News and Workshops

Applications of Economics

Spring 2007

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)

March 26
No workshop

April 2
Francisco Buera, Northwestern University
"Scale and the Origins of Structural Change"

April 9
Workshop canceled due to speaker's illness.

April 16
David Autor, MIT
"Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance: Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program."

April 23
Esteban Puentes, University of Chicago
"Occupational Choice and Wage Distribution in a General Equilibrium Model. Evidence from Chile: 1965-2004"


April 30
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago
Conspicuous Consumption and Race

May 7
Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin
"A New Test of Educational Borrowing Constraints"

May 14
Edward Glaezer, Harvard University
"Housing Dynamics"

May 21
Amy Finkelstein, MIT
"The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market"

May 28
Holiday - No workshop

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