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Huge thanks to Mike Dinerstein Michael Dinerstein (Duke) for visiting Wake Forest last Friday and presenting his paper "Student Loan Forgiveness" (with Earnest, Koustas & Yannelis). A super insightful talk — it was great to have you with us!

Thank you to Francesco Bianchi (Johns Hopkins) Francesco Bianchi for visiting Wake Forest and presenting “Smooth Diagnostic Expectations” (with Cosmin Ilut & Hikaru Saijo) this past Tuesday! We appreciate all your advice and the engaging discussions with our faculty!📊

Professor Todd McFall was on WFMY News 2 talking to Giselle Thomas about the effects changes to tariffs are having on trade. youtu.be/p2ZMAsi1rOY?si…

Congrats to our honors students on presenting their thesis work last Wednesday! 🎓📚 We're so proud of the thoughtfulness, rigor, and creativity you brought to your research. It was a great afternoon of ideas, questions, and celebration. Here's to all your hard work! 👏✨

Na próxima sexta-feira, 25/04, terermos o prazer em receber Fabiola Alba-Vivar (Wake Forest University) nos Seminários PPGE/UFPB, apresentando o paper "Opportunity Bound: Transport and Access to College in a Megacity". Great to have you, Fabiola Alba-Vivar!

Last week we hosted Zhenxuan Wang (NC State) for our junior workshop—thank you for visiting us! 🙌 He presented “Steering Adaptation: Heat, Driver Performance, and Cost-Sharing in the Heavy-Duty Transportation Industry”, sparking a great conversation🌡️🚛📈.

Yesterday we hosted Hannah Postel Hannah Postel, Ph.D. (Duke) for our junior workshop—thank you for visiting us! She presented “Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage” (with Abramitzky, Leah Boustan & Eriksson), sparking a rich discussion on historical data and migration!

Great to meet with Dr. Curtis and the Econ Dept to see all the great things they are doing for our Student-Athletes. Go Deacs!

Garrett Johnson (Garrett Johnson) will present Privacy-Enhanced versus Traditional Retargeting: Ad Effectiveness in an Industry-Wide Field Experiment (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf……) in the VIDE seminar 5/7 11AM ET. Signup: digitalecon.org

Polymarket gained mainstream notoriety when bettors gave Republican candidate Donald Trump significantly higher odds than most other sources to win the US presidency. “Polymarket prices seem to be wrapping up the views of smart money pretty well,” WFU Economics prof Koleman

Many of the econ faculty gathered yesterday to see off our 2025 graduates. Congratulations to all! We'll miss you and keep in touch!

"The big problem has been that the value of our time is way more than the value of a #penny,” said WFU Economics prof Robert Whaples. He has been quoted in hundreds of news outlets nationwide. Check out this video 🎥 news.wfu.edu/2025/02/13/why…

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Congrats to our faculty member Erik Nesson Erik Nesson ! His latest paper, "The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use," is now available in the Journal of Health Economics 🎉 📖 Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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