Fall 2009

Sep 11, 2009

Juan Pantano
Washington University, St. Louis

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Hotz-Miller Estimation Strategies

Sep 18, 2009

2:30-4 p.m.

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

On Thursday

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

On Thursday

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

On Thursday

David Neumark
UC Irvine

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

Nov 20, 2009

1-2:30 p.m.

Cudd Hall

Richard Steckel*
Ohio State University

Children of Adversity: The Care and Feeding of Slave Children

Nov 20, 2009

3:30-5 p.m.

George Deltas
University of Illinois

Welfare-Enhancing Collusion and Trade

Dec 4, 2009

Jenny Wahl*
Carleton College

Spring 2010

The Spring 2010 series will be held at a new time on Fridays from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in 301 Tilton Hall. (Exceptions in red.) Seminars by economists hosted outside the Economics Department are also listed and marked with an asterisk.

Jan 21, 2010

Thursday 4-5:30

Glenn Loury*
Brown University

Jan 29, 2010

Janet Currie
Columbia University

Feb 19, 2010

Richard Romano
University of Florida

Mar 4, 2010

Thursday 3:30-5

Richard Boylan
Rice University

Mar 5, 2009

Leigh Linden
Columbia University

Mar 12, 2009

Aimee Chin
University of Houston

Mar 19, 2009

Marzena Rostek
University of Wisconsin

Apr 9, 2009

Paul Pecorino
University of Alabama

Apr 16, 2009

Amitabh Chandra
Harvard University

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 & NBER

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
(Thursday)

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