Albert Family Fund Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
Schedule for Winter 2010
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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Wednesday, Jan 6 More Info |
Samuel Schulhofer-Wohl
(Princeton)
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"Heterogeneity and Tests of Risk Sharing"
Joint with Recruitment Workshop |
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Jan 12 More Info |
Suresh Naidu
(UC Berkeley and Harvard)
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"Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the US South"
Note: 2:00-3:30 in Bunche Hall 9383 Joint with Recruitment Workshop |
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Thursday, Feb 11 More Info |
Peter Arcidiacono
(Duke University)
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"Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals"
-- The seminar will be held from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m
Joint with Econometrics Workshop |
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Feb 16 More Info |
Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) : "Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?" |
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Feb 23 More Info |
Joe Altonji (Yale) |
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Mar 2 More Info |
SEMINAR IS WED 03/03/2010 : "JOINT WITH CCPR -- MEET ON WED" |
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Wednesday, Mar 3 More Info |
Esther Duflo (MIT) : "TBA - joint with CCPR, WED 12-1:30" |
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Mar 9 More Info |
John Kennan (University of Wisconsin) : "TBD" |
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Wednesday, Mar 17 More Info |
Kenneth Chay
(Brown University)
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"TBA--JOINT WITH CCPR WED 12-1:30"
Joint with California Population and Demography Workshop |
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Mar 30 More Info |
Giacomo DeGiorgi (Stanford) : "TBA" |
