Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

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

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar.

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
4/6/2005 Shawn Kantor UC Merced Striking the Roots of Crime: The Impact of the New Deal on Criminal Activity
4/13/2005 Lopamudra Bannerjee Economics (Graduate Student) UCR Of Floods and Agricultural Wage Rates in Bangladesh: Empirical evidences from the recent past
4/20/2005 Giovanni Peri UC Davis Gains from “Diversity”: Theory and Evidence from Immigration in U.S. Cities
4/27/2005 Haider Khan University of Colorado, Denver Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in Computable General Equilibrium Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments
5/4/2005 Robert Plotnick University of Washington The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-Marital Child-Bearing
5/11/2005 Anjini Kochar Stanford University Schooling Externalities and Public Labor Markets: Empirical Evidence from Urban India
5/18/2005 Jere Behrman University of Pennsylvania The Impact of Experimental Nutritional Interventions on Education into Adulthood in Rural Guatemala: Preliminary Longitudinal Analysis 

Returns to Birthweight
5/25/2005 Marc Law University of Vermont Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
6/1/2005 Roger L. Ransom Professor of History and Economics University of California, Riverside Historical Imagination and Economic Reality: Counterfactual History and the Civil War
6/10/2005* President, Economic History Association

*NOTE: This is a Friday

 Symposium in Honor of Azizur R. Khan