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

Spring 2009 Schedule
Coordinators:
Jonah Rockoff
Till Von Wachter

Date

Speaker

Paper

January 14th
Recruiting/TBA

January 21st
Ali Yurukoglu
Bundling and Vertical Relationships in Multichannel Television
January 28th
Raffaella Sadun
Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?
February 4th
Florian Ederer
Launching a Thousands Ships: Incentives for Parallel Innovation
February 11th
Damon Jones
Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds
February 18th
Anna Aizer
Maternal Stress and Child Well-Being: Evidence from Siblings (with Laura Stroud and Stephen Buka)
February 25th
Stefano Della Vigna
What Motivates Giving in the Field? (with John List and Ulrike Malmendier)
March 4th
Derek Neal

March 11th
Hongbin Li
Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement (with Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang)
March 18th
Spring Break

March 25th
Emily Oster
Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up (with Rebecca Thornton)
April 1st
Dennis Epple
Estimation of Casual Effects in Experiments with Multiple Sources of Noncompliance (with John Engberg, Jason Imbrogno, and Holger Sieg)
April 8th
Sumit Agarwal
Do Financial Counseling Mandates Improve Mortgage Choice and Performance? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet, and Douglas D. Evanoff)
April 15th
Analia Schlosser
Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School (with Victor Lavy)
April 29th
Tim Besley


May 6th
Caroline Hoxby
The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S. (with P. Aghion, M. Dewatripont, A. Mas-Colell, & A. Sapir)
May 13th
Martha Bailey
The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs: Evidence From the War on Poverty and Title X

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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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