Spring 2007 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:59:10 +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
4/2/2007*	David Swanson University of Mississippi Dir. Center of Population Studies *NOTE: Monday (not Friday)	Assessing Katrina’s Demographic and Social Impacts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Preliminary Results
4/20/2007	Erica Field Harvard University	Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania
4/27/2007	Jorge Aguero UC Riverside	Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
5/4/2007	Latika Chaudhary (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution)	An Economic Analysis of Education in Colonial India
5/11/2007	Jae-Hee Son UC Riverside	Reappraising the Job-Training Effect on Labor Market Outputs of Korean Women
5/18/2007	Subhrendu Pattanayak RTI/North Carolina State	Nature’s Call: Can social mobilization promote toilet use and improve welfare? Results from a field experiment in Orissa, India
5/25/2007	Michael Steinberger Pomona College	Sexual Orientation, Earnings, and Occupational Choice
6/1/2007*	Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside *NOTE: (joint w/ Political Economy & Development) CANCELLED	Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia
6/8/2007	Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside	John Stuart Mill on welfare and public action

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:50:40 +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
4/11/2007	Jorge Silva-Risso UCR AGSM	Distribution Intensity and Choice; Insights from Transaction Data on New Car Sales
4/25/2007	Bryan Graham UC Berkeley	Inverse Probability Tilting and Missing Data Problems
5/2/2007	Serena Ng University of Michigan	Instrumental Variable Estimation in a Data Rich Environment
5/9/2007	John Andersen Psychology Department UCR	Time series analysis of behavioral data
5/16/2007*	Essie Maasoumi Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX *NOTE: (Lecture intended for Graduate Students!)	Discriminating Between Distributions
5/17/2007*	Essie Maasoumi Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX *NOTE: Thursday 5:10-6:30pm	The Information Content of Propensity Scores
5/23/2007	Aprajit Mahajan Stanford University
5/30/2007	Guido Kuersteiner UC Davis
6/6/2007	Aman Ullah UCR	Testing Conditional Uncorrelatedness

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:39:34 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Wei Li

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
4/6/2007*	Hossein Farzin *NOTE: Friday (not Monday)	Social Norm of Work and the Optimality of Resource Extinction
4/9/2007	Linda Cohen UC Irvine	Competition, innovation and racing for priority at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
4/16/2007	Robert Russell UC Riverside	The Morishima Gross Elasticity of Substitution
4/23/2007	Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside	Revealed Preference and Stochastic Choices of a Competitive Consumer: A Unified Theory
4/30/2007	Scott Taylor University of Calgary, Canada	Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
5/7/2007	Peter Hammond University of Warwick, U.K.
5/14/2007	Reza Oladi Utah State University	Strategic International Outsourcing
5/25/2007*	Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside *NOTE: Friday (not Monday) (Joint w/ Political Economy & Development)	Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia