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Faculty Seminars

 

2005-06 Applied Microeconomics Seminars

Spring 2006

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 14

Seema Jayachandran
UCLA (visiting Berkeley)

Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires

[ PDF 348KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

April 21

Julie Wulf
Wharton School

Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

[ PDF 257KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 12

Gautam Gowrisankaran
Washington University

Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Consumer Goods

[ PDF 442KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 19

Petra Moser
MIT (visiting Hoover)

War and Ethnic Discrimination
Evidence from Applications to the New York Stock Exchange from 1883 to 1973

[ PDF 1512KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 26

Wesley Hartmann
Stanford GSB

Price Discrimination and Switching Costs in Frequency Reward Programs

[ PDF KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

June 2

Josh Angrist
MIT

New Evidence on the Casual Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

[ PDF 405KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

June 9

Dean Karlan
Yale University

Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

[ PDF 361KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

 

Fall 2005

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 7

Paul Oyer
Stanford GSB

The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes for Economists and MBAs

[ PDF 355KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S161

October 14

Stephen Ryan
MIT

The Cost of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry

[ PDF 3550KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S161

October 21

Ben Olken

NBER

Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

[ PDF 312KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S161

October 28

 

Pat Bayer

Yale University

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

[ PDF 250KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S180

November 4

Nick Bloom

Stanford University

Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

[ PDF 387KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S161

November 11

Mark Duggan

University of Maryland

The Short and Long-Run Impact of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments: Evidence for California's Medicaid Population

[ PDF 213KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L109

November 18

Justine Hastings
Yale University

Parental Preferences and School Choice: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

[ PDF 430KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S161

December 2

Ariel Pakes
Harvard University

Moment Inequalities and Their Application

[ PDF 410KB]

12:00-2:00 pm/S161

December 9

Matthew Gentzkow
University of Chicago

Television and Voter Turnout

[ PDF 287KB]

Noon-1:30pm/S161

February 24