Macalester College Economics Department Research Seminar Series
Spring 2021
February 4, 2021
Liang Ding, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Macalester College
“Does COVID-19 Make Selective Colleges Less Selective?”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
March 4, 2021
Jakina Debnam Guzman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College
“Identity During a Crisis: COVID-19 and Ethnic Divisions in the United States”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
April 1, 2021
Tiffany Green, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
Fall 2020
September 11, 2020
Sasha Indarte ’13, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt”
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
October 1, 2020
Lindsey Novak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, Colby College
“Income Shocks and Social Signaling: Evidence from Female Genital Cutting”
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
November 5, 2020
Cathy Kling, Ph.D., Tisch University Professor, Cornell University
“The Social Cost of Water Pollution”
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
December 3, 2020
Eeshani Kandpal ’05, Ph.D., Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank
“Cash Transfers, Food Prices and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom
December 10, 2020
Terry-Ann Craigie, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Connecticut College
“Ban the Box, Convictions and Public Employment”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual, via Zoom