Previous Seminars
Spring 2009 Seminars
Monday, Jan 12
Pedro Gete, Univ. of Chicago; 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Wednesday, Jan 14
Lindsay Oldenski, Univ. of California, SD, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Thursday, Jan 15
Dan Carroll, Univ. Virginia, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Friday, Jan 16
Simeon Alder, UCLA, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Monday, Jan 19
Eric Sims, Michigan, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Tuesday, Jan 20
Joe Cullen, Arizona, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Wednesday, Jan 21
Ina Simonovska, Minnesota, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Thursday, Jan 22
Hunt Allcott, Harvard, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Friday, Jan 23
Ayse Erdogan, Minnesota, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Monday, Jan 26
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Princeton , 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Tuesday, Jan 27
Tarun Jain, Minnesota, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Wednesday, Jan 28
Facundo Piguillem, Minnesota, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Thursday, Jan 28
Rodrigo Barros, Stanford, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Friday, Jan 30
Molly Lipscomb, Colorado, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Monday, Feb. 2
Amanda Kowalski, MIT, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Tuesday, Feb. 3
Paulina Oliva, UC Berkeley, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Thursday, Feb. 5
Justin Svec, Columbia, 3:30 in 424 Flanner
Friday, Feb. 6
Shubha Chakravarty, Columbia, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Monday, Feb. 9
Suman Basu, MIT, 9:30 in 424 Flanner
Fall 2008
Fridays 3:30-5:00 (unless otherwise noted)
September 5 (SDSU game); Joe Doyle, MIT, 306 Mowbray Hall
September 12 (UM game); Craig Garthwaite, Univ. of Maryland, "Non-Medical Benefits of Pharmaceutical Innovations: Vioxx and Labor Supply"; 306 Mowbray Hall
September 19; David Jaeger, University of Bonn; 306 Mowbray Hall
September 26 (Purdue game); Michael Binder, Goethe Univ. (Frankfurt); 306 Mowbray Hall
October 7 (Tues); Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; 218 Main Bldg.
October 9 (Thurs); Melissa Kearney, Maryland; 319 DeBartolo Hall
October 10; Mariacristina De Nardi (Chicago Fed); 306 Mowbray Hall
October 17 Open; 306 Mowbray
October 24 FALL BREAK
October 31 (Pitt game); Joe Altonji, Yale; 306 Mowbray Hall
November 7; Daniele Coen-Pirani, CMU; 306 Mowbray Hall
November 14; Nan Li, Ohio State University; 306 Mowbray Hall
November 21 (Syracuse game);Fernando Broner, Univ. Pompeu-Fabra and CREI; 306 Mowbray Hall
November 28 -- Thanksgiving break
December 5; Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia; 306 Mowbray Hall
Spring 2008
Thursday January 11
John DiNardo, University of Michigan “Constructive Proposals for Dealing with Attrition: An Empirical Example”
Monday January 14
Adriana Lleras-Muney, Princeton University, “Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines”
Wednesday January 16
Maria Fitzpatrick, University of Virginia, “Preschoolers Enrolled and Mothers at Work? The Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten"
Friday January 18
Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, “Multiproduct Firms, Product Mix and Trade Reforms: Evidence from India”
Monday January 21
Renee Bowen, Georgetown Univ., "On Dynamic Compromise"
Tuesday January 22
Anamaria Pieschacon, Duke University, "Oil Prices and Fiscal Policy in Small Open Economies";
Wednesday January 23
Emily Conover, University of California at Berkeley, "Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility: Detection, Explanations, and Consequences for Empirical Research"
Thursday January 24
Pablo D’Erasmo, University of Texas at Austin, "Government Reputation and Debt Repayment"
Friday January 25
Steven Lugauer, Carnegie Mellon University, "Demographic Change and the Great Moderation in an OLG Model with Matching Frictions"
Monday January 28
David Fuller, University of Iowa, "Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Quantitative Implications for Unemployment Insurance"
Tuesday January 29
Emilia Simeonova, Columbia University, "Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Mortality Gap: What Are the Causes?"
Wednesday January 30
Daniel Tortorice, Harvard, "Separation-Rate Volatility and the Value of Work"
Thursday January 31
Vasia Panousi, "Capital Taxation with Entrepreneurial Risk"
Friday February 1
Andra Ghent, University of California at San Diego, "Sticky Housing and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy"
Monday February 4
Willem Van Zundeweghe, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday February 5
Chaira Binelli, University College London
Wednesday February 6
Francesca Carapella, University of Minnesota
Thursday February 7
Katrini Shastry, Harvard University
Friday February 8
Laurence Ales, Univ. of Minnesota
Friday March 14
David Riber, University of North Carolina
Thursday March 27
Allen Head, Queens University
Fall 2007 Seminar
All seminars are held from 3:30-5:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Friday September 7
Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College; "Trade Adjustment and Human CapitalInvestments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform," joint with Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova. (Kirk Doran);
Friday September 28
Adriana Lleras-Muney (Abbie Wozniak)
Oct. 10 (Wednesday)
John Ledyard (at NDEER conference; Tom Gresik)
Friday October 26
(Fall Break)
Friday November 2
Melissa Kearney (tentative) (Football weekend vs. Navy)
Tuesday November 6
Darren Lubotsky, U of Il-Champaign;" Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children’s Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers."
Friday November 9
Boragan Aruoba (Chris Waller)
(Football weekend vs. Air Force)
Friday November 23
Thanksgiving Holiday
Friday November 30
Adriana Kugler, Univ. of Houston; ( Kirk Doran)
Dec. 3th (Monday)
Hilary Hoynes (Jim Sullivan)
Friday December 14
(Finals week)
Spring 2007 Seminars
Friday January 12
Kirk Doran, Princeton Univ., "Can We Ban Child Labor Without Harming Household Welfare? An Answer from Schooling Experiments" ;
Monday January 15
Catherine Tyler Mooney, Univ. of Virginia; "The Determinants and Effects of Market Structure in the Broadcasting Industry";
Wednesday January 17
Hui He, Univ. of Minnesota; "Skill Premium, Schooling Decisions, Skill-Biased Technological and Demographic Change: A Macroeconomic Analysis";
Friday January 19
Kirabo Jackson, Harvard Univ,. "A Little Now for a lot Later: A look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program";
Monday January 22
Jennifer Poole, Univ. of Calif. San Diego; "Multinational Spillovers through Worker Turnover" .
Friday January 26
Irina Murtazashvili, Michigan State University; "A Control Function Approach to Estimation of Correlated Random Coefficient Panel Data Models";
Friday January 29
Maria Porter, University of Chicago,
Friday January 31
Onsel Emre, University of Chicago;
Friday February 23
Daniela Puzzelo, University of Kentucky; "Anonymous markets and monetary trading";
Friday March 9
Roko Aliprantis, Purdue Univ.; "The Theory of Value with Non-Linear Prices"
Thursday March 22
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard Univ. (joint w/Kellogg).
Friday March 30
Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt;
Friday April 6
Good Friday
Fall 2006 Seminars
Friday September 1
Dan Black, Syracuse; "Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated"
Friday September 8
Doug Staiger, Dartmouth;
Friday September 15
David Lyle, West Point.; Military Deployments and Children's Academic Achievement: Evidence from Department of Defense Education Agency Schools"
Friday September 22
Erzo Luttmer, Kennedy School, Harvard; "Race and Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims: Experimental Evidence."
Friday September 29
Donggyu Sul, University of Auckland and Visiting Kellogg Fellow; “Transition Modeling and Econometric Convergence Tests”
Friday October 6
Anil Kashyp, University of Chicago; “Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan”
Friday October 27
Dan Aaronson;
Friday November 10
Alex Mas;
Friday November 17
Guido Lorenzoni MIT;
Friday November 24
No meeting, Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, November 29
Sandy Black;
Friday December 8
(Last week of class)
Gian Luca Clementi, NYU;