Labor and Development Seminar Series - Fall 2013

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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09/04/2013
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Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel & Tyler Ransom  (Duke University)
Changes in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences: Price vs. Composition Effects
09/10/2013
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Derek Neal  (Chicago)
The Prison Boom & the Lack of Black Progress after Smith & Welch
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Tuesday.
09/11/2013
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Nixon Li  (Duke)
Long-Run Impacts of Rainfall Shocks During School-Age
09/18/2013
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Henry Farber  (Princeton University)
Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
09/25/2013
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Gordon Hanson  (UCSD)
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
10/02/2013
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Ryan Brown  (Practice job talk)
The Mexican Drug War and Early-Life Health: The Impact of Violent Crime on Birth Outcomes
10/08/2013
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Teresa Romano  (Practice job talk)
Assesing the Effect of School Absences on Test Score Performance
Joint with Labor Lunch.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 11:30am on Tuesday.
Job market practice talk. Begins at 11:30am and goes until 1 pm.
10/09/2013
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Gift Chutima Tontarawongsa  (Practice job talk)
Network Structure and Public Good Contribution: Evidence from village networks in the Gambia
10/16/2013
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Jérôme Adda  (UCL and European University Institute)
Short and Long-term Determinants of the Spread of Viral Diseases
10/18/2013
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Gabriela Farfan  (Practice job talk)
Extended Families across Mexico and the United States
Joint with International Population, Health and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 11:30am on Friday.
10/22/2013
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Deborah Rho  (Practice job talk)
The Process of Immigrant Earnings Assimilation: The Role of the Firm
Joint with Labor Lunch.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 11:30am on Tuesday.
Job market practice talk. Begins at 11:30am and goes until 1 pm.
10/23/2013
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Nancy Qian  (Yale)
The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959-1961
10/25/2013
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Andrea Velasquez  (Practice job talk)
The Economic Burden of Crime: Evidence from Mexico
Joint with International Population, Health and Development.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 11:30am on Friday.
10/29/2013
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Karthik Muralidharan  (UCSD)
Payments Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Program: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Joint with ERID Seminars and Workshops, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 11:45am on Tuesday.
10/30/2013
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Karthik Muralidharan  (UCSD)
The Aggregate Effects of School Choice: Evidence from a 2-stage experiment in India
Joint with Public and IO, ERID.
11/06/2013
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Dan Bennett  (Chicago)
The Indirect Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy (with Victoria Baranov and Hans-Peter Kohler)
11/13/2013
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Nicholas Papageorge  (John Hopkins)
Why Medical Innovation is Valuable: Health, Human Capital and the Labor Market
11/19/2013
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Antonio Merlo  (UPenn)
The Home Selling Problem: Theory and Evidence
Joint with Public and IO.
12/04/2013
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Robert Garlick  (Duke University (on leave at the World Bank))
How Price Sensitive is Primary and Secondary School Enrollment? Evidence from Nationwide Tuition Fee Reforms in South Africa.
12/11/2013
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