Department faculty, field faculty, and graduate students attended the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA). The AEA, in conjunction with 58 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), hold a three-day meeting to present papers on general economics topics.
Additionally, our Ph.D. Job Market Candidates interviewed throughout the annual meeting which is traditionally held in Philadelphia during the first weekend in January.
The AEA interviewed select poster presenters during the conference to discuss their research and the broader implications of their work. Graduate Student, Lucy Xiaolu Wang, was interviewed about her research on the role of health information technology in the opioid drug crisis. Lucy hand-collected data on states’ policies that facilitate the integration of prescription drug monitoring programs into physicians’ workflows and enable interstate data sharing. She finds that states with this interconnected platform significantly reduced opioid-related mortality and morbidity.
Faculty and graduate students served in a variety of positions; participating as presenters, discussants, panelists, and chairs. The following is a list of service and work presented by economics department faculty, field faculty, and graduate students at the 2018 AEA Annual Meeting.
Fuel Efficiency
Discussant: Shanjun Li
FinTech - How Will it Transform Financial Markets and Services?
Panelist: Maureen O’Hara
Measuring the Effects of Early Childhood Education
Long-term Effects of Head Start: New Evidence From the PSID
Douglas Miller, Cornell University
Na'ama Shenhav, Dartmouth College
Michel Grosz, University of California-Davis
Discussants: Maria Fitzpatrick and Douglas Miller
FinTech
FinTechs and the Market for Financial Analysis
Jillian Grennan, Duke University
Roni Michaely, Cornell University
Topics in International Real Estate
Discussant: Nicholas Sanders
Potential Biases in Measurement of Wage Inequality
Earnings Inequality and the Role of the Firm
John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau and Cornell University
Kevin L. McKinney, U.S. Census Bureau
Empirical Analyses of Monetary and Credit Policies
The Macroeconomic Effect of Government Asset Purchases: Evidence From Post-war United States Housing Credit Policy
Andrew Fieldhouse, Cornell University
Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Morten O. Ravn, University College London
Gender in the Workplace
Discussant: Francine Blau
The Economic Impact of Globalization
Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers
M. Ayhan Kose, World Bank
Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Eswar Prasad, Cornell University
Jongrim Ha, World Bank
Sex, Race and Finance
Cultural Diversity on Wall Street: Evidence From Sell-side Analysts’ Forecasts
Kenneth Merkley, Cornell University
Roni Michaely, Cornell University
Joseph Pacelli, Indiana University
TrumpEconomics: A World View
Economic Consequences of Protectionism in the United States
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Chair: Chair: Sean Nicholson
Discussant: Colleen Cary
Advances in Big Data Research in Economics
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Himabindu Himabindu Lakkaraju, Stanford University
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University
CSMGEP Dissertation Session
Paper Session
Discussant: Michael Lovenheim
Job Displacement
Discussants: Lars Vilhuber and John M. Abowd
New Evidence on the Effects of Teachers' Unions on Student Outcomes, Teacher Labor Markets, and the Allocation of School Resources
The Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University
Alexander Willen, Cornell University
Health and Crime
Discussant: Vicki Bogan
Morality and Economics
Morality as the Glue of Society
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Contributed Papers in Health Economics
Does E-cigarette Advertising Encourage Adult Smokers to Quit?
Dhaval Dave, Bentley University, NBER, and IZA
Daniel Dench, City University of New York
Michael Grossman, City University of New York, NBER, and IZA
Donald S. Kenkel, Cornell University and NBER
Henry Safer, NBER
Financial Crises and Transmission of Shocks
Cross-border Bank Flows and Systemic Risk
Andrew Karolyi, Cornell University
John Sedunov, Villanova University
Alvaro Taboada, Mississippi State University
Raising Capital
What Do Insiders Know? Evidence From Insider Trading Around Share Repurchases and SEOs
Peter Cziraki, University of Toronto
Evgeny Lyandres, Boston University
Roni Michaely, Cornell University
Credit Booms, Aggregate Demand, and Financial Crises
Identifying Banking Crises: A Bank Equity Based Approach
Matthew Baron, Cornell University
Emil Verner, Princeton University
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
Medicaid
The Political Economy of Medicaid: The Influence of Ideology on Eligibility, Delivery, and Reimbursement
Claire Lim, Cornell University
Jee Hun Choi, Cornell University
Commercial Real Estate: Investment Performance
The Hybrid Nature of Real Estate Trusts
Yildiray Yildrim, Baruch College
Thomas Emmerling, M&T Bank Corporation
Crocker Liu, Cornell University
International Trade and Health
Chair and Discussant: John Cawley
Issues Relating to Higher Education Financing
The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Nicole Gorton, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University
New Measures of Human Capital and Their Application
Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-employee Data
John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau and Cornell University
Kevin L. McKinney, U.S. Census Bureau
Nellie L. Zhao, Cornell University
Policies and Cycles in Emerging Markets
Eswar S. Prasad, Cornell University and NBER
Topic: The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
