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:

 

Spring 2012

Fall 2011

Spring 2011

Fall 2010

Summer 2010

Spring 2010