Finance and Economics Division : Applied Microeconomics

Finance and Economics: Seminars - Micro

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

Fall 2006 Schedule
Coordinators:
Maria Guadalupe and
Janet Currie

Date	Speaker	Paper
Sept. 13	Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)	Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan)
Sept. 20.	Ricard Gil (University of California, Santa Cruz)	Airing Your Dirty Laundry: Vertical Integration, Reputational Capital and Social Networks (with Wesley R. Hartmann)
Sept. 27	Iwan Barankay (Warwick, CEPR and IZA)	Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data (with Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul)
Oct. 4	John Van Reenen LSE	It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do I.T. Investigating The Productivity Miracle Using Multinationals (Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun) click here for power point presentation
Oct. 11	Fernando Ferreira (Wharton)	Does Political Partisanship Trump the Median Voter? Evidence from U.S. Municipal Governments (with Joseph Gyourko)
Oct. 18	Chris Paxson (Princeton University)	Cognitive Development Among Young Children in Ecuador: The Roles of Wealth, Health and Parenting (with Norbert Schady)
Oct. 25
Nov. 1	Esther Duflo (MIT)	Monitoring works: Getting teachers to come to school (with Rema Hanna)
Nov. 8	Carlos Dobkin (UC Santa Cruz)	The Effects of Government Transfers on Monthly Cycles in Drug Abuse, Crime, and Mortality (with Steven L. Puller)
Nov. 15	Karl Scholz (University of Wisconsin)	Children and Household Wealth (with Ananth Seshadri)
Nov. 22	Thanksgiving
Nov. 29	Orazio Attanasio (UCl/IFS)
Dec. 6	Monica Singhal	Special Interest Groups and the Allocation of Public Funds
Dec. 13	Lisa Lynch (Tufts)	Stay, or Stop: the Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation

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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 Janet Currie (jc2663@columbia.edu). Papers can be obtained inside every floor's copy room in Uris Hall or at www.gsb.columbia.edu/divisions/finance/seminars/Fall_05/.

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Last Updated 12/07/2006