Seminars and Guest Speakers Fall 2026 & Spring 2027


JongSoo Lee (KU Ph.D. Candidate)

Does College Pay Off for Ethelred the Unready?

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

 SpeakerPresentation TitleFaculty Host
September 4Donna Ginther  
September 9Janet Currie (Yale University)

"Doctor Decision Making and Racial Gaps in C-Sections"

This seminar will be at 5:00 pm in Snow 120.

Slusky
September 18Le Wang (Virginia Tech)

"Economics and Econometrics of Intergenerational Mobility"

This seminar will be at 5:00 pm in Snow 452.

Parsaeian/Ginther

 

September 25Seok Young Hong (University of Singapore)

"Functional Predictability Tests"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Cai
September 30Xiaodong Liu (University of Colorado-Boulder)

"Specification Test for Spillover Structure"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Mehrabani
October 5Syeda Marjana Razzak(KU Ph.D. Candidate)

"No-Fault Divorce Laws, Women's Mortality, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. States"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Slusky
October 14David Kaplan (University of Missouri)

"Robustness with Ordinal Outcomes"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Mehrabani
October 21Mumtahina Islam (KU Ph.D. Candidate

"Foreign Training and Academic Careers: Evidence on Pay, Promotion, and Attrition in U.S. Universities"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Ginther
October 30Kamala Guluzade (K-State Ph.D. Candidate)

"Macro-Economic Determinants of Business Formation in U.S.; ARDL Approach"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Mehrabani
November 2Sarah Miller (University of Michigan)

"The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Slusky
November 13Trambak Banerjee (KU Business School)

"Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation on Heterogeneous Data"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Mehrabani
November 20Jonas Striaukas (Copenhagen Business School)

"Estimation and Inference for Sparse Autoregressive Conditional Duration Models"

Please contact sh.parsaeian@ku.edu                        for ZOOM Link

Parsaeian
November 23Joseph Bommarito (IPSR-University of Kansas)

"Bargaining Over Care: Measurement, Household Allocation, and Family Decisions"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Slusky
December 2Enock Bulime (K-State Ph.D. Candidate)

"Export and Import Price Shocks and Public Debt in Africa?"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452

Ali
December 7David Johnson (University of Central Missouri)

"TBA"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452

Slusky
January 27, 2027Sam Mann (Rand)

"TBA"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Slusky
March 1, 2027Liisa Laine (University of Missouri)

"TBA"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Slusky
March 10, 2027Charles Hokayem (U.S. Census Bureau)

"The Historical Impacts of the Child Tax Credit on Income Inequality Across Demographic Groups"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm Location TBD

Heggeness
May 3, 2027Elior Cohen (Federal Reserve - Kansas City)

"TBA"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Slusky
May 5, 2027Adam McCloskey (University of Colorado Boulder)

"TBA"

This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452.

Mehrabani