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Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2016

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

Questions? Contact  Michael Bates or Carolyn Sloane.

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
9/28/2016 Ruixue Jia, UC San Diego Access To Elite Education, Wage Premium And Social Mobility: The Truth And Illusion Of China’s College Entrance Exam
10/05/2016 Rebecca Myerson, University of Southern California The Impact Of State-Varying Components Of The Affordable Care Act In Prescription Fills For Diabetes And Hypertension
10/12/2016 Deepak Singhania, UCR PhD Candidate Decentralization Synergies And Their Welfare Effects In Indonesia
10/19/2016 Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
10/26/2016 Leah Boustan-Platt, UC Los Angeles Inter-generational Transmission Of Wealth Shocks: Evidence From The US Civil War
11/02/2016 Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston Gender Homophily And Segregation Within Neighborhoods
11/09/2016 Anthony D’Costa, University of Melbourne Why Are ‘Good’ Jobs So Hard To Come By? Institutional Perspectives On Employment In India
11/15/2016* Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia

*NOTE: (This is a Tuesday) Seminar in 4128 from 3:34-5:30 pm

Skills, Occupation, And Wage Inequality
11/16/2016 Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia The Minimum Wage Turnover, And The Shape Of The Wage Distribution
11/23/2016 No Seminar No Seminar
11/30/2016 Sara Reber, UC Los Angeles The Impact of Virtual College Advising On Disadvantaged Students’ College Enrollment: Evidence From A Random Assignment Field Experiment
12/07/2016 Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University Scientific Education And Innovation:  Evidence From An Expansion Of University STEM Majors
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Econometrics Seminars Fall 2016 https://economics.ucr.edu/econometrics-seminars-fall-2016/ https://economics.ucr.edu/econometrics-seminars-fall-2016/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:40:34 +0000 https://economics.ucr.edu/?p=2937

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2016

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
9/26/2016 Hyunseung Kang, Stanford University Testing Endogeneity With Possibly Invalid Instruments And High Dimensional Covariates
10/3/2016 He Wang, UCR PhD Candidate The Second-Order Bias And MSE Of Quantile and Expectile Estimator
10/10/2016 Bai Huang, UCR PhD Candidate A Combined Semi-Parametric Estimator For Panel Model
10/17/2016 No Seminar No Seminar
10/24/2016 Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology Subset Optimization For Asset Allocation
10/31/2016 Akio Namba, Kobe University & Visiting Scholar-UCR Economics A Sufficient Condition For The MSE Dominance Of The Positive-Part Shrinkage Estimator When Each Individual Regression Coefficient Is Estimated In a Misspecified Linear Regression Model
11/7/2016 Esra Kurum, UCR Department of Statistics Joint Modeling Of Longitudinal Binary And Continuous Responses
11/14/2016 Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University Partial identification Of The Distribution Of Treatment Effects
11/21/2016 Hao Xu, UCR PhD Candidate GMM Estimation With Many Instruments That Are Possibly Irrelevant Or Invalid
11/28/2016 NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR
12/05/2016 NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR
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Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2016 https://economics.ucr.edu/economic-theory-seminars-fall-2016/ https://economics.ucr.edu/economic-theory-seminars-fall-2016/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:15:57 +0000 https://economics.ucr.edu/?p=2926

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2016

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
9/23/2016 Matan Tsur, University of Vienna Financial Contract, Bargaining and Security Design
9/30/2016 Nir Jaimovich, University of Southern California Disappearing Routine Jobs: Who, How, And Why?
10/07/2016 Francois Geerolf, UCLA A Theory of Pareto Distributions
10/14/2016 William Branch, UCI Labor Market Dynamics When Households Lack Commitment
10/21/2016 Yang Xie, UCR Machiavellian Experimentation
10/28/2016 Paul Bergin, UCD Beyond Competitive Devaluations: The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative Advantage
11/04/2016 Gabriele Camera, Chapman University Money And The Scale Of Cooperation
11/11/2016 Veteran’s Day Holiday – No Seminar No Seminar
11/18/2016 Bruce McGough, University of Oregon Stable Sunspot Equilibria And The MSV-Principle
11/25/2016 Thanksgiving Day Holiday – No Seminar No Seminar
12/2/2016 Yiwei Liu, UCR PhD Candidate Dynamic Pricing With Opaque Sales: Role Of Intermediary In Forming Consumer Loyalty
 12/9/2016  No Seminar – last day of finals week and Fall quarter No Seminar
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