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Spring 2010 Seminar and Brownbag Series

All Seminars are in Monteith, Room 339, at 3:30 pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted. Seminar Papers are available for review in Mont 337. For more information, contact Delia Furtado, Uluc Aysun or DJ Lee.

Brownbag workshops are held Tuesdays at 12:30, also in Monteith 339. Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information, contact Francis Ahking or Metin Cosgel

Other presentations in connection with the Economics PhD program are also listed on this schedule, as well as some events elsewhere on campus. Locations are noted if not held at Monteith 339.

To be on the mailing list for activities, please contact Christian Zimmermann.

This schedule is continuously updated. Check regularly!

Seminars

(Brownbags and other activites are further down)

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Friday January 22 3:30pm	Jody Sindelar (Yale University) "Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence"
Friday January 29 3:30pm	Steve Rivkin (Amherst College) "Disruption, Skill and Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes"
Monday February 1 3:30pm	Mikhael Shor (Vanderbilt University) "Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making"
Friday February 5 3:30pm	Amanda Kowalski (Yale University) "The Economics of Expansion to Near Universal Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Massachusetts Insurance Reform"
Friday February 12 3:30pm	Randall Akee (Tufts University) "Skin Color and Employment Probabilities: Evidence from Longitudinal Data"
Friday February 19 10:00am	Monica Lopez-Anuarbe (University of Connecticut) "Intergenerational Transfers in the Long Term Care Market" (PhD defense)
Friday February 19 3:30pm	Isaac Mbiti (Southern Methodist University) "Access, Sorting and Achievement: the Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya"
Friday February 26 3:30pm	Patrick McEwan (Wellesley College) "School meals and student outcomes: Discontinuity evidence from Chile's targeted feeding program"
Friday March 26 3:30pm	Chad Sparber (Colgate University) "Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad"
Thursday April 1 4:00pm Student Union 331/Ballroom	Robert Stavins (Harvard University) "Climate Change Policy After Copenhagen" (Philip E. Austin Forum on the Economics of Public Policy)
Friday April 2 TBA	UConn Economics Alumni Reunion Conference
Friday April 9 3:30pm	David Zilberman (University of California-Berkeley) "TBA"
Friday April 16 3:30pm	Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut) "Discovering the Laws of History: Dynamical Links between Population Growth and Sociopolitical Instability"
Thursday April 22 3:30pm	Giovanni Maggi (Yale University) "TBA"

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Tuesday February 2 12:30	Huang Rui (University of Connecticut) "Does Self-regulation Work? Evidence from Voluntary Bans on Children-directed Food Advertising"
Tuesday February 9 12:30	Stephen Kuchta (University of Connecticut) "Optimizing Patent Term Restoration in the Presence of Barriers to Entry"
Tuesday February 16 12:30	Parag Waknis (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday February 23 12:30	Patrick Flaherty (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday March 2 12:30	Troy Helming (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday March 16 12:30	Ismahile Ba Boukari (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday March 23 12:30	Catalina Granda-Carvajal (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday March 30 12:30	Shalini Mitra (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday April 6 12:30	Ranjini Neogi (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday April 13 12:30	Matthiew Burnside (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday April 20 12:30	Arnab Deb (University of Connecticut) "TBA"
Tuesday April 27 12:30	Sanglim Lee (University of Connecticut) "TBA"