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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2012
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Michael Sinkinson, Harvard Business School, "Pricing and Entry Incentives with Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from Smartphones."  SOM Marketing Seminar
Room A-48, 135 Prospect 5:00 - 5:00 pm
Marta Vicarelli, Yale University, "El Nino and child cognitive and physical development."  Environmental Economics Seminar
Room 321, Kroon Hall 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Michael S. Barr, University of Michigan Law School, "No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low - Income Americans."  W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance
Room 121, Law School 12:15 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Supreet Kaur, Harvard University, "Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets."  Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Rom Schrift, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, "Complicating Choice and Illusionary Decision Processes."  SOM Marketing Seminar
Room A-46, 135 Prospect 11:30 - 12:50 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Mitch Hoffman, UC Berkeley, TBA, SOM Job Market
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 11:30 am
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University, "Schooling, Suffrage, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South."   Leitner Political Economy Seminar
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Emily Breza, MIT, "Peer Effects and Loan Repayment: Evidence from the Krishna Default Crisis."    SOM Marketing Seminar
Room A-48, 135 Prospect 11:40 - 12:50 pm
Emanuele Massetti, Yale University, "New Developments in Ricardian Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Agriculture."  Environmental Economics Seminar
Room 321, Kroon Hall 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Heidi Williams, MIT, "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation:  Evidence from the Human Genome."  LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania, "The Production of Child Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility" (with Anna Aizer).  Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13
CANCELLED Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Tokyo, TBA  Prospectus Workshop in Economics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Allison Sovey, Yale University, TBA  Leitner Political Economy Seminar
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Martin Hackmann, Yale University, TBA  Prospectus Workshop in Labor/Public Economics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Phil Haile, Yale University, "Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand."  Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Thomas Philippon, NYU Stern, TBA   Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Tokyo and Cowles visitor, "Identification and Estimation of a Nonparametric Transformation Model" (with Simon Lee).  Economic Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Jonathan Eaton, Penn State, TBA   International Trade Workshop
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hilllhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Tokyo, "Estimation of Models with Incomplete Data by Combining Two Data Sets" (with Elena Martinez-Sanchis).   Cowles Lunch Talks
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Lint Barrage, Yale University, "Carbon Tax Paths in a Dynamic Fiscal Context"  Environmental Economics Seminar
Room 321, Kroon Hall 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Pablo Spiller, University of California, Berkeley, "Third Party Opportunism and the (In)Efficiency of Public Contracting."  Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Lunch will be provided. RSVP to corporate.law@yale.edu by February 10, 2012
Room 109, Sterling Law Building 12:15 pm
Manolis Galenianos, Pennsylvania State University, "Learning through referrals."  Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Amanda Dawn Pallais, MIT, TBA   Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Penny Goldberg, Yale University, "Firm Performance and Trade Reform: Evidence from India."  Development Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
James Hollyer, Yale University, TBA  Leitner Political Economy Seminar
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania, "Re-considering Risk and the 'Maghribi Traders': Agency Relations, Contract Enforcement, and the Economy of the Eleventh-Century Islamic Mediterranean."   Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Quintin Beazer, Yale University, TBA  Leitner Political Economy Seminar
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Michael Carter, University of California-Davis, "Poverty and Land Redistribution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" (with Malcolm Keswell).  Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia, TBA  Prospectus Workshop in Labor/Public Economics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Valerie Ramey, UCSD, TBA  Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Vitor Luz, Yale University, TBA   Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Tokyo and Cowles visitor, "Bandwidth Choice for Di erences of Nonparametric Estimators" (with Yoichi Arai).  Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Araxtna Crespo Rodriguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, TBA  International Trade Workshop
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University, "Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health."  Environmental Economics Seminar
Room 321, Kroon Hall 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University, TBA  Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia, TBA  Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
David Schleicher, George Mason, "City Unplanning." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
Katharine Sims, Amherst College, "Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program." Environmental Economics Seminar
Room 321, Kroon Hall 4:00 - 5:50 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
The Economic Growth Center Presents, "Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?"  Economic History Conference Register Here
The conference is free and open to the public
Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 1:15 - 6:15 pm
Xiang Ma, Yale University, TBA   Development Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
The Economic Growth Center Presents, "Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?"  Economic History Conference Register Here
The conference is free and open to the public
Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 9:00 - 2:30 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Charles Manski, Northwestern University, TBA  Pospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University, and Daniel Keniston, Yale University, "Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth Illuminated by 19th Century Great Fires." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm

Berk Ozler, World Bank, "Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover and Threshold Effects."  Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Marco Battiglini, Princeton University, TBA  Leitner Political Economy Seminar
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Katja Maria Kaufmann, University of Bocconi, TBA  Prospectus Workshop in Labor/Public Economics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
George Alessandria, Philadelphia Federal Reserve, TBA Macroeconomics Workshop
joint with International Trade Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Sander Heinsalu, Yale University, TBA   Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Charles Manski, Northwestern University and Cowles visitor, "Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy."  Economics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Costas Meghir, Yale University, TBA  Cowles Lunch Talks
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm

Please send Calendar Information to kathleen.turner@yale.edu, 432-3571, Rm 103, 28 HH by Wednesday Noon