Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2010

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Steve Helfand & Todd Sorensen.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/2/2010  Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs 
4/9/2010 Serkan Ozbeklik, Claremont McKenna College Leadership Skills and Wages Revisited:  Is There a Casual Relation? 
4/16/2010 No Seminar Applied Economics Faculty attending the So. Calif. Microeconomics Conf. at the Claremont McKenna Colleges
4/23/2010 Gustavo Gonzaga, Catholic University, Rio De Janeiro Going Private: Public Sector Rents and Privatization in Brazil
4/30/2010 Jeffrey Nugent, University of Southern California Midwives and Maternal Mortality: How Effective Has Indonesia’s Village Midwife Program Been?
5/7/2010*  Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution

*NOTE: 1st Presentation in HMNSS 1500, 12-1:30pm

What’s Next for Latin America after the Global Crisis?
5/7/2010*  Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution

*NOTE: 2nd Presentation in Sproul 2206, 4:10-5:30pm

State Capacity in Latin America
5/14/2010 Andre Portela Souza, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil Measuring the Quality of Schools: Evidence from Brazil
5/21/2010 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University International Remittances and Migrant Portfolio Interests
5/24/2010* Randy Akee, Tufts University

*NOTE: (This is a Monday)

Squeezing Through the Needle’s Eye: The Effects of Income Transfers on Obesity in American Indian and Non-Indian Children
6/4/2010 Jonathan Brooks, OECD Agricultural Policy Choices in Developing Countries