Applied Microeconomics Fall 2008

Applied Microecomics Fall 2008

Applied Microeconomics: Environment,
Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar
Wednesdays, 4:15-5:45
1027 SIPA

Fall 2008 Schedule
Coordinators:
Jonah Rockoff
Till Von Wachter

Date	Speaker	Paper
September 10th	Ayako Kondo	Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Family Formation
September 17th	Hannah Lin	The Costs of Large Shareholders: Evidence from China
September 24th	Ulf Nielsson	Stock Exchange Merger and Liquidity
October 1st	Joshua Goodman	The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Coursework
October 8th	Erzo Luttmer	What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption? (with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew J. Notowidigdo)
October 15th	Rajeev Cherukupalli	Adverse Selection and Subsidies: Evidence from Non-group Health Insurance Markets
October 22nd	Tumer Kapan
October 29th	Amitabh Chandra	Technology and Expenditure Growth in Health Care (with Jonathan S. Skinner)
November 5th	Johannes Schmieder	Labor Costs and the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution
November 12th	Radha Iyengar	I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
November 19th	Henrik Kleven	Transfer Program Complexity and the Take up of Social Benefits
November 26th	Thanksgiving
December 3rd	Jesse Rothstein	The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design (with Stephanie Cellini and Fernando Ferreira)
December 10th	Mushfiq Mobarak	Decentralization and Water Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil (with Molly Lipscomb)

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We will meet on Wednesday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45 in the Collary Seminar Room, 1027 IAB (420 W. 118th St.). For information, please contact Till Von Wachter (vw2112@columbia.edu)

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