The Tuesday Talk 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 Albrecht Auditorium or online using this Zoom link (Meeting ID: 864 7922 9262). For those attending in person, please bring your lunch and we’ll provide dessert!
Fall Semester 2022
9/13/2022
Stephen Marks, Pomona College
“Effects of Police Force Size and California Criminal Justice Reforms on Crime Rates”
Host: 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”
Host: International Studies
10/4/2022
Heather Campbell, Claremont Graduate University
“Going Beyond Census-Measured Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Minority Faith and Environmental Justice”
Host: 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”
Host: International Studies
10/18/2022
Ana Ortiz Salazar & Rena Salayeva, Claremont Graduate University
“Democracy, Economic Development, and Health Inequalities: Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex”
Host: International Studies
10/25/2022
Kirby Nielsen, California Institute of Technology
“Revealed Incomplete Preferences”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/1/2022
Hannah Alarian, University of Florida
“The “Right” Migrants: Explaining Immigrant Support for Far-Right Nativist Parties”
Host: Politics & Government
11/8/2022
Cynthia Osborne, Vanderbilt University
“Effective State-Level Policies to Strengthen The Prenatal-To-3 Period”
Host: Politics & Government
11/15/2022
Rainita Narender, Claremont Graduate University
“Evaluating Post-Incarceration Rehabilitation Services in California”
Host: 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”
Host: Politics & Government
12/6/2022
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
“Beliefs that Entertain”
Host: 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: Economic Sciences
2/8/22
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Florida State University
“Information Aggregation in Social Networks”
Host: 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: Economic Sciences
2/22/22
Ayobami Laniyonu, University of Toronto
“Racial Misclassification in Police Records and Its Effects on Estimates of Racial Disparities”
Host: 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: International Studies
3/8/22
Yesola Kweon, Utah State University
“Age and Trade Policy Preferences in an Aging Society: Evidence from Japan”
Host: International Studies
3/22/22
Sara Sadhwani, Pomona College
“Asian American Political Representation: Candidates, Voters, and the Future of AAPI Representation”
Host: 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: International Studies
4/8/22
Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College
“Reason and Politics”
Host: 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: Politics & Government
4/26/22
Magnus Lofstrom, Public Policy Institute of California
“Does Racial Disparity in Policy Stops Vary Throughout the Day?”
Host: Economic Sciences
5/3/22
Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University
“How Vulnerability Shapes Climate Policy Attitudes: The Case of Rising Sea Levels”
Host: 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”