David Hardesty and Brian Murtha have recently been appointed to the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Services Research.
Olga Malkova's paper "Can Maternity Benefits Have Long-Term Effects on Childbearing: Evidence from Soviet Russia" was accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Ana Maria Herrera recently presented "The Effect of Oil Supply Shocks on US GDP. What Have we Learned?" at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Society for Economic Measurement meetings in Boston, MA. She has been elected fellow of the International Center for Emerging Markets Research Energy Industry program at RUDN (Moscow).
Lala Ma's paper, "Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health Through Drinking Water?", co-authored with Elaine Hill, was presented at the 2017 NBER Summer Institute on 7/25/17 in Cambridge, MA.
David Agrawal and William Hoyt's paper, "Commuting and Taxes: Theory, Empirics, and Welfare Implications," is forthcoming in the Economic Journal.
Darshak Patel's paper "Evaluating Twitter and its Impact on Student Learning in Principles of Economics Courses," (with Abdullah Albahrani (UK PhD) and Brandon Sherdian (UK PhD)) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Education. It is scheduled to be published in the Fall 2017 issue of the journal.
Darshak Patel's paper “The Impact of Relative Performance Feedback and Scrutiny on Student Performance in Large Enrollment University Classes.” was present by co-author Justin Roush at the Seventh Annual American Economics Association (AEA) Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) held May 31 – June 2, 2017 in Denver.
Steven Lugauer presented “Fertility is a Leading Economic Indicator” on June 26, 2017 at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) meetings in San Diego, CA.
Carlos Lamarche presented his paper “Common Correlated Effects Estimation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Panel Quantile Regression Models” at the University of San Andres (June 13), Central Bank of Argentina (June 22), and Di Tella University (June 28) in Argentina. The paper is joint work with Matthew Harding (University of California at Irvine) and Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California).
Carlos Lamarche visited the University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina from June 5th to June 30th. In the first two weeks of June, he gave four lectures on “High-Dimensional Methods and Inference: A Hands-On Approach” in the Department of Economics.
