Political Economy & Development Spring 2007
Seminars & Colloquia
Political Economy & Development Spring 2007
Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul 2206
Questions? Contact Mindy Marks , Susan Carter , and Richard Sutch
When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.
| April 2 Monday (not Friday) |
David Swanson University of Mississippi Dir. Center of Population Studies |
Assessing Katrina's Demographic and Social Impacts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Preliminary Results |
| April 20 | Erica Field Harvard University |
Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania |
| April 27 | Jorge Aguero UC Riverside |
Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa |
| May 4 | Latika Chaudhary (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution) |
An Economic Analysis of Education in Colonial India |
| May 11 | Jae-Hee Son UC Riverside |
Reappraising the Job-Training Effect on Labor Market Outputs of Korean Women |
| May 18 | Subhrendu Pattanayak RTI/North Carolina State |
Nature's Call: Can social mobilization promote toilet use and improve welfare? Results from a field experiment in Orissa, India |
| May 25 | Michael Steinberger Pomona College |
Sexual Orientation, Earnings, and Occupational Choice |
| June 1 CANCELLED |
Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside (joint w/ Political Economy & Development) |
Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia |
| June 8 | Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside |
John Stuart Mill on welfare and public action |