Levine Family Fund Lectures
Created by the Jay (B.A. Economics '84) and Tammy Levine Family Foundation, the Levine Family Fund supports activities that further the academic and research mission of the department, including funding for visiting speakers, undergraduate research conferences, undergraduate honors programs, faculty and graduate student seminars and workshops, and/or support for any other conferences, lectures, and research projects that further knowledge in the field of economics.
Janet Currie (Princeton University)
"Life, Death, and Mental Health: How Access to Care Helps Children Succeed."
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University)
"Improving Health Outcomes For The Bottom Billion: What’s Effective and Why?"
Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
Experience Effect – The Effect of Lifetime Experiences on Long-Term Risk Taking
Raj Chetty (Stanford University)
"Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Lessons from Big Data"
Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
"Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700"
Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago)
"The Greek Financial Crisis"
Steven Radelet (Georgetown University)
"The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World"
The Levine Family Fund Series: Gary D. Libecap (UC Santa Barbara)
The Economic Characteristics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water.
The Levine Family Fund Series: Atif Mian (Princeton University)
2015 Sheffrin Lecture: What Happened to Global Growth?