Applied Microeconomics Seminar

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Events Calendar


May 22, 2012	Duncan Thomas, Professor of Economics and Global Health, Duke University The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being
May 15, 2012	Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor of Economics, The Fletcher School and Department of Economics, Tufts University Zap it to Me: Evidence from a Mobile Money Transfer Experiment
April 24, 2012	Alan Barreca, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tulane University New Evidence on Minimum Drinking Age Laws, Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes
April 17, 2012	Nicholas Wilson, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
April 10, 2012	Randall Akee, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University Political Institutions, Constitutional Change, and Economic Development - Evidence from the Constitutions of American Indian Nations
April 3, 2012	Robert Jensen, UCLA Keepin' em Down on the Farm: Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
March 20, 2012	John Cawley, Cornell University Financial Incentives for Weight Loss: Results From a Workplace Wellness Program
March 13, 2012	Dan Luo, Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine The Price Effects of the Delta/Northwest Airline Merger
March 7, 2012	Manolis Galenianos, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University Hiring through Referrals
March 6, 2012	Etienne Wasmer, Professor, Department of Economics, Sciences Po Paris Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Evaluation of the 1989 French Welfare Reform Using a Natural Experiment
November 30, 2011	Alan Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law and Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, UC Berkeley Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion
November 22, 2011	Katrine Loken, University of Bergen, Visiting UCSD The Socioeconomic Consequences of Paid Parental Leave
November 15, 2011	Jorn Rattso, Norwegian University of Science and Technology The Limited Role of Education for Regional Income Convergence: Evidence from Norway
November 8, 2011	Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, UCLA Reputations and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
November 1, 2011	Kitt Carpenter, UC Irvine Alcohol and Morbidity: RD Evidence from the MDLA
October 18, 2011	David Green, UBC How Elastic is the Job Creation Curve?
October 11, 2011	David Neumark, Department of Economics, UC Irvine Age Discrimination and Social Security Reforms
October 5, 2011	Jan Brueckner, Department of Economics, UC Irvine Subprime Mortgages and the Housing Bubble
May 31, 2011	Ted Figinski, University of California, Irvine Women and the Social Security Earnings Test
May 31, 2011	Meryl Motika, University of California, Irvine Taste for Planning, Financial Planning and Wealth