Center for Micro-Economic Policy Research (CMEPR)
Micro-Economic Policy Seminar (MEPS): Every Tuesday from 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST in VMH 322 at the Arlington campus of George Mason University
August 27th: Seth Gershenson (American University) – Do Grow-Your-Own Programs Work? Evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
September 3rd: Emily Wisniewski (FRBoG – Census) – How to Access Restricted Data in the FRB Federal Statistical RDC
September 6th (Friday) 1-5 pm VMH 602: FACULTY RESEARCH DAY Program
September 10th: Caio Piza (World Bank) – Manager Selection, Sorting and Demotion in the Public Sector
September 17th: Adam Bloomfield (FDIC) – Determinants of Workplace Retirement Benefit Provision and Quality: Analyzing Firm and Workforce Characteristics
September 24th: TBA
October 1st: Sandra Decker (AHRQ) – FQHCs and Access to Health Care
October 8th: Karen Shen (Johns Hopkins University) – Alleviating Worker Shortages Through Targeted Subsidies: Evidence from Incentive Payments in Healthcare
October 15th: Valentina Duque (American University)
October 22nd: Pablo Acosta (World Bank)
October 29th: Caue Dobbin (Georgetown University) – Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility
November 5th: Yujung Hwang (Johns Hopkins University) – An Estimable General-Equilibrium Structural Model of Immigrants’ Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration
November 12th: Diego Angel-Urdinola (World Bank) – Can Digital Personalized Learning for Mathematics Remediation Level the Playing Field in Higher Education? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador
November 19th: Ekkehard Koehler (University of Siegen, Germany) – What happens if you ask your legislator about police violence? Experimental evidence on political elites’ responsiveness before the US 2020 Elections
November 26th: TBA
December 3rd: TBA
Political Science Brown Bag series
First and third Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST in Aquia Hall 334 at the Fairfax campus of George Mason University
Sep 4: Chris Quillen (graduate student), “Dead Sheep Tell No Tales: Aum Shinrikyo’s Sarin Tests in Australia Never Happened”
Sep 18: Meghan Garrity, “The Salience of ‘Gender Apartheid’ – A Survey Experiment”
Oct 2: Ryan Pallas (graduate student), “Military Change in the Volunteer Era: A Marine Corps Most-Likely Case Study Regarding Human Capital Policies and Practices”
Oct 9: Julianna Thomson (graduate student), “Sacred Speech: Analyzing the Influence of Congressional Leadership on Religious Rhetoric”
Oct 16: Sanggyu Suh (graduate student), “‘Vae puto deus fio’: International Security Threats from Negligence on Climate Action”
Oct 30: Luis Rodriguez, “Strategic Morality: How Global Publics Accept Both Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament”
Nov 13: Rob McGrath, “Not all Borders are Barriers: Policy Conformity and Opioid Outcomes in the U.S. States”
Nov 20: Sungbin Park (graduate student), “Unemployment Insurance and Racial Disparities in Covid Mortality