Williams
College Economics Department Seminars, Spring 2005
March 15 -- Werner Troesken, Univ. of Pittsburgh: "Poisoning the Well:
Three Centuries of Sickness and Denial."
April 7 -- Tirthankar Roy, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics,
Pune, India: "Rethinking the Economic History of Colonial India"
April 8 -- Mellon Faculty Workshop on Intersections between Gender and
Race in Economics.
• Irene Powell, Grinnell: Health Economics
• Joyce Jacobsen, Wesleyan: Urban Economics
• Steve Rivkin, Amherst: Education Economics
• Tanya Rosenblat, Wesleyan: Experimental Economics
• Lucie Schmidt, Williams: Economics of the Family
• Eleanor Brown and Cecilia Conrad, Pomona: Tax
Policy and Social Insurance
* April 18 -- Alex Pfaff, Columbia University: “Fuel Choice and Indoor
Air Quality: A Household-Level Perspective on Economic Growth and the
Environment”
April 19 -- Erik Hurst, University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business: "Consumption vs. Expenditure"
April 25 -- Chris Mayer, Columbia Business School, “Why Do Households
without Children Support Local Public Schools? Linking House Price
Capitalization to School Spending”
* April 28 -- Nathaniel Keohane, Yale University, “Market Effects of
Environmental Regulation”
* indicates Class of 1960 Scholars Program seminar