Fall 2019 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2019

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:54:39 +0000

Wednesdays, 12:00 – 12:50 pm
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
10/09/2019	Christian Gunadi, UCR	Does Immigrant Legalization Affect Crime? Evidence from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in the United States
11/06/2019	Yoon Jae Ro, UCR *Time 12:00-1:20pm Location: Sproul 2206	The Effects of Teacher Performance Measures on Student Achievement
11/13/2019	Deepshikha Batheja, UCR *Time 12:00-1:20pm Location: Sproul 2206	Gender Peer Effects in the Labor Market: Evidence from Indian Call Centers
12/04/2019	Peng Zhao, UCR *Time 4:00-5:20pm Location: Sproul 2206	The Natural Rate of Structure Depreciation: Decoupling Capital Gains and Maintenance Improvement from Property Value Variation

site-admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:02:48 +0000

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan and Siyang Xiong.

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
9/27/2019	Luciano Pomatto, California Institute of Technology	Factual and Predictive Uncertainty: Foundations for the Smooth Model
10/4/2019	Pablo Schenone, California Institute of Technology	Causality: A Decision Theoretic Foundation
10/11/2019	No Seminar
10/18/2019	Songzi Du, UCSD	Optimal Auction Design with Common Values: An Informationally Robust Approach
10/25/2019	Charles Zheng, Western Ontario	Necessity of Auctions for Optimal Redistribution
11/1/2019	Ichiro Obara, UCLA	Reputation and Information Lag
11/8/2019	No Seminar
11/15/2019	Tomasz Sadzik, UCLA	Partnership with Persistence
11/22/2019	Seungjin Han, McMaster	Pre-match investment competition with incomplete information
11/29/2019	No Seminar
12/6/2019	Victor Ortego-Marti, UCR	Endogenous TFP, Labor Market Policies and Loss of Skills

site-admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:21:00 +0000

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Ruoyao Shi.

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
9/30/2019	Haiqing Xu, University of Texas, Austin	Estimation of Treatment Effects under Endogenous Heteroskedasticity
10/7/2019	Jeremy Fox, Rice University	Heterogenous Production Functions, Panel Data, and Productivity Dispersion
10/14/2019	Artem Prokhorov, University of Sydney in Australia	A New Family of Copulas, with Application to Estimation of a Production Frontier System
10/21/2019	Christina Amado, University of Minho in Portugal	Modelling Time-varying Volatility Interactions with an Application to Volatility Contagion
10/28/2019	Ying Zhu, UCSD	Omitted variable bias of Lasso-based inference methods: A finite sample analysis
11/4/2019	Shujie Ma, UCR	How many communities are there in a network?
11/11/2019	No Seminar
11/19/2019* 9:00-10:20am	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University *NOTE: This is a Tuesday, and is part of the joint Econometrics and Statistics Graduate Students lecture located in Sproul 2206	Statistical Machine Learning for Financial Prediction and Inference
11/19/2019* 3:45-4:45pm	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University *NOTE: This is a Tuesday, and is part of the joint Statistics and Econometrics Seminar located in Glen Mor K106-K108.	Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks
11/25/2019	Shahnaz Parseaian, UCR	Optimal Forecast under Structural Breaks with Application to Equity Premium
12/2/2019	Zhipeng Liao, UCLA	Conditional Inference for GMM Model Specification Test with Applications to Asset Pricing Models

site-admin — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:35:28 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
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
10/2/2019	Laura Wherry, UCLA	Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
10/9/2019	Emily Nix, USC	What Causes the Child Penalty and How Can It Be Reduced? Evidence from Same-Sex Couples and Policy Reforms, with Martin Andresen
10/16/2019	Lizi Yu, UCSB	Female Bosses and Female Employees’ Careers: Evidence from Lawyers in Shanghai
10/23/2019	Alice Chen, USC	Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices
10/30/2019	Manisha Shah, UCLA	Including Males: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents
11/6/2019	Neil Bennett, UCI	Understanding Establishment-Level ICE Audits
11/13/2019	Vellore Arthi, UCI	Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine.
11/20/2019	Paulina Oliva, USC	The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China