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Section faculty present at 2025 ASSA Annual Meeting

The 2025 ASSA Program, held in San Francisco, California, ran from Thursday, January 2nd to Sunday, January 5th. Three section members presented at the conference:

Orley Ashenfelter participated in a live stream panel discussion:
Owen Zidar discusses tax policy on NPR's Marketplace

Owen Zidar speaks with Kimberly Adams and Sarah Leeson on the 2025 tax policies. 

Leah Boustan presented her work on intergenerational mobility in the UK

In November, Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics, presented at several universities in the United Kingdom.

Ellora Derenoncourt presents on labor market effects of incarceration

Ellora Derenoncourt presented her paper “The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the United States” at six events this fall.

Pauline Carry co-organized seminar in the fall

In September Pauline Carry, Postdoctoral Research Associate, co-organized “Women in Microeconomics” at the Becker Friedman Institute in Chicago. 

Roman Rivera presents at Harvard University.

On November11th Roman Rivera presented his work on "Performance Pay and Multitasking Police" at Harvard's Law, Economics, & Organization Seminar. 

Pier Paolo Creanza Presents at Yale University

On October 31st Pier presented "Idea Factories? Big Business and American Innovation." at Yale's Economic History Lunch.

"The weekly economic history lunch provides an informal setting for graduate students,…

Ellora Derenoncourt presents at NBER: Economics of Mobility - Fall 2024

Ellora Derenoncourt along with co-author Desmond Ang presented “The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the US” at the NBER: Economics of Mobility conference in September of 2024. Additional co-authors from the section include Kyle Hancock and Jing Wu. The NBER…

Allison Green Delivers Lecture at Yale University

On September 23rd Allison Green presented her paper “Networks and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from WWII Navy Ships” at Yale's Economic History Workshop. This workshop is a central part of Yale's economic program. Speakers include…

Orley Ashenfelter talks about his South Jersey vineyard with Edible Jersey

Edible Jersey's Hank Zona sat down with Orley at his vineyard to discuss how he came to plant a vineyard in South Jersey.