SPRING 2013 Seminar Schedule
Wednesdays at 4:15 PM
Room 125, Public Affairs Center
Visitors: Driving directions and a campus map are available.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| February 13 |
Niels-Hugo Blunch (Williams School of Commerce) |
“Teenager in Love: Skills, Schooling and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana” |
| February 27 |
David Myers (Wes Class 82) (Lehigh University) |
“Performance and Predictability of Social Screens” |
| March 6 | Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) | “Economic Effect of Funs on Early “Shadow Banks" Trust Companies and the impact on the Panic of 1907” |
| March 27 | Debra Aron (Navigant Consulting Inc.) | "An Empirical Analysis of Regulator Mandates on the Pass Through of Switched Access Fees for In-State Long-Distance Telecommunications in the U.S. " |
| April 3 | Will Olney (Williams and a Wesleyan Alumni) | "Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration" |
| April 17 | Peter Bergman (RAND) | The More You Know: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment |
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Thursday April 18
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Coleman Bazelon Hogendorn Lecture |
"Fixing Market Failures: An Economist's Approach to Policy Analysis" |
| May 1 | Mev Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie) | "War during Childhood: The Long Run Effects of Warfare on Health" |