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2019 Public, Labor, Industrial Organization (PLIO) Conference

April 16, 2019 by kfelpel

The Texas A&M Department of Economics had the honor to host the first Public, Labor, Industrial Organization Conference on April 5 and 6, 2019.  Dr. Jason Lindo, Professor of Economics, was the Conference Host and Mrs. Chelsi Bass was the logistical coordinator for the event. Fourteen A&M ECON Alumni, eight current ECON faculty and more than 25 current ECON Doctoral students attended to hear eleven separate presentations covering a wide range of topics.

The organizers of the conference are grateful to the Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts and Stata for their financial support.

Presentations:

“Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, SAT Scores, and College Attendance” – Analisa Packham, Miami University

“Female Science Advisors and the STEM Gender Gap” –  Pierre Mouganie, American University of Beirut

“Machine Learning: Primer and Why It’s Important” – Anirban Sengupta, Amazon

“Estimating Treatment Effects Using Stata” – David Drukker, Stata

“Criminal Justice Initiatives in Texas” – George Naufal – PPRI, Texas A&M University

“Learning by Doing in Law Enforcement” – Jeremy West, UC-Santa Cruz

“Modeling Lenders’ Choices and Competition between Borrowers in Online Peer-to-Peer Markets” – Diego Escobari, UT- Rio Grande Valley

“The Price Premium of Heritage in the Housing Market: Evidence from Aukland, New Zealand” – Jose Gabriel Castillo – Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

“When Power Plants Leave Town: Environmental Quality and the Housing market in China” – Manuel Hernandez, International Food Policy Research Institute

“Moving to Floodplains: The Unintended Consequences of the National Flood Insurance Program on Population Flows” – Abigail Peralta, LSU

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