by Sean Mulholland | Dec 12, 2023 | News, Previous Events, Research, The Director's Blog
On December 2nd, the Liberty over Lunch student hosted Lightcast Economists and Research Manager, Rachel Sederberg. Sederberg and her team collect labor market data in real time by collecting job postings and candidate availability post in online job search websites....
by Sean Mulholland | Nov 14, 2023 | Events, Previous Events, Research, The Director's Blog
On November 10th, the Liberty over Lunch students hosted Craig Richardson where he presented his work on housing availability and affordability. Through a discussion of his paper, “Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act Deflate Property Values in Low-Income...
by Sean Mulholland | Nov 7, 2023 | Events, Previous Events, Research, The Director's Blog
On November 3rd, the Liberty over Lunch students hosted Professor Celeste Carruthers of the University of Tennessee. Professor Carruthers holds the William F. Fox Distinguished Professorship of Labor Economics in the Haslam College of Business. Professor Carruthers...
by Sean Mulholland | Nov 3, 2023 | Events, News, Previous Events, The Director's Blog
On November 1st, our Liberty over lunch seminar students hosted a campus debate at Western Carolina University on the question: Should gender affirming care for youth be banned? For over an hour and a half, students, faculty, and staff discussed the pros and cons of...
by Sean Mulholland | Oct 10, 2023 | Events, Previous Events, Research, The Director's Blog
On October 6th, the Liberty Over Lunch class was honored to host Abigail Cormier. Currently a third-year economics Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia, Cormier presented her working paper on the labor market effects of becoming a parent of a child with special...
by Sean Mulholland | Sep 26, 2023 | Events, Previous Events, Research, The Director's Blog
We were honored to host Clemson University economist Scott Baier in our Liberty over lunch class on September 22nd. Professor Baier presented his working paper, “Gravity with Global Trade Shocks.” Using a Bayesian Gibbs sampling approach, he and his coauthor help...
