News and Workshops

Applications of Economics

Fall 2005

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/
Archives (Fall 2003), Archives (Winter 2004), Archives (Spring 2004), Archives (Fall 2004),
Archives (Winter 2005), Archives (Spring 2005)

Sept 26
Tomas Philipson and Bapu Jena (University of Chicago)
“Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Technology Assessment Procedures”

Oct 3
Jesse Shapiro (University of Chicago)
“Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study”

Oct 10
No Meeting

Oct 17
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
“Why Does Democracy Need Education”

Oct 24
Balazs Szentes (University of Chicago)
“An Evolutionary Approach Towards Time Preferences”

Oct 31
Erik Hurst (University of Chicago)
“Measuring Trends in Leisure: Evidence from Five Decades of Time Use Surveys”

Nov 7
Dora Costa (MIT), and Matthew Kahn (Tufts University)
“Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps”

Nov 14
Andrew Francis (University of Chicago)
“The Economics of Sexuality: The Effect of HIV/AIDS on Sexual Behavior, Desire,
and Identity in the United States”

Nov 21
Roland Fryer (Harvard University)
"On the Measurement of Segregation"