Applied Microeconomics Spring 2008
Applied Microeconomics: Environment,
Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar
Wednesdays, 4:15-5:45
1027 SIPA
Spring 2008 Schedule
Coordinators:
Jonah Rockoff
Till Von Wachter
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Date |
Speaker | Paper |
| February 6 |
recruiting |
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| February 13 | recruiting | |
| February 20 |
Robert Moffitt |
Trends in Earnings Volatility in the U.S., 1970-2004 |
| February 27 |
David Autor | Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States (with David Dorn) |
| March 5 |
Leemore Dafny |
Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? |
| March 12 |
Ed Glaeser |
The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development |
| March 19 |
Spring Break |
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| March 26 |
Enrico Moretti |
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence From Million Dollar Plants |
| April 2 |
Richard Romano |
Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition (with Stephen Calabrese and Dennis Epple) |
April 9 |
Marco Manacorda |
Cash Transfers to the Poor and Political Support |
| April 16 |
Nancy Qian | More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan (with Ming-Jen Lin and Jin-Tan Liu) |
| April 23 |
David Figlio | The Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond To Voucher and Accountability Pressure |
| April 30 |
Phil Oreopolous | Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (with Joshua Angrist and Daniel Lang) |
| May 7 |
Jeroma Adda |
Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions (with Monica Costa Dias Costas Meghir and Barbara Sianesi) |
May 14 |
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| May 21 | |
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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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