Besides regular workshops, the Berlin Network of Labor Market Research organises occasional lecture series with leading international economists. The BeNA Lecture Series (like our other events) are open to the public.
| Year | Lecturer | Topic |
| 2025 | Peter Hull Brown University | Shift-Shares and Recentered IV |
2023 | Eric Bettinger Stanford University School of Education | The Aspiration of Randomization and the Perils Attached |
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2019 | Guido Imbens Stanford Graduate School of Business | Causal Inference and Machine Learning |
| 2019 | Erik A. Hanushek Stanford University | Testing |
| 2018 | David Neumark University of California, Irvine, ESSPRI | The Long-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies |
| 2017 | Lowell J. Taylor Carnegie Mellon University | Three Lectures on Inequality |
| 2016 | Uta Schönberg University College London | The Labor Market Effects of Immigration |
| 2015 | Ludger Wößmann University of Munich | The Economics of Educational Achievement |
| 2013 | Daniel Hamermesh University of Texas at Austin | Discrimination: Theory, Measurement, Applications and Policy |
| 2012 | Joseph Altonji Yale University | Dealing with Selection on Unobservables |
| 2011 | Manuel Arellano CEMFI in Madrid | Panel Data Econometrics: Established Methods and Challenges |
| 2010 | Steve Pischke London School of Economics | Lectures on Empirical Methods Based on “Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion” (2009) |
| 2009 | Steve Machin University College London | Economics of Education |
| 2008 | Michael Lechner University of St. Gallen | Econometric Evaluations with Matching Methods |
| 2007 | Andrea Ichino University of Bologna | Methods for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies |
| 2006 | Robert A. Hart University of Stirling | Implicit Contracts in Britain and Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Movers and Stayers |
| 2005 | Gerard van den Berg Free University of Amsterdam | Duration Models of Unemployment and the Analysis of Treatment Effects |