Fall 2017 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:50:38 +0000

Mondays, 12:00-1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

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
10/02/2017	Swati Bhattacharyya, UCR Library	TBA
10/09/2017	Joseph Cummins, UCR Department of Economics	Health Expenditures: Bangladesh
10/16/2017	Carolyn Sloane, UCR Department of Economics	Rising Wage Inequality & Urban Migration
10/23/2017	Jonathan Kurzfeld, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics & Yoon Ro, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Yoon: The Early Exposure to Drinking Culture and Ipact on Educational Attainment
10/30/2017	Kevin Esterling, UCR School of Public Policy & Department of Political Science	Introduction to MCMC Bayesian Estimation with OpenBUGs
11/06/2017	Jonathan Hersh, Chapman University Department of Economics	TBA
11/13/2017	Maria Perez-Urdiales, UCR School of Public Policy	The impact of “budget-based” water rates on inefficient consumers
11/20/2017	Ali Bagherpour, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	TBA
11/27/2017	Jana Grittersova, UCR Department of Political Science	TBA
12/04/2017	Giannina Vaccaro, UCI	Using Econometric To Reduce Gender Discrimination: Evidence From a Diff-in-Disc Design
12/11/2017	TBA	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:32:53 +0000

Mondays, 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
10/02/2017	Neha Agarwal, UCR PhD Candidate	To Work Or Not To Work? Male Earnings And Female Labor Force Participation In India
10/09/2017	Evan Wigton-Jones, UCR PhD Candidate	Legacies Of Inequality: The Case Of Brazil
10/16/2017	Matt Freedman, UC Irvine	Is Your Lawyer A Lemon? Incentives And Selection In The Public Provision Of Criminal Defense
10/23/2017	Peter Hinrichs, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank	Affirmative Action And Racial Segregation
10/30/2017	Rodrigo Soares, Columbia University	Does Universalization Of Health Care Work? Evidence From Health Systems Restructuring And Maternal And Child Health In Brazil
11/06/2017	Jonathan Kurzfeld, UCR PhD Candidate	Prison Crowding And Violent Misconduct
11/13/2017	Vittorio Bassi, The University of Southern California	Information Frictions in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
11/20/2017	Jordan Matsudaira, Cornell University	Not So Simple? Financial Aid Simplification and the Impact of Pell Grants on College Enrollment
11/27/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/28/2017*	Juan Pantano, University of Chicago *NOTE: (Seminar will be from 4:40-6:00 p.m. in Humanities 1500)	Healthcare Access, Costs, and Treatment Dynamics: Evidence From In Vitro Fertilization
12/04/2017	Ozkan Eren, Louisiana State University	Performance Pay, Teachers And Student Outcomes
12/11/2017	TBA	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:20:16 +0000

Fridays, 5:10-6:30 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
09/29/2017	He Wang, UCR PhD Candidate	The Second-Order Bias and MSE of Quantile Estimators
10/06/2017*	Hao Xu, UCR PhD Candiate *NOTE: (This seminar will be from 4:10-5:30 pm)	Double-Boosting GMM for High Dimensional IV Regression Models
10/13/2017	Yoonseok Lee, Syracuse University	Depth-Weighted Estimation of Panel Data Models
10/20/2017	No Seminar (Econ Faculty at Econometrics Conf. at Stanford Univ.)	No Seminar
10/27/2017	Mehmet Caner, Ohio State University	De-Sparsified GMM
11/03/2017	Jessie Li, University of California, Santa Cruz	Constrained and Penalized Estimation Using MCMC
11/10/2017	No Seminar – Veteran’s Day Holiday (Observed)	No Seminar
11/17/2o17	Xinyu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Kernel Averaging Estimators And Parsimonious Model Averaging With A Diverging Number of Parameters
11/24/2017	No Seminar – Thanksgiving Day Holiday	No Seminar
12/01/2017	Raj Chetty, Stanford University (Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture)	TBA
12/06/2017*	Cheng Chou, University of Leicester, UK *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Wednesday, rather than a Friday, and the time will be 5:10-5:30 p.m.)	Identification And Estimation Of Dynamic Discrete Demand Using Aggregate Data
12/8/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:08:06 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (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
10/04/2017	Hiroki Nishimura, UCR Economics Faculty	Rationalizability Of Partial Consumption Data
10/11/2017	Urmee Khan, UCR Economics Faculty	Moral Hazard, Uncertain Technologies And Linear Contracts
10/18/2017	Cheng-Zhong Qin, UC Santa Barbara	On The Anti-Collusive Effect Of Cross-Holdings In Repeated Cournot Competitions
10/25/2017	Amihai Glazer, UC Irvine	Why High Level Executives Earn Less Than In The Private Sector
11/01/2017	Miroslav Gabrovski, UCR PhD Candidate	Coordination Frictions And Economic Growth
11/08/2017	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR Economics	Institutions And Their Ethical Evaluation
11/15/2017	Martin Dumav, Carlos III University of Madrid	Continuous-Time Contracting With Ambiguous Perceptions
11/22/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/29/2017	Victor Ortego Marti, UCR Economics Faculty	Housing Market Dynamics With Search And Credit Frictions
12/06/2017	There will be an Econometrics Seminar on this date	Please see the Econometrics Seminar listing
12/13/2017	No Seminar- Finals Week	No Seminar- Finals Week