Yale Department of Economics

Econ 640b
Prospectus Workshop in Labor/Public Economics

Organized by Costas Meghir, Melissa Tartari, Ebonya Washington

The  Prospectus Workshop in Labor and Public Economics is an informal workshop designed primarily for graduate students working in labor economics and public finance to present research in progress.  Faculty and visitors also use the workshop to present work in its early stages.

You can join the Labor/Public Economics email list if you want to receive announcements about the Labor-Public Lunch.  Sign up to Present

Add workshop to GOOGLE CALENDAR

Spring 2012 Tuesday, 12:00-1:15 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 108
February 14 Martin Hackmann, Yale University, "The Impact of Medicaid Reimbursement Rates on Nursing Home Quality"
February 21 Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia, "Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply" (with Laura Turner)
February 28 Katja Maria Kaufmann, University of Bocconi, "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil"
March 6 SPRING BREAK
March 13 SPRING BREAK
March 20 Olga Yakusheva & Jason Fletcher, Yale University, "Learning from Teen Childbearing Experiences of Friends: Evidence Using Miscarriages as a Natural Experiment"
March 27 Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, TBA
April 3 Jamin Speer, Yale University, "The Long-Term Career Effects of Initial Under- and Over-Employment" 
April 10 Thibaut Lamadon, Yale University, "Search, Firm Shocks and Optimal Contracting"
April 24 Marianne Bruins, Yale University, "Woman's Economic Opportunities and the Allocation of Resources to Children"
May 1 Rebecca Edwards, Yale University, "Work-schedule Flexibility, Motherhood & Female Labor Supply" 
May 8 Nicolas Werquin, Yale University, TBA

NOTE:  SEMINAR LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED TO ROOM B1 AT 28HH

May 15 Adam Kapor, Yale University, "The College Market Under a Percentage Plan"
May 22 Adam Osman, Yale University, "Labor Market Determinants of College Major Choice"
May 29 Erica Blom, Yale University
June 5 Melissa Tartari, Yale University

Past Lunches       Labor/Public Economics Workshop

Schedule maintained by: Rendé Wilson

Last updated: May 14, 2012