Department of Economics
AY 2011-2012 Seminars, Workshops and
Lectures
Empirical-Microeconomics Workshop
International Economics Workshop
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, all seminars will take place in room 320, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, all seminars will be from 4:00-5:20pm in Calhoun Hall, room 204.
SPRING 2012
Department of Leadership, Policy and Organization/Department of Economics Seminar
Thursday, February 16, 2012 (3:00pm – 4:30p.m., Peabody Campus in Wyatt room 223)
Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan
“Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion”
McGee Lecture (4:00-5:30p.m., Wilson Hall, room 103)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
"The Career-Family Conundrum"
International Economics Workshop
Friday, March 16, 2012
Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan
"Rue the ROOs: Rules of Origin and the Gains (or Losses) from Trade Agreements"
Econometrics Workshop
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Andrew Chesher, University College London
"An Instrumental Variable Model of Multiple Discrete Choice"
International Economics Workshop
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Chad Bown, the World Bank
"Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates: Evidence from the Great Recession"
Econometrics/Empirical Conference
Friday, March 23, 2012, 8:00-5:00pm, Sarratt Student Center, room 189
Identification and Inference in Micro-Econometrics Conference
Econometrics/Empirical Conference
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 8:00-5:00pm, Buttrick Hall, rooms 206
Identification and Inference in Micro-Econometrics Conference
Econometrics/Empirical Workshop
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Jeff Wooldridge, Michigan State University
"Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation"
Departmental Seminar
Friday, March 30, 2012
Andrew Atkeson, UCLA
"Assessing the financial soundness of American financial institutions"
Departmental Seminar
Monday,April 2, 2012
Klara Peter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Price of the Hippocratic Oath: Bribery and Wages in Russian Health Care"
Econometrics Workshop
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Bertille Antoine, Simon Fraser University (currently visiting Brown University)
"Conditional Moment Models under Weak Identification"
International Economics Workshop
Friday, April 13, 2012
Sebastian Galiani, Washington University St. Louis
"Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons From The Moving to Opportunity Experiment"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, April 16, 2012
Elaine Liu, University of Houston
"A Foreign Affair: Fertility and Divorce Responses of Local Women Due to the Influx of Foreign Brides"
Economic History Workshop
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Carola Frydman, Boston University
"The Panic of 1907: JP Morgan, Trust Companies, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sandra Black, University of Texas
"Does Money Matter? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance."
Economic History Workshop
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Latika Chaudhary, Scripps College
"Engines of Growth:
The Productivity Advance of Indian Railways, 1874-1912"