Dunaway Lecture

Professor Sandra E. Black

Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Policy
The University of Texas at Austin

will present

TBA

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 6:00 pm
107 South Kedzie Hall (368 Farm Lane)

Bio

Sandra E. Black holds the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs and is a Professor of Economics. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Since that time, she worked as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an Assistant, Associate, and ultimately Professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA before arriving at the University of Texas, Austin in 2010. She is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Affiliate at IZA, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. She served as a Member of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from August 2015-January 2017. Her research focuses on the role of early life experiences on the long-run outcomes of children, as well as issues of gender and discrimination.

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Date	Presenter
Lecture Thursday, March 22, 2018 103 (the Kiva) Erickson Hall at 6:00	Sir Angus Deaton, Dwight D Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus Why is global (and American) poverty so hard to measure and to eradicate?
Department Lecture Friday, November 11, 2016 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 9:00	Robert M. Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bank Branch Expansion vs International Capital Flows: Integrating Local Spatial Markets with Macro Aggregates
Public Lecture Thursday, November 10, 2016 105 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30	Robert M. Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Measurement, Analysis, and Design of Financial Systems in Developing Economies
Department Lecture Friday, March 25, 2016 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 9:30	Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics Director, Work Economic Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Safety Trap
Public Lecture Thursday, March 24, 2016 107 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30	Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics Director, Work Economic Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Safety Traps in the Global Economy
Public Lecture Wednesday, April 1, 2015 107 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30	Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University Is Technological Progress a Thing of the Past?
Department Lecture Friday, February 27, 2015 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 10:00	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (joint with Nathanial Hendren and Erzo F.P. Luttmer)
Public Lecture Thursday, February 26, 2015 105 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30 p.m.	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Impact of Covering the Uninsured: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Department Lecture Friday, March 14, 2014 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 10:30	No Seminar Held,
Public Lecture Thursday, March 13, 2014 107 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30	No Seminar Held,
Department Lecture Friday, April 5, 2013 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 10:30	David E. Card, University of California, Berkeley Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Public Lecture Thursday, April 4, 2013 107 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30pm	David E. Card, University of California, Berkeley Immigration Reform: An Economic Perspective
Department Lecture Friday, April 6, 2012 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 10:30am	Susan Athey, Harvard University Structural Models and Market Design in the Age of Experimentation
Public Lecture Thursday, April 5, 2012 109 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30pm	Susan Athey, Harvard University The Economics of Internet Search
Department Lecture Thursday, April 21, 2011 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 1:30	Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University A Test for Racial Bias in the Death Penalty
Public Lecture Wednesday, April 20, 2011 107 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30pm	Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession
Department Lecture Friday, January 15, 2010 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 10:00 a.m.	Gordon Hanson, Director of the Center on Pacific Economies and Professor of Economics at UC San Diego "Birth Rates and Border Crossings: The Demographic Push behind Latin American Emigration"
Public Lecture Thursday, January 14, 2010 107 South Kedzie Hall at 7:30 p.m.	Gordon Hanson, Director of the Center on Pacific Economies and Professor of Economics at UC San Diego "Three Decades of Economic Integration between the United States and Mexico"
Department Lecture Friday, March 27, 2009	Jean Tirole, 2014 Nobel Laureate Professor and Scientific Director Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse and Visiting Professor, MIT "Leverage and the Central Banker's Put"
Public Lecture Thursday, March 26, 2009	Jean Tirole, 2014 Nobel Laureate Professor and Scientific Director Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse and Visiting Professor, MIT "Learning from the Crisis: What Reforms for the Financial System?"
Department Lecture Friday, March 28, 2008	George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government "Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks"
Public Lecture Thursday, March 27, 2008	George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government "The Economic Impact of Immigration"
Department Lecture Friday, April 13, 2007	Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley "Sudden Stops and IMF Programs"
Public Lecture Thursday, April 12, 2007	Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley "Does Europe Have an Economic Future?"
Department Lecture Friday, April 7, 2006	Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply and Family Well-Being"
Public Lecture Thursday, April 6, 2006	Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Covering the Uninsured in the U.S."
Department Lecture Thursday, April 7, 2005	Daron Acemoglu, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology "An Economic Model of Weak and Strong States"
Public Lecture Wednesday, April 6, 2005	Daron Acemoglu, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Rethinking the Wealth of Nations"
Department Lecture Saturday, November 8, 2003	Peter A. Diamond, 2010 Nobel Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Optimal Tax Treatment of Private Contributions for Public Goods With and Without Warm Glow Preferences"
Public Lecture Thursday, November 6, 2003	Peter A. Diamond, 2010 Nobel Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Social Security Reform"
Department Lecture Friday, October 25, 2002	James R. Markusen, Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics University of Colorado, Boulder "Developing Domestic Entrepreneurship and Growth through Imported Expertise"
Public Lecture Thursday, October 24, 2002	James R. Markusen, Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics University of Colorado, Boulder "Globalization Controversies: Myths, Facts, and the Role of US Policy"
Department Lecture Friday, November 2, 2001	Jean-Jacques Laffont, Director of the Institut d "Incentives and Discovery"
Public Lecture Thursday, November 1, 2001	Jean-Jacques Laffont, Director of the Institut d "The Economics of Regulation and Public Utilities"
Department Lecture Friday, March 26, 1999	Douglass C. North, 1993 Nobel Laureate Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow Washington University "Processes of Economic Development"
Public Lecture Thursday, March 25, 1999	Douglass C. North, 1993 Nobel Laureate Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow Washington University "Why do Some Countries Become Rich While Others Remain Poor?"
Department Lecture Wednesday, March 25, 1998	David Ellwood, Lucius Littauer Professor of Political Economy Harvard University "Inequality and Family Structure"
Public Lecture Tuesday, March 24, 1998	David Ellwood, Lucius Littauer Professor of Political Economy Harvard University "The Farewell to Welfare: Policy, Politics, and Our Children's Future"
Public Lecture Tuesday, April 4, 1995	Anthony Atkinson, London School of Economics "Is the Welfare State Necessarily Bad for Economic Performance?"
Department Lecture Tuesday, April 4, 1995	Anthony Atkinson, London School of Economics "The Distribution of Income in US and Europe Compared"
Public Lecture Wednesday, April 20, 1994	Robert Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Changing U.S. Trade Policy"
Department Lecture Wednesday, April 20, 1994	Robert Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Unable to locate title)
Public Lecture Thursday, April 15, 1993	James Heckman, 2000 Nobel Laureate Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics University of Chicago "Assessing Clinton's Program on Job Training, Workfare and Education in the Workplace"
Department Lecture Thursday, April 15, 1993	James Heckman, 2000 Nobel Laureate Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics University of Chicago (Unable to locate title)
Public Lecture Monday, November 18, 1991	Robert H. Haveman, John Bascom Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison "Starting Even: New Policies for the Nations New Poverty?"
Department Lecture Monday, November 18, 1991	John Bascom Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Teen Out-of-Wedlock Births and Welfare Recipients: The Role of Childhood Events and Economic Circumstances"
Public Lecture Thursday, April 19, 1990	Robert Eisner, Northwestern University (Unable to locate title)
Department Lecture Thursday, April 19, 1990	Robert Eisner, Northwestern University "Deficits, Savings and the Future; Myth and Reality"
Public Lecture Friday, April 15, 1988	Oliver Williamson, 2009 Nobel Laureate Yale University (Unable to locate title)
Public Lecture Sunday, April 13, 1986	Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Laureate University of Chicago (Unable to locate title. Subject was Household and Family)
Department Lecture Sunday, April 13, 1986	Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Laureate University of Chicago "A Theory of Rational Addiction"