Fall 2015 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 23:01:04 +0000

Fridays, 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
9/25/2015	Anaka Aiyar, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	The Spillover Effects Of Health Insurance On The Household Budget: Evidence From Vietnam
10/2/2015	Conrad Miller, UCB	Firm Matching And The Returns To Elite College Education
10/9/2015	Michael Levine, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Customer-Based Discrimination And Sexual Orientation: Evidence From Geographic Variation In Occupational Sorting
10/16/2015	Julie Cullen, UCSD	Political Alignment And Tax Evasion
10/23/2015	Amber Qureshi, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	College Major And The Economy: The Impact Of Labor Market Conditions On Field Of Study
10/30/2015	Juan Carlos Lopez, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Water For Arid Regions: An Economic Geography Approach
11/6/2015	Hani Mansour, University of Colorado-Boulder	Weighing The Military Option: The Effects Of Wartime Conditions On Career Pathways
11/13/2015	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/20/2015	Jonathan Kurzfeld, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Prison Populations And Misconduct: Dissecting The Impacts Of CA Public Safety Realignment
11/27/2015	Thanksgiving Day Holiday, Campus Closed – No Seminar	NO SEMINAR
12/4/2015	Damon Clark,UCI	The Return To Schooling Among High School Dropouts: Evidence From Britain’s Compulsory Schooling Changes

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:50:35 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah.

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
9/30/2015	Yuying Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCR Visiting Scholar in Economics	Selection of The Optimal Length of Rolling Window In Time-Varying Predictive Regression
10/7/2015	Jiti Gao, Monash University	Nonparametric Kernel Estimation for Bayesian Means
10/14/2015	Ying Wang, Peking University & UCR Visiting Scholar in Economics	Adaptive Quantity Of Money
10/21/2015	David Brownstone, UCI	Aggregation Bias In Discrete Choice Models With An Application To Household Vehicle Choice
10/28/2015	James Powell, UCB	Simple Estimators For Invertible Index Models
11/4/2015	Yingying Dong, UCI	Testing For Rank Invariance Or Similarity In Program Evaluation
11/11/2015	Veteran’s Day Holiday, Campus Closed – No Seminar	No Seminar
11/18/2015	Zhipeng Liao, UCLA	Robust Vuong Test for Semi/Nonparametric Models
11/25/2015	Bahram Mobasher, UCR Physics/Astronomy	The Creation And The End Of the Universe: Does God Play Dice With Us?
12/2/2015	Amit Chowdhury, UCR Engineering	Learning Visual Context For Recognition

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:36:43 +0000

Mondays, 4:10-5:30pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 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
9/28/2015	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR Economics	Binary Data, Hierarchy of Attributes, and Multidimensional Depravation
10/5/2015	Tasneem Raihan, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Impacts Of Monetary Policy Shock On Borrowings: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression Analysis Of The Different Sectors Of US Economy
10/12/2015	Simone Galperti, UCSD	Delegating Resource Allocation: Multidimensional Information Vs. Decisions
10/19/2015	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/26/2015	Xuefeng Pan, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	The Roles Of Monetary Policy In Housing And Consumption
11/2/2015	Simon Board, UCLA	Competitive Information Disclosure In Search Markets
11/9/2015	Victor Ortego Marti, UCR Economics	Loss Of Skill During Unemployment And TFP Differences Across Countries
11/16/2015	Riyad Abubaker, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Markov Switching Risk Aversion And Asymmetries At The Zero Lower Bound
11/23/2015	Francisca Antman, University of Colorado-Boulder	For Want Of A Cup: The Rise Of Tea In England And The Impact Of Water Quality On Economic Development
11/30/2015	TBA	TBA