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SUMMARY:2025-2026 Weekly Visiting Scholar Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to welcome a new cohort of visitor scholars from universities around the world. Every Wednesday at noon\, join us for research presentations and lively discussions featuring both our visiting scholars and Berkeley scholars. \nThis is a fantastic opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and connect with the broader academic community. Whether you’re already part of the IRLE community or simply interested in the talks\, everyone is welcome. Plus\, there will be pizza! \nSpring 2026 Schedule\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nPresenting Scholar\nTalk Title\n\n\n01/28/2026\nLuisa Opitz (Bocconi)\n\n\nThe Timing of Taxes: Labor Supply Responses over the Year\n\n\n\n\n02/04/2026\nMartin Friedrich (IAB)\nEffects of the Minimum Wage on Immigration\n\n\n02/11/2026\nPauline Madies\nWorking Together: Gender Segregation Within Firms and Labor Market Outcomes\n\n\n02/18/2026\nYaroslav Korobka (CERGE-EI)\nGeneralized AKM: Theory and Evidence\n\n\n02/25/2026\nMax Müller (University of Bonn)\nDo Firms Know What Workers Want?\n\n\n03/04/2026\nFrancesco Armillei (Bocconi University)\nContribution Buy-Back Policies and the Value of Pension Benefits\n\n\n03/11/2026 \nNote: This week we will have two half-hour presentations\n12:00 PM Ria Wilken (FU Berlin) \n12:30 PM Winnie Wanjiru Njoroge (CERGE-EI)\nThe Rise of the Superstar Neighborhood: 100 Years of Housing Segregation in the US and Europe \nExpected Discrimination and Job Seeking Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Kenya\n\n\n03/18/2026\nThomas Rieger (DIW Berlin)\nTBD\n\n\n03/25/2026\nSpring Break/Holiday\nN/A\n\n\n04/01/2026\nSégal Le Guern Herry (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)\nTBD\n\n\n04/08/2026\nPaul Lapinski (American University)\nTBD\n\n\n04/15/2026\nEvelyn Cheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong)\nTBD\n\n\n04/22/2026\nMaria Carreri (Bocconi)\nPolitical Corruption and Bureaucratic Performance. Evidence from Mafia-Infiltrated Local Governments\n\n\n04/29/2026\nEmily Weisburst (O Lab)\nTBD\n\n\n05/06/2025\nGuoliang Liu(Zhejiang Normal University)\nResearch on Preventive Safeguard System for\nWage Payment\n\n\n\nFall 2025 Schedule\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nPresenting Scholar\nTalk Title\n\n\n08/27/2025\nWoojin Jung (Rutgers)\n\n\nTargeting Urban Poverty and Food Insecurity: A Community-Informed Spatial Analysis and Machine-Learning Approach\n\n\n\n\n09/03/2025\nTheodore Koutmeridis (University of Glasgow)\nA High Price to Pay: Do Prices Affect Domestic Violence?\n\n\n09/10/2025\nCarlos Schmidt-Padilla (UC Berkeley)\nOpportunities and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Advance Labor Market Experience\n\n\n09/17/2025\nAlex Bryson (University College London)\nUnions in Developing Countries\n\n\n09/24/2025\nAnnika Nivala (VATT Institute For Economic Research)\nMaking Employers: The Effects of Hiring Subsidies in a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment\n\n\n10/01/2025\nErnesto Tiburcio Manon (UC Berkeley)\nTBD\n\n\n10/08/2025\nBailey Palmer\nPreferences for Job Amenities and Adverse Selection: Evidence from Survey Enumerators\n\n\n10/15/2025\nSebastian Arechaga (UC Berkeley)\nIncentivizing Teachers to Narrow Educational Gaps: Evidence from Texas\n\n\n10/22/2025\nElla Mattinen (Tampere University)\nSocial Insurance for Entrepreneurs\n\n\n10/29/2025\nPaul Lapinski (American University)\nExpedited Justice? Assessing Procedural Reform in U.S. Asylum Courts\n\n\n11/05/2025\nPietro Geuna (Paris School of Economics)\nJob-to-job Mobility\, Outside Options\, and Bargaining: A Machine Learning Approach\n\n\n11/12/2025\nPaul-Emmanuel Chouc (CREST / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)\nThe Supply-Side Effects and Incidence of Investment Stimulus Policies\n\n\n11/19/2025\nGiuseppe Grasso (University of Lisbon)\nDignity by Decree? The Employment and Wage Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts\n\n\n11/26/2025\nNon-instructional Day/ Thanksgiving Break\nN/A\n\n\n12/03/2025\nValentin Bolotnyy (Hoover Institution\, Stanford)\nA Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization\n\n\n\nAccessibility Accommodations\nIf you require accommodation for a disability for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning\, alternative media formats\, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event\, please contact Zi Lin Li at irle@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
URL:https://irle.berkeley.edu/event/2025-2026-weekly-visiting-scholar-seminar-series/
LOCATION:IRLE Director’s Room\, 2521 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Economics in Service of the Public
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Erika McEntarfer\, former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics\, will talk about her career as a government economist\, how working in the policy realm is different from research\, the importance of data to policy\, and how economists can scale their impact through public service. \nDr. McEntarfer will also participate in Understanding Inflation\, a moderated discussion with Martha Olney (Economics)\, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. at IRLE. \nAbout Erika McEntarfer\nErika McEntarfer is a Tad and Diane Taube Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She most recently served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2024 to 2025\, and as Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisors from 2022 to 2023. In total\, she has spent over two decades in nonpolitical roles across the federal government. Her public service work has focused on developing new economic insights by linking government data in novel ways\, and the creation of new labor market statistics. Her research on labor market dynamics has been published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics\, the Journal of Labor Economics\, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech. \nLogistics and Accessibility Accommodations\nPizza will be served. \nIf you require accommodation for a disability for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning\, alternative media formats\, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event\, please contact Zi Lin Li at irle@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
URL:https://irle.berkeley.edu/event/economics-in-service-of-the-public/
LOCATION:Goldman School of Public Policy\, Room 250\, 2607 Hearst Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Understanding Inflation
DESCRIPTION:After decades of relatively stable prices\, the COVID pandemic and the policy responses to the pandemic reintroduced Americans to sustained and high rates of price inflation. We learned very quickly that people hate inflation. While actions taken by the Federal Reserve ultimately stabilized prices\, we are again facing inflationary pressure created by war and the attendant interruptions to the shipment of oil\, fertilizer\, and other key inputs to the global economy. \nWhat causes inflation?  What connects global developments such as the pandemic or military conflict to increasing prices? Is price inflation somehow related to the abundance agenda? What can policymakers do to combat inflation? And what is the connection between inflation and unemployment? \nJoin us for a moderated discussion of these questions and more with Erika McEntarfer\, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics\, and Martha Olney\, Teaching Professor Emerita\, UC Berkeley Department of Economics and author of the recent book Inflation\, published by MIT Press.   \nDr. McEntarfer will also give a lunchtime talk about her career as a government economist earlier in the day at the Goldman School of Public Policy. \nAbout the Speakers\nErika McEntarfer is a Tad and Diane Taube Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She most recently served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2024 to 2025\, and as Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisors from 2022 to 2023. In total\, she has spent over two decades in nonpolitical roles across the federal government. Her public service work has focused on developing new economic insights by linking government data in novel ways\, and the creation of new labor market statistics. Her research on labor market dynamics has been published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics\, the Journal of Labor Economics\, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech. \nMartha Olney is a Teaching Professor Emerita in Berkeley’s Economics Department where she taught from 1992 to 2022. Prior to joining Berkeley\, she was an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst.  She has also taught at Stanford University (2001) and Siena College (2011-2012). She received her PhD from Berkeley in 1985. Her research is in the areas of macroeconomics and economic history as well as pedagogy\, and has been published in Quarterly Journal of Economics\, Journal of Economic History\, Economic Inquiry\, Journal of Economic Education\, and elsewhere. She is the author of Buy Now\, Pay Later (UNC Press\, 1991) and Inflation (MIT Press\, 2025) as well as several economics textbooks. Professor Olney is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic History Association and is the recipient of multiple teaching and mentoring awards including Distinguished Teaching Awards from UC Berkeley\, UC Berkeley’s Social Science Division\, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, plus awards from Phi Beta Kappa\, the Economic History Association\, The Stavros Center for Economic Education\, and UC Berkeley’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. She served on the academic advisory board of the Financial Services Research Program of George Washington University and on the boards of the American Economic Association (AEA)  Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession\, the Economic History Association (ex officio)\, and the Business History Conference. She is currently a member of the board of the AEA’s Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession (CSQIEP) and Berkeley’s Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Welfare. \nAccessibility Accommodations\nIf you require accommodation for a disability for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning\, alternative media formats\, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event\, please contact Zi Lin Li at irle@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
URL:https://irle.berkeley.edu/event/understanding-inflation/
LOCATION:IRLE Director’s Room\, 2521 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:IRLE Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Power and Participation in Negotiations
DESCRIPTION:About this Workshop\nHow unions negotiate is a strategic choice. Union members seldom directly participate in the process of collective negotiations over issues that are crucial\, urgent\, and relevant to their own lives. This workshop will discuss how negotiations can be different—very different—from what has become the norm\, and how the practice of negotiations can build the power needed to win tough contract fights. \nWe will draw from Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Negotiations by Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor to stimulate a robust conversation about collective bargaining: how it is practiced\, how it can be improved\, and how the practice and process of negotiations relate to power\, union governance\, and democracy in the workplace and beyond. At a time when workers’ rights are under increasing threat from the federal government and large corporations\, and when workers are fighting to win first contracts at Starbucks\, Amazon\, and elsewhere\, Power and Participation in Negotiations will teach urgently-needed skills to expand union members’ collective negotiations practices to build unity\, commitment\, and power\, and strengthen union democracy. \nThis two-session workshop will focus on the “why” and “how” of moving towards high-power\, high-participation negotiations. It is designed for unions at all stages of contract negotiations\, including workers organizing for first contracts and workers organizing for new successor agreements–whether for a second\, or even a fortieth\, contract. Through examining the book’s case studies\, participants will learn how workers can use the collective bargaining process to achieve transformative contracts through deep organizing and member-driven strategy. The workshop will show how an organized membership and high-power\, high-participation negotiations are key to an effective system of collective negotiating. By the end of the workshop\, each group will produce a plan to open their collective negotiations practice using the skills they have learned. \nWho\, What\, When\, Where: The Essential Details\n\nWho: You and a group of at least nine other colleagues* you recruit and coordinate before and during the sessions.\nWhat: The workshop will move through chapters of Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations\, discussing core concepts and how each union can implement them. Participants will hear from union members featured in the book\, have time with members of their group to make plans to move to high-power\, high-participation negotiations\, and have the opportunity to meet and learn from unionists from around the U.S.\nWhen: Two Saturday sessions on June 6 and 13\, 2026\, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern.\nWhere: On Zoom\nCourse Fee: $200 for a group of 10 or more people. Groups are responsible for ensuring that each participant obtains a copy of Rules to Win By.\nRegistration Deadline: Friday\, May 8\, 2026. Once accepted\, each group’s coordinator will receive via email the course manual\, logistical information for the program\, and a discount code for participants to purchase Rules to Win By.\n\n*Setting Up Your Team\nOrganizing is a team endeavor\, not a solo effort. For this reason\, we require organizations to create a team of at least 10 people to register for this workshop. In addition\, each team will need to designate at least one group coordinator to lead exercises in their group. Organizations may send as many participants as they would like\, provided there is at least one group coordinator per 10 participants. Group coordinators will attend a one-hour orientation session prior to the workshop to learn their role\, review the sessions\, and learn best practices for using Zoom\, leading discussions\, and facilitating the breakout sessions. Anyone is eligible to serve as a group coordinator if they are committed\, well organized\, and have access to a pro-level Zoom account (A pro-level Zoom account\, or other paid video conferencing account\, will enable group coordinators to host meetings for longer than the 40-minute limit of a basic Zoom account). Additional information for group coordinators\, including the dates for the orientation\, will be provided upon acceptance into the workshop. \nFor more information\, contact Elizabeth Avila at eavilaa@berkeley.edu with “PPN 2026” in the subject line.
URL:https://irle.berkeley.edu/event/power-and-participation-in-negotiations/
LOCATION:Zoom
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