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Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2012

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

Questions? Contact Steve Helfand & Todd Sorensen.

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
4/2/2012 Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley  Fiscal Policy For A depressed Economy
4/12/2012  Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
4/17/2012  Steve Trejo, University of Texas at Austin  The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asisans
4/23/2012  No Seminar  No Seminar
4/30/2012  Dean Jamison, University of Washington  Seminar Cancelled
 5/7/2012  Sarah Reber, UC Los Angeles  Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in The South
5/14/2012 Yelena Takhtamanova, San Francisco Federal Reserve  Determinants
5/21/2012 Farhan M. Majid & Sheetal Bharat, UCR PhD Candidates  F: Does Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Affect Children’s Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Indonesia

S: Where The Runners Went: Post Office Allocations In British India
5/23/2012 Chris Barrett, Cornell University Local Food for Local Schools: An Analysis of The Impact of Local Procurement for A School Feeding Program in Burkina Faso
5/24/2012 Chris Barrett, Cornell University The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Policy and Empirical Implications
5/28/2012  HOLIDAY  No Seminar
6/4/2012 Vilma Sielawa-Ferreira & Aparjita Dasgupta, UCR PhD Candidates  V: An Impact Evaluation of The Programa Nacional De Credito Fundiario-A Brazilian Market Assisted Land Reform Program

A: Can The Major Public Works Program in India Buffer Negative Shocks in Early Childhood? Panel Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
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Econometrics Seminars Spring 2012

Friday, 4:10- 5:30pm (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
 4/6/2012 Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College Nonparametric Estimation and Inference On Conditional Quantile Processes with An Application to The Tennessee STAR Project
4/20/2012 Maximilan Kasy, UC Los Angeles Continuous Triangular Systems Without Functional Form Restrictions – Identification and Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation
4/27/2012  No Seminar  No Seminar
5/4/2012 Zhipeng Liao, UC Los Angeles Sieve Inference On Semi-Nonparametric Time Series Models
5/11/2012  Zhou Xi, UCR PhD Candidate  Seminar Cancelled
5/18/2012 Keisuke Hirano, University of Arizona Impossibility Results For Nondifferentiable Functionals
5/24/2012 Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University  Control Function Method in Econometrics
5/25/2012 Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Testing For Nonlinear Models with Endogenous Explanatory Variables
6/1/2012 Graham Elliott, UC San Diego Nearly Optimal Tests When A Nuisance Parameter Is Present Under The Null Hypothesis
6/8/2012  Shu Shen, UC Davis Applied Model Specication Tests: Theory and Application To Consumers’ Choices of Soft Drinks
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Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2012

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

Questions? Contact Taradas Bandyopadhayay.

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
4/4/2012 Ingela Alger, University of Toulouse, France  HomoMoralis-Preference Evolution Under Imcomplete Information and Assortative Matching
4/11/2012 Maxwell Stinchcombe, University of Texas @ Austin Descriptively Rich Sets of Priors and The Von Neumann/Morgenstern Approach to Ambiguity
4/13/2012 Maxwell Stinchcombe, University of Texas @ Austin Genericity Analyses for Econometrics and Economic Theory
4/18/2012  Reza Oladi, Utah State University On Foreign Direct Investment Technology Diffusion and Liberalization
4/25/2012 Dmitry Plotnikov, UC Los Angeles Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited
5/2/2012 Igor Kopylov, UC Irvine Models of Perfectionism and Soft Commitment
5/9/2012 Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR Economics The Ethical Bases of Public Policies: A Conceptual Framework
5/16/2012 David Malueg, UCR Economics Group Efforts When Performance Is Determined By The “Best-Shot”
5/30/2012 Cheng-Zhong Qin, UC Santa Barbara Cross-Holdings In Oligopoly
6/6/2012 Sourav Bhattacharya, University of Pittsburgh Strategic Information Revelation When Experts Compete To Influence
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