The Hobby School of Public Affairs invites you to attend the Center for Public Policy speaker events.

Upcoming Speakers

Department of Economics and Hobby School of Public Affairs
Political Economy Speaker Series

Raquel Fernandez, PhD., Silver Professor of Economics, New York University.

Date: Friday, September 27, 2024 

Time: TBD

Location: TBD

Paper title: TBD

Todd Elder, PhD,  Professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University.

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Location: TBD

Paper title: TBD

About the speaker: Todd Elder is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University. His primary research interests lie in health economics and the economics of child development. He is currently studying skill formation and learning disability diagnoses among school-age children, with a focus on the influence of malleable school and classroom factors on the diagnoses of neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism and ADHD. Elder has also written extensively on the identification of the economic returns to private education and related measurement issues in the economics of education. Elder enjoys teaching courses that introduce students to measurement and identification issues, especially disentangling causal relationships from correlations found in observational data.