UH Student Brown Bag
Please refer to the new website of the UH Student Brown Bag. This page will no longer be maintained starting from 2024 fall.
Please note that I am no longer hosting the UH Student Brown Bag since 2023 fall. For inquiries about the UH Student Brown Bag, please contact Yujie Zhang or Sebin Nidhiri by email.
The University of Houston Student Brown Bag is a student-hosting workshop where economic doctoral students share their research ideas and progress. The workshop is generally in-person but can be hybrid for the presenter's convenience.
We are now calling for speakers in 2024 fall. We expect up to four external speakers each semester with their research in applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, and we especially welcome student researchers who are on the job market or in the early stages of the Ph.D. program to give us a talk about their research. Please contact Yujie Zhang (yzhan187@CougarNet.UH.EDU) or Sebin Nidhiri (sbnidhir@CougarNet.UH.EDU) for further information.
The external speaker schedule in 2024 spring:
1/19: Qinyou Hu (Rice). Breaking Down Bullying: Empathy, Social Networks, and Adolescents.
2/23: Arsalan Khan (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany). The impact of Social Health Protection Program on Migration: Evidence from Pakistan.
4/19: Shao-Yu Jheng (Harvard). TBA.
The external speakers in past semesters:
2023 fall:
10/13: Jose Maria Martinez (Dept. of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, MSU). Sweating bullets: Heat, high-stakes evaluations, and the role of incentives.
10/27: Sherajum Monira Farin (GSU). Long-term and multigenerational impacts of legal abortion in the US.
11/10: John Gomez-Mahecha (GSU). The Cost of Exclusions in a Carbon Tax: The Colombian Case.
11/17: Siru Liu (GSU). School matching with incomplete preferences.
2023 spring:
2/17: Elizabeth Luh (CJARS, UMich). Criminal court fees, earnings, and expenditures: A multi-state RD analysis of survey and administrative data.
4/14: Qianqian Shang (CEMFI, Spain). Internal Migration and Education: The Role of Old-age Support.
2022 fall-
9/9: Po-Hsuan Lin (Caltech). Cognitive Hierarchies in Multi-Stage Games of Incomplete Information.
10/21: Saleh Zakerinia (Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell). Impact of Privacy Policies on AI Innovations.
11/4: Shao-Yu Jheng (Harvard). Inclusive Origins of Rapid Industrialization: the Persistent Effects of the Colonial Bank Networks on Taiwan’s Economic Miracle.
11/11: Qinyou Hu (Rice). Helping Parents Combat Middle-School Blues: Evidence from a Parental Involvement Program.
11/18: Hui-Heng Cheng (Carson College of Business, WSU). Dual-Class Technology Sector IPOs and Innovation.
2022 spring-
4/15: Yu-Kuan Chen (Rice). Gendered effects of role models in decisions to major in STEM.