Applied Microeconomics: Environment,
Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar
Wednesdays, 4:15-5:45
1101 SIPA
Fall 2011 Schedule
Coordinators:
Jonah Rockoff
Wojciech Kopczuk
Till Von Wachter
|
Date |
Speaker | Paper |
| September 7th |
Wilbert Van Der Klaauw (NY Federal Reserve) |
Anatomy of Welfare Reform: Announcement and Implementation Effects (with Richard Blundell and Marco Francesconi) |
| September 14th |
Reed Walker |
The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce |
| September 21st |
Wil Lim |
Long-Term Care Reimbursement, Formal Versus Informal Care, Medical Expenditures, and Health |
| September 28th |
Hitoshi Shigeoka |
The Effect of Patient Cost-Sharing on Utilization, Health and Risk Reduction: Evidence from Japan |
| October 5th |
Arindrajit Dube (UMass - Amherst) |
Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects |
| October 12th |
James Sallee (Chicago- Harris School) | Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy (with Joel Slemrod) |
| October 19th |
Kerwin Charles (Chicago- Harris School) | Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout (with Melvin Stephens) |
| October 26th |
John Friedman (Harvard KSG) |
The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood |
| November 2nd |
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) |
Will risk-adjustment decrease health care costs? New evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program (with Jason Brown, Mark Duggan, and William Woolston) |
| November 9th |
Justin Wolfers (U. of Pennsylvania) |
Forecasting Elections: Voting Intentions versus Expectations |
| November 16th |
Brigitte Madrian (Harvard KSG) | The Demand for Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Experiment (with John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson, and Jung Sakong) |
| November 30th |
Claus Kreiner (Copenhagen) |
Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy: Household Interest Rates and the Propensity to Consume (with David Dreyer Lassen and Soren Leth Petersen) |
| December 7th |
Parag Pathak (MIT) |
Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts (with David H. Autory and Christopher J. Palmer) |
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We will meet on Wednesday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45 in room 1101 in IAB, the International Affairs Building (420 W. 118th St.). For information, please contact Jonah Rockoff, jr2331@columbia.edu, Wojciech Kopczuk, wojciech.kopczuk@columbia.edu, or Till Von Wachter, vw2112@columbia.edu
Previous Schedules:
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Last Updated 9/01//2011
