News and Workshops

Applications of Economics

Winter 2005

This workshop meets every Monday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 405.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/~becker/

Jan 3
Daniel Chen (University of Chicago)
""Economic Volatility, Religious Intensity, and Group Conflict"" and "Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence During the Indonesian Financial Crisis"

Jan 10
No Meeting.

Jan 17
Nancy Qian (MIT)
“Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China; The Effect of Relative Female Income on Sex Imbalance”

Jan 24
No Meeting.

Jan 31
No Meeting

Feb 7
Chris Rohlfs (University of Chicago)
"Estimates of the Willingness-to-Pay to Avoid Military Service and Fatality Risk: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft"

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (University of Chicago)
"Testing for Credit Constraints in Entrepreneurship"

Feb 14
Emily Oster (Harvard University)
"Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women"

Feb 21
To Be Announced.

Feb 28
Charles Jones (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending"

March 7
Tomas Philipson (University of Chicago)
“Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects: Generalizations from Health Care Markets,”

March 14
To Be Announced.


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