| 2011 |
Tuesday,
12:00-1:15 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room B8 |
| February 22 |
Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "The
Effect of School Construction on Property Values and Student Outcomes" |
| March 1 |
Marianne Bruins, Yale University, "The
Evolution of Marriage and its Effects on the Allocation of Resources to Children" |
| March 22 |
Anant Nyshadham, Yale University,
"Heterogeneous Coefficients with Learning: A Dynamic Panel Data Model of Returns to
Schooling" |
| March 29 |
Jason Fletcher, Yale University,
"Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use" |
| April 12 |
Doug Chung, Yale University, "Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A
Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans" (with Thomas
Steenburgh, K. Sudhir) |
| April 19 |
Priyanka Anand, Yale University, "The
Effect of Rising Health Insurance Prices on Labor Market Outcomes" |
| May 3 |
Vincent Pohl, Yale University, "Health
Insurance and Labor Supply of Single Mothers" |
| September 13 |
Seth Zimmerman and Christopher Neilson,
Yale University, "The Returns to College and College Major in Chile" |
| September 20 |
Martin Hackmann, Yale University,
"Yardstick Competition and the Impact of Reimbursement Rates on Nursing Home
Quality" |
| September 27 |
Priyanka Anand, Yale University |
| October 4 |
Christopher Neilson, Yale University,
"Getting Good Students to Become Teachers: The Effect of Targeted Incentive in
Chile" |
| October 11 |
Vincent Pohl, Yale University,
"Medicaid and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers: Implications for Health Care
Reform" |
| October 18 |
Rebecca Edwards, Yale University,
"Women's Labor Supply - Motherhood and Work Schedule Flexiblity" |
| October 25 |
Yvonne Jie Chen, Yale University,
"Inequality of Opportunity for Health: Evidence from U.K. and U.S." |
| November 1 |
Jacob Goldin, Yale University,
"Optimal Tax Salience" |
| November 8 |
Seth Zimmerman, Yale University,
"Affirmative Action in College Admissions and the Signalling Power of College
Grades" |
| November 15 |
Marianne Bruins, Yale University,
"Changes in the Allocation of Resources to Children: 1965 to 2005" |
| November 29 |
Erica Blom, Yale University, "Labor
Market Determinants of College Major" |
| December 6 |
Sukjin Han, Yale University,
"Nonparametric Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models with Weak
Instruments" |
| December 13 |
Kota Mori, Yale University, "Combating
Corruption through International Agreements" |
| 2010 |
|
| February 15 |
Anant Nyshadham, "Illness, Healthcare
Choice, and Intra-Household Labor Allocation" |
| February 22 |
Sylvain Chabe-Ferret, Cemagref, Visiting
Yale, "To Control or Not to Control? Bias of Simple
Matching vs Difference-In-Difference Matching in a Dynamic Framework" |
| March 1 |
Jamin Speer "Skills, Tasks, and
Occupational Matching" |
| March 22 |
Mark Klee "The Welfare Effects of
Occupational Licensing" |
| March 29 |
Vincent Pohl "The Impact of Health
Insurance Coverage on the labor Supply of Welfare Recipients" |
| April 5 |
Rick Mansfield "Estimating the
Distribution of Teacher Quality" |
| April 12 |
Priyanka Anand "Rising Health
Insurance Costs and Labor Market Outcomes" |
| April 19 |
Anant Nyshadham "Subsidized Learning
or Leisure: Merit-Based Tuition Assistance Programs" |
| April 26 |
Rebecca Edwards "Women's Labor Supply
in their Child Bearing Years - Do We Observe Learning?" |
| May 3 |
Erica Blom "Undermatching in college
applications" |
| May 10 |
Rachel Heath "Why do Employers Hire
Using Referrals? Evidence from
Bangladeshi Garment Factories" |
| September 7 |
Rachel Heath, Yale University, "Why Do
Firms Hire Using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories" |
| September 14 |
Christopher Neilson, Yale University,
"Birth Weight, Parental Investments and Academic Achievement in School" |
| September 28 |
Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "The
Effect of School Construction on Property Values and Student Outcomes" |
| October 19 |
Yvonne Jie Chen, "Education and Long
Term Health Outcome" |
| October 26 |
Rebecca Edwards, Yale University, "Job
Flexibility and the Labor Supply of Recent Mothers" |
| November 2 |
Priyanka Anand, Yale University, "The
Effect of Rising Health Insurance Prices on Labor Market Outcomes" |
| November 16 |
Christopher Neilson, Yale University,
"Estimating Demand for College and Careers"
Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "Merit Aid and the Returns to College
Education" |
| November 30 |
Vincent Pohl, Yale University, "The
Impact of Health Insurance on the Labor Supply of Single Mothers" |
| December 14 |
Erica Blom, Yale University, "Finding
the Right Fit: How Much Does College-student Matching Matter? |
| 2009 |
|
| March 30 |
Steve Bednar, "The Return to Campaign
Visits" |
| April 6 |
Rick Mansfield, "Estimating the
Distribution of Teaching Quality" |
| April 13 |
Dora Gicheva |
| April 20 |
Vincent Pohl, "The Effect of Marital
Status on the Use of Preventive Services" |
| April 27 |
Priyanka Anand |
| May 4 |
Rachel Heath |
| September 14 |
Florian Hoffman, University of
Toronto, "Earnings and Mobility Dynamics in a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model:
Estimation and Applications" |
| September 28 |
Erica Blom, "Gender
Differences and Child Production Functions"
Rebecca Edwards , "Women's Labor Supply in their Child-bearing Years" |
| October 5 |
Katherine Ho, Columbia University,
“Welfare Consequences of Health Plan Choice by Employers rather than Employees" |
| October 19 |
Dora Gicheva, "Working Long Hours and
Career Wage Growth" |
| October 26 |
Vincent Pohl, "The Impact of Health
Insurance Coverage on the Labor Supply of Welfare Recipients" |
| November 2 |
Steven Bednar, "The Effect of Campaign
Visits on Election Outcomes" |
| November 9 |
Priyanka Anand, "The Effect of Rising
Health Insurance Costs on Labor Market Outcomes" |
| November 16 |
Jamin Speer, "A Task-Based Approach to
Occupational Matching"
Douglas Norton, "Efficiency and the Distribution of Medical Spending" |
| November 30 |
Matthew Johnson, "Borrowing
Constraints, College Enrollment, and Delayed Entry" |
| December 7 |
Rick Mansfield, "Estimating the
Distribution of Teacher Quality" |
| 2008 |
|
| February 19 |
Peter McHenry, "The Relationship
between Schooling and Migration: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws" |
| February 26 |
Alice Klynge, “The Returns to
Literacy, Creativity, and Other Competencies” |
| March 25 |
Therapy (one more spot available): Rick
Mansfield |
| April 1 |
Dora Gicheva |
| April 8 |
Prashant Bharadwaj, "Sterilization,
Fertility and Household Outcomes" |
| April 15 |
Juan Eberhard |
| April 22 |
Matt Johnson |
| April 29 |
Therapy: Steven Bednar, "Returns to
campaign visits" |
| May 6 |
Therapy: Rick Mansfield, "An
Equilibrium Model of the Teacher Labor Market" |
| May 20 |
Melissa Tartari |
| September 15 |
Martin Browning, Oxford, "Spending
Time and Money within the Household" |
| September 22 |
James Choy |
| September 29 |
Rafael de Melo |
| October 6 |
Kyle Hood |
| October 13 |
William Bunting |
| October 20 |
Lisa Kahn, Yale SOM, "Job Durations,
Match Quality and the Business Cycle: What We Can Learn from Firm Fixed Effects" |
| November 3 |
Jason Fletcher, Yale School
of Public Health, "The Effect of
Classmate Characteristics on Individual Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health"
(with Robert Bifulco & Stephen Ross) |
| November 10 |
Kaj Thomsson, "Public and Private
Welfare States" |
| November 17 |
Matt Johnson, "Causes and Consequences
of Delayed College Entry" |
| December 8 |
Peter McHenry, "The Geographic
Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms" |
| December 15 |
Priyanka Anand, "Understanding the
Achievement Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants in the U.S."
Vincent Pohl, "Marital Protection and Marital Selection — Evidence from
Aggregate Data" |
| 2007 |
|
| February 26 |
Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "The
Determinants of the Wages of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US" (with Mark
Rosenzweig) |
| March 5 |
Brian Knight, Brown University,
"Momentum in Presidential Primaries" |
| April 2 |
Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private
Partnerships" (with Ronald D. Fischer & Alexander Goletovic) |
| April 9 |
Dora Gicheva, Yale University,
"Working Hours and the Slope of the Wage Profile" |
| April 16 |
Jeffrey Weinstein, Yale University,
"Do School Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?" |
| April 23 |
Matthew Johnson, Yale University,
"Uncertainty, Choices in College, and Precautionary Saving" |
| April 30 |
Steve Bednar, Yale University, "Media
Projection Bias" |
| May 7 |
Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College,
"An IV-based Analysis of Optimal Healthcare Expenditure Using Medicare Data"
(with Amitabh Chandra and Xiaohong Chen) |
| May 14 |
Peter McHenry, Yale University, "The
Relationship between School Quality Inputs and Local Wage Structures" |
| September 10 |
Maggie McConnell, Caltech University, "Volunteers
and Reputation Signaling" |
| September 24 |
Analia Schlosser, Princeton University,
"Mechanisms and Impacts of
Gender Peer Effects at School" (with Victor Lavy) |
| October 1 |
Rafael Lopes de Melo, Yale University, TBA |
| October 8 |
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University,
"Reinterpreting Returns to Experience" |
| October 22 |
Kenneth Couch, UCONN, visiting Yale, "Earnings, Losses and Mass Layoffs"
(with Dana W. Placzek) |
| November 5 |
Una Okonkwo Osili, Indiana
University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago, "Immigrants'
Access to Financial Services and Asset Accumulation" |
| November 26 |
Richard Mansfield, Yale University, TBA |
| December 3 |
Stephen Ross, UCONN, visiting Yale, "The Effects of Public School Choice on Those
Left Behind: Evidence from Durham, NC" (with Robert Bifulco & Helen F. Ladd) |
| 2006 |
|
| February 20 |
Joshua Lustig, "Peer Effects and
Welfare Use" |
| March 20 |
Lori Beaman, "Ethnic Networks and the
Labor Market: Evidence from Refugees Resettled in the U.S." |
| March 27 |
Seik Kim, "Estimating an Earnings
Equation Using Rotating Panel Data" |
| April 3 |
Peter McHenry, "Family Migration and
Labor Market Outcomes" |
| April 10 |
Shing-yi Wang, "The Role of Marital
Ties and Selection in the Labor Market" |
| May 1 |
Kaj Thomsson, "Interest Groups and the
Political Economy of Labor Market Institutions" |
| June 12 |
Justine Hastings, "No Child Left
Behind" |
| June 19 |
Seik Kim |
| July 10 |
Emiko Usui |
| July 17 |
Lauren Lax |
| July 24 |
Ian Vidangos |
| July 31 |
Kaj Thomsson and Alessandro Bonatti,
"Political Bargaining and the Distribution of New Deal Funds" |
| August 7 |
Jeffrey Weinstein, "Do School
Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?" |
| August 14 |
Lori Beaman |
| September 18 |
Seik Kim, Yale University, "Economic
Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States" |
| September 25 |
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University,
"Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Insurance under Multiple Sources of
Risk" |
| October 2 |
Kyle Hood, Yale University, "Spatial
Regional Evolutions" |
| October 9 |
Bruno Falcao, Yale University, "The
Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor" |
| October 16 |
Peter McHenry, Yale University,
"Migration and Local Wage Structures" |
| October 23 |
Fabian Lange, Yale University, "Public
Sector Employment and Black Economic Progress" |
| October 30 |
Rafael Lopes de Melo, Yale University,
"Theories of Wage Determination and Wage Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment" |
| November 6 |
Prashant Bharadwaj, YaleUniversity,
"The Impacts of Changes in Marriage Laws" |
| November 13 |
Björn Brügemann, Yale University,
"Involuntary Dismissal" |
| November 27 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University,
"Global Wage Differences and International Student Flows" |
| December 4 |
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University,
"Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Social Insurance under Multiple Sources
of Risk" |
| December 11 |
Jeremy Magruder, Yale University,
"Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South
Africa" |
| 2005 |
|
| January 10 |
Organizational Lunch |
| April 18 |
Lauren Lax, "Retirement and the
Extended Family" |
| April 25 |
Shamena Anwar, "Testing for Cultural
Affinity Using Data from the Game Show 'Street Smarts'" |
| June 6 |
Ebonya Washington, "Sticking With Your
Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting" |
| July 11 |
Kaj Thomsson "Unions and Voter
Turnout" |
| August 15 |
Jeffrey Weinstein, "Voting and
Disappointment: Do Voters Respond Asymmetrically to Losses and Gains?" |
| August 29 |
Santosh Anagol "Race and Gender
Differences in Small Business Production" |
| September 12 |
Stephen Ross, Yale University,
"Neighborhood Information Externalities and the Provision of Mortgage Credit" |
| October 3 |
Xia Li, Yale University, "Home
Responsibility, Employers Perception and Endogenous Gender Gap" |
| October 17 |
Seik Kim, Yale University, "Human
Capital and Wage Dynamics" |
| October 24 |
Jaymin Lee (Yale University, Yonsei
University), "Union and Profitability
of Korean Firms before the Crisis" |
| October 31 |
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University,
"Marital Networks and Labor Market Outcomes" |
| November 7 |
Peter McHenry, Yale University,
"Marital Status and the Effects of Migration" |
| November 28 |
Kaj Thomsson, Yale University,
"Modeling the Internal Political Process of Labor Unions" |
| December 12 |
Justine Hastings, Yale University,
"Information provision and decision making: A Field Experiment in School Choice" |
| 2004 |
|
| June 7 |
Informal Discussion — Summer Series
Planning |
| June 14 |
Farooq Naseer |
| June 21 |
Shareen Joshi |
| July 19 |
Patrick Bayer |
| August 2 |
Hanming Fang |
| August 9 |
Tatiane DeMenezes |
| August 16 |
Xia Li |
| September 13 |
Joseph Altonji, "Statistical
Discrimination and Occupational Attainment" |
| September 20 |
Patrick Bayer, "Inequality and
Segregation" |
| October 4 |
Hanming Fang, "Estimating Returns to
Non-Cognitive Skill Investment" |
| October 11 |
Ebonya Washington, "Female
Socialization: How the Gender of a Congressman's Children Affects His Voting on Women's
Issues" |
| October 25 |
Peter Arcidiacono, "Do Race Conscious
Admissions Foster Inter-racial Contact?" |
| November 8 |
Xia Li, "Estimating the Impact of
Childbearing on Women's Labor Market Outcomes: New Method and Evidence" |
| November 15 |
Renzo Comolli, "Wage Differentials and
Endogenous Disclosure of Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals" |
| November 22 |
Justine Hastings, "Public School
Choice and Academic Achievement: Random Assignment from a School Choice Lottery" |
| November 29 |
Lauren Lax, "A Structural Model of
Full, Partial, and Reverse Retirement" and "Retirement in an Extended Family
Context" |
| December 13 |
Jeffrey Weinstein, "A General
Equilibrium Model of Commute Times" |
