The Tuesday Talks Series is scheduled throughout each semester with speakers invited to discuss cutting-edge topics. Occasionally talks are given on subjects relevant to students such as career management and research. CGU and Claremont Colleges Consortium faculty, students, staff, and alum are encouraged to attend.
Unless otherwise announced, all seminars are scheduled from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. The format for the talks this semester is hybrid, with the option to attend in person at Burkle 12 or online via Zoom. Please use the Zoom links below to register for that talk. For those attending in person, a light lunch will be provided!
Spring Semester 2023
02/07/2023
Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
“Beyond Deterrence: Uncertain Stability in the Nuclear Era”
Profound contradictions within and across nuclear deterrence strategies evolved in response to the proliferation and modernization of nuclear weapons. The theoretical assumptions and implications for nuclear strategy derived from disarmament and warfighting inform this discussion. Grounded in conditional anarchy, we develop a decision-theoretic model of deterrence that explores nuclear stability. The Preconditions for conflict emerge when a dissatisfied nuclear nation is threatened with conventional loss, when conventional and nuclear parity is achieved, and if dissatisfied non-state actors acquire even minimal nuclear capabilities. To minimize the likelihood of nuclear war, we propose the creation of a nuclear security council composed of the global powers – the U.S. and China – that have every incentive to maintain global stability.
Host: Dept of. Politics & Government
02/14/2023
Saida Heshmati and Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University
“On Romance and Intimacy“
It has long been established that humans thrive on social connectedness across the lifespan and languish in its absence. Although felt love does not occur in the same context for everyone, people report a similar sensation corresponding to a surge of love: a rush of warmth accompanied by fascination and a desire to be close. This talk focuses on looking at the role of felt love in people’s daily lives and whether there is a shared belief on the everyday life experiences that make people feel loved.
How should we place romantic love and intimacy in a full human life? The jolt and surprise of romantic love, its physicality and yet its transporting otherworldliness, its radical unselfing, are signs and metaphors for meaning in life. Between extreme responses of the monk and the addict is what might be called a heroic take. Romantic love goes right when we gratefully allow it to manifest itself in our calling, our insight, and our sharing and service.
Host: Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences/Politics & Government
02/21/2023
Nicholas G. Napolio, University of Southern California
“Ideological Conflict and Delegation to the Executive Branch”
Scholars of the American separation of powers have long posited that ideological conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch decreases congressional grants of discretion to federal agencies. However, previous scholarship relies exclusively on a very blunt measure of ideological conflict: divided government. The presence of divided government can only vary every two years, and changes in divided government are correlated with myriad factors related to grants of discretion to the Executive Branch. We intervene in this literature by asking whether ideological divergence between individual members of Congress and the agencies responsible for implementing congressional bills influences how much discretion members of Congress afford to those agencies. Our design allows us to exploit variation in ideological conflict between the branches within years, holding constant many of the unobservable confounds troubling previous studies. Additionally, we ask whether the relationship between ideological divergence and discretion has changed over time with rising polarization.
Host: Dept. of International Studies
02/28/2023
Tine Paulsen, University of Southern California
“Mass Party Advantage under Party-Centered Local Governance”
Could the type of political institution used at the local level impact the balance of power in national politics? If so, how? This paper argues that mass parties are more successful in national-level elections when party-centered governance institutions, such as partisan elections, are used at the local level. Mass parties rely on members and branches as their main electoral strategy, which means that using local institutions that support this approach yields better electoral results, also in national elections. To test this hypothesis, I take advantage of a local governance reform in early 20th century Sweden that made the local institutions dependent on a population threshold. I find that municipalities that used elections and representatives for local governance had higher support for the Labor Party in national elections. This result demonstrates that local-level political institutions can significantly impact national-level politics with consequences for institutional reform outcomes and citizen welfare.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
03/07/2023 (Canceled)
Paul Zak, Claremont Graduate University
“Immersion: The Science of Extraordinary Experiences”
Why would anyone run a 20 year research program? What can one possibly learn from this? This interactive talk describes the the science of extraordinary experiences and what I have learned from measuring the activity of 50,000 brains in a wide variety of experiences as reported in my new book “Immersion”. Key take aways for how to create the extraordinary will be shared as well as why so much research is required to have confidence in findings. Lots of examples will be shown.
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
03/21/2023
Ben Feingold and Mirela Rezende, Claremont Graduate University
“Lincoln Land Fellowship Presentation”
“Identifying the Impacts of Land Use Regulation on Housing Development: Evaluating the Los Angeles Transit Oriented Communities Program Using a Geospatial Regression Discontinuity Design”
In this project, I examine the causal effects of local land use regulation—in particular allowable density of residential development—on key outcomes including housing development, transaction volume, and land values. The key problem researchers in this field face is the endogeneity of zoning and other land use regulations; if greater density is allowed in areas close to transit or other amenities that are already more attractive for development, then we cannot disentangle the impacts of those regulations from the effects of other factors that influence land value and development patterns. In order to address that problem, I exploit quasi-random variation in land use controls resulting from Los Angeles Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Affordable Housing Incentive Program. Using a geospatial regression discontinuity (GRD) design, I the effects of these land use incentives on housing development and land values that serve as the basis for property tax assessments. I plan to use this analysis to conduct an evaluation of the TOC program, quantifying the potential fiscal and economic benefits to the city from land use reforms.
“The Urban Property Tax (IPTU: Imposto sobre a Propriedade Predial e Territorial Urbana) in Brazil: An Analysis of its Impact of Inequality and Redistribution in Brazil’s Municipalities”
The Brazilian social context is characterized by a state and social structure that causes inequalities. The purpose of this work is to analyze the fiscal and extra-fiscal aspects of the Brazilian property tax (IPTU). Considering previous studies have suggested that progressive taxes can promote redistribution, an idea which this study investigates in Brazil.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
03/28/2023
Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University
“Prominent public mass shootings cause surges in Americans’ engagement with gun policy”
A common explanation for the absence of stringent gun control laws in the United States is that incidents of acute gun violence, while generating strong emotional reactions, do not propel the American public into political action. Leveraging the as-good-as random timing of prominent public mass shootings within the past decade and a novel and immense array of large-scale proprietary and publicly available data, we demonstrate that these events consistently cause surges in a range of political actions—including information-seeking on Google, streaming public-facing documentaries on gun policy, social discussion of gun policy on Twitter, signing of gun policy petitions on Change.org, and donating to PACs related to the gun policy debate, but only for mass shootings that garner significant media attention. However, we also find evidence that in some cases (i.e. discussion and information acquisition) these violence-induced upswings in public engagement with gun policy are polarizing—with spikes in activity both oriented towards gun control and towards gun rights.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
04/04/2023
Roberto Ganau, University of Padova
“The luck of falling on the bright side. Enlightenment and the long-term persistence of the Habsburg administrative tradition”
The authors study the long-term, persistent effects of the Enlightenment-inspired administrative reform introduced by the Habsburg Monarchy in 1755 to analyze current administrative efficiency differentials in Northern Italy. They exploit exogeneity in the frontier established in 1748 by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle between the Habsburg-ruled Duchy of Milan and the nearby territories ruled by the Savoy House. The Habsburgs extended to all land taxpayers—through the Convocato institute—the right of nominating local civil servants and deciding on taxation and public spending, while maintaining the external control through a state representative. By contrast, the municipalities ruled by the Savoy House were subject to a highly centralized system in which local civil servants were nominated by—and were under the control of—the Intendente, who was appointed directly by the King. Using spatial regression discontinuity and employing an original dataset combining current and historical municipality-level data, we find a persistent positive effect of the Habsburg reform on current administrative efficiency. Their evidence shows that Habsburg-ruled municipalities provide more public goods and services while spending as much as Savoy House-ruled ones. We interpret our results through a model of persistence of an administrative tradition driven by a within-institution ‘bureaucracy enculturation’ mechanism. They model the transmission over time of administrative values, norms and practices within an institution assuming no differences in cultural values within the underlying population. Finally, they show that Enlightenment values and principles played a fundamental role in shaping the ‘spirit’ of the bureaucracy of the Duchy of Milan.
Host: Dept. of International Studies
04/11/2023
Stephan Jagau, Univerity of California, Irvine
“To Catch a Stag: Payoff- and risk-dominance in a one-shot coordination experiment”
Five decades after Harsanyi and Selten’s seminal work on payoff- and risk-dominance in coordination problems, the influence of these drivers on real-life decisions is still poorly understood. One reason is that experiments often fail to separate risk and payoff-dominance from context-factors like learning, repetition, and complexity. Using a no-feedback, choice-list design and a recent decomposition of payoff matrices along orthogonal subspaces of “Nash” and “Pareto” incentives, this experiment is the first to cleanly identify what drives coordination decisions in one-shot settings. To uncover the mechanisms behind payoff- and risk-dominance, beliefs about others’ behavior are elicited next to decisions. The data shows that both payoff and risk-dominance independently and significantly impact decision-making, and that subjects’ subjective beliefs are a crucial mediator between incentives and decisions. Surprisingly, beliefs do not only drive the effect of risk dominance but also the effect of payoff dominance. This suggests that a notable share of subjects perceive coordination games as “team” problems.
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
04/18/2023
Tanu Kumar, Claremont Graduate University
“Housing as Welfare: How subsidized homeownership generates social mobility through wealth, voice, and dignity in India”
How do programs that subsidize homeownership shape the lives, behavior, and futures of these citizens? Generally, rural housing programs in India are criticized for providing citizens with poor quality shelters that do not meet their needs. Urban public housing programs suffer from the same problem, and also relocate beneficiaries to greenfield stigmatized development sites that are close to health hazards and far from work, family, and friends. These issues are not so different from the ones that plague large public housing projects in the United States, like Chicago’s Cabrini-Green homes or Pruitt-Igoe public housing in St. Louis. In this book, I reimagine this type of housing program as one whose primary function is not to provide shelter or relocate households, but to transfer a large asset to citizens. Based on studies of three housing policies, administrative data, household surveys, a natural experiment, an 18 year panel study, and in-depth qualitative interviews, I argue that subsidized homeownership helps even the poorest households build wealth, live with dignity, and exercise their voice as citizens–in both rural and urban areas.
Host: Dept. of International Studies
04/25/2023
Carlos Algara, Claremont Graduate University
“Citizens Strategically Punish the Legislature for Policy Failures: The Impact of Income Inequality on Approval of National Institutions in the United States”
Do citizens hold institutions accountable for rising income inequality in society? In this paper, we test a theory arguing that citizens strategically distinguish between their national institutions when assessing which institution to blame for rising inequality by focusing their accountability on the institution primarily responsible for passing policy, the U.S. Congress. Leveraging over 50 years of new quarterly time-series data, we find that greater income inequality lowers approval of the U.S. Congress but not the presidency or the Supreme Court. We replicate this finding of strategic accountability at the subnational level using local inequality measures and MRP estimates of institutional approval at the congressional district and state levels. Lastly, using four unique modules fielded in the 2016-2019 Cooperative Election Study we find evidence for our proposed mechanism by showing that greater salience of an income inequality as a policy issue correlates with lower job approval for Congress but not the other two national institutions. Taken together, our results suggest citizens differentiate between their national institutions when assessing accountability for policy failures, with blame falling squarely with the Article One branch prominently responsible for policymaking.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
05/02/2023
Constança Esteves-Sorenson, Univerity of California, Los Angeles
“Do Monetary Incentives Undermine Performance on Intrinsically Enjoyable Tasks? A Field Test”
Economists have long been intrigued by an influential literature in psychology positing that monetary pay lowers performance on enjoyable tasks by crowding out agents’ intrinsic interest in them. But typical experiments in this literature do not report a full set of performance metrics, which might reveal conflicting evidence on crowding out. Further, they may suer from confounds. To evaluate these issues, we review over 100 prior tests and run a field experiment building on the canonical two-session test for crowding out wherein agents receive pay for an interesting activity in session one that is withdrawn unexpectedly in session two. We test whether pay harms performance using a comprehensive set of performance measures, and if so, whether unmet pay expectations might also contribute to this decline. Our results on output, productivity and quits are most consistent with a standard economics model than with a crowding out one. Additional, though more speculative, evidence suggests that unmet pay expectations may harm output quality.
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
Fall Semester 2022
9/13/2022
Stephen Marks, Pomona College
“Effects of Police Force Size and California Criminal Justice Reforms on Crime Rates”
Based on generalized method of moments estimation for dynamic panels, he finds almost all positive, and in some cases statistically significant permanent and/or transitory effects of the reforms on various categories of property crimes.
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
9/20/2022
Eric Schwitzgebel
“Does Studying Ethics Make People More Ethical?”
Host: Economic Sciences
9/27/2022
Syeda ShahBano Ijaz, University of California at San Diego
“Demanding the Last Mile: Foreign Aid and Political Participation in Pakistan”
Foreign aid is an external resource that should fill political and economic gaps in developing democracies; this is the underlying logic of millions of dollars committed to build democracy in the developing world. Yet, there is reason to believe that foreign aid can provide a cover for recipient country elites to engage in poor policies and outright corruption. However, a singular focus on elite incentives misses the full picture. Ms. Syeda ShahBano Ijaz presents a study that looks at how voters in recipient states
change their political behavior when they become aid recipients, as well as the
subsequent response of political elites to voter demands.
Host: Dept. of International Studies
10/4/2022
Heather Campbell, Claremont Graduate University
“Going Beyond Census-Measured Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Minority Faith and Environmental Justice”
Since the 1980s, significant research evidence has shown that racial and ethnic minorities in the US suffer disproportionately from environmental pollutants and environmentally undesirable facilities. Yet, the history of the US and the world shows that racial and ethnic minorities are not the only minority groups who are discriminated against. Dr. Heather Campbell presents a study that examines the effect of religious minority status (which is not measured in the US Census), and finds that at least two religious minority groups, Jews and Muslims, also suffer from environmental injustice.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
10/11/2022
Simon Tang, California State University
“Revisit Power Transition Theory and Relative War Cycle Theory, and their respective or combined application on the Sino-America relations”
Power Transition Theory emphasizes the danger of war between two major powers when power parity is achieved between them. In contrast, Relative War Cycle Theory emphasizes the concept of “critical points” in assessing the danger of a war between major powers. Dr. Simon Tang examines the possible combination of Power Transition Theory and Relative War Cycle Theory in analyzing and predicting the future of Sino-America relations.
10/18/2022
Ana Ortiz Salazar & Rena Salayeva, Claremont Graduate University
“Democracy, Economic Development, and Health Inequalities: Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex”
Premature mortality is important to politics because it reduces the number of years that individuals could have invested in political activities, determining who governments represent and to whom are they accountable. The standard deviation of the age-at-death distribution is a standardized measure of variation in premature mortality that captures differential access to healthcare and risk exposure in a society. Ana Ortiz Salazar and Dr. Rena Salayeva use life tables from the World Health Organization, 2000-2015, to generate the annual, sex-specific standard deviation of the age-at-death distribution across 162 countries. They apply dynamic panel data analysis to estimate the effect of regime type on sex-specific premature mortality, conditional on economic development.
Host: Dept. of International Studies
10/25/2022
Kirby Nielsen, California Institute of Technology
“Revealed Incomplete Preferences”
Dr. Kirby Nielsen presents a study that elicits incomplete preferences over monetary gambles with subjective uncertainty. Subjects rank gambles, and these rankings are used to estimate preferences; payments are based on estimated preferences. About 40% of subjects express incompleteness, but they do so infrequently. Incompleteness is similar for individuals with precise and imprecise beliefs, and in an environment with objective uncertainty, suggesting that it results from imprecise tastes more than imprecise beliefs. When subjects are forced to choose, Dr. Nielsen observes more inconsistencies and preference reversals. Evidence suggests there is incompleteness that is indirectly revealed—in up to 97% of subjects—in addition to what is directly measured. (The video is not available due to the technology difficulties)
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
11/1/2022
Hannah Alarian, University of Florida
“The “Right” Migrants: Explaining Immigrant Support for Far-Right Nativist Parties”
Far-right nativist parties in Europe are staunchly anti-immigrant, yet despite still receive considerable support from voters with immigration backgrounds. Dr. Alarian’s talk address this puzzle, arguing that FRN parties disaggregating immigration by origin— as opposed to general opposition— can provide immigrants the ability to view themselves as the `right’ immigrant. Together with co-author, James Fahey (University of Florida), Dr. Alarian finds evidence of their theory combining European Social Survey data with a novel dataset of hand-coded party manifestos across nine countries over eighteen years.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
11/8/2022
Cynthia Osborne, Vanderbilt University
“Effective State-Level Policies to Strengthen The Prenatal-To-3 Period”
The prenatal to age 3 period is the most sensitive and rapid period of development. Children who experience safe, nurturing, and loving environments are placed on trajectories toward optimal growth and learning, yet many families face substantial challenges during these years. Grounded in the science of the developing child and based on comprehensive reviews of the most rigorous evidence available, researchers from Vanderbilt University have identified 11 policy solutions proven to improve the health and well-being of children and families. Based on findings from their recently released 2022 Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap, Dr. Cynthia Osborne will present a deep understanding of what state investments work, for whom, under what conditions, and which states are leading the way.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
11/15/2022
Rainita Narender, Claremont Graduate University
“Evaluating Post-Incarceration Rehabilitation Services in California”
Reducing California’s staggering recidivism rates has persisted as the most prioritized yet challenging goal faced by the California Criminal Justice System (CCJS). As two-thirds of individuals released from prison re-offend within two years of release, finding feasible solutions to deter re-offense is of great importance. A recent program geared to mitigate rising recidivism rates in California is the Specialized Treatment for Optimal Programming, STOP, program offered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, CDCR. This program offers housing, counseling and vocational resources to individuals considered the highest risk to re-offend based on their offense history, socioeconomic status, psychological and physiological safety. Rainita Narender presents a study that applies a transdisciplinary approach to investigate the populations that take-up STOP programming and if this access aids in re-entry within the community.
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
11/29/2022
Veronica Zebadúa-Yáñez, University of Maryland
“‘I’m the one that’ll make you pay’: Towards a Theorization of Feminist Violence”
Feminist scholars and activists presuppose that violence and feminism stand in opposition. Arendtian perspectives, for example, take violence as an anti-political, instrumental practice that destroys the contingent character of plural action. Pacifists regard the use of violence as an expression of the hetero-patriarchal-racist-colonial imaginary. Vulnerability-centered perspectives, for their part, propose that violence is an expression of sovereign desire. Dr. Veronica Zebadúa-Yáñez presents a study that shifts the attention from the grim realities of sexist violence to thinking feminist uses of violence. Dr. Zebadúa-Yáñez engages historical and contemporary narrative fragments and episodes of feminist violence—violence perpetrated by self-identified feminist militants—and shows that the use of feminist violence is an overlooked element within the repertoires of feminist contentious politics.
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
12/6/2022
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
“Beliefs that Entertain”
A large fraction of people’s time is spent in leisure but fairly little economic research has been devoted to this study. Dr. Joshua Tasoff presents a study that analyzes the role of beliefs on player engagement in a popular video game called “League of Legends”. Using a data set of nearly 2.8 million matches representing 28 million players subsequent game engagements, Dr. Tasoff estimates the effect of lagging behind the opponent, suspense and surprise, and a proxy for flow. The approach of this study can be used to inform game design.
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
Spring Semester 2022
1/25/22
Tony LoSasso, DePaul University
“Incumbent Regulation and Adverse Selection: You Can Keep Your Health Plan, But at What Cost?”
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
2/8/22
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Florida State University
“Information Aggregation in Social Networks”
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
2/15/22
Maxim Massenkoff, Naval Postgraduate School
“Beyond Crime Rates: How Did Public Safety in U.S. Cities Change in 2020?”
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
2/22/22
Ayobami Laniyonu, University of Toronto
“Racial Misclassification in Police Records and Its Effects on Estimates of Racial Disparities”
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
3/1/22
Allison Hartnett, University of Southern California
“Rural Intra-Elite Conflict, Colonization, and Demands for Power-Sharing: Evidence from Khedival Egypt”
Host: Dept. of International Studies
3/8/22
Yesola Kweon, Utah State University
“Age and Trade Policy Preferences in an Aging Society: Evidence from Japan”
Host: Dept. of International Studies
3/22/22
Sara Sadhwani, Pomona College
“Asian American Political Representation: Candidates, Voters, and the Future of AAPI Representation”
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
3/29/22
Sarah Dreier, University of New Mexico
“Veneer of Liberal Law: How Britain Justified Internment without Trial in Northern Ireland”
Host: Dept. of International Studies
4/8/22
Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College
“Reason and Politics”
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
4/19/22
John Garcia, University of Michigan
“Yes, I Marked ‘Some Other Race’. So, What Does that Mean about Race and Latinos?”
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
4/26/22
Magnus Lofstrom, Public Policy Institute of California
“Does Racial Disparity in Policy Stops Vary Throughout the Day?”
Host: Dept. of Economic Sciences
5/3/22
Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University
“How Vulnerability Shapes Climate Policy Attitudes: The Case of Rising Sea Levels”
Host: Dept. of Politics & Government
Fall Semester 2021
9/7/21
Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University
“Race, Prejudice, and Support for Racial Justice Countermovements: The Case of ‘Blue Lives Matter'”
Host: Politics & Government
10/5/2021
Joe Benitez, University of Kentucky
“The Effect of Medicaid Eligibility and Payment Generosity on Recession-Linked Declines in Access to Health Care”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/19/21
Andrew McCall, University of Chicago
“Police Expertise, Political Control, and Racial Bias in Discretionary Arrests”
Host: Politics & Government
10/26/21
Carlos Algara, Claremont Graduate University
“Dynamics of Partisan Competition for Legislative Majorities in the U.S. House & Senate, 1959-2018”
Host: Politics & Government
11/2/21
Kate Bundorf, Duke University
“How do Humans Interact with Algorithms? Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/9/21
Jean Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University
“Structural Racism, the USPS and Voting by Mial On-and Off-Reservation in Arizona”
Host: Politics & Government
11/16/21 – Cancelled (rescheduled for 2/22/22)
Ayobami Laniyonu, University of Toronto
“Racial Misclassification in Police Records and Its Effect on Estimates of Racial Disparities”
Host: Politics & Government
11/23/21
Soha Hammam, Claremont Graduate University
“A Multi-Method Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes”
Host: International Studies
11/30/21
Amanda Ross, University of Alabama
“A Second Stand at the Schoolhouse Doors: Are Public Schools Resegregating?”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/7/21
Rudy Alamillo, Western Washington University
“The Not So Beautiful Game: FIFA Sanctions and Homophobic Backlash in Mexico”
Host: Politics & Government
Spring Semester 2021
1/26/21
Melissa Rogers and Yuzhu Zeng, Claremont Graduate University
“Federalism and Inequality in a Pandemic: Evidence from Location Tracking in Mexico”
Host: International Studies
2/2/21
Cristina Garcia, CA Assemblymember, 58th Assembly District
“Pursuing Environmental Justice”
Host: Politics & Government
2/9/21
James Ziliak, University of Kentucky
“Recent Trends in the Material Well Being of the Working Class in America”
Host: Economic Sciences
2/23/21 – CANCELLED
Jevay Grooms, Howard University
“Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic”
Host: Economic Sciences
3/2/21
Heather Campbell, Sekwen Kim, Shawnika Johnson, and Claudia Cáceres, Claremont Graduate University
“Illuminating Geographic Racism: The COVID-19 Shutdown and Environmental Justice”
Host: Politics & Government
3/9/21
Benjamin Newman, University of California, Riverside
“The Color of Disparity: Racialized Income Inequality and Support for Liberal Economic Policies”
Host: International Studies
3/23/21
Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter, Vanderbilt University
“Effects of Indoor Tanning Regulations”
Host: Economic Sciences
3/30/21
Jessica Saunders, Council of State Governments, Justice Center
“Implicit Bias in Discretionary Decisions”
Host: Economic Sciences
4/6/21
Trevon Logan, Ohio State University
“Competition and Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Evidence from the Green Books”
Host: Economic Sciences
4/20/21
Sara Heller, University of Michigan
“Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence”
(Please note this talk was not recorded at the request of the speaker)
Host: Economic Sciences
4/27/21 – CANCELLED (To be rescheduled)
Mark Abdollahian and Zining Yang, Claremont Graduate University
“The Convergence of Technology, Markets and Politics”
Host: International Studies
5/4/21
Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley
“Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism?
Host: Economic Sciences
Fall Semester 2020
9/22/20
Dong Wook Lee, Adelphi College
“The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Political Science”
Host: International Studies
9/29/20
Yi Feng, Claremont Graduate University
“Will Money Contribute to a Good Image? An Empirical Study of China-European Economic Relations and China’s National Image in Europe”
Host: International Studies
10/6/20
Thomas Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
“Health Insurance in Other Wealthy Countries: What Can the U.S. Learn?”
Host: Politics & Government
10/13/20
Jehan Sparks, University of California, Los Angeles
“Gian/Loss Asymmetries in Sequential Framing Effects”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/20/20
Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside
“Emotions and Engagement in the Year of the Woman”
Host: Politics & Government
10/27/20
Michael Melvin, University of California, San Diego
“The Coming Crisis of Lower-than-expected Retirement Incomes”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/3/20 – POSTPONED (Moved to Spring 2021)
James Ziliak, University of Kentucky
“COVID-19 and The US Safety Net”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/10/20
Richie Li, Baylor University
“The Hidden Story in White Identity Politics: a More Comprehensive Understanding of How Does White Racial Consciousness Shape Anti-Muslim Opinion”
Host: Politics & Government
11/17/20
Marcia Godwin, University of La Verne
“Southern California’s Flipped Congressional Districts”
Host: Politics & Government
11/24/20
Tanu Kumar, College of William & Mary
“Home Price Subsidies Increase Local Participation in Urban India”
Host: International Studies
12/1/20
Laura Peck, Abt Associates
“Experimental Evaluation Design for Program Improvement”
Host: Politics & Government
Spring Semester 2020
1/28/20
Shawn Rohlin, Kent State University
“Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: The Role of Cash Grants on Household Finance and Business Survival following a Natural Disaster”
Host: Economic Sciences
2/4/20
Erin Duffy, University of Southern California
“Surprise Medical Bills: When The Hospital Is In Your Insurance Network, But — Surprise! — The Doctor Is Not”
Host: Politics & Government
2/11/20
Guillermo Ramos Douglass-Jaimes, Pomona College
“Blurring Boundaries of the “Slum Divide” Through Precision Mapping in Rio de Janeiro”
Host: Politics & Government
2/18/20
Char Miller, Pomona College
“Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio”
Host: Politics & Government
2/25/20
Christopher Krewson, Claremont Graduate University
“Supreme Court Legitimacy and the Gender Gap”
Host: Politics & Government
3/3/20
Cynthia Osborne, The University of Texas at Austin
“Effective State-level Policies to Strengthen the Prenatal-to-3 Period”
Host: Politics & Government
3/10/20
Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California
“How Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing?”
Host: Economic Sciences
Following the decision of the university to move all classes online, the Division of Politics and Economics has also decided to suspend all in-person gatherings for research talks and events for the rest of the semester. Unfortunately, the remaining Spring 2020 DPE Tuesday Talks must be cancelled.
3/24/20 – CANCELLED
Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside
Title: “Emotional Engagement in the Year of the Woman”
Host: Politics & Government
3/31/20 – CANCELLED
Marcia Godwin, University of La Verne
“Southern California’s Flipped Congressional Districts”
Host: Politics & Government
4/7/20 – CANCELLED
Thomas Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
“Health Insurance in Other Wealthy Countries: What Can the U.S. Learn?”
Host: Politics & Government
4/14/20 – CANCELLED
Michael Melvin, University of California, San Diego
“Global Currency Markets: Facts and Fallacies”
Host: Economic Sciences
4/21/20 – CANCELLED
Paasha Mahdavi, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Direct Cash Transfers and Political Participation”
Host: International Studies
4/28/20 – CANCELLED
Laura Peck, Abt Associates
“Experimental Evaluation Design for Program Improvement”
Host: Politics & Government
5/5/20 – CANCELLED
Gregory Daneke, Arizona State University
“Automacene Rising: The Problematic Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence”
Host: Politics & Government
Fall Semester 2019
9/17/19
Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara
“How are Preferences for Commitment Revealed?”
Host: Economic Sciences
9/24/19
Gregoire Phillips, University of California, San Diego
“Velvet Gloves on Iron Fists: Media, Influence, and Power in Modern Extremism”
Host: International Studies
10/1/19
Douglas Lemke, Pennsylvania State University
“The Survival of ‘States’”
Host: International Studies
10/8/19
Peiran Jiao, Maastricht University
“Investor Memory”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/15/19
Mehdi Nemati, University of California, Riverside
“Heterogeneous Effects of High-Frequency Consumption Analytics on Residential Water Consumption”
Host: Politics & Government
10/22/19
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
“Eating to Save The Planet: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Using Individual-Level Food Purchase Data”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/29/19
Ines Levin, University of California, Irvine
“Machine Unlearning: Adjusting Automatically for Human Biases in Decision Making”
Host: International Studies
11/5/19
Erica Dobbs, Pomona College
“Cinderella States: Rethinking immigration typologies in Western Europe (and beyond)”
Host: Politics & Government
11/12/19
Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University
“Culture and Development”
Host: Politics & Government
11/19/19
Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Pitzer College
“The Politics of the Pill: Gender, Framing, and Policymaking in the Battle over Birth Control”
Host: Politics & Government
11/26/19
Rustam Romaniuc, Claremont Graduate University
“Whistleblowing Norms: Experimental Evidence from Moldova and France”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/3/19
Malte Dold, Pomona College
“F.A. Hayek on the Political Economy of Endogenous Preferences”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/10/19
Zoe Nemerever, University of California, San Diego
“The Rural Representation Gap”
Host: International Studies
Spring Semester 2019
01/29/19
Nico Ravanilla, University of California, San Diego
“Limiting Adverse Political Selection: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines”
Host: International Studies
02/05/19
Richard Kronick, University of California, San Diego
“Is ‘Medicare for All’ the Democrats’ “Repeal and Replace’?”
Host: Economic Sciences
02/12/19
Gregory De Angelo, Claremont Graduate University
“Policing For Profit: The Political Economy of Law Enforcement”
Host: Economic Sciences
02/19/19
Jeanine Kraybill, California State University, Bakersfield
“The Women of SCOTUS: A Preliminary Analysis of the Different Voice Debate”
Host: International Studies
02/26/19
Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburgh
“Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Gender Differences in Task Allocations”
Host: Economic Sciences
03/05/19
Bhavna Shamasunder, Occidental College
“Crude Justice: Neighborhood Oil Development and Community Based Research in Los Angeles”
Host: Politics & Government
03/12/19
Michael McLendon, California State University, Los Angeles
“The Psychology of Inequality: Rousseau’s ‘Amour-Propre'”
Host: Politics & Government
03/19/19
Spring Break
03/26/19
David Andrews, Scripps College
“Brexit and the British Constitutional Crisis”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/02/19
Philip Armour, RAND Corporation
“Stuck without a Job: How Housing Policies, Labor Markets, and Declining Mobility Contribute to Long-Term Disability”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/09/19
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, University of California, Los Angeles
“US-Mexico Cross-Border Health Visitors: How Mexican border cities in the state of Baja California address unmet healthcare needs from US residents”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/16/19
Evan Crawford, University of San Diego
“The partisan competition over partisan competition: electoral contestation at the local level”
Host: Politics & Government
04/23/19
Chris Whaley, RAND Corporation and University of California, Berkeley
“The Effect of Financial Reward Programs on Prices and Utilization of Low-Priced Providers”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/30/19
Ruoxi Li, U.S. California State University, San Marcos
“Is there a trade-off between campaigning and legislating in Congress?”
Host: Politics & Government
Fall Semester 2018
09/11/18
Michael Baranick, American University of Central Asia
“Causes and Process of Radicalization”
Host: International Studies
09/18/18
Aaron Berg and Javier Rodríguez, Claremont Graduate University
“Trust and Turnout in Indian Country”
Host: Politics & Government
09/25/18
Claire O’Hanlon, RAND Corporation
“U.S. Health Care Industry Consolidation: National Landscape and Results from A Case Study OF Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/02/18
Melissa Rogers and Jean Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University
“Assessing the Efficacy of Early, On-site Voting Access on Indian Reservations: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nevada”
Host: Politics & Government
10/09/18
Christopher Krewson, Claremont Graduate University
“Public Support for Judicial Philosophies”
Host: Politics & Government
10/16/18
Heather Campbell, Claremont Graduate University
“Environmental Justice and Water Policy during a Drought: Community Stressors, Minority Residents, and Cutback Assignments”
Host: Politics & Government
10/23/18
Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California
“U.S. Life Satisfaction Within and Across Countries: The Role of Societal Capital and Relative Income”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/30/18
Stan Oklobdzija, University of California, San Diego
“Citizens United, Dark Money Networks and the Evolution of Political Parties”
Host: Politics & Government
11/06/18
Giorgi Areshidze, Claremont McKenna College
“How the West Thinks about Radical Islam”
Host: Politics & Government
11/13/18
Robert Bunker and Marisa Mendoza, University of Southern California
“MARA SALVATRUCHA (MS-13) A Law Enforcement Primer”
Host: Politics & Government
11/20/18
Yi Feng, Zhijun Gao and Wanjun Jiang, Claremont Graduate University
“Logic of Foreign Direct Investment, Convergence or Divergence? A Comparative Study of US and China’s Outgoing FDI to Africa”
Host: International Studies
11/27/18
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine
“The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women’s Earnings”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/4/18
Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
“Impact of Political Capacity on Demographic Change and Economic Recovery”
Host: International Studies
12/11/18
Leif Rosenberger, U.S. Army War College
“Try Shared Prosperity to Reduce the Demand for Violence”
Host: International Studies
Spring Semester 2018
01/23/18
Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
“Long term Power Transtion Perspective.”
Host: International Studies
01/30/18
Tamorah Hunt, Claremont Graduate University Board Member
“Issues in Forensic Economics.”
Host: Development Office
02/06/18
Brian Hilton, Claremont Graduate University
“Locational Big Data and Analytics: Case Studies and Demonstrations.”
Host: Politics & Government
02/13/18
Steven Childs, California State University, San Bernardino
“Unmanned Drones, Small Nuclear Powers, and Nuclear Deterrence.”
Host: International Studies
02/20/18
Linda Perkins, Claremont Graduate University
“The United Nations Substantiable Development Goals and their impact on Global Gender Equity.”
Host: International Studies
02/27/18
Paul Peretz, Claremont Graduate University
“A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Political Parties.”
Host: Economic Sciences
03/06/18
Georgia Kernell, University of California, Los Angeles
“Inside Parties.”
Host: International Studies
03/20/18
Birol A. Yeşilada, Portland State University
“How Social Values Could Explain Regional Integration in Europe.”
Host: International Studies
04/03/18
Mark Abdollahian, Claremont Graduate University
“Big Data Trajectories.”
Host: International Studies
04/10/18
Tony LoSasso, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market.”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/17/18
Sallama Shaker, Claremont Graduate University
“Chess Game in the Middle East.”
Host: International Studies
04/26/18
James M. Murphy, Jr. & Robert E. Hindle
“Multilateralism and Economic Development.”
Host: Development Office & Economic Sciences
05/01/18
Kerstin Fisk, Loyola Merimount University
“Refugee Encampment and Communal Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Host: International Studies
Fall Semester 2017
09/05/17
Lucrecia Santibañez, Claremont Graduate University
“Effects of a Private Comprehensive Schooling Model on Low-income Children: Experimental Evidence from Mexico”
Host: Economic Sciences
09/12/17
George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College
“The Return of Constitutional Political Economy”
Host: Politics & Government
09/19/17
Tom Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
“Improving Consumer Decision-Making in Health Insurance: Background and Experimental Evidence”
Location: Burkle 16; 11:45am – 1:00pm
Host: Economic Sciences
09/26/17
Gulrez Azhar, Pardee RAND Graduate School
“Heat Wave Vulnerability Mapping for India”
Host: Politics & Government
10/03/17
Jacob Meyer, California State University, Long Beach
“Which Crisis and Why?”
Host: International Studies
10/10/17
William Ascher, Claremont McKenna College
“Rights Versus Benefit-Cost Analysis”
Host: Politics & Government
10/17/17
Kyungkook Kang, University of Central Florida
“Conditional Deterrence”
Host: International Studies
10/24/17
Javier Rodriguez, Claremont Graduate University
“Party Composition of State Legislatures and Racial Disparities in Health”
Host: Politics & Government
11/07/17
Justin Gallagher, Case Western Reserve University
“Criminal Deterrence when there are Offsetting Risks: Traffic Cameras, Vehicular Accidents, and Public Safety”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/14/17
Carolyn James, Pepperdine University
“Sovereignty and Policy: US-Canadian Relations in the Arctic”
Host: International Studies
11/21/17
Jane Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
“Curriculum and Ideology”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/28/17
Pierre Englebert, Pomona College; Alma Bezares-Calderon, PhD candidates at CGU; Lisa Piergallini, PhD candidates at CGU
“Decentralization Reforms and Ethnic Collective Action in Former Katanga, DR Congo”
Host: International Studies
12/05/17
Emily Acevedo, California State University, Los Angeles
“Mexico’s Growing Public Security Threats: Treating the Problem, Not the Symptoms”
Host: International Studies
Spring Semester 2017
01/24/17
Gasspare Genna, The University of Texas at El Paso
“Development of European Integration”
01/31/17
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
“Quantitative Easing in the Great Depression and Now”
02/07/17
Emily Pears, Claremont McKenna College
“Chords of Sympathy: The Development of National Political Attachments in the 19th Century”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
02/14/17
David Lee, MIT
“Your Trash in the Wild: GPS Tracking and the Future of Waste Management”
02/21/17
No talk scheduled
02/28/17
Jerry White, Global Impact Strategies Inc.
“Religion, Violence and Strategy: How to Stop Killing in the Name of God?”
03/07/17
Patrick James, University of Southern California
“Decision-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy Crises: Presidential Leadership and Outcomes”
03/14/17
Spring Break, no talk scheduled
03/21/17
Paul Carrese, Professor and Director USAFA Scholar program, U.S. Air Force Academy
“Why Our Politics Is So Broken: The Eclipse of Constitutional Moderation”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
03/28/17
Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University
“Pricing Lives for Government and Corporate Decisions”
04/04/17
Michael Uhlmann, Claremont Graduate University
“Some Madisonian Reflections on the 2016 Election”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
04/11/17
Roger Chin, Claremont Graduate University
04/18/17
Mary Evans, Mitchell Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, Claremont McKenna College
“The Clean Air Act Watch List: An Enforcement and Compliance Natural Experiment”
04/25/17
Imke Harbers, University of Amsterdam
Fall Semester 2016
11/22/16
Dr. Andrew Marx and Dr. Melissa Rogers. CISAT and Claremont Graduate University
“Using Satellites to Assess Panamanian GDP Data”
11/08/16
Dr. Hilton Root. George Mason University
“Network Dynamics of Dynastic Succession”
11/01/16
Dr. George Thomas. Claremont McKenna College
“The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
10/27/16
Dr. Melissa Rogers. Claremont Graduate University
“What does Comparative Politics Tell Us about the Structure of the US and the Current Presidential Elections?”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
10/25/16
Dr. Charles Kesler. Claremont McKenna College
“What do the Federalist Papers Have to Teach 21st Century Americans?”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
10/18/16
Dr. Anya Samek. University of Southern California
“Towards an Understanding of What Works in Preschool Education”
10/11/16
Dr. Jean Yarbrough. University of Southern California
“Did Alexander Hamilton Get it Wrong on Executive Power?”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
09/27/16
Dr. Jacek Kugler. Claremont Graduate University
“Effect of Structural Changes on Future Global Stability”
09/20/16
Dr. Richard Worthington. Pomona College
“Global Citizen Policy Consultation”
09/13/16
Dr. Mellisa Rogers. Claremont Graduate University
“Intra-elite Competition and Long-run Fiscal Development”
09/06/16
Dr. Paul Zak. Claremont Graduate University
“Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performance Companies”
Spring Semester 2016
04/26/16
Dr. John S. Ahlquist, University of California, San Diego
“Elections, Exchange Rates & Household Exposure to Foreign Currency Debt: evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc revaluation and Polish Elections”
04/19/16
Dr. Patrick Neal, Claremont Graduate University
“Oscillations and Coupling in Congestion Games and Macroeconomic Data”
04/05/16
Dr. Gabriele Camera, Chapman University
“Money and the Scale of Cooperation”
03/29/16
Dr. Yushim Kim, Arizona State University
“Two Effective Causal Paths that Explain the Adoption of U.S. State Environmental Justice Policy”
03/22/16
Dr. Itai Sher, University of California, San Diego
“Ethical Considerations on Quadratic Voting”
03/08/16
Dr. Jeffrey Kendell Naecker, Wesleyan University
“When Fair Isn’t Fair: Sophisticated Time Inconsistency in Social Preferences”
03/01/16
Dr. Jennifer Pate, Loyola Marymount University
“Exploring the Volunteer’s Dilemma in Experiment”
02/23/16
Dr. Rami Zwick, University of California, Riverside
“Pay what you want” as threshold public good provision”
02/16/16
Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak, Harvey Mudd College
“When the oil patch looks more like a carpet: A spatial analysis of the demographic characteristics of U.S. communities living in close proximity to oil and gas development”
02/09/16
Dr. Hyung Rok Yim, Hanyang University, South Korea
“Global Economy Matrix – the Past, the Current, and the Future”
02/02/16
Dr. Dale Berger, Claremont Graduate University
“Crisis of Replicability – Critique of Social Science Research Methodology”
01/26/16
Dr. Tobias F. Roetheli, University of Erfurt, Germany
“Pattern-Based Inflation Expectations: A Modern Perspective on the Role of Extrapolation”
Fall Semester 2015
09/08/15
Zining Yang, Claremont Graduate University
“The Freedom of Constraint: An Agent-Based Game Theoretic Model of the Politics of Fertility and Economic Development Dynamics”
09/15/15
Soomi Lee, University of La Verne
“Fiscal Effects of the Constitutional Supermajority Requirement for Raising Taxes: Evidence from the U.S. States”
09/22/15
Tom Kniesner, Claremont Graduate University
“Some Core Aspects of Behavioral Labor Economics: Theory and Evidence”
09/29/15
Tahir Andrabl, Pomona College
“Coming Up Short? Recovery deficits in children after the Pakistan earthquake of 2005”
10/06/15
Garret Ridinger, University of California, Irvine
“Intentions versus outcomes: cooperation and fairness in a sequential prisoner’s dilemma with nature”
10/13/15
Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine
“The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens”
10/20/15
Jennifer Merolla, Claremont Graduate University
“Frames that Matter: Immigration Policy and Undocumented Immigrants in the United States”
10/27/15
Brinda Sarathy, Pitzer College
“Laid to Waste: Regulating Water Pollution in Southern California, 1947-1972”
11/03/15
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
“The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential Growth Bias in Retirement Savings”
11/10/15
David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College
“Using Exoneration Data to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates”
11/17/15
Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University
“Addressing Corruption Together”
11/24/15
Patrick James, University of Southern California
“The Religious Characteristics of States(RCS)Dataset:Classic Themes and New Evidence for International Relations and Comparative Politics”
12/01/15
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
“The growth of emerging economies and global macroeconomic stability”
12/08/15
Yan Li, Claremont Graduate University
“Using Association Rules Mining to Facilitate Qualitative Data Analysis in Theory Building”
Spring Semester 2015
01/27/15
Yi Feng, Claremont Graduate University
“Official Corruption in China: An Empirical Study”
02/03/15
Jeff Conklin, CogNexus Institute
“Beyond Gridlock: Breaking Our Addiction to Problem Solving”
02/10/15
Dana Goldman, University of Southern California
“Rethinking the Value of End-of-Life Care”
02/17/15
Eusebio Alvaro, Claremont Graduate University
“Messages Matter: Highlights from a Research Program Examining Persuasion in the Health Context”
02/24/15
Darren Filson, Claremont McKenna College
“Say Goodbye to Hollywood: The Rise of Film Franchises and Performance in Domestic vs Foreign Markets”
03/03/15
Sallama Shaker, Claremont Graduate University
03/10/15
Hernan Bejarano, Chapman University
03/24/15
Yariv Fadlon, Claremont Graduate University
03/31/15
Manisha Goel, Pomona College
04/07/15
Ben Gillen, CalTech
““Underbidding and Experience in USFS Timber Auctions”
04/14/15
Alan Fiske, UCLA
“Relational Models Theory – The Four Elementary Forms of Social Relations”
04/21/15
Wendy Wong, U. Toronto
“Who You Gonna Call? Leading Authorities Among INGOs”
04/28/15
Jana Grittersova, UCR
“Foreign Financiers and Sovereign Credit Ratings: Reputational Capital in Sovereign Debt Markets”
05/05/15
Daniel Benjamin, Cornell
“The Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics”