Department of Economics









Economics Department Seminar Series

Venue: 112 Eggers Hall
Day:  Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:30PM (Unless noted otherwise)

Spring 2008

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
February 26 (joint with TDPE) "How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment" Eric Werker Harvard University
March 4 "Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion" Emily Owens Cornell University
Monday, March 17 (joint with TDPE) Cancelled Nancy Qian Brown University
Thursday, March 20 (joint with CPR) "Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure." Hoyt Bleakley University of Chicago
Monday, April 7 (joint with TDPE) "Organization of Vertically Integrated Firms and Globalization" Ping Wang Washington University, St. Louis
April 22 (joint with CPR) "Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets" Emmanuel Saez University of California-Berkeley
April 29 TBA Alberto Bisin New York University

 

Fall 2007

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
August 28 "The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions" James Walker University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 4 "Effects of Individual Development Accounts on Asset Purchases and Saving Behavior: Evidence from a Controlled Experiment" Gary V. Engelhardt Syracuse University
September 11 "The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from the United Kingdom" Heather Royer Case Western Reserve University
September 18 "Public Goods, Transferrable Utility, and Divorce Laws" Pierre-Andre Chiappori Columbia University
September 25 "Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees" Javier Baez Syracuse University
October 2 "Tiebout Sorting and Inefficiency" Dennis Epple Carnegie Mellon University
October 9 "Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?" Jonah Rockoff Columbia University
October 16 "Why Ghettos 'Go Bad': Evidence from the U.S. Postal Service" Robert Margo Boston University
October 23 "The Lengthening of Childhood" Susan Dynarski Harvard University
October 30 No Meeting No Meeting No Meeting
November 6 "The Impact of Changes in Child Support Policy" Urvi Neelkantan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 8 "Poverty Reduction and Location Employment Effects of Geographically-Targeted Incentives: An Instrumental Variables Approach" Andrew Hanson Syracuse University
November 13 No Meeting No Meeting No Meeting
November 20 "The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes" Uta Schoenberg University of Rochester
November 27 "The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization" Mark Duggan University of Maryland
December 4 "Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants" Michael Greenstone Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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