Labor and Development Seminar Series - Spring 2012

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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01/25/2012
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Ran Abramitsky  (Stanford)
A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
01/26/2012
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Ran Abramitzky  (Stanford)
How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistributive Policies and in Returns?
02/22/2012
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Shing-yi Wang  (NYU)
"Marriage Networks and Labor Market Outcomes in China"
Note: This seminar is from 4:00-5:30
02/29/2012
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Raymond Guiteras  (University of Maryland)
Incentives, Productivity and Selection in Labor Markets: Evidence from Rural Malawi (joint with B. Kelsey Jack)
03/07/2012
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Spring Break  
03/14/2012
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Michael Greenstone  (MIT)
"Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India"
03/21/2012
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Christopher Udry  (Yale)
"Examining Investment and Financial Markets in Agriculture"
03/28/2012
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Dan Keniston  (Yale)
"Bargaining and Welfare: A Structural Analysis of the Autorickshaw Market"
04/04/2012
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Julie Cullen  (UCSD)
"Coming of age: Gender conformity and the timing of adolescence" (with Prashant Bharadwaj)
04/11/2012
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Matt Wiswall  (NYU)
Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification Using an Information Experiment (joint with B.Zafar)
04/13/2012
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Empirical Microeconomics Jamboree  
Two day conference of young economists working in empirical micro
and continues on Saturday April 14.
04/25/2012
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Ken Wolpin  (University of Pennsylvania)
"Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools" (joint with J.Behrman, S.Parker and P.E.Todd) & "Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom" (joint with P.E.Todd)
05/02/2012
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PAA Meetings  (No seminar)


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