News and Workshops
Applications of Economics
Spring 2008
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/%7Egbecker/
Archives (Fall 2003), Archives (Winter 2004), Archives (Spring 2004), Archives (Fall 2004),
Archives (Winter 2005), Archives (Spring 2005), Archives (Fall 2005), Archives (Winter 2006)
Archives (Spring 2006), Archives (Fall 2006), Archives (Winter 2007), Archives (Spring 2007)
Archives (Fall 2007), Archives (Winter 2008)
March 31
Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)
"Health Worker Absence, HIV Testing and Behavorial Change: Evidence from Western Kenya"
joint with Marcus Goldstein, Joshua Graff Zivin, James Habyarimana, and Harsha Thirumurthy
Workshop cancelled, see May 19
April 7
Rajee Dehejia (Tufts University)
"Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?" joint with Alma Cohen and Dmitri Romanov
http://www.nber.org/~rdehejia/papers/w13700.pdf
April 14
Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth College)
"Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google"
Joint with Bo Cowgill and Justin Wolfers
http://bocowgill.com/GooglePredictionMarketPaper.pdf
April 21
Erik Hurst (University of Chicago)
"Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure"
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/erik.hurst/research/deconstructing_qje_submission_final.pdf
April 28
Francesco Decarolis (University of Chicago)
"When the Highest Bidder Loses the Auction: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~fdc/HighestBidderLoses-Decarolis.pdf
May 5
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
"Regulation and Distrust"
May 12
Lee Lockwood (University of Chicago)
"Bequest Motives and the Annuity Puzzle."
http://home.uchicago.edu/~lockwood/BAP.pdf
May 19
Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)
"Health Worker Absence, HIV Testing and Behavorial Change: Evidence from Western Kenya"
joint with Marcus Goldstein, Joshua Graff Zivin, James Habyarimana, and Harsha Thirumurthy
May 26
Memorial Day - No Meeting
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
