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Winter 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Paul Niehaus, UCSD Corruption Dynamics: the Golden Goose Effect
Download Niehaus9_22.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Alessandra Voena, Stanford University Yours, Mine and Ours: Do Divorce Laws affect the intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples? 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Doug Miller, UC Davis Why are Recessions Good for your Health?
Download Miller9_29.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
TBA
January 1 Shaun McRae, Stanford University Infrastructure Quality and the Subsidy Trap 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jeanne Lafortune, University of Maryland Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India -test
Download LafortuneNov18b.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Roger Gordon, UCSD Income Redistribution in a Federal System of Governments
Download Gordon10_13.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Mike Lovenheim, Stanford University Practice Job Talk 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Alejandrina Salcedo, Stanford University Maximizing Academic Success Rates in University through Different Selection Mechanisms 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Alex Gelber, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women
Download Gelber12_1.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages
Download PeriSept23.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Frederico Finan, UC Berkeley Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Justin McCrary, UC Berkeley Police, Prisons, and Government Budgets 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Welcome back 12:00 am
TBA
January 1 Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley Government Transfers and Political Support
Download miguelDec2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Nancy Qian, Yale University Watchdog or Lapdog? Media and the U.S. Government
Download QIANYANA_20091113.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jesse Cunha, Stanford University Testing Paternalism: Cash vs. In-kind Transfers and lessons from a Field Experiment in rural Mexico 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jonathan Meer, Stanford University Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Peer Effects in Charitable Solicitation 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Asaf Zussman, Hebrew University Partisan Grading
Download Zussman10_6.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

Spring 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley Real Wage Inequality
Download MorettiFeb10_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ernesto Schargrodsky, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Stanford University Conscription and Crime
Download SchargrodskyFeb_17.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Maria Casanova, UCLA Happy Together: A Structural Model of Couples' Joint Retirement Choices
Download casanova3_10.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University The Hated Property Tax Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts
Download Hoxby3_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Erica Field, Harvard University (visiting Stanford) Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Zambia 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Steve Davis, Chicago University The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD Contract Teachers
Download Muralidharan3_3.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ray Fisman, Columbia University Reputation, altruism, and the benefits of seller charity in an online marketplace
Download Fisman3_9.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

Summer 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
January 1 Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard Business School Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation
Download weinzierl5_25.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Gopi Shah Goda, SIEPR Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection
Download Goda5_4.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 CANCELLED 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 CANCELLED 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 David Autor, MIT Externalities from Rent Control? Evidence from Cambridge 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Paul Oyer, Stanford University The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jonathon Skinner, Dartmouth and NBER
Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth and NBER
Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Download Skinner4_7.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
TBA
January 1 Emmanuel Fahri, Harvard University Progressive Estate Taxation Taxation
Download Farhi5_19.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Erik Hurst, Chicago GSB Endogenous Gentrification and House Price Dynamics
Download Hurst5_11.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Thomas Lemieux, UBC Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Download Lemieux5_18.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jordon Matsudaira, Cornell University Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market? Evidence from Minimum Nurse Staffing Legislation
Download matsudaira6_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals
Download mookherjee5_5.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Luigi Guiso, EUI The Right Amount of Trust
Download Guiso6_1.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Esther Duflo, MIT Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
Download Dufio4_20.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University The U.S. Biofuel Mandate and World Food Prices
Download Schlenker4_28.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Leigh Linden, Columbia University The Effects of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
Download Linden3_30.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place