Aggie Longhorn Innovation Conference

300 West Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard,Austin TX 78705

12 November, 2021

Description

Discussions on many of the modern pressing issues faced in policy and innovation research. The Aggie Longhorn Innovation (ALI) Conference will be held at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin on November 12th, 2021. The ALI Conference is jointly held by the Salem Center for Policy and the Mays Innovation Research Center at Texas A&M. The conference aims to discuss many of the modern pressing issues faced in policy and innovation research. Agenda: 9:00am - Breakfast 10:00 am – 10:45am – Aaron Phipps, West Point - Unintended Consequences of Teacher Performance Pay: Evidence from Washington D.C. 11:00am – 11:45am – Vish Krishnan, University of California San Diego - Invigorating Innovation: Nuanced Models for Development in a Turbulent World 12:00pm – 12:50pm – Lunch - Salem Center Student Research Assistants Poster Presentations 1:00pm – 1:45pm – Ruidi Huang, Southern Methodist University - Gender Discrimination in Promotions: Evidence from Financial Institutions 2:00pm – 2:45pm – Tristan Fitzgerald, Texas A&M University - Talk title and topic coming soon 2:45pm – 3:15pm, Afternoon coffee break 3:30pm – 4:15pm – Xiao Chen, Texas A&M University - Household Wealth and Entrepreneurial Career Choices: Evidence from Climate Disasters 4:30pm – 5:15pm – Nicholas Snashall-Woodhams, University of Texas at Austin - Disentangling Frictions and Preferences Under Non-Linear Pricing 5:30pm – 6:30pm – Keynote: Peter Klein, Baylor University - Talk title and topic coming soon