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Economics seminar series and related events

The seminar series is held on Fridays from noon-1:30 p.m. in 307 Tilton Hall. Exceptions are in green. Other colloquia and lectures that may interest economists are also listed. This schedule can be added to your calendar. We have prepared an information sheet for seminar visitors.


Spring 2012

Jan 26, 2012

Thursday

4-5:30 p.m.

LBC 203

William Gale

Brookings

Murphy Yates lecture: Fiscal Therapy: A Rehab Program for America's Debt Addiction

Jan 30, 2012

Monday

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Jones 100A

Sylvia Nasar

CIPR lecture: Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Jan 31, 2012

Tuesday

4-5:30 p.m.

Dixon Annex 152

Dan Ariely

Duke

Murphy lecture: Behavioral Economics in Plain Language: Money, Cheating, and More

Feb 24, 2012

Rusty Tchernis

Georgia State University

Econ seminar

Mar 2, 2012

Gary Fields

Cornell University

Econ seminar

Mar 9, 2012

Harmut Egger

University of Bayreuth

Econ seminar

Mar 19, 2012

Monday

noon-1:30 p.m.

Law MPR

Richard McAdams

Chicago Law

Law seminar

Mar 23, 2012 (new!)

Craig Garthwaite
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Econ seminar

Mar 30, 2012

Therese McGuire

Northwestern University

Econ seminar

Apr 6, 2012

Mary Beth Walker

Georgia State University

Econ seminar

Apr 13, 2012

Peter Lambert

University of Oregon

Econ seminar

Apr 20, 2012

Laura Giuliano

University of Miami

Econ seminar


Archived seminars


Fall 2011

Sep 9, 2011

Fidan Kurtulus

Massachusetts

Econ seminar: The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Minorities and Women Over Three Decades: 1973-2003

Sep 16, 2011

John Bowblis

Miami (Ohio)

Econ seminar: Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Reimbursement and Upcoding

Sep 22, 2011

Douglas Harris

Wisconsin (IRP, WCER)

Murphy Lecture: Conditional Cash Transfers and College Persistence: Evidence from a Randomized Need-Based Grant Program

Sep 28, 2011

Mary Olson

Tulane

Health Policy talk

Oct 12, 2011

Nantaporn Plurphanswat

Tulane

Health Policy talk: Gene-Environment Interaction and Adolescent Substance Use

Oct 17, 2011

Paige Skiba

Vanderbilt

Law seminar

Oct 19, 2011

Sebastian Leguizamon

Tulane

Public Policy talk: Merit-Based College Tuition Assistance and The Probability of In-state Work

Oct 21, 2011

Esther Duflo

MIT

Econ seminar: Education, HIV and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Oct 28, 2011

Steve Trejo

Texas

Econ seminar: The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Nov 4, 2011

Michael Ransom

BYU

Econ seminar: Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists: How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics

Nov 9, 2011

Michael Darden

Tulane

Health Policy talk: Smoking, Morbidity, and Mortality: Evidence from a Long Panel

Nov 17, 2011

John Edwards

Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR): Mexico at the Crossroads: Learning from History, Facing the Future, Panel 3: Structural Change, Economic Growth and Equity: Part I

Nov 17, 2011

Nora Lustig

CIPR: Mexico at the Crossroads: Learning from History, Facing the Future, Panel 4: Structural Change, Economic Growth and Equity: Part II

Nov 18, 2011

Robert Kaestner

IGPA, University of Illinois-Chicago

Econ seminar: Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs and Use of Other Health Care Services of the Elderly

Dec 2, 2011

Vivian Wu

USC

Econ seminar: The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes


Spring 2011

Jan 19, 2011

Alan Barreca

Tulane

Health Policy talk: Migration and Malaria in the Early 20th Century United States

Jan 31, 2011

Carmen Diana Deere

Florida

Classroom seminar: Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs. Household Heads

Feb 11, 2011

Jason Abrevaya

Texas

Econ seminar: A GMM Approach for Dealing with Missing Data on Regressors and Instruments

Feb 17, 2011

Jason Fletcher

Yale

Econ seminar: Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use

Feb 18, 2011

Raquel Fernandez

NYU

Econ seminar: Women's Rights and Development

Feb 25, 2011

Kyna Fong

Stanford

Econ seminar: Markov Perfect Network Formation

Mar 12, 2010

Conference: Economics of Immigration

Mar 18, 2011

James Foster

George Washington

Econ seminar: Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Mar 21, 2011

Jan Ondrich

Syracuse University

Econ seminar: The Racial and Gender Interest Rate Gap in Small Business Lending: Improved Estimates Using Matching Methods

Mar 25, 2011

Daniel Millimet

SMU

Econ seminar: Four New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis when Environmental Regulation Is Endogenous

Apr 1, 2011

Guillermo Calvo

Columbia

Econ seminar: Looking at Financial Crises in the Eye (background paper 1, background paper 2)

Apr 20, 2011

David Malueg

UC Riverside

Econ seminar: Voluntary Provision of Public Goods with Private Information and the "Weakest Link" Aggregator Function


Fall 2010

Aug 27, 2010

Chao Zhou

Tulane

Econ seminar: The Impact of Civil Rights Acts and Hospital Integration on Black-White Differences in Mortality: A Case Study of Motor Vehicle Accident Death Rates

Sep 1, 2010

Kaj Gittings

LSU

Econ brownbag: Firm Pay Policies and Executive Compensation

Sep 8, 2010

Jay Shimshack

Tulane

Econ brownbag: Repeat Offenders, Enforcement, and Environmental Compliance

Sep 10, 2010

Conference: Political Economy of New Orleans

Sep 16, 2010

Leandro Magnusson
and Zach Flynn

Tulane

Econ brownbag: Parametric Inference Using Structural Break Tests

Sep 17, 2010

David Autor

MIT

Econ seminar: Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts

Sep 30, 2010

Audrey Singer

Brookings

Murphy Lecture: Immigration, Local Reception, and the Prospects for Federal Reform

Oct 1, 2010

Bill Evans

Notre Dame

Econ seminar: The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt

Oct 8, 2010

Stanley Engerman

Rochester

Econ seminar: Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World

Oct 20, 2010

Claudia Campbell

Tulane SPHTM

Health Policy talk: Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum Quality Initiatives and Opportunities for Research

Oct 21, 2010

David Figlio

Northwestern

Murphy Lecture: The Consequences of Accountability and Choice for Urban Schools

Oct 22, 2010

Carol Graham

Brookings

CIPR Lecture: Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires

Oct 25, 2010

Adam Cox

Chicago Law School

Law School talk: Reconsidering Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering (food provided)

Oct 27, 2010

Nora Lustig

Tulane

Econ brownbag: Constructing a Commitment to Equity Index

Nov 3, 2010

Marco Castaneda

Tulane

Health Policy talk: The Effects of Organizational Form on the Adoption of New Medical Technologies in the Hospital Industry

Nov 4, 2010

Gilbert Metcalf

Tufts

Murphy Lecture: Climate Change Policy and Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico: What's the Connection?

Nov 11, 2010

Gregory Clark

UC Davis

CEPA Lecture: Was there ever a Ruling Class?: 800 Years of Social Mobility in England, and its Implications for Modern Social Policy

Nov 12, 2010

Matthew Kotchen

Yale

Econ seminar: The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand

Nov 15, 2010

Mark McClellan

Brookings

Murphy Lecture: The Future of Health Care Reform

Nov 17, 2010

Mallorie Smith and

Jonathan Pritchett

Tulane

Econ brownbag: Sequential Sales As a Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves

Nov 19, 2010

Christina Paxson

Princeton

Econ seminar: The Changing Role of Education in the AIDS Crisis

Dec 1, 2010

Chao Zhou

Tulane

Health Policy talk: The Use of Patient Navigation to Eliminate Cancer Disparities-Experience from Boston Medical Center

Dec 3, 2010

Scott Carrell

UC Davis

Econ seminar: From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy: A Cautionary Tale in How Not to Improve Student Outcomes


Spring 2010

Jan 21, 2010

Glenn Loury

Brown University

Murphy Institute Yates Lecture

Jan 29, 2010

Janet Currie

Columbia University

Economics seminar: Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass

Feb 19, 2010

Richard Romano

University of Florida

Economics seminar: Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition

Feb 26, 2010

Amitabh Chandra

Harvard University

Economics seminar: Identifying Provider Prejudice in Health Care

Mar 1, 2010

Dan Aaronson

Chicago Fed

Economics brownbag: The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement

Mar 4, 2010

Richard Boylan

Rice University

Economics seminar: States' Responses to Shortfalls and Windfalls

Mar 5, 2010

Marzena Rostek

University of Wisconsin

Economics seminar: Price Inference in Small Markets

Mar 8, 2010

Scott Cunningham

Baylor University

Economics brownbag: The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Education among Sex Workers

Mar 12, 2010

Aimee Chin

University of Houston

Economics seminar: Impact of Bank Accounts in Migrant Savings and Remittances: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Mar 22, 2010

Albert Fishlow

Columbia University

Center for Inter-American Policy and Research Lecture: Is Brazil the Country of the Future?

Apr 7, 2010

Ying Pan

Louisiana State University

Economics brownbag: Does Latino Population Induce White Flight? Evidence from Los Angeles County

Apr 9, 2010

Paul Pecorino

University of Alabama

Economics seminar: Title IX and the Allocation of Resources to Women's and Men's Sports

Apr 9, 2010

Hosted by CIPR

XIV Annual Meetings of the LACEA / IADB / WB / UNDP Research Network on Inequality and Poverty

Apr 9, 2010

Santiago Levy

IADB

Research Network on Inequality and Poverty keynote: Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico

April 26, 2010

Isaac Mbiti

Southern Methodist University

Economics brownbag

May 3, 2010

Leigh Linden

Columbia University

Economics seminar: The Effect of Village-Based Schools:
Evidence from a RCT in Afghanistan


Fall 2009

Sep 11, 2009

Juan Pantano

Washington University

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Hotz-Miller Estimation Strategies

Sep 18, 2009

Nora Lustig

Tulane University

The New Dynamics of Inequality in Latin America: A Break with the Past?

Sep 25, 2009

Olivier Deschênes

UC Santa Barbara

Weather and Death in India: Implications for Climate Change

Oct 1, 2009

Patricia Cortes

University of Chicago
(Booth School of Business)

Outsourcing Household Production: Foreign Domestic Helpers and Native Labor Supply in Hong Kong

Oct 9, 2009

Francisco Ferreira

World Bank

Own and Sibling Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Theory and Evidence from Cambodia

Oct 22, 2009

Anne van den Nouweland

University of Oregon

Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies

Oct 30, 2009

Enrico Moretti

UC Berkeley

Real Wage Inequality

Nov 6, 2009

Aureo de Paula

University of Pennsylvania

Identification and Estimation of Voter Preferences

Nov 12, 2009

David Neumark

UC Irvine

Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Nov 20, 2009

Richard Steckel*
Ohio State University

Children of Adversity: The Health and Nutrition of American Slaves

Nov 20, 2009

George Deltas

University of Illinois

Welfare-Enhancing Collusion and Trade

Dec 4, 2009

Jenny Wahl*
Carleton College

Dred, Panic, War: How a Slave Case Triggered Financial Crisis and Civil Disunion


Spring 2009

Jan 23, 2009

John Edwards
Tulane University

Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Pollution, and Children's Health (with Christian Langpap)

Jan 30, 2009

Jeff Milyo
University of Missouri

The Voter ID Mess: What Do The Data Tell Us About State Election Administration, Illegal Voting and Vote Suppression

Feb 6, 2009

Stefano Barbieri
Tulane University

Threshold Uncertainty in the Private-Information Subscription Game

Feb 13, 2009

Jeff Zabel
Tufts University

The Impact of Minimum Lot Size Regulations
On House Prices in Eastern Massachusetts

Feb 27, 2009

Chuck Mason
University of Wyoming

Why Do Firms Hold Oil Stockpiles?

Mar 6, 2009

Naci Mocan
Louisiana State University

Vengeance

Mar 13, 2009

Delia Furtado
University of Connecticut

Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks

Apr 17, 2009

Keith Finlay
Tulane University

How Mass Incarceration Affects Families: Evidence from Birth Outcomes


Fall 2008

Sept 12, 2008

Douglas Nelson
Tulane University

Employment Risk, Fairness and the Political Economy of Trade Policy

Sept 19, 2008

Marcus Berliant
Washington University

Explaining the Size Distribution of Cities: X-treme Economies

Sept 26, 2008

Van Pham
Baylor University

Imports ' R' Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for
Developing-Country Imports

Oct 2, 2008

Marianne Bitler
UC Irvine

Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates

Oct 17, 2008

Josh Ederington
University of Kentucky

Infant Industry Protection and Industrial Dynamics

Oct 24, 2008

Jason Pearcy
Tulane University

The Dynamics of Switching Costs

Nov 7, 2008

Jay Shimshack
Tulane University

School Buses, Diesel Emissions, and Respiratory Health

Nov 14, 2008

Timothy Beatty
University of York, U.K.

Power in Revealed Preference Tests

Nov 21, 2008

Wolfram Schlenker
Columbia University

Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects


Financial support for the Department of Economics Seminar Series is provided by the Murphy Institute. Seminars marked with an asterisk are funded by the Newcomb-Tulane Duren Professorship.

206 Tilton Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118 tel 504-865-5321 fax 504-865-5869 pwatson@tulane.edu