VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
Schedule for Fall 2009
Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383, unless otherwise noted.
The workshop organizer is Leah Boustan.
For a printable version of the schedule, click here
|
Sep 30 |
Felipe Fernandes (Harvard Business School) : "Playing in the Forest': Labor Arrangements in the Brazilian Amazon, 1870-1910" |
| Tuesday, Oct 20 |
Martha Bailey
(University of Michigan)
:
"The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs: Evidence from the War on Poverty and Title X" -- Also joint with CCPR"
-- Also joint with CCPR
Note: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383 Joint with VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History |
|
Oct 28 |
Avner Greif (Stanford University) : "Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?" -- This is the fall departmental seminar. It will be held in Public Affairs 4240. The paper is co-authored with Diego Sasson and Max Floetotto. |
|
Oct 28 |
Departmental Seminar |
|
Nov 4 |
Peter Zeitz (UCLA) : "Do Local Institutions Affect All Foreign Direct Investors in the Same Way? Evidence from the Interwar Chinese Textile Industr" |
| Monday, Nov 16 |
Evan Roberts
(Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand))
:
"Rather Above than Under the Common Size: Stature and Living Standards in New Zealand Since the Eighteenth Century"
Note: 3:30- 5:00 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383 |
|
Dec 2 |
Peter Zeitz (UCLA) : "Short-Run Incentives and Myopic Behavior: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprises" |
The workshop series is supported by the Ann and Walter Von Gremp Endowment.
Copies of the paper are available approximately one week in advance in the Economics Department Office, 8283 Bunche Hall and on this website. For additional information, please contact Leah Boustan at lboustan@econ.ucla.edu.
