goldin, Stanford Law School
• Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley
• Alfred V. Guender, University of Canterbury
• Shawkat Hammoudeh, Drexel University
• Michael J. Haupert, University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
• Suzanne Helburn, University of Colorado Denver
• Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences
• Brady P. Horn, University of New Mexico
• Jonathan Hughes, University of Colorado Boulder
• Brad R. Humphreys, West Virginia University
• Kim Huynh, Bank of Canada
• John Ifcher, Santa Clara University
• Sarah K. John, Institute for Defense Analyses
• Gisella Kagy, Vassar College
• Chong-Uk Kim, Sonoma State University
• Jaebeom Kim, Oklahoma State University
• David Knapp, RAND Corporation
• Michael S. Kofoed, United States Military Academy
• Jonathan Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley
• Jordan Lenger, University of Colorado Boulder
• Tsai-Ching Liu, National Taipei University
• Sakib Mahmud, University of Wisconsin -- Superior
• Lauren Malone, CNA Corporation
• Kara Mandell, CNA Corporation
• Paul Mark Mason, McMurry University
• Molly McIntosh, RAND Corporation
• Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• John D. Merrifield, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Kyle Neering, CNA Corporation
• Jeffrey B. Nugent, University of Southern California
• Eugene B. Nyantakyi, Oklahoma State University
• Kelsey J. O'Connor, STATEC Luxembourg
• Jerry Pannullo, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Jungsoo Park, Sogang University
• Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
• Ellen M. Pint, RAND Corporation
• Alicia Morgan Plemmons, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
• Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus
• Christopher S. Ruebeck, Lafayette College
• Jane E. Ruseski, West Virginia University
• Francesco Sarracino, STATEC Luxembourg
• Rahel Schomaker, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, and German Research Institute for Public Admin. Speyer
• Scott Schuh, West Virginia University
• Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
• Steven M Smith, Colorado School of Mines
• Chi-Young Song, Kookmin University
• Sue K. Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University
• Christine Strong, Old Dominion University
• Yuxin Su, Claremont Graduate University
• Malgorzata Switek, University of Southern California
• Raul Cruz Tadle, California State University, Sacramento
• Wei-Hua Tian, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Kashi Nath Tiwari, KNT's Academic Financial Research
• Walker F. Todd, University of Akron
• Patrick S. Turner, University of Notre Dame
• Nacasius U. Ujah, South Dakota State University
• Diego E. Vacaflores, Texas State University
• Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
• Tatsuma Wada, Keio University
• Gary A. Wagner, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Jessie Wang, Furman University
• Jeffrey B. Wenger, RAND Corporation
• Thomas D. Willett, Claremont Graduate University
• James A. Wilson, Russell Sage Foundation
• Wesley W. Wilson, University of Oregon
• John David Winkler, RAND Corporation
• Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley
• Mustafa Z. Younis, Jackson State University
• Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University
• Sarah Zubairy, Texas A&M University, College Station

Coordinators for Volunteer Sessions

• Yutian Chen, California State University, Long Beach
• Jinwon Kim, California State University, Long Beach
• Yanling Qi, California State University, Long Beach