Dunaway Lecture Series
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| Date | Presenter |
|---|---|
| Lecture Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall at 3:30pm | Sandra E. Black, University of Texas, Austin Understanding Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Nature versus Nurture in Wealth and Other Economic Outcomes and Behaviors |
| Lecture Tuesday, April 16, 2019 109 South Kedzie Hall at 6:00 | Sandra E. Black, The University of Texas at Austin Family Matters: The Role of Birth Order on Children's Outcomes |
| 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" |
