NEW! Student Research Online Seminar Series

Due to COVID-19 our Spring 2020 student programming had to be cancelled, including our two Regional Student Conferences and our Public Policy Camps. However, that shouldn't mean that the great work done by our student members shouldn't be presented. 

The Student Research Online Seminar Series is meant to do just that, showcase, in a manner as close to the real thing as we can, given the circumstances, student research on panels. With a discussant, also playing the role of the chair, the Seminars will take place weekly, throughout the month of May, on Wednesday, via ZOOM, featuring one particular policy area each week.

Top-rated previously peer-reviewed papers have been chosen to highlight the most popular policy areas that our student members research.

Mark your calendars. 

Seminar 1
Drugs & Community Violence

Meeting Recording

Wednesday, May 13, 2:00 PM Eastern

Registration required.

• Community-Based Violence Prevention: The Potential Mechanisms of Black Community Cohesion and Implications for Public Policy - Talib Hudson, The New School
   
• The Relationship between Unemployment Rates and Consumption Rates of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone at the County Level – Nathan B.R. Legg, Georgetown University
   
• The Price of Sexual Violence: Long-Term Economic Impact on Survivors and the Economy – Briana R. Taylor, George Washington University
   
• Discussant: Catherine Maclean, Temple University

 

Seminar 2
Energy Policy

Meeting Recording

Registration required.

Wednesday, May 20, 2:00 PM Eastern

• Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy – a Longitudinal Study – Leslie Carter, Virginia Commonwealth University
   
• The Impacts of Special Environmental Events on Electricity-Saving Behaviors: Evidence from Smart Meter Data of Residential and Non-Residential Consumers - Xingchi Shen, University of Maryland
   
• Are Electric Vehicles Incentives Effective? Evidence from the 50 U.S. States - Shiying Wang, Georgetown University
   
• Discussant: Sanya Carley, Indiana University

 

Seminar 3
Economics and International Development

Meeting Recording

Registration required.

Wednesday, May 27, 2:00 PM Eastern

• Constrained or Not Constrained? Identifying Financially Constrained Firms in the Brazilian Economy – Daniel Grimaldi, George Mason University
   
• What Drives China's Presence in LATAM? an Empirical Analysis of Chinese FDI in Latin America – Evelyn Simoni, Georgetown University
   
• Buying Influence: An Analysis of the Effect of Chinese FDI on a Country's UN General Assembly Voting – Braden Henry Durian, West Point Military Academy
   
• Regulatory Entrepreneurship: A Fintech’s Experience in Policymaking Process – Adebola Daramola, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
   
• Discussant: Corinne Krupp, Duke University