Applications of Economics

Spring 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/


March 28
Emil Iantchev (University of Chicago)
A Behavioral Theory of Optimal Compensation in the Presence of Moral Hazard

Dendy Macaulay (University of Chicago)
"The Chicago Fire of 1871: An Empirical Analysis o Housing Investment"

April 4
Jeremy Greenwood (University of Rochester)
"Social Change"

April 11
Keith Chen (Yale University)
"The Evolution of Our Preferences: Evidence from Capuchin-Monkey Trading Behavior"

April 18
Austin Goolsbee (University of Chicago)
“Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence From College Textbooks”

April 25
Andrew Francis (University of Chicago)
"Sex Ratios and the Red Dragon: Using the Chinese Communist Revolution to Explore the Effect of the Sex Ratio on Women and Children in Taiwan"

May 2
Justine Hastings (Yale University)
"Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program"

May 9
Edward Lazear (Stanford University)
"Sorting in Experiments"

May 16
Isaac Ehrlich (SUNY at Buffalo)
The Dynamics of Income, Schooling, and Fertility Distributions Over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective

May 23
Atonu Rabbani (University of Chicago)
"Labor Market and International Trade: An Analysis of Wage Inequality"

Martin Mandorff (University of Chicago)
"Ethnic Specialization"

May 30
MEMORIAL DAY


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