“Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start”

Na’ama Shenhav
Assistant Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College

Friday, October 19th, 2018
3:00-4:15 PM
Annenberg 303

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Na’ama Shenhav is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on the role of policy incentives during childhood on long-run outcomes, as well as issues related to gender and inequality. Her recent work studies the education incentives of DACA; the external validity of fixed effects methods, and implications for Head Start estimates; and the impact of women’s suffrage laws.

“The Sins of the Parents: Persistence of gender bias across generations and the gender gap in math”

Alex Eble
Assistant Professor of Economics and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University

Friday, October 5th, 2018
12:30-1:45 PM
Annenberg 303

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Alex Eble is Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Alex’s research focuses on the economics of education in developing countries, with a specific interest in understanding how imperfect information affects the formation of human capital. In a series of papers, he studies how early human capital investment decisions can be negatively affected by misinformation about one’s own ability stemming from exposure to gender bias. Alex also has ongoing research projects in China, India, Gambia, and Guinea Bissau evaluating education policy options in these countries. He earned his PhD in economics from Brown University, his MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his BA in Economics and East Asian Languages and Cultures from Indiana University, Bloomington. He can speak and read Mandarin Chinese.