GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

2024 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Political Economy
Advisor: Justin Cook, Tulane University

• Dongkyu Yang, University of Colorado, Boulder - Department of Economics
  Time to Accumulate In the South
• Pablo A. Valenzuela, University of British Columbia - Department of Economics
  Highway Site Selection and Race: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
• Toshio Ferrazares, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics 
  The Effect of ShotSpotter Technology on Police Response Times
• Victoria Mooers, Columbia University - Department of Economics
  Social Networks and Electoral Competition

Group #2 | Topics in Applied Microeconomics
Advisor: D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University

• Anja Gruber, University of Colorado, Boulder - Department of Economics
  The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave Policies on the Early Career Decisions of College Educated Women
• Huihuang Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics
  Evaluating the Achievement and Inequality Effects of Academic Tracking: Lessons from Advanced Placement
• Jessica Kiser, Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics
  Access to Maternal Healthcare and Home Births: Evidence from Midwifery Regulation and Maternity Ward Closures
• Monique Davis, University of Minnesota - Applied Economics
  School Resource Office Selection and Training on Racial Disparities in Exclusion

Group #3 | Applied Microeconomics: Past & Present
Advisor: Lawrence J. White, New York University

• Adam Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics
  Optimal Insurance Scope: Theory and Evidence from US Crop Insurance
• Calvin Bryan, Colorado State University - Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Is that $30,000 Drop Effective?
• Ozgen Kiribrahim-Sarikaya, Arizona State University - Department of Economics
  Place-Based Environmental Regulation and Labor Market Dynamics
• Raymond Kim, University of California, Merced - Department of Economics
  Making a Police Officer: Police Quality After the Spoils System in the Urban US

Group #4 | Microeconomics and Public Policy
Advisor: Kathleen McGarry, University of California, Los Angeles

• Adrian Amaya, University of Hawaii at Mānoa - Department of Economics
  Medicaid Enrollment Responses to Wildfire Pollution
• Emily Arnesen, University of Oregon - Department of Economics
  Teacher Raises, Retention and Education
• Kalvin Mudrow, West Virginia University - Department of Economics
  Schooling Post Pandemic: The Effect of Shutdowns on Students Moving Forward

2023 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Health, Education, and Social Media
Advisor: Jane Ruseski, West Virginia University 

• Addison (Spencer) Perry, Arizona State University - Department of Economics
  Dynamic (In)efficiencies in Public Insurance Provision: Evidence from the Medicaid Expansion
• Kairon Garcia, Washington State University - School of Economic Sciences
  How Did School Closures Affect High School Seniors?
• Rachel Nesbit, University of Maryland at College Park - Department of Economics 
  Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System: The Effect of Mandating Treatment for Convicted Individuals
• Xhulio Uruci, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics
  Animus, Beliefs, and Social Media in Uncertain Times

Group #2 | Empirical Political Economy
Advisor: Justin Cook, Tulane University

• Pierre Biscaye, University of California, Berkeley - Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Agricultural Shocks and Conflict in the Short- and Long-Term: Evidence from Desert Locust Swarms
• Ernesto Tiburcio Manon, Tufts University - Economics Department and The Fletcher School
  The Local Reaction to Unauthorized Mexican Migration to the US
• Reem Zaiour, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
  Violence in Mexico, Return Intentions and Integration of Mexican Migrants in the US
• Sakina Shibuya, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Agricultural and Applied Economics
  Understanding the Costs of Hiring Women in Pakistan

Group #3 | Topics in Applied Microeconomics
Advisor: D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University

• Tanner Eastmond, University of California, San Diego - Department of Economics
  How Does Where You Live Change What You Think? Evidence From Volunteer Missionaries
• Eli Kochersperger, West Virginia University - Department of Economics
  Quantifying the Effects of Fentanyl Exposure Misinformation on Opioid Mortality
• Jhih-Yun Liu, University of Minnesota - Department of Applied Economics
  The Dust Bowl and Occupational Persistence in Agriculture
• Fabiola Alba-Vivar, Teachers College, Columbia University - Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis
  Opportunity Bound: Transport and Access to College in a Megacity

Group #4 | Microeconomic Analyses and Public Policy
Advisor: Lawrence J. White, New York University

• Pearl Li, Stanford University - Department of Economics
  Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? Winners and Losers from Dynamic Toll Pricing
• Philip Economides, University of Oregon - Department of Economics 
  Unconventional Protectionism in Containerized Shipping
• C. Adam Pfander, University of Colorado, Boulder - Department of Economics
  Trade and the Competition for Transport
• Nayul Kim, Ohio State University - Department of Economics
  Dynamic Evaluation of Preference Program in Public Procurement Market

2022 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 - Health and Education

Advisor: Jane Ruseski, West Virginia University

• Elise Marifian, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
  Selling College: The Effects of Advertising on Enrollment at Less-Selective Colleges
• James Flynn, University of Colorado Boulder - Department of Economics
  Can Expanding Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?
• Opinder Kaur, University of California, Riverside - Department of Economics 
  Intergenerational Health Effects of Adult Literacy Programs: Evidence from India
• Parker Rogers, University of California at San Diego - Department of Economics
  Regulating the Innovators: Approval Costs and Innovation in Medical Technologies

Group #2 - Crime, Conflict, Health, and Labor
Advisor: Francisca M. Antman, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Roman Rivera, Columbia University - Department of Economics
  The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes
• Livia Alfonsi, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Meet Your Future: Job Search Efforts and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
• Mohammad Ahmad, Tufts University - Department of Economics
  Historical Conflict & Contemporary Economic Preferences
• Kattya Quiroga-Velasco, University of Maryland - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Broken Trust: Forced Sterilizations in Peru

Group #3 - Applied Micro
Advisor: Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming 

• Osaretin Olurotimi, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
  Does Conflict Harm Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Uganda
• Christopher Malloy, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics
  The Socioeconomic Consequences of Wildfire Liability: Evidence from PSPS Events in California
• Molly Elder, Tufts University - Department of Economics
  Calculating the Social Cost of Wildfire Emissions
• Aldo Gutiérrez Mendieta, University of Maryland - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  A Tale of Two Goods: The Role of Environmentally Friendly Products in Consumer Choice and Public Policy

Group #4 - Public Policy
Advisor: Justin Cook, University of California, Merced

• Xinle Pang, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Economics
  Moving into the Floodplains: The Spatial Implications of Federal Disaster Relief Policies
• Maria Victoria Barone, University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics 
  Sick Pay and Labor Supply
• Minseon Park, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
  Sorting, Commuting, and School Choice
• Hadar Avivi, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
  One Land, Many Promises: Heterogeneous Childhood Location Effects

2021 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 |  Education, Health, and Labor
Advisor: Francisca M. Antman, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics
  Sent Away: Long-term Effects of Forced Displacements
• Ilaria D'Angelis, Boston College - Department of Economics
  Are We There? The Search for Amenities and the Early Career Gender Wage Gap among Highly Educated Workers
• Kaitlyn Sims, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
  Seeking Safe Harbors: Emergency Domestic Violence Shelters and Family Violence
• Luis Armona, Stanford University - Department of Economics
  Redesigning Federal Student Aid in Higher Education

Group #2 | Economics of Education, Health, and the Household
Advisor: Jane Ruseski, West Virginia University 

• Nikolai Boboshko, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  The Effect of Tenure Laws on Students: Evidence from the Implementation of Tenure Systems in the 20th Century
• Arian Seifoddini, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
  How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Affect Household Expenditures for Single Female Heads of Households?
• Ernest Dorillas, Georgia State University - Department of Economics
  Distance and Quality Tradeoff: The Tale of US Rural Mothers

Group #3 | Applied Micro for Policy
Advisor: Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming 

• Karen Ortiz-Becerra, University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Land Concentration and Rural Labor Markets: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
• Eleanor Wiseman, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Trade, Informality and Corruption: evidence from small-scale traders in Kenya
• John Moorehouse, University of Oregon - Department of Economics
  Carbon Taxes in Spatial Equilibrium
• Alexander Cardazzi, West Virginia University - Department of Economics
  Nudging and Driving: An Analysis of Dynamic Message Signs in Virginia

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

• Maggie Shi, Columbia University - Department of Economics
  The Costs and Benefits of Monitoring: Evidence from Medicare Audits
• Arkadev Ghosh, University of British Columbia - Department of Economics 
  Religious Divisions, Production Technology and Firm Productivity: Experimental Evidence from India
• Robel Alemu, Tufts University - Department of Economics
  Long-term Impacts of Micronutrient Deprivation on Education Attainment: Evidence from Wartime Disruption of Iodized Salt in Ethiopia
• Julieth Santamaria, University of Minnesota - Department of Applied Economics
  When a Stranger Shall Sojourn with Thee: The Impact of the Venezuelan Exodus on Colombian Labor Markets

2020 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

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
  Work Half-Time, Receive Full-Time Pay: Effect of Novel Family Policy on Female 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 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

2019 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 |  Social Welfare Outcomes of Federal and State Policies
Advisor: Maureen Pirog, Indiana University 

• David Arnold, Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section
  The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Labor
• Zachary Bleemer, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
  Affirmative Action, Percent Plans, and the Return to Postsecondary Selectivity
• Amrita Kulka, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Department of Economics
  Sorting into Neighborhoods and Schools: The Role of Minimum Lot Sizes
• Cody Tuttle, University of Maryland, College Park - Department of Economics
  Racial Discrimination in Federal Sentencing: Evidence from Drug Mandatory Minimums 

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

• Will Davis, Georgia State University - Department of Economics
  Should Kids Have Their School Lunch and Eat It Too? Estimating the Effect of Universal Free School Meals on Child Health
• Angela Denis, University of Chicago - Department of Economics
  Health Depreciation Uncertainty and Working Decisions of Older Individuals
• Krisztina Horvath, Boston College - Department of Economics
  Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Marketplaces: Using Nudges to Fight the Death Spiral
• Shuqiao Sun, University of Michigan - Department of Economics
  Dynamic Complementarities Very Early in Life: Family Planning, Early Childhood Education, and Lifetime Human Capital

Group #3 | Applied Micro
Advisor: Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming 

• Matthew Gammans, University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  Information and Adaptation: Time Use Response to Weather Forecasts
• Alohi Nakachi, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management
  Indigenous Knowledge and the Tragedy of the Commons
• Cory Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics
  Land Concentration and Long-run Development: Evidence from the Frontier United States
• Jason Somerville, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  Choice-Set-Dependent Preferences and Salience: An Experimental Test

Group #4 | Domestic and International Macro
Advisor: Scott Schuh, West Virginia University 

• Sylverie Herbert, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  Strategic Communication with Heterogeneous Beliefs
• Karam Jo, University of Maryland, College Park - Department of Economics 
  Defensive Innovation and Firm Growth in the US: Impact of International Trade
• Yang Li, Simon Fraser University - Department of Economics
  Time-Varying Fear, Trading Volume, and The Great Recession
• Jiannan Zhou, University of Colorado Boulder - Department of Economics
  Survey Evidence on Habit Formation

2018 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 |  Macroeconomics, Development & International Finance
Advisor: Nancy Jianakoplos, Colorado State University 

• Isha Agarwal, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  The Bank Lending Channel and the Exchange Rate Disconnect
• Alex Xi He, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics
  Rent-Extracting Mergers
• Jonathan Malacarne, University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  The Farmer and The Fates: Perceptions of Self-Efficacy, Learning and Investment in a Stochastic Production Process

Group #2 | Policy Effectiveness in Education, Energy, Environment & Development
Advisor: Maureen Pirog, Indiana University 

• Katy Bergstrom, Stanford University - Department of Economics
  The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers
• Matthew Butner, University of Colorado Boulder - Department of Economics
  Gone with the Wind: Consumer Surplus from Renewable Generation
• Jongwook Lee, University of Minnesota- Department of Applied Economics
  The Effect of Early Childhood Malnutrition on Human Capital Development in Ethiopia

Group #3 | Applied Micro Analysis: Labor, Environment & Education
Advisor: Daniel Rees, University of Colorado Denver 

• Sarah Bana, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics
  Identifying Vulnerable Displaced Workers: The Role of State-Level Occupation Conditions
• Maulik Jagnani, Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  Sunset-Induced Reallocations of Time and Human Capital Production
• Nicholas Wright, Georgia State University - Department of Economics
  Need-Based Financing Policies, College Decision-Making and Labor Market Behavior
• Karen Ye, University of Chicago - Department of Economics
  Peer Effects in College Application Interventions

Group #4 | Labor Market Issues & Behavioral Economics
Advisor: Jane Ruseski, West Virginia University 

• Panka Bencsik, University of Sussex - Department of Economics
  Stress and Behavioral Effects of Neighborhood Crime: Evidence from the UK
• Chang Hyung Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics 
  Minimum Wage Policy and Community College Enrollment Patterns
• Ding Xuan Ng, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
  Technological Unemployment and Occupational Mobility
• Siobhan O'Keefe, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
  Baby's Gone: The Effects of Increased Sentencing Severity on Fertility and Family Formation

2017 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 |  Credit, Debt Collection, Public Health, Local Impacts
Advisor: John Cawley, Cornell University 

• Janjala (Pom) Chirakijja, Northwestern University - Department of Economics
  The Local Economic Impacts of Prisons
• Julia Fonseca, Princeton University - Department of Economics
  Access to Credit and Financial Health: Evaluating the Impact of Debt Collection
• Lauren Hoehn Velasco, Boston College - Department of Economics
  Human Capital Formation and the Childhood Disease Environment: Evidence from a Rural Public Health Investment in the US
• Yi Xin, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
  Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets

Group #2 | Networks, Reputation, Media Personality & Political Premium 
Advisor: Tim Brennan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Vesall Nourani, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  Social Network Effects of Technology Adoption: Investing with Family, Learning from Friends & Reacting to Acquaintances
• Harry Di Pei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -  Department of Economics
  Reputation Effects under Interdependent Values
• Heyu Xiong, Northwestern University - Department of Economics
  Media Personality and Its Political Premium

Group #3 | Immigration, Migration, Crime & Minimum Wage
Advisor: Nancy Jianakoplos, Colorado State University

• Christine Braun, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics
  Crime and the Minimum Wage
• Oleg Firsin, Cornell University, School of Applied Economics and Management
  Low-Skilled Immigration and Offshoring Effects on Native Wages
• Chen Liu, University of California, San Diego - Department of Economics
  Quantifying the Impacts of a Skill-based US Immigration System Reform
• Ruben Rojas Valdes, University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  The Dynamic Migration Game: A Structural Econometric Model and Application to Rural Mexico

Group #4 | Inequality, ACA & Risky Sex, SNAP & Obesity
Advisor: Maureen Pirog, Indiana University

• Augustine Denteh, Georgia State University - Department of Economics
  The Effect of SNAP on Obesity in the Presence of Endogenous Misreporting
• Nick Tsivanidis, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
  Commuting Technologies, City Structure and Urban Inequality: Evidence from Bogota's TransMilenio
• Barton Willage, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard: Lessons from the ACA and Risky Sex

2016 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Empirical Investigations in Education and International Trade 
Advisor: Nancy Jianakoplos, Colorado State University 

• Barbara Biasi, Stanford University - Department of Economics
  Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin
• Felix L. Friedt, University of Oregon - Department of Economics
  Trade Policy Effectiveness in the Presence of Integrated Bilateral Transport Costs: The Importance of the Backhaul Problem to the Determination of Trade
• Sharat Ganapati, Yale University - Department of Economics
  Globalized Sourcing, Scale Economies, and Local Market Power: The Modern Wholesaler
• Lester R. Lusher, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
  College Better: Parimutuel Betting Markets as a Commitment Device and Monetary Incentive

Group #2 | Education, Labor Markets, Healthcare and Culture
Advisor: Maureen Pirog, Indiana University

• Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, University of Chicago - Department of Economics
  How Much is Formality Worth? Evidence from Mexico's Labor Market
• Atul Gupta, Stanford University -  Department of Economics
  Quality Incentives, Hospital Responses and Patient Health
• Ciprian Domnisoru, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Public Policy and Management
  Overeducation, Choice of College Major and Parental Background
• James V. Marrone, University of Chicago - Department of Economics
  Culture as a Habit: Assimilation and Language Learning Over the Lifecycle

Group #3 | Programs and Policies Affecting Human Capital, Child Development, Hospital Stays and Consumer Behavior
Advisor: Brian Duncan, University of Colorado

• Teresa Molina, University of Southern California - Department of Economics
  Pollution, Ability and Gender-Specific Investment Responses to Shocks
• Victor A. C. Ronda, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
  Maternal Mental Health and Child Development
• Liam Rose, University of California, Santa Cruz - Department of Economics
  The Effects of Skilled Nursing Facility Care: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Medicare
• Rebecca L. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics
  Giving Plastic Bags the Sack: The Non-Monetary Costs of Changing Consumption

Group #4 | Health, Education and Welfare 
Advisor: Bruce McGough, University of Oregon

• Serena Canaan, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics
  Parental Leave, Intra-Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being
• Peter Hull, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics
  Hospital Quality and Choice: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
• Lindsey K. Novak, University of Minnesota - Department of Applied Economics
  School of Thought: The Role of Formal Education in Shifitng Opinions of Female Genital Cutting in Burkina Faso
• Evan Riehl, Columbia University - Department of Economics
  Mismatch and Complementaries: Admission Exams and the Allocation of College Quality

2015 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Economics of Health 
Advisor: John Cawley, Cornell University 

• Diane Alexander, Princeton University, Department of Economics
  Do Doctors Engage in Risk Selection? Unintended Consequences of Paying Doctors to Reduce Costs
• Benjamin David Ukert, Georgia State University, Department of Economics
  The Effect of Smoking Cessation on Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
• Ariell Zimran, Northwestern University, Department of Economics
  Does Sample-Selection Bias Explain the Industrialization Puzzle?  Evidence from Military Enlistment in the Ninetheenth-Century United States
• Jennifer E. Muz, University of California, Irvine, Department of Economics
  The Impact of the Business Cycle on Fertility Decisions among Dual Earner Couples

Group #2 | Programs and Policies Affecting Education and Fertility 
Advisor: Brian Duncan, University of Colorado, Denver

• Nazmul Ahsan, University of Southern California, Department of Economics
  Do Parents Selectively Time Birth Relative to Ramadan? Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh
• Ricardo Espinoza, University of Maryland, Department of Economics
  Quality Information Disclosure and College Choice Decision: Evidence from an Accreditation Program
• Michel Z. Grosz, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics
  The Returns to Community College Health Programs: Evidence from California
• Jenna E. Stearns, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Economics
  The Effects of Paid Maternity Leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance

Group #3 | Addressing Economic Issues with Data from Diverse Economies 
Advisor: Nancy Jianakoplos, Colorado State University

• Ellen McCullough, Cornell University, School of Applied Economics and Management
  Understanding Agricultural Labor Exits in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Obie C. Porteous, University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
  High Trade Costs and Their Consequences: An Estimated Model of African Agricultural Storage and Trade
• Aine Seitz McCarthy, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics
  His and Her Fertility Preferences: An Experimental Evaluation of Differential Information in Family Planning
• Joseph Briggs, New York University, Department of Economics
  Wealth and Portfolio Risk: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries

Group #4 | Telephones, School Testing, Public Health, and Wages 
Advisor: Maureen Pirog, Indiana University

• Robert M. Gonzalez, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Economics
  Social Monitoring and Electoral Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan
• Sarah A. G. Komisarow, The University of Chicago, Department of Economics
  Public Health Regulation and Mortality: Evidence from Early 20th Century Milk Laws
• Na'ama Shenhav, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics
  The Power of the Purse: Linking Changes in the Wage Structure, the Gender Gap and Family Outcomes
• Michael J. Thacker, University of Oregon, Department of Economics
  A Bayesian Estimator of State-Space Time-Varying-Parameter Logit Models: An Evolutionary Model of Telephony Demand

2014 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Education, Human Capital, Health & Labor Market
Advisor: Brian Duncan, University of Colorado, Denver 

• Stefanie Fischer, University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Economics
  The Differential Effect of Classroom Composition on Men's and Women's STEM Persistence: Evidence from General Chemistry
• Gizem Kosar Karaca, John Hopkins University - Department of Economics
  The Effect of the EITC on Human Capital Formation
• Elira Kuka, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
  Unemployment Insurance and Health
• Ben Zou, University of Maryland - Department of Economics
  The Local Economic Spillover Effects of Military Personnel Contractions

Group #2 | Econometric Investigations in Joint Consumption: Education, Networks, Climate, and Drug Coverage in Health Insurance
Advisor: Greg Hunter, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

• Michael Gechter, Boston University - Department of Economics
  Extrapolating the Results of Social Experiments: Identification of Predicted Average Treatment Effects and Evidence from Two Education Experiments in India
• Denise Hammock Clayton, University of California, San Diego - Department of Economics
  The Effect of Prescription Drug Coverage on Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid
• Michael Leung, Stanford University - Department of Economics 
  A Random-Field Approach to Inference in Large Network Models
• Benjamin Miller, University of California, San Diego - Department of Economics
  Does Validity Fall from the Sky? Observant Farmers, Exogenous Rainfall, and Climate Change

Group #3 | Effects of Young Children and Older Juveniles 
Advisor: Nancy Jianakoplos, Colorado State University

• Gulcan Cil, University of Oregon - Department of Economics 
  The Effects of Posted Point-of-Sale Warnings on Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy and on Birth Outcomes
• Ankita Patnaik, Cornell University - Department of Economics
  Reserving Time for Daddy: The Short and Long-Run Consequences of Fathers' Quota
• Kevin Shih, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
  The Impact of International Students on U.S. Graduate Education
• Megan Stevenson, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics 
  Breaking Bad: Social Influence and the Path to Criminality in Juvenile Jails

Group #4 | Bank Lending, Credit, and Debt 
Advisor: Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College

• Filippo De Marco, Boston College - Department of Economics 
  Bank Lending and the Sovereign Debt Crisis
• Benjamin Hebert, Harvard University - Business School
  Moral Hazard and the Optimality of Debt
• Ji Huang, Princeton University - Department of Economics 
  Banking and Shadow Banking
• Xuyang Ma, New York University, Stern School of Business - Department of Finance 
  Safe Harbor or Automatic Stay? A Model of Repo Runs

2013 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Topics in Liquidity, Information, and Trade
Advisor: Ellis W. Tallman, Oberlin College 

• Daniel J. Grodzicki, Stanford University
  Competition and Price Dispersion in the Credit Card Market
• Philip A. Luck, University of California, Davis
  Intermediate Good Sourcing, Wages and Inequality: From Theory to Evidence
• Jacopo Magnani, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Financial Circuit Breakers: Theory and Experiments
• Alvaro Pedraza, University of Maryland, College Park
  Strategic Information Revelation and the Misallocation of Capital
• Qi Sun, University of Southern California
  A Model of Corporate Liquidity Management

Group #2 | Applied Micro and Experimental Economics
Advisor: Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado, Denver 

• Richard B. Baker, Boston University
  From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil’s Impact on Education in Rural Georgia
• Joseph R. Cummins, University of California, Davis
  The Use and Misuse of Child Height-for-Age Z-score in the Demographic and Health Surveys
• Deborah Goldschmidt, Boston University
  State Abortion Restriction and Children’s Living Circumstances
• Guojun He, University of California, Berkeley
  The Health Effects of Air Pollution: Evidences from the 2008 Beijing Olympics
• Malgorzata Switek, University of Southern California
  Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult

2012 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Labor, Experimental Economics, and Health
Advisor: Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado, Denver 

• Ciril Bosch-Rosa, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Surveying Annoyance in the Lab 
• Christopher J. Cronin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Annual Health Insurance Decisions, Uncertain Health Transitions, and within Year Medical Care Consumption 
• Lisa J. Dettling, University of Maryland, College Park
  Opting Back In: Home Internet Use and Female Labor Supply 
• John Michael Ian S. Salas, University of California, Irvine
  Evaluating the Impact of a Disruption in Publicly-Provided Contraception Supply on Fertility Outcomes in the Philippines 

Group #2 | Macroeconomics, Finance, Markets, and the Environment
Advisor: William S. Neilson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

• Chiara Farronato, Stanford University
  Sale Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions? 
• Kate Foreman, University of California, Berkeley
  Does Congestion Pricing Decrease Traffic Volumes and Travel Times? Evidence from Bay Area Toll Charges 
• Weishi Grace Gu, Cornell University
  Jobless Recoveries: Employment Benefit Cost and Financial Frictions 
• Gazi Ishak Kara, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  International Competition and Coordination for the Regulation of Systematic Risk 
• Stephen J. Terry, Stanford University
  A Whale of A Tale: The Economics of Subsistence Hunts

2011 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Advisor: Jeffrey T. LaFrance, Washington State University, Pullman

• Jing Cai, University of California, Berkeley
  Determinants of Microinsurance Takeup: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in China
• Kate B. Fuller, University of California, Davis, Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis, and Jim Sanchirico, University of California, Davis
  Spatial Externalities and Vector-Borne Plant Diseases: Pierce’s Disease and the Blue-Green Sharpshooter in the Napa Valley
• David Haim, Oregon State University
  Three Essays on the Economics of Climate Change, Land Use and Carbon Sequestration
• Matthew J. Niedzwiecki, University of California, San Diego
  Estimating the Income Elasticity of Demand of Medical Care
• Byoung Hoon Seok, University of Rochester
  Growth, Undervaluation, and Global Imbalances: The Role of Learning-by-Exporting

Group #2 | Advisor: Gordon B. Dahl, University of California, San Diego

• Brad Hershbein, University of Michigan
  Worker Signals among New College Graduates: The Role of Selectivity and GPA
• Ernest Boffy-Ramirez, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Explaining Changes in Immigrant Educational Attainment
• Mohsen Javdani, Simon Fraser University
  Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? The Role of Firms in Male-Female Wage Disparity in Canada
• Meryl Motika, University of California, Irvine
  Planning Prosperity and Wealth: An Investigation of Retirement Saving Behavior
• Denis Tkachenko, Boston University, and Zhongjun Qu, Boston University
  Identification and Frequency Domain QML Estimation of Linearized DSGE Models

2010 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Advances in Modeling Dynamic Processes
Advisor: Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona

• Diether Beuermann, University of Maryland, College Park
  The Role of Local Governments’ Efficiency in Decentralized Public Service Delivery: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Russia 
• Tim A. Graciano, Washington State University
  The Timing of Fixed Costs to Trade 
• Joanne W. Hsu, University of Michigan
  Re-dividing Labor within the Household: Ability, Human Capital, and Financial Decision Making in Older Couples

Group #2 | Policy Issues for Developing Countries
Advisor: Jeffrey B. Nugent, University of Southern California

• Gabriel Lara-Ibarra, University of Maryland, College Park
  Pension Reforms and the Incentives to Save: Lessons from Mexico 
• Donghyun Lee, University of Oregon
  Essays in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and Technology 
• Todd Pugatch, University of Michigan
  Essays on Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries

2009 Graduate Student Workshop Participants

Group #1 | Macro/Trade
Advisor: Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College

• Hirokazu Ishise, Boston University
  Trade Dynamics 
• Brian Kovak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Essays on Trade Policy, Local Labor Markets, and Inequality 
• Tatevik Sekhposyan, University of North Carolina
  Inflation and Output Growth Differentials in the Euro Area: The Role of Monetary Policy 
• Greg Wright, University of California, Davis
  Offshoring Costs and Worker Response to the Changing Distribution of Tasks 

Group #2 | Applied Micro
Advisor: Ronald L. Oaxaca, University of Arizona, Tucson

• Moriah Bellenger, Oregon State University
  Essays on Environmental Productivity 
• Sera Linardi, California Institute of Technology
  Expected Information (EI): An Environment Sensitive Measure for Information Aggregation
• Maria Canon, University of Rochester
  The Role of Schools in the Production of Achievement 
• Byron Lee, University of Toronto
  The Impact of Labour Market Experience on Employment Outcomes for High School Graduates: Evidence from British Columbia