The Triangle Applied Microeconomics Conference (TAMC) is a joint effort between Duke, NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill to bring together economists in the region working on applied microeconomics topics.

Duke University will host the fourth TAMC on April 29 - 30, 2025 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at Penn Pavilion. TAMC 2025 is funded by the Microeconomics Initiative (NC State), the UNC Economics Department and ERID (Duke).

The call for papers is here. The deadline for submission is Friday January 31, 2025.

Conference Schedule

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• 8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast

• 8:30 - 9:30 Keynote I

Alessandra Voena (Stanford): "How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Adult Outcomes" (with Manasi Deshpande and Jason Weitze).

• 9:30 - 9:45 Break

• 9:45 - 10:45 Session 1

Michael Dinerstein (Duke): "Student Loan Forgiveness" (with Samuel Earnest, Dmitri Koustas and Constantine Yannelis)

Umut Dur (NC State): "Market Design of College-Major Switches for Reducing Student-Major Mismatch" (with Yi-Cheng Kao and Scott Paiement)

• 10:45 - 11:00 Break

• 11:00 - 12:00 Session 2

Melinda Morrill (NC State): "SNAP Benefit Expansions and SNAP Participation among Older Adults" (with De Fen Hsu and Melissa McInerney)

Lisa Gennetian (Duke Sanford): "Heterogeneous receipt of social assistance programs among families with low income in the U.S.: The role of state policy design" (with Marcos A. Rangel, Dana Thomson, Prachi Shukla, Luis Basurto, Haocheng Yong)

• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

• 1:00 - 2:00 Keynote II

Jeremy Lise (Cornell): "Labor Market Matching, Wages, and Amenities" (with Thibaut Lamadon, Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin)

• 2:00 - 2:15 Break 

• 2:15 - 3:15 Session 3

Pascual Restrepo (Yale): "In Heels and Backwards:  The Economic Costs of Women Doing More for Less" (with David Autor, Simen Markussen, Martin Nybom, Knut Roed and Anna Salomons)

William Jungerman (UNC): "Learning on the Job" (with Jacob Adenbaum and Fil Babalievsky)

• 3:15 - 3:30 Break

• 3:30 - 4:30 Session 4

Raymond Guiteras (NC State): "Targeting at Scale: Algorithmic vs. Traditional Approaches" (with Emily Aiken, Anik Ashraf, Joshua E. Blumenstock, A. Mushfiq Mobarak)

Luca Flabbi (UNC): "Working and Saving Informally: The Link between Labor Market Informality and Financial Exclusion" (with Mauricio Tejada)

• 4:30 - 4:45 Break

• 4:45 - 5:45 Session 5: Student Presentations

Tulio Sousa (Duke): "Competition and Targeting in Auctions for Online Ads"

De Fen Hsu (NC State): "Intervention in Networks: Evaluating Positive Youth Development Program Participation in the U.S."

Samuel Barker (UNC): "Teacher Quality in High School Using Course Grades"

Hema Shah (Duke): "High School Teachers and College-Relevant Skill Production: Evidence from ACT Score Value Added"

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• 8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast

• 8:30 - 9:30 Keynote III

Hanming Fang (UPenn): "Labor Unions and Social Insurance"

• 9:30 - 9:45 Break

• 9:45 - 10:45 Session 6

Emily Cuddy (Duke): "When Tragedy Strikes: The Spillover Effects of Adolescent Deaths from Self-Harm" (with Janet Currie and Elisa Jácome)

Jonathan Zhang (Duke Sanford): "Health and Well-Being Impacts of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Evidence from Introduction of Suboxone" (with Sarah Eichmeyer and Aljoscha Janssen)

• 10:45 - 11:00 Break

• 11:00 - 12:00 Session 7

Alex Bartik (UIUC): "The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Household Balance Sheets: Experimental Evidence from Two US States."

Qing Gong (UNC): "Medicare on the Back Burner? Provider Labor Supply Responses to ACA-Driven Changes in Patient Payer Mix" (with Min He, Lin Lin and Bo Wang)

• 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

Organizers:

Adriana Corredor-Waldron (amcorred@ncsu.edu)

Jacob Kohlhepp (kohlhepp@unc.edu)

Pengpeng Xiao (pengpeng.xiao@duke.edu)