Public Affairs Research Speaker Series

• March 3: Erdal Tekin, American University
• February 24: Marion Aouad, UC-Irving
• January 27: Koji Chavez, Indiana University

• November 11: Iuliia Shybalkina, University of Kentucky: “When Are Property Taxes the Most Hated? When House Prices Drop.”
• October 28: Catherine Kling, Cornell University: “The Social Cost of Water Pollution”
• October 21: Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland: “Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality” and “The Family Gap: How Inequality in Family Structure is Contributing to Class Gaps in Society”
• September 30: Rosalie Pacula, University of Southern California: “The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Laws on Cannabis Related Health Encounters: Measuring Medical Markets Matters”
• September 9: Chris Goodman, Northern Illinois University: “What Lies Beneath These Creatures of the State: Understanding the Death of U.S. Local Governments”
  

Friday, August 30

Sarah Jacobson

Host: Denvil Duncan

Friday, September 13

Ithai Lurie and Jacob Goldin

Lurie is with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Goldin is an assistant professor with the Stanford Law School.

Host: Brad Heim

Friday, October 4

Michael Anderson

Host: Alex Hollingsworth

Friday, October 18

Spencer Banzhaf

Host: Andrew Chupp

Friday, November 1

Eric Zou

Host: Nikos Zirogiannis

Friday March 8

Sayeh Nikpay
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Host: Alex Hollingsworth

Friday March 29

Pete Boettke
University Professor of Economics and Philosophy
George Mason University

Host: Justin Ross

Friday March 29

Seth Blumsack
Pennsylvania State University

Hosted by: David Konisky, Environmental Policy Seminar and Sanya Carley, PAPF Speaker Series

Friday April 5

Don Fullerton
Gutgsell Professor
Department of Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: Anthony Liu

Friday April 12

Lucy Qiu
Assistant Professor
School of Public Policy
University of Maryland

Host: Sanya Carley

Friday, October 6

David Bradford
Busbee Chair in Public Policy
Department of Public Administration and Policy
School of Public and International Affairs
University of Georgia

Friday, October 13

Nolan Miller
Professor of Finance and Julian Simon Faculty Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, October 27

Sean Nicholson
Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University

Friday, November 17

Jinhau Zhao
Professor
Department of Economics
Michigan State University

Friday, January 20

Arturo Herrera (hosted by Claudia Avellaneda)
Sector Manager: Governance Global Practice
The World Bank Organization

Increasing Transparency, Fighting Corruption, Improving Revenue Mobilization, and Strengthening Service Delivery at the Local Level

Friday, March 3

Beth Shinn (hosted by Shahzeen Attari)
Professor, Dept. of Human & Organizational Development
Vanderbilt Peabody College

Friday, March 31

Ron Shadbegian (hosted by David Konisky)
U.S. EPA

Co-sponsored by the Policy Analysis and Public Finance faculty group and the Environmental Science faculty group

Friday, April 21

Kate Bundorf (hosted by: Victoria Perez)

Friday, September 9

Shanjun Li (hosted by Anthony Liu)

Associate Professor, Cornell University

Friday, September 23

Haiwai Tang (hosted by Ahn Tran)

Assistant Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, September 30

Workshop on Data Visualization
with Jonathan Schwabish (hosted by Kosali Simon and Diane Henshel)

Senior Research Associate at The Urban Institute and Founder of PolicyViz.com

Co-sponsored by the Policy Analysis and Public Finance faculty group, Governance and Management faculty group, and the O’Neill Dean’s Office

Wednesday, October 12

Brown Bag with Patrick Cummins

Senior Policy Advisor, Lead on Western States Clean Power Plan Initiative, Colorado State University

Co-sponsored with Environmental Policy Seminar

Friday, October 28

Whitney Afonso (hosted by Justin Ross)

Albert and Gladys Coates Distinguished Term Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Friday, November 18

Johannes Urpelainen (hosted by: David Konisky)

Associate Professor, Columbia University

Cosponsored by the Policy Analysis and Public Finance faculty group, Governance and Management faculty group, and the O’Neill Dean’s Office.

Friday, January 29

Benjamin Chupp
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Georgia Tech

Friday, Feb. 12

Tom Birkland
William T. Kretzer Professor of Public Policy
North Carolina State University

Friday, February 26

Anthony LoSasso
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago

Friday, April 1

Ted Joyce
Professor of Economics and Finance
Baruch College

Friday, April 22

Tom DeLeire
Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University

Friday, Sept. 18

Daniel McMillen
Professor of Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, Sept. 25

Maureen Brown
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Friday, Oct. 16

Gregory Burge
Associate Professor of Economics
Oklahoma University

Thursday, Oct. 22

Fay Cook 
Assistant Director and head of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate National Science Foundation
and
School of Education and Social Policy and Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University

Friday, Oct. 23

Thomas Cook
Department of Sociology, Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy, and Department of Psychology
Northwestern University

Friday, Dec. 4

Douglas Almond
Associate Professor of Economics
Columbia University

Friday, Feb. 20

Zach Miller
Department of Economics
University of Missouri

Friday, Feb. 27

James Shortle
Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
Penn State University

Thursday, March 5

Fay Cook 
Assistant Director and head of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate National Science Foundation
and
School of Education and Social Policy and Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University

Friday, March 6

Thomas Cook
Department of Sociology, Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy, and Department of Psychology
Northwestern University

Friday, March 27

Greg Duncan
School of Education
UC Irvine

Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2

Public Finance Conference

Federal, State, and Local Budgets in Jeopardy: A Conference on America's Fiscal Future

Monday, Sept. 8

Friday, Sept. 19

Friday, Sept. 19

Tuesday, Sept. 23

Friday, Sept. 26

Friday, Oct. 17

Friday, Dec. 12