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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DECEMBER 2008
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
Trevon Logan, Ohio State, visiting Princeton, "Endogenizing Tastes." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Laura Schechter, Wisconsin, "Vote-buying and reciprocity." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2
Rick Hornbeck, MIT, TBA. Economic History Lunch.
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University, "Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy." Macroeconomics Workshop/Junior Faculty Talk
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Eric Becker, Yale, "Identification and Estimation of Consumer Heterogeneity in Multinominal Choice Models of Demand." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
Eric A. Finkelstein, Health Economist and Director, Public Health Economics Program, Research Triangle Institute, "The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It." Rudd Center Seminar
Conference Room, 309 Edwards St. 12:30 pm
David Miller, University of California, San Diego, visiting Cowles, "Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies" (with Nageeb Ali). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University, "Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy" (with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Redding). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
Randy Walsh, Colorado, "Segregation and Tiebout Sorting: Investigating the Links between Public Goods and Demographic Composition." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Lung-Fei Lee, University of Rochester, "Specification and Estimation of Social Interactions Models." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
Vis Taraz, "Local Government in Rural India: The Roles of Land Ownership and Caste." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Juan Eberhard, Yale University, "Immigration and Wage Dynamics." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Tim Lobstein, Director, Childhood Obesity Programme, IOTF, "Obesonomics: Describing the Obesogenic Economy." Rudd Center Seminar
Conference Room, 309 Edwards St. 2:00 pm
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Market Structure and Product Quality in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
David Haddock, Northwestern/Law, "CAFE — The Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate" (with Federico Boffa and Stephania Proporato). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School, Wall Street 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5
Petra Todd, UPENN, "How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8
Peter McHenry, "The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Phil Hoffman, CalTech, "Is Trust an Ultimate Cause? Its Role in the Long Run Development of Financial Markets in France." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Alex Torgovitsky, Yale University, "A Sieve-Based Nonparametric Density Estimator" and James Wolter, Yale University, "Estimating Levy Processes with High Frequency Data." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
Dr. Quy Toan Do, World Bank, "Are All Siblings Born Equal?" Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9
Maher Said, Yale University, "Information Revelation and Random Entry in Sequential Ascending Auctions." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University, "Upstream Innovation and Product Variety in the Home PC Market." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10
Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Why Unemployment Is So High in South Africa and What to Do About It." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Collaborating" (with Johannes Hörner). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Xu Cheng, Yale University, "Robust Confidence Intervals in Nonlinear Regression under Weak Identification." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Katrine Jessoe, PhD candidate, Yale FES, "Improved Source, Improved Quality? Demand for Drinking Water in Rural India." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Nick Bloom, Stanford University, "Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology"(with Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University, "Understanding the City Size Wage Gap." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12
Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University, "Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937" (with Emmanuel Saez). Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15
Priyanka Anand/Vincent Pohl, "Marital Protection and Marital Selection — Evidence from Aggregate Data." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16
Jacob Gramlich, Yale University, "Gas Prices and Endogenous Product Selection in the U.S. Automobile Industry." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18
David Autor, MIT/Economics, "The Effect of Transfer Income on Labor Force Participation and Enrollment in Federal Benefits Programs: Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm