September 23, 2016

The UK Center for Poverty Research, directed by Jim Ziliak, received a 5-year grant for $443,202 to partner with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin to study poverty in the United States.


September 23, 2016

Carlos Lamarche was invited by the Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis at the University of Kansas to present his work on Quantile Regression. On September 16th, he gave two talks titled “Estimating and Testing Panel Quantile Regression Models” and "A Panel Quantile Approach to Attrition Bias in Big Data: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” (coauthored with M. Harding)


September 09, 2016

The UK Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) received a $300,000 grant from the Economic Research Service in USDA to sponsor and conduct longitudinal research on food insecurity in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the longest continuously running longitudinal survey in the world. The Director of the UKCPR, James Ziliak, is the Principal Investigator on the grant.


September 09, 2016

Economics 5th year Graduate Student Robert Hartley won a prestigious Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Graduate School of the University of Kentucky.  Rob's dissertation is on "Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence" and co-chaired by Professors James Ziliak and Carlos Lamarche.


August 26, 2016

Professor Lala Ma presented "Estimating Heterogeneous Preferences to Avoid Flood Risk and Implications for Disaster Exposure (co-authored with Laura Bakkensen)" at the workshop New Directions in the Analysis of Environmental Justice at Duke University on August 24th.


August 26, 2016

Carlos Lamarche visited the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China from June 13 to June 24 and the University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina from August 8 to August 12, 2016. He gave lectures on "Recent Advances in Quantile Regression, and High Dimensional Models and Big Data."  Carlos Lamarche presented “Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data” (co-authored with M. Harding) at the 2016 China Econometrics Society Meeting on June 26, 2016 in Chengdu, China.


August 26, 2016

Professor Lala Ma's paper "The value of brownfield remediation" (with Kevin Haninger and Christopher Timmins) is forthcoming at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 


August 26, 2016

David Agrawal presented "Commodity Taxation with Honesty, Avoidance and Evasion: Evidence from the United States" (joint with Mohammed Mardan)  at the International Institute of Public Finance Congress (Lake Tahoe, NV, August 10th) and his paper "Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms" (joint with Dirk Foremny) at ETH Zurich (July 19th) , the University of Siegen (June 29th) and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) (June 20th).  

 


August 26, 2016

David Agrawal's paper "Taxes in an e-Commerce Generation" (joint with William Fox)  is accepted for publication in International Tax and Public Finance.

 


August 26, 2016

Professor Olga Malkova, a 2nd year faculty member had a busy summer presenting her work in both Europe and the US. Presentations in Germany of her paper "The Effect of Pension Tax Reductions on Labor Supply," include the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Seminar in Labor and Welfare Economics (Mannheim, May 31st), the International Institute for Public Finance Doctoral School (Mannheim June 16th) and the Institute for Study of Labor (IZA) Junior/Senior Symposium (Bonn, July 12th) as well as in the United States at the IIPF Annual Congress (Lake Tahoe, NV, August 11th).