Applied Microeconomics Lunch

 

Fall 2007 Schedule

 

All lunches are held in the PSTC 2nd Floor Seminar Room on Wednesdays,

12:00-1:00pm, unless otherwise noted.

 

 

DATE

PRESENTER

TITLE

NOTES

September 21

Kyung-Won Min

Social Segregation and Human Capital Spillovers

Friday, in Robinson 301.  Rescheduled due to conflict with Faculty Lunch

September 26

Ying Pan

Gain from Green Cards: Immigrants' Legal Status and Children's Scholastic Achievements

 

October 03

Daniel Bennett

Competing Doctors, Antibiotic Use, and Antibiotic Resistance in Taiwan

 

October 05

Nancy Qian

The Curse of Power: The Adverse Effects of Security Council Membership on Political Repression and Economic Growth

Friday, in Robinson 301

October 10

Roland Pongou

Origins of Sex Difference in Early Age Mortality

 

October 17

Nicholas Wilson

Antiretroviral Therapy and Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia

 

October 24

Jillian Berk

Does Work Release Work?

 

October 31

Nathan Schiff

Momentum in Presidential Primaries (Click here for Paper)

Co-authored with Brian Knight

November 02

Sheetal Sekhri

Public Provision and Protection of Natural Resources: Groundwater Irrigation in Rural India

Friday, in Robinson 301

November 07

Emilio Gutierrez

Pablo Suarez

Fertility and Cohabitation Contracts: The Impact of PACS on Fertility in France

 

November 14

Brad Carlin

Hierarchical Models for Spatio-Temporally Correlated Data

 

November 21

NO LUNCH – THANKSGIVING RECESS

December 05

Momotazur Rahman

Malaria in the South and Its Ramifications in Today's United States

 

December 12

Ruben Durante

Media Ownership, Media Content, and the Demand for News: Evidence from Italian Television

Co-authored with Brian Knight

 

Fall 2008

Summer 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007