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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Drew-Bailey-e1568744393109.png)
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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Ashley-Darcy-Mahoney.jpeg)
Ashley Darcy-Mahoney
Associate Professor, Nursing, George Washington University
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.
![Avi Feller](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Avi-Feller.jpg)
Avi Feller
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Statistics, University of California Berkeley
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.
![Erika Hoff](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/ErickaHoff-e1568745358133.jpg)
Erika Hoff
Professor, Psychology; Director, Language Development Lab, Florida Atlantic University
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.
![Zacharias Maniadis](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/ZM.jpeg)
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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/10/McConnellS-2017-e1570201484355.jpg)
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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/J.-Meer-1-e1568744148361.jpg)
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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Mushfiq_picture_large-e1568745443165.jpg)
Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor, Economics, Yale University
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.
![Seth Pollak](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/pollak01-771x514-e1568745951300.jpg)
Seth Pollak
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.
![Kjell Salvanes](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Kjell-Salvanes.jpg)
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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Anya-Samek.jpg)
Anya Samek
Associate Professor (Research), Economics, University of Southern California
September 3 – September 14, 2019
![Elizabeth Spelke](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2020/01/spelke-custom1-1-e1578419209633.jpg)
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](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/fabio-tufano-e1568745390804.jpg)
Fabio Tufano
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Nottingham
Visit postponed due to coronavirus.
![Hirokazu Yoshikawa](https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/files/2019/09/Dr.-Hirokazu-Yoshikawa-1-e1568744431345.jpg)
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.”