News and Workshops

Applications of Economics

Winter 2004

This workshop meets every Monday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. and Tuesday at 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. in SS 401.

Jan 26
Nicola Gennaioli (Harvard University)
"Contracting in the Shadow of the Law"

Feb 2
Constantino Hevia
"On the Allocation of Time to Spirituality: Health, the Value of Life and other Results"

Ben Mathews
"The Coordinating Role of Firms"

Feb 9
David Cuberes
"Regression to the Mean in City Size"

Rachel Soloveichik
"In Sickness or In Health?"

Feb 16
Jeremy Fox
"The Employer-Size Wage Effect: Prices and Quantities by Worker Age"

Feb 23
Chad Syverson
"Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?"

Mar 1
Andrew Francis
"Development, Democracy, and War"

Aitor Lacuesta
"Who Wants to Come to the U.S.?"

Mar 8
Fernando Wilson
"Tipping the Scales: Why Are American Kids Getting Fatter?"

Mar 15
No Meeting

Mar 22
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