Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

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

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