Incubator 2020-2021: The Global Energy Challenge
Visitors Program
2020-2021
The Incubator was proud to include the following distinguished scholars in its 2020-2021 class of visitors. Visitors presented and fine-tuned their research, tackling each of the three components of this critically important issue – Energy Markets, Climate Change, and Pollution.

Drew Bailey
Associate Professor, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
December 2 – December 6, 2019
Scheduled presentations:
Developmental Psychology Brownbag, December 2, 12:00 p.m., Foster Hall 505, “Complementarities between Early Educational Intervention and Later Educational Quality? A Systematic Review of the Sustaining Environments Hypothesis”
Chicago Education Workshop, December 3, 12:30 p.m., Stuart Hall 105, “Treatment effect forecasting: What is it, and why should you care?”

Ashley Darcy-Mahoney
Associate Professor, Nursing, George Washington University
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.

Avi Feller
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Statistics, University of California Berkeley
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.

Erika Hoff
Professor, Psychology; Director, Language Development Lab, Florida Atlantic University
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.

Zacharias Maniadis
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Southampton
November 12 – November 21, 2019
Scheduled presentations:
Econ Department Experimental Seminar, November 12, 11:00 a.m., SHFE 112 “Can Biased Polls Distort Electoral Results? Evidence from the Lab and the Field.”
Workshop in Family Economics, November 15, 4:00 p.m., SHFE 112,”The Expert and the Charlatan: an Experimental Study on Economic Advice.”

Scott McConnell
Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
November 4 – November 8, 2019
Scheduled presentations:
Chicago Education Workshop, November 5, 12:30 p.m., Stuart Hall 105, “Measurement that Matters: Aligned and Actionable Assessment to Improve Age 3 to Grade 3 Achievement.”

Jonathan Meer
Professor, Economics, Texas A&M University
March 5 – March 11, 2020
Scheduled presentations:
Econ Department Experimental Seminar, March 5, 12:00 p.m., SHFE 112, “Charitable Giving Responses to Education Budgets.”

Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor, Economics, Yale University
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.

Seth Pollak
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.

Kjell Salvanes
Professor, Labor Economics, Norwegian School of Economics
October 17 – November 7, 2019
Scheduled presentations:
Lifecycle Working Group, October 23, 5:15 p.m., CEHD 180,“Mothers working during preschool years and child skills.”
Chicago Education Workshop, October 29, 12:30 p.m., Stuart Hall 105, “Status Traps and Human Capital Investment”

Anya Samek
Associate Professor (Research), Economics, University of Southern California
September 3 – September 14, 2019

Elizabeth Spelke
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
February 17 – February 18, 2020
Scheduled presentations:
“Learning Mathematics in the Early Years: Developmental Cognitive Science meets Development Economics” – February 18, 3:30 – 4:45 p.m., SHFE Room 021.

Fabio Tufano
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Nottingham
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.

Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Professor of Globalization and Education, NYU Steinhardt
February 24 – February 26, 2020
Scheduled presentations:
Chicago Education Workshop, February 25, 12:30 p.m., “Experimental evaluation of an unconditional cash transfer for parents of 0-3 year-olds in the U.S.”