FALL 2012 Seminar Schedule
Wednesdays at 4:15 PM
Room 125, Public Affairs Center
Visitors: Driving directions and a campus map are available.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 12 |
Randy Akee |
"Constitutions and Economic Development - Evidence from the American Indian Nations" |
| September 17 | Ruby Henry Rutgers University |
"Riches to Rags: The Finanical Demise of Pro Athletes" |
| September 27 | Prakarsh Singh Amherst College |
"Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnution Urban Slums" |
| October 3 | David Brown Census |
"Do SBA Loans Create Jobs? Estmates from Universal Panel Data and Longitudinal Matching Methods" |
| October 10 | Emily Conover Hamilton College |
"Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation and Voting Behavior" |
| October 17 | Ira Gang Rutgers University |
"The Productivity and Welfare Implications of Female Empowerment Through High Value Agriculture: What Role can Interventions Play?" |
| October 24 |
Fabian Waldinger |
"Bombs, Brains, and Science - The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientific Knowledge" |
| October 29 | Eric Hilt Wellesley College |
"Economic Effects of Runs on Early "Shadow Banks:" Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907" |
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November 5 |
Chris Meyer Monitor Talent |
"Standing on the Sun" How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere |
| November 7 | Kiara Sabirianova Peter UNC |
"The Price of the Hippocratic Oath: Determinants and Incidence of Bribery in Public Health Care" |
| November 14 | Jim Berry Cornell University |
"Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trails in Northern Ghana" |
| November 28 | Elise Gould EPI |
"Plan responses to pressure to control premiums in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program" |
| November 29 | Hartmut Lehmann University of Bologna and IZA Program Director |
"Risk Attitudes and Informality, with an Application to Russia" |
| December 3 | John Earlie George Mason |
"FDI and Wages: Evidence from Comprehensive Hungarian Data, 1986-2008" |