Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2017
Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 2206
Questions? Contact Steven Helfand or Sarojini Hirshleifer.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1/11/2017 | Joseph Romano, Stanford University | Randomization Tests Under An Approximate Symmetry Assumption |
| 1/18/2017 | No Seminar | No Seminar |
| 1/25/2017 | Robert Kaestner, UC Riverside | Early Childhood Health Shocks And Adult Wellbeing: Evidence From Wartime Britain |
| 2/1/2017 | Yongxiang Wang, The University of Southern California | Access To Migration For Rural Households |
| 2/8/2017 | Dan Bennett, The University of Southern California | The Marriage Market For Lemons: HIV Testing And Marriage In Rural Malawi |
| 2/15/2017 | Shihe Fu, Southwest Univ. of Economics & Finance | Air Quality And Labor Productivity: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Firms |
| 2/22/2017* | Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology
*NOTE: from 10:00-11:30 am in INTS 1113 (Please note, this is an Econometrics seminar) |
BLP-Lasso For Aggregate Discrete Choice Models Applied To Elections With Rich Demographic Covariates |
| 2/22/2017 | Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley | Inequality Of Educational Opportunity? Schools As Mediators Of The Intergenerational Transmission Of Income |
| 3/01/2017 | Monica Singhal, UC Davis | Dodging The Taxman: Firm Misreporting And Limits To Enforcement |
| 3/08/2017* | SungJun Huh, UCR PhD Candidate
*NOTE: (Please note that this is an Economic Theory Seminar, but is being given on a Wednesday) |
The Equity Premium And The Financial Accelerator |
| 3/10/2017* | Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University
*NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday, but is an Applied Economics seminar) |
Informational Constraints On Antipoverty Programs: Evidence For Africa |
| 3/10/2017* | Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University
*NOTE: (Please see line above) |
Paper #2 for the seminar title listed above. |
| 3/11/2017* | Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University
*NOTE: (this is the keynote address at the PacDev Conference) |
Interventions Against Poverty In Poor Places |
| 3/15/2017 | David Lagakos, UC San Diego | In Search Of A Spatial Equilibrium In The Developing World |
| 3/22/2017 | No Seminar | No Seminar |