| Date |
Presenter,
Affiliation, and Topic |
| January 20 (Tuesday!) |
Justin Tobias
(University of California-Irvine)
"Bayesian
Modeling
of School Effects Using Hierarchical Models
with Smoothing Priors"
|
| January 21 (Wednesday!) |
Xenia Matschke
(University of California-Santa Cruz)
"Do
labor issues matter in the determination of U.S. trade
policy? An empirical reevaluation"
|
| January 23 (3:30 pm at Class
of '47 Room, Library) |
Almudena Sevilla-Sanz
(Brown University)
"Working
Women, Husband's Home Time and Lowest Low
Fertility in
Europe"
|
| January 26 (Monday!) |
Gautam Tripathi
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Moment
based inference with stratified data"
|
| January 27 (Tuesday!
10:30) |
Ruxandra Prodan
(University of Houston)
"Potential
Pitfalls in Determining Multiple Structural Changes with an
Application to Purchasing Power Parity"
|
| January 28 (Wednesday!, 3:30 pm at
Room
339) |
Angela Fertig
(Princeton University)
"Healthy
Baby, Healthy Marriage? The Effect of
Children's
Health on Divorce"
|
| February 2 (Monday!) |
Amy Glass
(Texas A&M; University)
"Imitation as a
Stepping Stone to Innovation"
|
| February 3 (Tuesday!) |
Seung Hyun Hong
(Yale University)
"Testing
Linearity in Cointegrating Relations with an Application to
PPP"
|
| February 4 (Wednesday!, 3:30 pm at
Class
of '47 Room, Library) |
Sonia Oreffice
(University of Chicago)
"The
Legalization of Abortion and Women's Bargaining
Power
in the Household. Evidence from Labor Supply"
|
| February 6 2pm |
Martino de Stefano
(Boston University)
"Exchange
Rate Pass-Through in the
Italian Car Market: 1990-1996"
|
February 9
(Brownbag) |
Enrique Alvarez
(University of
Connectictut Statistics)
"Modeling Panels of Economic
Transition Data via Semi-Markov Processes"
|
February 16
(Brownbag) |
Steve Coelen
(University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Affirmative Admissions and "High
Stakes" Educational Testing: the Impact
on Access and Opportunity"
|
| February 19 (Thursday 2:30!) |
John Roemer
(Yale University)
"Racism and
Redistribution in the United States: A Solution to the Problem
of
American Exceptionalism"
|
February 23
(Brownbag) |
Steve
Ross
(University of Connecticut)
"Using
Paired Testing to Examine
Discrimination in Mortgage Markets"
|
| February 27
|
Patricia McCoy
(University of Connecticut Law School)
"Secondary Market Monitoring of the Subprime Home Mortgage
Market"
|
March 1
(Brownbag) |
Richard
Langlois
(University of Connecticut)
"The Secret
Life of Mundane Transaction Costs"
|
| March 8-12 | Spring Break |
March 15
(Brownbag) |
Douglas
Gollin
(Williams College)
"Taxes and Informality
in Developing Countries"
|
| March 17 (Wednesday, 1:30) PhD
proposal
|
Tapas Ray
(University of Connecticut)
"Information Disclosure and Environmental
Regulation"
|
| March 19
|
John Phillips
(University of Connecticut School of Business)
"Decomposing Changes in Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities to
Isolate
Earnings Management Activities"
|
March 22
(Brownbag) |
Francis
Ahking
(University of Connecticut)
"How Good is
the "Objective" Bayesian
Unit-Root Test?"
|
| March 24 (Wednesday, 11:00) PhD
proposal
|
Rangan Gupta
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays on Financial
Liberalization in the Context of Southern European Economies"
|
| March 26
|
Eileen Trzcinski
(Wayne State University)
"The Socioeconomic Determinants of Adolescent Outcomes"
|
March 29
(Brownbag) |
Kathleen
Segerson
(University of Connecticut)
"Group
Punishment Strategies: What do Ambient Taxes, Joint and
Several Liability, and Voluntary Approaches Have in Common?"
|
| March 31 (Wednesday!)
|
Joseph Altonji
(Yale University)
"Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children"
|
April 5
(Brownbag) |
Christian
Zimmermann
(University of Connecticut)
"Is
Menopause Optimal?"
|
| April 9
|
Sylvia Brandt
(University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
"Evaluating Tradable Property Rights for Fisheries"
|
April 12
(Brownbag) |
Metin
Cosgel
(University of Connecticut)
"A Quantitative
Analysis of Global
Prices and Incomes in History"
|
| April 16 9:00am (PhD defense)
|
Eric Olmsted
(University of Connecticut)
"Protocols and Individualized
Treatments: Medical Practice Variation Among Medicare Beneficiaries"
|
| April 16
|
Stuart Rosenthal
(Syracuse University)
"Old Homes and Poor Neighborhoods: A Dynamic Model of Urban Decline
and Renewal"
|
April 19
(Brownbag) |
Samson Kimenyi
(University of
Connecticut)
"Human Capital Externalities and Private
Returns to Education in Kenya"
|
| April 23 CANCELLED
|
Jeff Milyo
(University of Chicago)
"TBA"
|
April 26
(Brownbag) |
Anupam Nanda
(University of
Connecticut)
"Test-Scores and Demographics: What Premiums
Do They
Attract in Property Values? A Panel Data Analysis"
|
| April 29 (Thursday!) 4:00pm, Konover
Auditorium, Dodd Center
|
Jason Shogren
(University of Wyoming)
"Economic
Incentives for Spatial Habitat Design to Protect Endangered Species"
(Teale Lecture)
|
April 29 (Thursday!)
3:30-5:00
Class of 1947 Room, Library
|
Paul Boyle
(St. Andrews University)
"Changing Places and Changing People: A Longitudinal Analysis of
Deprivation, Migration and Health in England and Wales"
(Center for Population Research Colloquium)
|
| April 30
|
Richard Sosis
(University of Connecticut, Anthropology)
"Costly signaling theory and religious behavior:
evidence from historical and extant communes"
|
| June 17 (Thursday, 10am)
|
Yanna Wu
(University of Connecticut)
"Horizontal Mergers, Efficiency and Capacity Utilization: A DEA Approach"
(PhD defense)
|
| June 29 (Tuesday, 10am)
|
Natalia Smirnova
(University of Connecticut)
"Job Search Behavior of the Unemployed in Russia"
(PhD defense)
|
| July 16 (Friday, 2pm)
|
Basab Dasgupta
(University of Connecticut)
"Asymmetric Information and Informal Credit Contracts"
(PhD proposal)
|
Spring
2004 Seminar
Series
