Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2015
Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 2206
Questions? Contact Steven Helfand.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1/5/2015 | No Seminar | No Seminar |
| 1/9/2015* | Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School
*NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday) |
Path-Breakers? Women’s Electoral Success And Future Political Participation |
| 1/12/2015 | Jenny Aker, Tufts Fletcher School Of Law & Diplomacy | Can Mobile Phones Improve Learning? Short And Long-Term Impacts From An Experiment In Niger |
| 1/19/2015 | No Seminar, M.L. King Holiday | No Seminar |
| 1/20/2015* | Tobias Pfutze, Oberlin College
*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday & seminar will be held from 4:10-5:30 in HUM 1500) |
Land Titles And Violent Conflict In Rural Mexico |
| 1/21/2015* | Qian Lu, University of Texas at Austin
*NOTE: (Please note, this is an Applied Economics seminar) |
The End Of Polarization? Technological Change And Employment In The U.S. Labor Market |
| 1/23/2015* | Michael Bates, Michigan State University
*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday, but is an Applied Econ seminar) |
Public And Private Learning In The Market For Teachers |
| 1/26/2015 | Michael Kottelenberg, Queens University | Heterogeneity In Child Development: Universal Child Care And Parental Investments |
| 1/27/2015* | Michael Muller-Smith, Columbia University
*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday, but is an Applied Econ seminar and will be held in Spr 2206) |
The Criminal And Labor Market Impacts Of Incarceration |
| 1/28/2015* | Jillian Carr, Texas A&M University
*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Wednesday, but is an Applied Econ seminar) |
The Effect Of Housing Vouchers On Crime: Evidence From A Lottery |
| 2/2/2015 | TBA | TBA |
| 2/9/2015* | Robert Kaestner
*NOTE: (Please note, this is a joint seminar with School of Public Policy) |
Effects of Prescription Drug Insurance on Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare Part D |
| 2/16/2015 | No Seminar, Presidents Day Holiday | No Seminar |
| 3/2/2015* | Daniel Rees
*NOTE: (Please note, this is a joint seminar with School of Public Policy; rescheduled from 2/23/15) |
Emotional Cues and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl |
| 3/2/2015* | Boris Bravo-Ureta, University of Connecticut
*NOTE: 1:10pm to 2:30pm |
A Meta Analysis of the Agricultural Frontier Literature with a Focus on Water Studies |
| 3/9/2015* | Mike McCraken, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis
*NOTE: (Please note that this is an Econometrics seminar) |
Evaluating Conditional Forecasts from Vector Autoregressions |
| 3/20/2015 | Tim Squires, Brown University | The Impact of Access to Electricity on Education: Evidence from Honduras |