Albert Family Fund Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
Schedule for Fall 2009
Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383, unless otherwise noted.
The workshop organizer is Adriana Lleras-Muney.
For a printable version of the schedule, click here
The Kevin Albert Family Fund supports research in applied microeconomics. Researchers affiliated with the Fund engage in research addressing a wide variety of important issues including: Changes in the "returns" to education, the effects of economic crises in developing countries; the effects of welfare reform; the efficacy of job training programs and early intervention programs for disadvantaged children; the reasons for rising health insurance costs; effects of government regulation in the market for services; social security reform; rising inequality and the economic consequences of changes in the family. The Fund also supports speaker series and special events of interest to applied microeconomists.
Fund Director: Kathleen McGarry
Affiliated Faculty: Sandra Black, Leah Boustan, Moshe Buchinsky, Maria Casanova, Dora Costa, Pascaline Dupas, Frederico Finan, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Dayanand Manoli and Maurizio Mazzocco
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Sep 29 More Info |
Zvi Eckstein (Tel Aviv University) : "Dynamic Female Labor Supply" |
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Oct 6 More Info |
Timothy Conley (Chicago Booth) : "TBA -- Joint with econometrics, Tuesday 3:30" -- Tim is also giving a CCPR seminar on spatial econometrics on Wednesday, October 7. |
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Oct 13 More Info |
Alvin Murphy (University of Washington, St. Louis) : "TBA" |
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Oct 27 More Info |
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR : "DEPARTMENT SEMINAR" |
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Wednesday, Nov 4 More Info |
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
(Princeton University)
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"Modeling the Evolution of Age and Cohort E ects
in Social Research"
-- Joint with CCPR
Note: 12:00-1:30 p.m. in PAB 4240 Joint with California Population and Demography Workshop |
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Nov 10 More Info |
Dustmann Christian (UCL) : "TBA" |
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Nov 17 More Info |
Shawn Cole (HBS) : "Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India" |
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Nov 24 More Info |
Till von Wachter (Columbia University) |
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Dec 1 More Info |
Nancy Qian (Yale) : "TBA" |
