Each year, we present a series of speakers who come to the O’Neill School from around the world to discuss today’s topics related to public affairs.
Public Affairs Research Speaker Series
Upcoming events
Past speakers
- 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
Joe Arvai
Professor and Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research
Department of Geography
University of Calgary
Friday, Sept. 19
Keith Ihlanfeldt
DeVoe L. Moore Eminent Scholar in Economics; and
Director of the DeVoe L. Moore and Family
Department of Economics
Florida State University
Friday, Sept. 19
Ethan Leiber
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, Sept. 23
Javier Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Fellow
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan
Friday, Sept. 26
Johnny Yinger
Trustee Professor of Public Administration
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
Friday, Oct. 17
Mike McKee
Professor
Department of Economics
Walker College of Business
Appalachian State University
Friday, Dec. 12
Ann Markusen
Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; and Director, Project on Regional and Industrial Economics
University of Minnesota