Dr. John A. Hogan was a UNH professor of economics and business from 1947 through 1974. He gifted the Department of Economics a fund to be used to establish a professorship and annual lecture in his name to help promote awareness and understanding of contemporary issues relevant to the welfare and productivity of the American workplace. The John A. Hogan speaker series invites a distinguished individual from academia, public policy, government, organized labor or business to speak on important U.S. labor market trends and relevant policy issues.
2024 John A. Hogan Distinguished Lecture Presents
Dr. Bruce Sacerdote
What if someone told you that the strength of your social connections and the influence of the people you are surrounded by as a child are the greatest indicators of your “future education, health and economic outcomes”? The 2024 John A. Hogan Distinguished Lecturer, Bruce Sacerdote will explain just that when he speaks at the University of New Hampshire, Peter T. Paul School of Business and Economics on March 28, 2024.
Sacerdote is an American economist and the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. “You study economics to get to the root of the issue,” Sacerdote is quoted as saying in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. He is known for his “discipline-blending research” which explores child and youth outcomes and its impact on education, law, and economics. His bio states he "enjoy[s] working with detailed data to enhance our understanding of why children and youth turn out the way they do. [He is] also involved in a series of studies to examine how students make choices about college-going and how policy makers might influence that decision-making process."
He was featured on a 2011 episode of Freakonomics Radio entitled, The Economists Guide to Parenting (Season 1 Ep 39) in which economists discuss the return on investment in child rearing. Here he talks about parental habits as being “contagious” to their children. In effect he and his fellow economists argue that parental impact does not come from how many advantages you give your children but in how you behave around them. The episode argues that the best way to improve your child’s academic, financial and social outcomes is by being a positive role model.
Sacerdote is a 1990 graduate of Dartmouth College and received a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University. His work has been published in (among other places) American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. And it has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio.
Please Join us in welcoming Dr. Sacerdote to the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics in room G75 on March 28th at 4:00 p.m. with cocktail reception to follow. Please direct questions and inquiries to Dr. Reagan Baughman, John A. Hogan Distinguished Professor of Economics at reagan.baughman@unh.edu.
Past honorees of the John A. Hogan Distinguished Lecture
2023
The Work of the Future: Where Will It Come From
David Autor presents “The Work of the Future: Where Will It Come From” in the 2023 John A. Hogan Distinguished Lecture Series. Autor is a preeminent American Economist and MIT Ford Professor and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow. In 2020, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers.”
His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes.
In 2016, Autor presented to TedxCambridge, an independent local TED Talk event. His presentation entitled, “Will Automation Take Away All Our Jobs?” has nearly 2 million views on Ted.com. In a 2019 article, the Economist magazine labeled him as “The academic voice of the American worker.” Later that same year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was christened “Twerpy MIT Economist” by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight in a segment on automation and employment.
