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Fall 2026 Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies Virtual Open House

Virtual

The Fragility of Government Funding Advantage

Jonathan Payne (Princeton University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 303

Teaching for College and Teaching for Work: Curriculum and Economic Opportunity in Community Colleges

Barbara Biasi (Yale University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Economic Development According to Chandler

Todd Schoellman (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 301

Consumer Learning as a Source of Market Power

Agathe Pernoud (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Product Switching and Young Firm Dynamics

Seula Kim (Pennsylvania State University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

The Society for Economic Measurement (SEM) Conference 2026

The 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM) will take place at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from Thursday, July 9, to Saturday July 11, 2026.
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall

Dissertation Proposal : Essays on Innovation and Growth

Chan, Cheuk Yin Rudolph

Seigle Hall, Room 301

Dissertation Defense : Essays on Macroeconomic Development

Alarcon Szmulai, Gaspar

Zoom

Dissertation Proposal: Essays in Empirical Economics of Education

Nathan Jiang
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Confidence Intervals for Network Structure

Eric Auerbach (Northwestern University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Firm Productivity and Learning with Digital Technologies: Evidence from Cloud Computing

Mert Demirer (MIT)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Existence of Myopic-Farsighted Stable Sets in Matching Markets

Lars Ehlers (University of Montreal)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Who With Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies

Toru Kitagawa (Brown University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Transferable Utility Matching Beyond Logit: Computation and Estimation with General Heterogeneity

Antoine Jacquet (Sciences Po)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Proposal: Essays on Labor and Macroeconomics

Yuan Hangyu

Seigle Hall, Room 304

Tradeoffs and Comparison Complexity

Jeffrey Yang (UCSB)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

The ROC curve and statistical allocations

Han Hong (Stanford University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Defense: Growth, Demand and Distribution

Gonzalez Alejandro
Seigle Hall, Room 301

Nondistortionary Elicitation of Beliefs in Dynamic Problems

Marcin Pęski (University of Toronto)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Reproductive Healthcare Policy and Graduate Medical Education

Cecilia Diaz Campo (Washington University in St. Louis)
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Dissertation Defense : Essays on Talent Allocation, Innovation, and Growth

Jinhyeok Park
Seigle Hall, Room 304

Dissertation Defense - Essays on the Economics of Criminal Justice

Hannah O'Neil
Seigle Hall, Room 301

Pollak Economics Conference

McGinnis Classroom | Bauer Hall 210 | WashU Olin Business School

Dissertation Defense: Essays in the Political Economy of Non-Democracies

Malashkhia, Mate

Seigle Hall, Room 303

Dissertation Defense: Essays in Labor and Macroeconomics

Dain Lee
Seigle Hall, Room 304

Shaded Truth under Consequential Risk: Theory and Evidence from Discrete Choice Experiments

Keh-Kuan Sun (Fairfield University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Defense : Essays in Macroeconomics 

Kim Sihyun
Seigle Hall, Room 301

Nonlinear Micro Income Processes with Macro Shocks

Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Defense : Essays on Industrial Organization

Gengbin Piao
Seigle Hall, Room 301

Dissertation Defense: Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Stella Papadokonstantaki
Seigle Hall, Room 348

St. Louis Fed-WashU-LAEF Macro-Labor Conference April 2-3, 2026

Co-sponsors: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, and LAEF
Hosts: Alexander Bick, Serdar Birinci, Victoria Gregory, and Serdar Ozkan (St. Louis Fed) and Philipp Gruebener (WashU)
4/2/26: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; 2nd Floor Balbach Room | 4/3/26: Washington University in St. Louis; Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 306

Markets for Models

Juan Ortner (Boston University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Stable High Earnings Occupations for the Non-College Goers

Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth)
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Identifying Preference Heterogeneity in the BLP Model with Micro Data

Adam Dearing (Cornell University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Defense : Essays on the Economics of Criminal Justice

Luke Brinkman
Seigle Hall, Room 303

Dissertation Defense- Essays in Empirical Research of Education, Criminal and Decision: Evidence from Taiwan Administrative Data

Hsuan- Hua Huang
Seigle Hall, Room 303

On the Monotonicity of Information Costs

Xiaoyu Cheng (Florida State University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Treatment Effects with a Misreported Outcome

Désiré Kédagni (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Working and Saving Informally: The Link between Labor Market Informality and Financial Exclusion

Luca Flabbi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Proposal : Essays on International Macroeconomics and Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Bright Quaye
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Effect of Cash Transfers on Children's Outcomes

Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA)
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Mini-Lecture: Matching in Trading Networks

Alexander Westkamp (University of Cologne)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, Room 348

Marginal Mechanisms for Balanced Exchange

Alexander Westkamp (University of Cologne)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Mini-Lecture: Choice, Stability, and Strategy-Proofness in Matching Markets

Alexander Westkamp (University of Cologne)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, Room 348

The Long-Term Effects of Exposure to a Large-Scale Shock on Health and Cognition

Duncan Thomas (Duke University)
Seigle Hall, Room 348

The Labor-Market Impacts of a Major Merger: Evidence from the Security Guard Industry

David Arnold (University of California, San Diego)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Economic Theory Conference

Hosts: SangMok Lee and Bumin Yenmez
Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center: Classroom 211

Balancing Flexibility and Interpretability: A Conditional Linear Model Estimation via Random Forest

Marcelo C. Medeiros (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Charting the Uncharted: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109

The Heterogeneous Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from U.S. Army Reenlistment Decisions

Stephen P. Ryan (Washington University in St. Louis)
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Inefficiencies in Local Infrastructure: Evidence from Drinking Water in California

Pierre Bodéré (Yale University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Potential Outcome Modeling and Estimation in DiD Designs with Staggered Treatments

Siddhartha Chib (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Defense: Essays on Empirical Search and Matching

Lin, Jiangheng
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Estimation and Inference for Cointegrated Systems of Multi-Factor Production Functions: Modelling the Joint Behavior of GDP and Emissions

Martin Wagner (University of Klagenfurt and Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348

A Dynamic Model of Academic Performance: Syllabus Design and Student Achievement

Martin Luccioni (Washington University in St. Louis)
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Dissertation Proposal: "Essays in Applied Microeconomics"

Kiara (Ji Hyun) Kim
Seigle Hall, Room 348

The Benefits from Bundling Demand in K-12 Broadband Procurement

Charles Murry (University of Michigan)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Proposal: "Uncertainty and Macroeconomics"

Yingrui (Stefan) Song
ZOOM

Causal Inference under Interference through Designed Markets

Evan Munro (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Christopher Walters (University of Chicago)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Temptation and Persuasion

Alex Jakobsen (Northwestern University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

POSTPONED to 2/23/26: Balancing Flexibility and Interpretability: A Conditional Linear Model Estimation via Random Forest

Marcelo C. Medeiros (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Semiparametric Learning of Integral Functionals on Submanifolds

Xiaohong Chen (Yale University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Limor Golan - November 24

Seigle Hall, Room 348

Dissertation Proposal: " Essays in Macroeconomics"

Nemoto Hiroyuki

Cognition in Preferences and Choice

Maria Betto (Johns Hopkins University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Testing Exclusion and Shape Restrictions in Potential Outcome Models

Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Dissertation Proposal: "Essays on Health Economics"

Chang Elvis
Seigle Hall, Room 301

Practice Job Market : "The Protest Dilemma: The Effect of Threat of War in Sustaining Non-Democratic Regimes"

Mate, Malashkhia
Seigle Hall, Room 348

St. Louis Fed-WashU Macroeconomics Conference

Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
Hosts: Francisco Buera, Julian Kozlowski, Hannah Rubinton, and Yongseok Shin
11/13/25 at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; 2nd Floor Balbach Room | 11/14/25 at Washington University in St. Louis; Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109

Dissertation Proposal - “Topics in Labor Economics”

Matthew Murphy
Seigle Hall, Room 305

Dissertation Defense: Essays in Financial Economics and Banking - Marcos Correa

Marcos Correa will defend his dissertation titled “Essays in Financial Economics and Banking.” Open to the university community.
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Ranking Inference Based on Multiway Comparisons

Mengxin Yu (Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Ismael Mourifie - November 10

Seigle Hall, Room 348

Dissertation Proposal - "Essays in Labor Economics"

Rana Mohie El din
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Practice Job Market : "Self-Presentation"

Stella Papadokonstantaki
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Competitive Sequential Screening

Jan Knoepfle (Queen Mary University of London)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Practice Job Market: "Consumer Choice in Illinois Prison Commissaries."

Luke Brinkman
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Identifying Treatment and Spillover Effects Using Exposure Contrasts

Michael Leung (UCSC)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Practice Job Market: "The Role of Wait Time Disclosures in Public Housing Allocation: Evidence from Seattle".

Lin, Jiangheng
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Attention Holdup

Francesco Fabbri (UC Berkeley)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Inverting Estimating Equations for Causal Inference on Quantiles

Chao Cheng (Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Kevin Lang - October 27th

Seigle Hall, Room 348

Practice Job Market: " When Perception Meets Reality: Ability Gaps, Belief Updating, and Track Choice in High School Transitions"

Huang Hsuan-Hua
Seigle Hall, Room 348

Practice Job Market: ''Worker Learning and Management''

Dain Lee
Seigle Hall, 301

Prison Peer Effects and the Public Safety Tradeoff

Aurelie Ouss (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

TBA

Julia Salmi (Hanken School of Economics)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Inference for Two-Stage Extremum Estimators

Aristide Houndetoungan (Université Laval)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Practice Job Market: “Bargaining Shocks and the Macroeconomy: A Narrative Approach.”

Gonzalez, Alejandro
Seigle Hall, Room 348

20th Economics Graduate Students’ Conference

Harry and Susan Seigle Hall

Practice Job Market: "Complementarity and the Amplification of Financial Frictions”.

Alacorn Gaspar
Seigle Hall, Room 306

Practice Job Market: "Informality, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereign Default"

Sihyun Kim
Seigle Hall, Room 306

Robust Aggregation of Correlated Information

Xiao Lin (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar -Basit Zafar - October 13th

Seigle Hall, Room 348

Dissertation Proposal: "Essays on the Economics of Criminal Justice"

Hannah O'Neil
Seigle Hall, Room 348

St. Louis Fed-WashU Human Capital Conference

Co-sponsors: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
Hosts: Oksana Leukhina and Guillaume Vandenbroucke (St. Louis Fed) and Yongseok Shin (WashU)
10/9/25 at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; Balbach Room | 10/10/25 at Washington University in St. Louis; Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109

Macroeconomics Mini-Conference

Hosts: Paco Buera, Philipp Grübener, and Yongseok Shin
Conference: Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109 | Lunch: Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 106

Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences

Charles Sprenger (Caltech)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348

The Past, Present, and Future of the Federal Reserve

Join us for a special event featuring a conversation among three distinguished leaders of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Together, they will explore the evolving role of the Federal Reserve in the U.S. economy, drawing on decades of leadership and experience at the St. Louis Fed. This event is co-sponsored by the Purdue University Mitch Daniels School of Business.
Graham Chapel, Danforth University Campus | Washington University in St. Louis

Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Brent Hickman - September 29

Seigle Hall, Room 348

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