Seminar Series

Fall 2024

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.

September 10, 2024
Jesse Bruhn, Assistant Professor, Brown University
"What's in a Question? Using Item Response Data to Uncover the Hidden Structure of Student Achievement"

September 24, 2024
Alex Albright, Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"No Money Bail, No Problems? Trade-offs in a Pretrial Automatic Release Program"

October 3, 2024 - Wellington Burnham Lecture **
Leonard Wantchekon, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"State Capacity and Institutional Experimentation: Uncovering the Political Mechanisms of Development"

October 8, 2024 
Peter Hinrichs, Research Fellow, W.E. Upjohn Institute
"State Appropriations and Employment at Higher Education Institutions"

October 15, 2024 
Awa Ambra Seck, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
"En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco"

October 22, 2024 
Livia Alfonsi, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
"TBA"

October 29, 2024
Jessica Leight, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute 
"Do ultra-poor Graduation Programs Build Resilience Against Droughts? Evidence from rural Ethiopia"

November 5, 2024
Mark Shepard, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
"TBA"

November 19, 2024
Anna Aizer, Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics, Brown University
"TBA"

December 3, 2024
Karam Kang, Associate Professor, Laurits R. Christensenn Professorship in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"TBA"

***Thursday