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2020-21

  • September 11 — The Socialist Calculation Debate's Centennial: New Challenges, State Capacity, and State Capitalism — Leonid Krasnozhon — Loyola University New Orleans
  • September 18 — Sorting Out the Aid-Corruption Nexus — Andrew Young — Texas Tech University
  • September 25 — Closing the STEM Gender Gap: Choice, Access, and Policies in Mexico City High Schools — Andrew Dustan — Vanderbilt University
  • October 2 — Institutional Change and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Model of Rent-Seeking Derived from U.S. Constitutional History — Robert Wright — Georgia College and State University
  • October 9 — Cloudy with a Chance of Munchies: Assessing the Impact of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Obesity Using a Synthetic Control Approach — Raymond March — North Dakota State University
  • October 16 — The Effects of Occupational Licensing Reform for Nurse Practitioners on Children's Health — Moiz Bhai — University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • October 23 — The Political Economy of Substance Misuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Audrey Redford — Western Carolina University
  • October 30 — Metaphysical Realism and Avoiding the Political Idealist-Realist Dichotomy — Douglas Rasmussen — St. John's University
  • November 6 — The Elasticity of Aggregate Output with Respect to Labor and Capital — Dietrich Vollrath — University of Houston
  • November 13 — The Comparative Endurance and Efficiency of Religion — Anthony Gill — University of Washington
  • December 4 — Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance — Jillian Carr — Purdue University
  • January 29 — Graduate Student Workshop
    • The Effect of Sanctions on Economic Freedom — Gor Mkrtchian — Texas Tech University
    • Paying in Advance? Political Survival and Military Expenditure — Henry Moncrieff — Texas Tech University
  • February 5 — Graduate Student Workshop
    • The Political Economy of Lighthouses in Antebellum America — Justin Callais — Texas Tech University
    • Still a Neo-Classical Anomaly? Re-Examining Income and Input Convergence — Daniel Sánchez-Piñol — Texas Tech University
  • February 12 — Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs — Howard Bodenhorn — Clemson University
  • February 19 — Leadership and Organizations — Lee Alston — Indiana University Bloomington
  • February 26 — Right-to-Work and Employment and Establishment Mobility: A Spatial Border Analysis — Todd Nesbit — Ball State University
  • March 5 — The Calculus of Dissent: Bias and Conformity in FOMC Forecasts — Thomas Hogan — American Institute for Economic Research
  • March 26 — What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics of the Opening Key Principles in the Wealth of Nations — Bart Wilson — Chapman University
  • April 2 — A Cognitive Approach to Stakeholder Enrollment Under Knightian Uncertainty — Peter Klein — Baylor University
  • April 16 — Consumer Sovereignty and W.H. Hutt's Critique of the Colour Bar — Art Carden — Samford University
  • April 23 — Are Economic Arguments Against Immigration Missing the Boat? The Institutional Effect of the Mariel Boatlift — Claudia Williamson — University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • April 30 — Don't TREAD on Anyone: The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems — Sean Mulholland — Western Carolina University
  • May 7 — Testing Stiglitz: Rent-Seeking and Income Distribution — Stephen Miller — Troy University

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