Applications of Economics

Spring 2006

This workshop meets every Monday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 329.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/~becker/
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March 27
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?

April 3
Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University
The Case for Mindless Economics

April 10
Armin Falk and Thomas Dohmen, IZA
The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

April 17
Pablo Pena, University of Chicago
Tuition, Endowment and the Returns on College Education

April 24
Arnaud Dupuy, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (Netherlands)
Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality

May 1
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
Disease and Development: The Effects of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth (Joint with Simon Johnson)

May 8
Reuben Gronau, Hebrew University
Home Production and the Macro Economy - Some Lessons from Pollack and Wachter and from Transition Russia

May 15
Mathis Wagner, Un iversity of Chicago, Thesis Seminar
The Role of Firm Heterogeneity in Determining Labor Market Outcomes

May 31
Debra Yurenka, University of Chicago, Thesis Seminar
Growth in the Nonprofit Sector, Competition and the Market for Funding

June 2
James Heckman with Flavo Cunha, University of Chicago
Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

June 5
Emily Oster, University of Chicago
HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why not Africa?


Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance