Development/Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2007

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)

Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar & Susan Carter 

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
10/3/2007 Todd Sorensen UCR Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are A Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines.
10/10/2007 Anita Alves Pena Colorado State Univ. Locational Choices of Legal and Illegal Mexican Agricultural Workers in the U.S.
10/17/2007 Christopher Carpenter UC Irvine How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada
10/24/2007 Doug Miller UC Davis The South African pension program and the health of the elderly and their families
10/31/2007 David Vazquez-Guzman Univ. of Stirling, Scotland Inequality in Mexico: Methodological and Empirical Issues
11/7/2007 Maurizio Mazzocco UCLA Testing for efficient risk sharing in rural India
11/14/2007 Vijaya Ramachandran Georgetown University What matters to Firms in Africa? Relevance of Data on Perceptions
11/21/2007 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NO SEMINAR
11/28/2007 Jae Hee Son UCR The Effects of Job Training on the Wages of Korean Women
12/5/2007 Jorge Aguero & Mindy Marks UCR Disentangling the Relationship Between Motherhood and Wages: Evidence from Latin America