Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic

Monday
January 24
1:00pm

Oleg Korenok
(Rutgers University)
"Empirical comparison of sticky price and sticky information models"

Tuesday
January 25
3:30pm
Class of 1947 room, Library

Delia Furtado
(Brown University)
"Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions"

Thursday
January 27
3 pm

Niklas Westelius
(Johns Hopkins University)
"Discretionary Monetary Policy and Inflation Persistence"

Friday
January 28
3pm
Class of 1947 room, Library

Sankar Mukhopadhyay
(University of Pennsylvania)
"The Effect of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act on Female Labor Supply"

Monday
January 31
CANCELLED

Martha Bailey
(Vanderbilt University)
"More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Lifecycle Labor-Force Participation"

Wednesday
February 2
3pm
Class of 1947 room, Library

Irina Paley
(Brown University)
"Right Place, Right Time: Parents' Employment Schedules and the Allocation of Time to Children"

Tuesday
February 8
10:30

Julie Smith
(Trinity University)
"Inflation Targeting and Core Inflation"

Thursday
February 10
CANCELLED

Massimiliano De Santis
(University of California, Davis)
"Interpreting Aggregate Stock Market Behavior: How Far Can the Standard Model Go?"

Friday
February 11
3pm

Tara Sinclair
(Washington University)
"Permanent and Transitory Movements in Output and Unemployment: Okun's Law Persists"

Friday
February 18
3pm

Albert Saiz
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Immigration and The Neighborhood"

Wednesday
February 23
11:30am

Yolanda Kodrzycki
(Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
"College Completion Gaps between Blacks and Whites: What Accounts for Regional Differences?"

Wednesday
February 23
2:00pm
Room 200, Whetten Graduate Center

Charles Becker
(Duke University)
"The Career of Sir Arthur Lewis" followed by a discussion of the American Economic Association Summer Minority Scholarship Program

Friday
February 25
3pm

Christopher Kingston
(Amherst College)
"Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720-1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis"

Thursday
March 3
3:30pm

Fatih Guvenen
(University of Rochester)
"Learning your Earning: Are Labor Income Shocks Really Very Persistent?"

Wednesday
March 16
2 pm
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Robert Ross
(Clark University)
"Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops"

Friday
March 18
3 pm

Douglas Gollin
(Williams College)
"The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels"

Monday
March 21
3 pm
CANCELLED

Jean-Philippe Stijns
(Northeastern University)
"Natural Resource Abundance and Human Capital Accummulation"

Friday
March 25
3pm

Tanya Rosenblat
(Wesleyan University)
"Social Capital in Social Networks"

Friday
April 1
3pm

Nat Keohane
(Yale University)
"Market Effects of Environmental Regulation: Coal, Railroads, and the 1990 Clean Air Act"

Friday
April 8
3pm

Enrico Spolaore
(Tufts University)
"The Diffusion of Development"

Monday
April 11
1:30pm

Aaron Yelowitz
(University of Kentucky)
"Effective Tax Rates and the Living Wage"

Friday
April 15
3pm

Andrew Wait
(University of Sydney)
"Delegation of Decisionmaking, Competition and Business Strategy"

Wednesday
April 20
3:30pm
Library Lecture Center

Andrew Foster
(Brown University)
"Demographic Translation or Economic Transition: What caused the rise in female age at marriage in rural Bangladesh?"

Friday
April 22
3pm

Jeff Milyo
(University of Missouri)
"Sex, Power & Money: Market Reaction to a Sudden Change in Political Leadership"

Monday
April 25
10am

Rangan Gupta
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on Financial Repression"
(PhD defense)

Thursday
May 5
9am-16:45pm
Bishof Center, room 3

UConn-Wesleyan mini-conference

Wednesday
June 15
10am

Kristin Jones
(University of Connecticut)
"Dangerous Products, Liability, and Bankruptcy"
(PhD defense)

Tuesday
July 12
2pm

Basab Dasgupta
(University of Connecticut)
"Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Credit Markets"
(PhD defense)