Research Seminar Series
Macalester College Economics Department Research Seminar Series
Spring 2025
April 3, 2025
Lucie Schmidt, Ph.D., Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College
“Cash vs. Food? How Does Food Stamp Eligibility Affect the Food Stamp Enrollment and Food Security of SSI Recipients?”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall, Room 06A
Fall 2024
December 5, 2024
Raahil Madhok, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota
“Ethnic Favouritism in Environmental Disaster Payouts”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall, Room 06A
November 7, 2024
Lukas Mann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Arizona State University
“Spatial Sorting and the Rise of Geographic Inequality”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall, Room 304
October 15, 2024
Benny Goldman ’16, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University (2025)
“Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall, Room 06A
September 19, 2024
Iris Vrioni ’15, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Rochester
“Designing College Admissions Markets”
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall, Room 06A