Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2013
Friday, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 2206
Questions? Contact 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1/11/2013 | NO SEMINAR | No Seminar |
| 1/18/2013 | Aparajita Dasgupta, UCR PhD Candidate | Can The Major Public Works Program Serve As Buffer Against Negative Shocks In Early Childhood? Evidence From Andhra Pradesh, India |
| 1/25/2013 | Monobina Mukherjee, UCR Environmental Sciences PhD Candidate | Irrigated Agricultural Adaptation To Water And Climate Variability: The Economic Value Of A Water Portfolio |
| 2/1/2013 | Jingyi Xue, Rice University | Three Representations Of Preferences With Decreasing Absolute Uncertainty Aversion |
| 2/8/2013 | Nathan Converse, London School of Economics | Uncertainty, Capital Flows, And Maturity Mismatch |
| 2/15/2013 | Fabio Ghironi, Boston College | Market Deregulation And Optimal Monetary Policy In A Monetary Union |
| 2/21/2013* | Douglas Almond, Columbia University
*NOTE: (Graduate Student presentation, 11-12:30pm, in Sproul 2206) |
Fetal Origins And Anti-Poverty Policies |
| 2/22/2013 | Douglas Almond, Columbia University | Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale Of Land Reform And Sex Ratios In China with Hongbin Li and Shuang Zhang |
| 3/1/2013 | Laura Giuliano, University of Miami | Do Gifted Education Programs Work For Disadvantaged Students? |
| 3/7/2013* | Alan Manning, London School of Economics
*NOTE: (Graduate Student Presentation, 11-12:30pm in Sproul 2206) |
Imperfect Competition In The Labor Market |
| 3/8/2013 | Alan Manning, London School of Economics | Minimum Wages And Wage Inequality: Some Theory And An Application To The UK |
| 3/15/2013 | Qiong Tian, UCR PhD Candidate | TBA |