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.

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

Sep 29	Zvi Eckstein  (Tel Aviv University) :  "Dynamic Female Labor Supply"
Oct 6	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.
Oct 13	Alvin Murphy  (University of Washington, St. Louis) :  "TBA"
Oct 27	DEPARTMENT SEMINAR :  "DEPARTMENT SEMINAR"
Wednesday, Nov 4	Sam Schulhofer-Wohl  (Princeton University) :  "Modeling the Evolution of Age and Cohort Eects in Social Research"  -- Joint with CCPR Note: 12:00-1:30 p.m. in PAB 4240 Joint with California Population and Demography Workshop
Nov 10	Dustmann Christian  (UCL) :  "TBA"
Nov 17	Shawn Cole  (HBS) :  "Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India"
Nov 24	Till von Wachter  (Columbia University)
Dec 1	Nancy Qian  (Yale) :  "TBA"