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.
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Faculty Host | |
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| September 4 | Donna Ginther | ||
| September 9 | Janet 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 18 | Le Wang (Virginia Tech) | "Economics and Econometrics of Intergenerational Mobility" This seminar will be at 5:00 pm in Snow 452. | Parsaeian/Ginther
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| September 25 | Seok Young Hong (University of Singapore) | "Functional Predictability Tests" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Cai |
| September 30 | Xiaodong Liu (University of Colorado-Boulder) | "Specification Test for Spillover Structure" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Mehrabani |
| October 5 | Syeda 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 14 | David Kaplan (University of Missouri) | "Robustness with Ordinal Outcomes"This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Mehrabani |
| October 21 | Mumtahina 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 30 | Kamala 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 2 | Sarah 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 13 | Trambak Banerjee (KU Business School) | "Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation on Heterogeneous Data" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Mehrabani |
| November 20 | Jonas Striaukas (Copenhagen Business School) | "Estimation and Inference for Sparse Autoregressive Conditional Duration Models" Please contact sh.parsaeian@ku.edu for ZOOM Link | Parsaeian |
| November 23 | Joseph 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 2 | Enock 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 7 | David Johnson (University of Central Missouri) | "TBA" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452 | Slusky |
| January 27, 2027 | Sam Mann (Rand) | "TBA" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Slusky |
| March 1, 2027 | Liisa Laine (University of Missouri) | "TBA" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Slusky |
| March 10, 2027 | Charles 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, 2027 | Elior Cohen (Federal Reserve - Kansas City) | "TBA" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Slusky |
| May 5, 2027 | Adam McCloskey (University of Colorado Boulder) | "TBA" This seminar will be at 3:30 pm in Snow 452. | Mehrabani |