SEMINAR IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS AND ECONOMETRICS
Spring 2008
Seminars meet on Wednesdays (unless noted otherwise) at 3:30-5:00pm
in Mergenthaler 426. Copies of the paper are available the week prior to
the seminar in the departmental office (Mergenthaler 440). Those who are
off-campus can request a copy by emailing Julia
Ross or by downloading them from this web site. Directions to the Department of Economics can be found here and click this for the campus map.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb. 13 |
Lundberg, Shelly U of Washington |
Time Allocation of Parents and Investments in Sons and Daughters [Link] |
| Feb. 27 |
Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam Princeton University |
Heterogeneity, Risk Sharing and the Welfare Costs of Idiosyncratic Risk [PDF] |
| Mar. 5 |
Chesher, Andrew UCL |
Endogeneity and Discrete Outcomes [PDF] |
| Mar. 26 |
Khan, Shakeeb Duke |
Inference on Randomly Censored Regression Models Using Conditional Moment Inequalities [Link] |
| Apr. 2 |
Scholz, John Karl U of Wisconsin |
A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education |
| Apr. 9 |
Xu, Yi NYU |
A Structural Empirical Model of R&D, Firm Heterogeneity, and Industry Evolution [PDF] |
| Apr. 23 |
Saez, Emmanuel UC Berkeley |
Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937 [Link] |
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