Department of Economics, Brown University
Applied
Micro Lunch Schedule, Fall 2012
Tuesdays,
12:00-1:00 PM, Robinson 301 (unless otherwise indicated)
DATE |
PRESENTER |
TITLE |
9/18 |
No presenter |
|
9/25 |
Zhi Wang (Brown) |
Smart City: Learning Effects and
Labor Force Entry |
10/2 |
Florencia Borrescio-Higa
(Brown) |
Can Walmart make
us healthier? |
10/9 |
EeCheng Ong
(Brown) |
Education
and Labor Market
Outcomes of Malaysia's Affirmative Action Policies |
10/16 |
No
presenter |
|
10/23 |
Diana Cheung (Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
Impacts
of health insurance on household savings across income groups in rural China |
10/29 |
Mongoljin Batsaikhan
(Georgetown – Doha) |
Lab
experiments on production and theft with small-scale entrepreneurs and
student subjects in Mongolia |
10/30 |
Ruben Durante (Sciences Po) |
Cultural and Political Influence of News-Free Media: Evidence from Berlusconi's Rise in Italy |
11/6 |
Ana Tribin
(Brown) |
Gold:
the new way of funding an old war? |
11/13 |
Jishnu Das (World Bank) |
Quality and Accountability in the Health Sector: Results from an Audit Study of Public and Private Primary Care Providers |
11/20 |
Thanksgiving |
|
11/27 |
Ricardo Perez Truglia
(Harvard) |
Social effects in campaign contributions: Evidence from a field experiment in the 2012 US presidential election |
12/4 |
||
12/13 |
Ajay Shenoy
(Michigan) |
TBA |
For questions or to request a slot, please
contact Alex (alexander_eble@brown.edu) or Sanjay (sanjay_singh@brown.edu).
Links to
past lunches: