Research Seminar Schedule: Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004

Spring 2006

Fri, Feb 10 – Frederic Mishkin, Columbia University Business School
Wed, Feb 15 – Amartya Sen, Harvard (school-wide public lecture, time and location to be announced)
Wed, Mar 1 -- Department seminar, to be announced
* Thur, Mar 2 -- Esther Duflo, MIT
Thur Mar 9 -- Lewis Davis, Smith College
Wed, Mar 15 -- Department seminar, to be announced
Thu, April 6 -- Mike Hanson, Wesleyan University
Wed, Apr 12 -- Department seminar, to be announced
Wed, Apr 19 -- Department seminar, to be announced
* Tue, Apr 25 -- Bob Pollak, Washington University
Wed, Apr 26 -- Department seminar, to be announced
* Mon, May 1 -- Ned Gramlich, University of Michigan

Fall 2005

All seminars are in Griffin 6 at 4:00PM unless otherwise noted.
Wed, Sept 14 -- Ashok Rai, Williams College: "Borrower Runs"
* Tue, Sept 20 -- Lori Kletzer, University of California at Santa Cruz: "Tradable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Offshoring"
Mon, Sept 26 -- Raja Kali, University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business: "Financial Contagion on the International Trade Network"
Wed Oct 12 -- Jared Carbone, Williams College: "Adjusting to Natural Disasters"
* Thu, Oct 13 -- Ray Fisman, Columbia University Business School: "Searching for a Mate: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment"
Monday, Oct 24 -- Amartya LahiriA, University of British Columbia:"A Tale of Two States: Maharashtra and West Bengal" [GRIFFIN 7]
Wed, Oct 26 -- Mandar Oak, Williams College
* Thu, Oct 27 -- Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, "Contractionary Currency Crashes in Developing Countries"
Wed, Nov 2 -- Steve Meardon, Williams College: "Postbellum Protection and Commissioner Wells's Conversion to Free Trade"
Tue, Nov 8 -- Jessica Reyes, Amherst College: "Implicit Taxes from College Financial Aid Rules and the Allocation of Savings"
Mon, Nov 14 -- Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University, "The Mid-1990s EITC Expansion: Aggregate Labor Supply Effects and Economic Incidence"
Wed, Nov 16 -- Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College
Wed, Nov 30 -- Tara Watson, Williams College
Thu, Dec 1 -- Heather Royer, University of Michigan, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars Program: "The Effect of Maternal Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth"
Wed, Dec 7 -- Betty Daniel, Williams College and University at Albany

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”

Fall 2004

* Sept. 23 -- Lena Edlund, Columbia University, “Indian Dowry Inflation: Theory and Evidence”
Sept 29 -- Lucie Schmidt, Williams College: “Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility”
October 6 -- Matt Kotchen, Williams College: "Explaining the Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda for Open-Space Conservation"
Oct. 13 -- Jon Bakija, Williams College: “Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritances and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from across States and Time”
October 27 -- Steve Sheppard and Ralph Bradburd, Williams College: "The Efficiency and Distributional Impact of Section 8 Housing Vouchers"
* November 1 -- Robert Axtell, The Brookings Institution, “The Complexity of Exchange”
November 3 -- Alan DeBrauw, Williams College: “The Aging of the Farm Labor Force in China”
* November 8th -- Steve Durlauf, University of Wisconsin: “Groups, Social Influences & Inequality"
November 17 -- Ashok Rai, Williams College: “Why Microlenders Emphasize Sustainability” (Brown Bag Lunch)
November 17 -- Dukes Love and Matt Kotchen, Williams College: “Grades, Course Evaluations, and Academic Incentives”
December 2 -- Carolyn Moehling, Yale University: “The American Welfare System and Family Structure: An Historical Perspective”