Seminar Series

Spring 2026

All seminars are held in the Joyce Cummings Center (JCC), Room 270, 177 College Avenue on the Medford Campus on Tuesdays at 3:00 pm unless otherwise noted. For further information, please contact Linda Casey at (617) 627-3560 or by email: linda.casey@tufts.edu.

Please note: Visitors are welcome to attend all seminars.

February 10, 2026 - Cancelled
Lisa Kahn, Professor, Rochester University
"Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?"

March 3, 2026
Andy Garin, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University 
"Delivering Higher Pay? The Impacts of a Task-Level Pay Standard in the Gig Economy "

March 10, 2026
Joanna Venator, Assistant Professor, Boston College
"Reproductive Policy Shocks and Defensive Investments in Contraception"

March 24, 2026 - Birger Lecture
Alex Mas, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
"TBA"

March 31, 2026
Catherine Wolfram, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"TBA"

April 2, 2026*
Benjamin Sommers, Professor, Harvard University
"TBA"

April 7, 2026
Olivia Chi, Assistant Professor, Boston University
"TBA"

April 14, 2026
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Assistant Professor, New York University
"TBA "

April 21, 2026
Marco Tabellini, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
"TBA"

April 28, 2026
Pascaline Dupas, Professor, Princeton University
"TBA"

*Thursday, 1:30-3:00 pm