Joseph Altonji to give Joe Tiao Lecture on Economic Issues

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

 

The College of Arts and Sciences’ economics department hosts Joseph Altonji, Thomas DeWitt Cuyler professor of economics at Yale University, for the 2025 Joe Tiao Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in Regnier Forum. All faculty, staff, students and members of the community are welcome to attend.

The title of Altonji’s talk is “The Labor Market Value of an MSW, an MBA, a JD and other Graduate Degrees.” During his lecture, he will cover his latest research on the labor market returns to 121 specific advanced degrees. Altonji and his co-authors studied how the returns differ across schools, across different types of students and by full-time status.

Altonji is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously held faculty positions at Columbia and Northwestern and served as a visiting professor at Princeton and Harvard. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also an elected fellow and past president of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Eastern Economic Association. In 2018, his contributions to the analysis of labor supply, family economics and discrimination were rewarded with the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.

The Joe Tiao Lecture Series, initiated in 2006, enables the College of Arts and Sciences' economics department to bring internationally acclaimed economists to campus each year. Each Tiao Lecturer presents two lectures at K-State: a public lecture on an economics issue of current interest and a more technical seminar in the department.

View past Joe Tiao Lectures online.