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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"