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Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:59:10 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2007

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Mindy Marks , Susan Carter , and Richard Sutch

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/2/2007*	David Swanson University of Mississippi Dir. Center of Population Studies *NOTE: Monday (not Friday)	Assessing Katrina’s Demographic and Social Impacts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Preliminary Results
4/20/2007	Erica Field Harvard University	Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania
4/27/2007	Jorge Aguero UC Riverside	Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
5/4/2007	Latika Chaudhary (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution)	An Economic Analysis of Education in Colonial India
5/11/2007	Jae-Hee Son UC Riverside	Reappraising the Job-Training Effect on Labor Market Outputs of Korean Women
5/18/2007	Subhrendu Pattanayak RTI/North Carolina State	Nature’s Call: Can social mobilization promote toilet use and improve welfare? Results from a field experiment in Orissa, India
5/25/2007	Michael Steinberger Pomona College	Sexual Orientation, Earnings, and Occupational Choice
6/1/2007*	Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside *NOTE: (joint w/ Political Economy & Development) CANCELLED	Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia
6/8/2007	Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside	John Stuart Mill on welfare and public action

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:29:18 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2007

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Susan Carter

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/12/2007	Richard Sutch Biotechnology Impact Center & Dept of Economics UCR	Hockey Stick Graphs, The Show Corn Fallacy and The Adoption of Hybrid Corn: American Corn Yields, 1866-2002
3/2/2007	Ramanan Laxminarayan Senior Fellow at the Resources for Future (Washington DC)	Surveillance and Reporting of Disease Outbreaks: Private Incentives and WHO Policy Levers (with Anup Malani)

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:54:41 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2006

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) HMNSS 1500 Questions? Contact Susan Carter

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/29/2006	Greg Clark (Department of Economics, UC Davis)	Capitalism in our Genes? The Malthusian Era and the Formation of Modern Preferences
10/6/2006	Mindy Marks (Department of Economics, UCR)	Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws on Minorities: Evidence from the Progressive Era
10/13/2006	Susan Carter & Richard Sutch (Economics Department, UCR)	The Economic Consequences of Immigration for Resident Workers: Perspectives from America’s Age of Mass Migration
10/20/2006	Victor Lippit (Economics Department, UCR)	Social Structures of Accumulation Theory
10/27/2006	Leah P. Boustan (Department of Economics,UCLA)	Was Postwar Suburbanization White Flight? Evidence from the Black Migration
11/3/2006	Maryianne Bitler (Public Policy Inst of CA and UC Irvine)	Distribution Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project in Canada
11/11/2006	Ron Jarmin (US Census Bureau)	Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded verses Private Firms
12/1/2006	Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna)	Crash and Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents
12/8/2006	Lopamudra Banerjee (Economics Department, UCR)	Effects of Floods on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:39:49 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2006

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Mindy Marks.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/10/2006	Kate Antonovics (UCSD)	A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
4/17/2006	Marigee Bacolod (UCI)	The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
4/24/2006	Marigee Bacolod (UCI)	Cross-Cohort Changes in the Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences: Consequences on the Gender Wage Differential
5/1/2006	Heather Antecol (Claremont McKenna)	Racial and Ethnic Harassment in Local Communities
5/8/2006	Hyeok Jeong (USC)	Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth
5/15/2006	Noel Johnson (Cal State Long Beach)	TBA
5/22/2006	Noel Johnson (Cal State Long Beach)	Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France
6/5/2006	Arin Dube (UC Berkeley)	Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings throughout the Retail Sector in Urban and Rural Counties

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:26:37 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2006

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Stephen Cullenberg

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
2/27/2006	Robert Pollak Washington University	Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:46:13 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2005

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Susan Carter .

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/3/2005	Jang-Ting Guo, Richard Sutch and Susan Carter, UCR, Kerry Odell, Scripps College	Katrina-nomics: What Disasters Can Teach Us About the Way the Economy Works
10/10/2005*	Alan L. Olmstead UC Davis *NOTE: with Paul Rhode	Wait a Cotton Pickin’ Minute!: A New View of Slave Productivity
10/17/2005	Roberto Pedace Univ. of Redlands	Earnings, Performance, and Nationality Discrimination in a Highly Competitive Labor Market: An Analysis of the English Professional Soccer League
10/24/2005*	Elizabeth Cascio UC Davis *NOTE: with Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber	Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools
10/31/2005	Alexander J. Field Santa Clara Univ.	The Impact of World War II on U.S. Productivity Growth
11/7/2005*	Joseph Hotz UCLA *NOTE: with Guido W. Imbern and Jacob A. Klerman	Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution
11/14/2005	Gavin Wright Stanford	Figures
11/18/2005*	Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development *NOTE: Friday	From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America
11/21/2005*	Steven Topik UC Irvine *NOTE: with Mario Samper	The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica
11/28/2005	David Fairris, and Leon Fernandez-Bujanda UCR	The Dissipation of Minimum Wage Gains for Workers through Labor-Labor Substitution
12/5/2005	Lopamudra Banerjee UCR	Effects of Flood on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:24:03 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/6/2005	Shawn Kantor UC Merced	Striking the Roots of Crime: The Impact of the New Deal on Criminal Activity
4/13/2005	Lopamudra Bannerjee Economics (Graduate Student) UCR	Of Floods and Agricultural Wage Rates in Bangladesh: Empirical evidences from the recent past
4/20/2005	Giovanni Peri UC Davis	Gains from “Diversity”: Theory and Evidence from Immigration in U.S. Cities
4/27/2005	Haider Khan University of Colorado, Denver	Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in Computable General Equilibrium Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments
5/4/2005	Robert Plotnick University of Washington	The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-Marital Child-Bearing
5/11/2005	Anjini Kochar Stanford University	Schooling Externalities and Public Labor Markets: Empirical Evidence from Urban India
5/18/2005	Jere Behrman University of Pennsylvania	The Impact of Experimental Nutritional Interventions on Education into Adulthood in Rural Guatemala: Preliminary Longitudinal Analysis Returns to Birthweight
5/25/2005	Marc Law University of Vermont	Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
6/1/2005	Roger L. Ransom Professor of History and Economics University of California, Riverside	Historical Imagination and Economic Reality: Counterfactual History and the Civil War
6/10/2005*	President, Economic History Association *NOTE: This is a Friday	Symposium in Honor of Azizur R. Khan

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:04:53 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2005

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar .

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/5/2005	Anil Deolalikar, Stephen Helfand, and Richard Sutch Economics- UCR	“How to Write a Referee Report”
1/12/2005	Edward Miguel UC Berkeley	“The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam”
1/14/2005*	Richard Sutch, Anil Deolalikar, Keith Griffin and Steven Helfand *NOTE: Friday 12:10 – 1:20 pm 1500 Humanities Building	“Round Table on South Asia Tsunami”
1/19/2005*	Prasanta Pattanaik Economics UCR *NOTE: (joint with Economic Theory Seminar)	On Some Difficulties in Standard of Living Comparisons Based on Functionings”
1/26/2005	Monica Das Economics- UCR	Unanticipated Consequences of Environmental Regulation on Pollution, Income distribution, Product composition and Trade
2/9/2005	Martha Bailey Vanderbilt	“Impact of the Pill on Female Labor Supply”
2/18/2005*	Paul David Oxford & Stanford *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10 – 5:30 pm	“The Tale of Two Traverses: Innovation and Accumulation in the First Two Centuries of U.S. Economic Growth”
3/2/2005	David Ellerman UCR	“Jane Jacobs on Diversification and Specialization”
3/9/2005	Anirban Dasgupta UCR	“Agrarian Reforms in West Bengal since 1977”

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:31:31 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2004

Fall 2004 Seminars Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar .

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/28/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department University of Washington Public Lecture *NOTE: TuesdayHumanities 1500 4:10-5:30 pm; jointly with Theory	Old and New Growth Theories: A Unifying Structure?
9/29/2004	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department University of Washington With Theory	Growth and Income Inequality: Tradeoffs and Policy Responses
10/6/2004	Susan B. Carter & Richard Sutch Economics Department UCR	Why Not in Australia?: Economic Growth in the Age of Mass Migration
10/13/2004	David Ellerman Visiting Economics Department UCR	Migration and (the Lack of) Source-Country Development
10/20/2004	David Kauper Economics Department UCR	Best-Practice Growth and Dynamic Efficiency
10/27/2004	Shatakshee Dhongde Economics Department UCR	Measuring the Impact of Growth and Changes in the Distribution of Income and Poverty in India
11/3/2004	Mindy Marks Economics Department UCR	Employer-Provided Health Insurance, the Minimum Wage, and the Use of Part-Time Labor
11/10/2004	Peter Lanjouw World Bank/ Visiting UC Berkley	Poverty Alleviation Through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
11/22/2004*	John Strauss USC *NOTE: Monday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) III India, Pakistan and the Future of South Asia
11/23/2004*	Akmal Hussain Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Public Lecture *NOTE: Tuesday HMNSS 1500 12:00-1:30 pm	Paper 1 Paper 2 Poverty, Power and Asymmetric Markets in Pakistan
11/24/2004	Akmal Hussain Pakistan Institute of Development Economics	Paper 1 Paper 2
12/1/2004	Eustáquio Reis Applied Economics Research Institute, Brazil	Long Run Brazilian Growth: Spatial Perspectives

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 21:01:20 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Steve Cullenberg or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/2/2004 and 4/3/2004*	Economic Representations: Both Academic and Everyday, Center for Ideas and Society UCR Including, Jack Amariglio, (Economics, Merrimack College), Stephen Cullenberg (UCR), Will Milberg (Economics, New School University), David Ruccio (Economics, University of Notre Dame) Martha Starr (Economics, American University and many others. *NOTE: Friday & Saturday Humanities 1500 Both days 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m	Conference website: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/econrep
4/9/2004	Michael Bernstein UCSD History	“The ‘Marginalist Revolution’ in Historical Context”
4/16/2004	Feng Xiao CSU Fullerton Economics	“The Role of the Stock Market in Influencing Firm Investment in China”
4/23/2004*	Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference *NOTE: Friday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/24/2004*	Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference *NOTE: Saturday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/30/2004	David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR Economics	“A Modern Treatment of Descriptive and Normative Property Theory”
5/7/2004	Prasanta Pattanaik UCR Economics	“On the Structure of Normative Economics”
5/14/2004	Timur Kuran University of Southern Calif. Economics	“Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Develop Corporate Law through Indigenous Means”
5/21/2004	David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR	“A Theory of Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance”
5/26/2004*	Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Wednesday, 2:10-3:30 p.m.	“Globalization and Marginalization: A Re-examination of Development Policy”
5/27/2004*	Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday, 4:10-5:30 p.m.	“Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity”
5/28/2004*	Keith Griffin *NOTE: Development Symposium for Keith Griffin 10:00 a.m	10:00 a.m. Azizur Rahman Khan Economics, UCR “Income Distribution in Post-Reform China” 2:00 p.m. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, “Gender and Water: Poverty, Mortality and Access to Water” 4:00 p.m. Jim Boyce, Economics, University of Mass., Amherst, “Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment”
6/4/2004*	Graduate Student Conference for Keith Griffin Confirmed Participants Include: Diana Alarcon, Inter-American Dev. Bank Mark Brenner, Univ. of Mass., Amherst Amber Casolari, Glendale Comm. College Savvina Chowdhury, Cal. State Univ., Bakersfield Ranjeeta Ghiara, Cal State Univ. , San Marcos Craig Gunderson, Iowa State University Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettysburg College Amy Ickowitz, Clark University Terry McKinley, United Nations Dev. Programme Bassam Yousif, Cal. State Univ. Fullerton German Zarate-Hojos, State Univ. of NY Cortland Eduardo Zepeda, United Nations Dev. Programme *NOTE: Friday 9:30a.m. to 5:30p.m.	The Challenge of Development in the 21st Century, Schedule
6/9/2004	E. Roy Weintraub Duke University Economics NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Equilibrium Proofmaking”