Seminars
Concordia regularly hosts research seminars showcasing cutting-edge work by economists and scholars from around the world.
These events are open to faculty, graduate students, and researchers from Concordia and universities across Montreal and beyond, fostering a vibrant and collaborative research community.
The information on this page is updated every Monday.
Please verify the information prior to coming on campus for an event, as times or location might change.
Upcoming seminars
Thursday, September 24 at 1:30 p.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Angela Zheng (McMaster University)
From Kindergarten to College: The Impact of Education Policies over the Lifecycle (with Jacob Wright)
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1154
Meeting host: Gabrielle Vasey
Policymakers have implemented a variety of reforms that expand enrollment of low- income students in high-quality public schools and colleges, with the aim of increasing intergenerational mobility. We show that the effects of these policies are not additive across stages of the lifecycle: at the college level, expanding access actually reduces mobility. We develop a lifecycle model with human capital accumulation at each stage of schooling, in which households sort into public school zones through residential location and into college via a competitive admissions process. The key mechanism is that increased college competition affects parental investment in children and sorting across school zones. Empirically, we provide causal evidence for this mechanism and use the estimates to identify model parameters governing child human capital production. A public school rezoning policy increases intergenerational mobility by 2.2%, weakening the link between school-zone house prices and school quality. Income-based college affirmative action, however, decreases mobility by 2.3% and, when combined with rezoning, offsets half of the mobility gains.
Wednesday, September 30 at 3:30 p.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Isabel Treviño (UCSD)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1154
Meeting host: Huan Xie
Friday, October 2 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Steven Lehrer (Queen's University)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Huan Xie
Friday, October 23 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Nick Pretnar (University of California Santa Barbara and UT Austin)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Heejeong Kim
Friday, October 30 at 9:15 a.m.
Virtual seminar series in information economics and experiments (VIEE)
Junze Sun (Wuhan University)
On competition in linear persuasion games
Location: virtual, please contact one of the meeting hosts for information about meeting details.
Meeting co-hosts: Ming Li and Huan Xie
Friday, October 30 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Bhavook Bharadwaj (Université de Montréal)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting hosts: Dipjyoti Majumdar and Szilvia Pápai
Friday, November 6 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Minjoon Lee (Carleton University)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Heejeong Kim
Tuesday, November 17 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Marek Pycia (University of Zurich)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1154
Meeting host: Szilvia Pápai
Friday, November 27 at 3:30 p.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Yuki Tamura (CREST - École Polytechnique)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Szilvia Pápai
Friday, December 11 at 9:15 a.m.
Virtual seminar series in information economics and experiments (VIEE)
Noémie Cabau (Corvinus University)
Title TBA
Location: virtual, please contact one of the meeting co-hosts for information about meeting details.
Meeting co-hosts: Ming Li and Huan Xie
