Fall 2010 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2010

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:36:26 +0000

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

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
9/29/2010	Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College	In Aid We Trust: Hearts and Minds and the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005
10/6/2010	Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA	Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?
10/13/2010	Joseph Price, Brigham Young University	The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation
10/20/2010	Seth Seabury, RAND – Santa Monica Office	Does Malpractice Liability Reform Attract High Risk Doctors?
10/27/2010	TBA	TBA
11/3/2010	Rodrigo Soares, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
11/10/2010	Kate Choi, UCR	A Million Dollar Smile: The Impact of Medicaid Insurance Coverage on Dental Service Use
11/17/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/24/2010	Neha Raykar, UCR	Measuring the Impact of the Education Guarantee-Scheme on Schooling Outcomes for Women in India
12/1/2010	Prashant Bharadwaj, UCSD	Discrimination Begins in the Womb: Evidence of Sex Selective Prenatal Care (with Leah Nelson)

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:47:00 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Tae Hwy Lee.

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
9/27/2010	Karim Chalak, Boston College	Identification of Local Treatment Effects Using a Proxy for an Instrument
10/4/2010	Patrik Guggenberger, UCSD	On the Relative Robustness of the Size of Tests to Local Model Violations
10/11/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/18/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/25/2010	Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College	Quantile Regression Analysis With Missing Response, With Applications to Inequality Measures and Data Combination
11/1/2010	Yundong Tu, UCR	Bagging Nonparametric and Semiparametric Forecasts with Economic Constraints
11/8/2010	Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin	Multi-step Forecast Model Selection Selection and Model Averaging for Nonparametric Estimation
11/9/2010*	Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin *NOTE: 3:40-5pm	Reference paper 1 Reference paper 2 Reference paper 3
11/15/2010	Hyungsik Roger Moon, USC	Estimation of Random Coefficients Logit Demand Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
11/22/2010	Yun Wang, UCR	Nonparametric Regression Estimation with General Parametric Error Covariance: A More Efficient Two-Step Estimator
11/29/2010	Martin Weidner, USC	Semiparametric Estimation of Nonlinear Panel Data Models with Generalized Random Effects

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:33:08 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo.

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
9/24/2010	Richard Suen, UCR	Concave Consumption Function under Borrowing Constraints
10/1/2010	Zuzana Janko, San Francisco State University	Dynamic Small Open Economy Model with Involuntary Unemployment
10/7/2010*	Ping Wang, Washington University at St. Louis *NOTE: Thursday	Institutional and Organizational Development
10/8/2010	Ping Wang, Washington University at St. Louis	Trade, Urbanization and Capital Accumulation in a Labor Surplus Economy
10/15/2010	Xiangbo Liu, UCR	Dynamic Effects of Skilled and Unskilled Immigration
10/22/2010	Steve Levkoff, UCR	Boundary Problems with the “Russell” Graph Measure of Technical Efficiency: A Refinement
10/29/2010	Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon	Childhood Morbidity and the Transition to Modern Economic Growth
11/5/2010	Chandler Lutz, UCR	Agent Sentiment and Stock Market Predictability
11/12/2010	Waner Grace Gu, UCR	Foreign Direct Investment, Growth and the Environment: A Pollution-Generating Production Frontier Approach
11/19/2010	Peter Rupert, UC Santa Barbara	Revisiting Wage, Earnings, and Hours Profiles
11/26/2010	Thanksgiving	NO SEMINAR
12/3/2010	Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Marshall School of Business – University of Southern California	Social Security, Benefit Claiming and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach