Organizers: Lorán Chollete, Sharon Harrison, and Pietro Battiston
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Li at sl4273@barnard.edu.
Date: Friday, January 8, 2021
Location: Virtual—all times listed in EST
Description: An event by the Unintended Consequences Lab, which is housed in the Department of Economics, Barnard College
Theme & Overview: Unintended Consequences and Unawareness impinge on economic life in a variety of ways. For example, during the Covid-19 pandemic, many government and individual decisions had to be made in a state of unawareness, i.e. with no recent precedent to guide the decisions. Furthermore, the policies that were implemented related to social distancing had far-reaching unintended consequences with regard to mental health and declines in global output. Far from being of academic interest only, such topics are crucial for politicians and business leaders to comprehend. Our conference will feature speakers who discuss a variety of burning questions related to unawareness and unintended consequences, in both theory and empirical applications.
Attendance: Aside from the speakers, we will include attendees from Barnard College and Welch College of Business.
PROGRAM
PART 1: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome by Special Guest Alessandra Casella (Columbia University, NBER, and CEPR)
9:15 – 10:00 Analisa Packham (Vanderbilt University)
Discussant: Elira Kuka (George Washington University)
10:00 – 10:45 Lorán Chollete (Jack Welch College of Business), Sharon Harrison (Barnard College)
Khawaja Mamun (Jack Welch College of Business)
Discussant: Rosalie Pacula (University of Southern California)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Jenna Stearns (UC Davis)
The Long-Run Effects of Wage Replacement and Job Protection: Evidence
from Two Maternity Leave Reforms in Great Britain
Discussant: Brad Hershbein (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)
PART 2: THEORETICAL AND POLICY MODELS
11:45 – 12:30 Adam Dominiak (Virginia Tech)
Discussant: Evan Piermont (University of London)
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch (Breakout Rooms)
1:45 – 2:30 Marie-Louise Vierø (Queens University)
Discussant: Scott Condie (Brigham Young University)
2:30 – 3:15 Burkhard Schipper (UC Davis)
Discussant: Kym Pram (University of Nevada, Reno)
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15 Lorán Chollete (Jack Welch College of Business), Sharon Harrison (Barnard College)
Discussant: Asen Kochov (University of Rochester)
4:30 Post-Conference Breakout Rooms
PARTICIPANTS and AFFILIATIONS
Alessandra Casella (Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University and Director of the Columbia University Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (C.E.L.S.S.)) https://econ.columbia.edu/econpeople/alessandra-casella/
Lorán Chollete (Associate Professor of Finance, Jack Welch College of Business & Technology) www.loranchollete.com
Scott Condie (Associate Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University) https://economics.byu.edu/directory/scott-s-condie
Adam Dominiak (Associate Professor of Economics Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University ) https://www.adominiak.com/
Sharon Harrison (Professor of Economics, Barnard College) https://economics.barnard.edu/profiles/sharon-harrison
Brad Hershbein (Senior Economist, and Director of Information and Communications Services, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) https://www.upjohn.org/about/upjohn-team/staff/brad-j-hershbein
Asen Kochov (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Rochester) https://sites.google.com/site/akochov/
Elira Kuka (Assistant Professor of Economics, George Washington University) http://www.elirakuka.com/
Khawaja Mamun (Associate Professor of Economics, Jack Welch College of Business & Technology) http://faculty.sacredheart.edu/mamunk/
Analisa Packham (Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University) https://sites.google.com/site/analisapackham/
Rosalie Pacula (Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics, and Law, & Professor, University of Southern California) https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/rosalie-pacula/
Evan Piermont (Lecture/Assistant Professor in Economics, University of London) https://evanpiermont.github.io/
Kym Pram (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno). https://sites.google.com/view/kympram
Burkhard Schipper (Professor of Economics, UC Davis) http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/schipper/
Jenna Stearns (Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Davis) https://sites.google.com/site/stearnsje/
Marie-Louise Vierø (Associate Professor of Economics, Queens University) https://sites.google.com/view/marie-louise
If you have any questions, please email Sharon Harrison at sh411@columbia.edu or Lorán Chollete at cholletel@sacredheart.edu.
