Friday, October 2, 2026
201 Miller Hall
3–5 pm
Dr. Carlos Martins-Filho, University of Colorado Boulder
"Estimation of Distribution Functions, their Jumps and Interval Probabilities under Measurement Error"
Carlos Martins-Filho is a professor with research interests in econometrics and statistics and a focus on nonparametric and semiparametric models. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. and prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 2009 he was a faculty member at Oregon State University and FGV. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Central Bank of Brazil, and several private companies. His research has appeared in the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, International Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, as well as other journals. He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee in 1992.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Joseph Haslag.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
201 Miller Hall
3–5 pm
Dr. Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University
Topic to be announced.
Jennifer Hunt is a Distinguished Professor of Economics who specializes in the study of labor markets. She has been at Rutgers since 2011 after previous positions at McGill University (2004-2011), the University of Montreal (2001-2004) and Yale (1992-2001). From 2013-2015 she was first Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, then Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1992 and her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and is on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung in Nuremburg. Her current research focuses on immigration and wage inequality, while past research has also encompassed unemployment, the science and engineering workforce, the transition from communism, crime and corruption..
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Duha Altindag or Dr. Alan Seals.