Applied Microeconomics: Environment,
Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar
Wednesdays, 4:15-5:45
1101 SIPA
Fall 2010 Schedule
Coordinators:
Jonah Rockoff
Janet Currie
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Date |
Speaker | Paper |
| September 14th at 12:30 to 2pm in Uris 326 | Mark Duggan | Paying a Premium on your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry |
| Thursday, September 16th |
Mark Rosensweig (Yale) |
Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy (with Mark M. Pitt and Nazmul Hassan) |
| September 22nd |
Armin Falk (U. of Bonn) |
Preferences for Consistency (with Florian Zimmermann) |
| September 29th |
Alice Henriques (PhD Student) |
How Does Social Security Claiming Respond to Incentives? Considering Husband’s Benefits Separately from Spouse and Survivor Benefits |
| October 6th |
Solomon Hsiang (PhD Student) |
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| October 13th |
Mark Duggan (U. of Maryland) |
Does Risk Adjustment Reduce Selection in the Private Health Insurance Market? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program (with Jason Brown, Ilyana Kuziemko, and William Woolston) |
| October 20th |
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) |
"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications (with Ryan Buell, Taly Reich and Michael Norton) |
| October 27th |
Joseph Hotz (Duke) |
Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals (with Peter Arcidiacono adn Songman Kang |
| November 3rd |
Ed Lazear (Stanford) | Why Do Inventories Rise When Demand Falls in Housing and Other Markets? |
| November 10th |
Jens Ludwig (U of Chicago) |
The effects of school desegregation on crime (with David A. Weiner and Byron F. Lutz) |
| November 17th |
Glenn Loury (Brown University) |
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| December 1st |
Scott Carrell (UC Davis) |
From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy: A Cautionary Tale in How Not to Improve Student Outcomes (with Bruce I. Sacerdote and James E. West) |
| December 8th |
Marianne Bertrand (U of Chicago) |
Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process (with Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi) |
| December 9th at 6pm to 7:30 in Uris 307 | Esther Duflo | The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation (with Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan) |
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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 Janet Currie, jc2663@columbia.edu
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