Department of Economics, Brown University
Applied Micro
Lunch Schedule, Fall
2014
Tuesdays,
12:00-1:00 PM, PSTC Seminar Room (68 Waterman st)
|
DATE |
PRESENTER |
TITLE |
|
9/16 |
Graham
Beattie (Toronto) |
Advertising,
Media Coverage, and Public Opinion about Climate Change |
|
9/23 |
Heitor Pellegrina
(Brown) |
Roads,
Trade and Urbanization: Theory and Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
|
9/30 |
David
Glick (Brown) |
Choosing
Amongst Health Providers: How Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Long-Term
Behavior |
|
10/7 |
Ilias Pasidis (University
of Barcelona) |
Express
delivery to the suburbs. Transport Infrastructure and European cities. |
|
10/14 |
Esther
Gehrke (German Development Institute and University
of Passau) |
An
employment guarantee as risk insurance? Assessing the effects of the NREGS on
agricultural production decisions |
|
10/21 |
Chenxi Cai
(Brown) |
Media
Bias and Electoral Politics: Evidence from Congressional Re-districting |
|
10/28 |
Kofi
Acquah (Brown) |
Fetal
Health and its Long Term Impact on the Health Care Sector. |
|
11/4 |
Jie Xiao (Peking University) |
Promotion
Incentive: Corruption and Its Implications on Political Budget Cycles in
China |
|
11/11 |
No
Applied Micro Lunch |
|
|
11/18 |
No
Applied Micro Lunch |
|
|
11/25 |
No
Applied Micro Lunch |
|
|
12/2 |
No
Applied Micro Lunch |
|
|
12/9 |
No
Applied Micro Lunch |
|
|
12/16 |
Desislava Byanova
(Brown) |
What
Is the Wait Worth? Elective Early-Term Deliveries, Procedure Use &
Neonatal Health |
|
12/23 |
Jesse
Shapiro & Justine Hastings (Brown) |
The
Effect of SNAP Take-up on Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Retailer Loyalty
Panel |
For questions or to request a slot, please contact:
Diego (Diego_Focanti@brown.edu)
or Margarita (Margarita_Machelett@brown.edu)
Links
to past lunches: