As we begin a new school year, we invite you to a Welcome Breakfast! Join us for refreshments as we come together to reconnect, meet new faces, and celebrate the start of an exciting semester. Tuesday & Thursday September 24 & 26, Time: 8 AM – 11 AM, 3rd floor HSS.

You are invited to attend an afternoon of pizza and discussion. The jumping off point for the discussion will be the introduction and first two chapters of the book “Economics for the Common Good” by Jean Tirole. 4 – 5 PM, Wednesday October 2, Room 342 of the econ department.

Prof. Galizzi helps organize this lecture. In Person at Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA, Saturday, Oct 5, 2024, at 8PM. All are welcome to join!

Seminars this fall (scheduled so far): * The Effects of Low-Educated Immigrants on Child Care Prices & US-Born Mothers’ Employment, Eunjung Jee, UMass Amherst. 10/30 HSS 342, 12:30p. * The effect of injuries on “good jobs” Tommaso Tempesti, UMass Lowell. 11/13 HSS 342, 12:30p

Join us on Thursday, December 12 at 2PM – 5PM on the 3rd floor of the Health and Social Sciences building in front of 351. See you there!

Welcome back, ECONers!

Seminar tomorrow Jan 22: "The Attention Paradox: AI Monitoring Systems and Their Impact on Manager-Employee Dynamics" J. Mauricio Galli Geleilate (Manning School) 12:30 to 2 pm.  Room HSS 342.

Hope you all had a wonderful break. Join us for a welcome back breakfast Thursday, January 23rd, 8-11am, HSS, third floor

Seminar tomorrow Feb 5: "Impact of Discussion Sessions on Students’ Learning Outcomes in an Econometrics Class" by Ishita Dey (Boston University) HSS 342, 12:30pm. Join us!

Announcement: No seminar this Friday (Feb 22).

Zoom seminar today: Cristina Tello-Trillo (U.S. Census Bureau) on “To Find Relative Earnings Gains After the China Shock, Look Outside Manufacturing and Upstream” Feb 26, 2025 12:30 PM Eastern Time uml.zoom.us/j/76060053192?…

Two seminars today! Both in Room 342. 11am, Brock Stoddard, Appalachian State University, "Voting for Collateral Enforcement with Group Identity"; 1pm, Caleb Cox, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Public Information & Coordination with a Divided Majority". See you there!

Next Wednesday, March 26, 12:30-2 pm, we will have a colleague from the school of Engineering presenting at our seminar series. Daniel Kosmas: "Operations Research Models for Public Good." Location: HSS 342. See you there!

Photos! Professor Galizzi's Health Economics class. Ranger William Morton led an activity called “The River of Death,” which focused on a 19th-century epidemic that occurred in Lowell.

Photos: Our students Victor Oliveria and John Mitiguy went to DC to present their work!

Virtual Seminar: Daniele Girardi (King’s College London) “Did Capital strike? Redistribution, firm value and private investment during the 1981-1983 French socialist experiment” April 2, 12:30 PM Eastern Time, uml.zoom.us/j/96803133370

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Join us in celebrating our seniors! Location: HSS 351 (3rd floor). Tuesday, April 29, 3:30–4:30PM. Food and snacks, and a gift of econ blankets for the seniors!

ECONers, good job, have a nice summer break!

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