Spring 2018 Speaker Calendar:
February 1, 2018: Lorenz Kueng, Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates (view paper here)
February 8, 2018: Fenaba Addo, Racial Disparities in Student Loan Debt and the Reproduction of Inequality (view paper here)
February 15, 2018: Anita Mukherjee, Medicaid and Long-Term Care: Do Eligibility Rules Impact Asset Holdings?
February 22, 2018: Dean Corbae, Employer Credit Checks: Poverty Traps versus Matching Efficiency (view paper here)
March 1, 2018: Mary Hamman, Free to Choose: Suboptimal Decision Making in Health Plan Choices (view paper here)
March 8, 2018: Corina Mommaerts, Optimal Time Spans for Health Insurance Deductibles
March 15, 2018: Sarada, Entrepreneurship and the American Dream: How far Does the Upward Mobility Ladder Reach? (view paper here)
April 5, 2018: Andra Ghent, Intergenerational Linkages in Household Credit
April 19, 2018: Melody Harvey, Impact of Financial Education Mandates on Younger Consumers’ Use of Alternative Financial Services
April 26, 2018: Neale Mahoney, How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt?
The Balance-Matching Heuristic∗
May 3, 2018: Jordan van Rijn, Gender Differences in Credit Union Risk Management and Performance
Fall 2017 Presenters:
Rourke O’Brien – Does Viewing FICO Scores Change Financial Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment (September 21, 2017)
Emilia Tjernström – Media and Motivation: The Effect of Performance Pay on Writers (September 28, 2017)
Event – FinTech: Innovations for Family Financial Security (October 5, 2017)
Jaime Luque – Cross-border Mortgage Lending in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis (October 12, 2017)
Lindsay Jacobs – Estimating Retirement Preparedness Using the Survey of Consumer Finances (October 19, 2017)
Erik Hembre – What are the Roles of Mortgages in Retirement? (October 26, 2017)
Madelaine L’Esperance – The Effects of Banks in Schools on Elementary Student’s Financial Learning, Attitudes about Banks and Savings: A Field Study (November 9, 2017)
Tansel Yilmazer – Late-life Disability, Homeownership, Wealth and Mortality (November 16, 2017)
Cliff Robb – Student Loans and Life Cycle Decisions (November 30, 2017)
J. Michael Collins – Financial Well Being Over the Life Course: Exploring a New Measure (December 7, 2017)
Spring 2017 Speaker Calendar:
John Mullahy – Analyzing Food Insecurity, Multiple Deprivation, and Related Financial Security Outcomes (February 2, 2017)
Dee Warmath – How Am I Doing?: Financial Well-Being, Its Potential Antecedents, and its Relation to Psychological / Emotional Well-Being (February 9, 2017)
Dominik Piehlmaier – From Preschool to Wall Street: The Development of Overconfidence (February 23, 2017)
David Elster – Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Revealing the Limitations of Financial Education through a Randomized Controlled Trial (March 2, 2017)
Eric Grodsky & Jayme Pyne – Looking for Debt in all the Wrong Places: The Increasing Role of Graduate Student Borrowing (March 9, 2017)
Olga Kondratjeva– Borrowing Sources, Purposes and Household Well-Being: Evidence from Nepal (March 30, 2017)
Emily Gallagher – The Effects of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from the ACA Marketplace Subsidies (April 6, 2017)
Olivia Mitchell – Putting the Pension Back in 401(k) Plans: Optimal versus Default Longevity Income Annuities (April 7, 2017 – 12-1:20pm in Grainger)
Anita Mukherjee – The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime (April 13, 2017)
Michael Collins – Household Finance and Health: Preliminary Analysis to Design a Therapy Adherence Intervention Using Financial Coaching(April 20, 2016)
Amrita Kulka – Bulk Purchases and Consumption Smoothing: Using Tax Policy Changes to Estimate Saving for the Future by Buying Ahead (April 27, 2017)
Benjamin Keys – Eyes Wide Shut? Mortgage Insurance During the Housing Boom (Friday, May 5, 2017) *Please note this seminar is being sponsored by the Real Estate Department in the WI School of Business and will be held in Graaskamp 4440 at 10:30-12pm.
Fall 2016 Presenters:
Drew Anderson – Financial Aid for College (September 15, 2016)
Michael Collins – Evaluation of My Classroom Economy (September 22, 2016)
Justin Sydnor – Simplifying Health Insurance (September 29, 2016)
Rourke O’Brien – Disparate Impact? Race, Sex, and the Use of Credit Reports in Hiring (October 6, 2016)
Kegon Tan – Social Security Notch (October 13, 2016)
Kuan Liu – Time to Repay or Time to Delay? The Effect of Having More Time Before a Payday Loan is Due (October 27, 2016)
Carly Urban – Can Financial Education in High School Affect Aid Packages for College Freshmen? (November 10, 2016)
Sarada – Entrepreneurship and Wealth Mobility (November 17, 2016)
Cliff Robb – College Student Financial Behavior: A Social Cognitive Approach (December 1, 2016)
Madelaine L’esperance – Gender and the Division of Household Financial Management (December 8, 2016)
