2024 Conference @ University of North Texas

Conference Day Schedule (November 16, 2024)

9:00am-9:40am: Arrival, Breakfast & Coffee

9:40am-10:00am: Welcome

10:00am-11:40am: Concurrent sessions 1.1, 1.2

11:40am-12:00pm: Group photo

12:00pm-12:45pm: Lunch  

12:45pm-1:20pm: Coffee & Optional Campus Walk

1:20pm-3:00pm: Concurrent sessions 2.1, 2.2

3:00pm-3:20pm: Coffee Break

3:20pm-5:00pm: Concurrent sessions 3.1, 3.2

5:30pm: Dinner off Campus @ GreenHouse Restaurant Denton (Invitation Only)

After Dinner: Departure

Sessions

* indicates presenting author

10:00am-11:40am  Parallel Sessions 1 

S1.1 - Labor Economics

Chair: Lynn Bergeland Morgan (Texas Christian University)

Room: Wooten Hall 322

Lynn Bergeland Morgan* (Texas Christian University), "Local Labor Market Shocks and Disability Program Growth"

Tucker Smith* (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), "Do Human Capital Adjustments Protect Youths from Structural Change?"

Wookun Kim* (Southern Methodist University) & Giulia Briselli (ESCP Business School), "Owing Value to Scarcity? Intra-Household Implications of Immigration Reforms in South Korea"

Daniel Alejandro Vargas Castaño* (The University of Texas at Dallas), Dareem Antoine (The University of Texas at Dallas), & Trey Miller (The University of Texas at Dallas), "The Impact of Opt-Out Policies on Closing Gaps in Advanced Course-taking"

S1.2 - Urban/Regional Economics

Chair: Xi Yang (University of North Texas)

Room: Wooten Hall 316

Xi Yang* (University of North Texas), "More Credit, More Babies? Bank Credit Expansion, Housing Prices, and Fertility"

Zackary Hawley* (Texas Christian University) & Andrew Hanson (University of Illinois Chicago), "Real Estate Agent Response to Hispanic/Latino Clients: Hom ophily, Local Demographic, and Regional Differences"

Hanchen Jiang* (University of North Texas), Brent W. Ambrose (Pennsylvania State University), Xun Bian (University of North Texas), & Ruoyu Chen (University of Windsor), "Rent Control, Rent Overcharge, and Racial Disparity: Evidence from New York City"

David Quigley* (The University of Texas at Arlington), Chi-Young Choi (The University of Texas at Arlington), & Xiaojun Wang (University of Hawaii at Manoa), "The Impacts of Local Housing Markets on U.S. Presidential Elections: Via the Collateral Channel"

1:20pm-3:00pm  Parallel Sessions 2

S2.1 - Microeconomics/Industrial Organization

Chair: Michael R. Ward (The University of Texas at Arlington and ZEW, Mannheim)

Room: Wooten Hall 322

Michael R. Ward* (The University of Texas at Arlington and ZEW, Mannheim), “Digitization and Pedigree Bias in Academic Research”

Pengfei Zhang* (The University of Texas at Dallas), Dongkyu Chang (City University of Hong Kong), & Adrian Segura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Decentralizing Content Moderation"

Stepan Gordeev* (Texas Christian University) & Sudhir Singh (Michigan State University), "Misallocation and Product Choice"

Reid Taylor* (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) & Erich Muehlegger (University of California, Davis and NBER), "The Effects of Competition in the Retail Gasoline Industry"

S2.2 - Macroeconomics

Chair: Ren Zhang (Texas State University)

Room: Wooten Hall 316

Ren Zhang* (Texas State University) & Yang Yang (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law), "Combining Proxies and Narrative Sign Restrictions: Revisiting the Effects of Technology Shocks"

Azharul Islam* (The University of Texas at Dallas), "Decomposition of Consumer Sentiment and the Effects of its Cyclical Component"

Michael D. Plante* (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Lutz Kilian (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), & Alexander W. Richter (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), "Geopolitical Oil Price Risk and Economic Fluctuations"

Yundi Lu* (The University of Texas at Dallas), "The Financial Market Effects of Inflation Expectations Shock in the Post-pandemic Era"

3:20pm-5:00pm  Parallel Sessions 3

S3.1 - Health/Labor Economics

Chair: Donggyu Sul (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Room: Wooten Hall 322

Donggyu Sul* (The University of Texas at Dallas), Lynn Bergeland Morgan (Texas Christian University) & Peter C. B. Phillips (Yale University, University of Auckland, and Singapore Management University), "Policy Evaluation with Nonlinear Trended Outcomes: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the US"

Graham Gardner* (Texas Christian University), Bradley Crowe (Michigan State University), & Cara Haughey (Michigan State University), "The Effects of Restricted Abortion Access on IUDs and Vasectomies: Evidence from Texas"

Md Mohsan Khudri* (Austin College) & Andrew Hussey (University of Memphis) “The Long-Term Impacts of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment of Adults”

Ashish K. Sedai* (The University of Texas at Arlington), Debayan Pakrashi (Indian Statistical Institute), Dil Rahut (Asian Development Bank Institute) & Tetsushi Sonobe (Asian Development Bank Institute), "Parental Couple Counseling and Adolescent Psychosocial Health: Gendered Evidence from an RCT"

S3.2 - Economics and Algorithms

Chair: Alipio Ferreira (Southern Methodist University)

Room: Wooten Hall 316

Alipio Ferreira* (Southern Methodist University), Pierre Bachas (World Bank Research and EU Tax Observaty), Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank), & Bassirou Sarr (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)), "Algorithms and Bureaucrats: Evidence from Tax Audit Selection in Senegal"

Chi-Young Choi* (The University of Texas at Arlington), Alexander Chudik (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), & Aaron Smallwood (The University of Texas at Arlington), "Time-varying Persistence of House Price Growth: The Role of Expectations and Credit Supply"

Prajyna Barua* (The University of Texas at Dallas), "Estimating Time-variation in Matching Efficiency and Match Elasticity for the US Labor Market"

Sarah Marx Quintanar* (University of North Texas) & Chaitanya Krishna Kanth Vankadaru (University of North Texas), "Understanding the Punitive Cost of a Mug Shot: A Machine Learning Application"