Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

News and Workshops / Rational Choice

Rational Choice

Fall 2005

This workshop meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/~becker/
For questions please contact Sandra Wesolowski
Archives (Spring 2004), Archives (Fall 2004), Archives (Winter 2005)
Archives (Spring 2005)

October 4
Edward Lawmann (University of Chicago)
" A Cross-national Study of Subjective Sexual Well-Being among Older Women and Men:
Findings from the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors"


October 18
Cass Sunstein
(University of Chicago)
"Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals"

November 1
John List (University of Chicago)
"What Do Laboratory Experiments Tell Us About the Real World?"

November 15
James Lindgren (Northwestern University)
"Testing Social Dominance: Is Support for Capitalism and Opposition to Income Redistribution
Driven by Racism and Intolerance?"

November 22
Robert Pape (University of Chicago)
"The Growing Threat of Suicide Terrorism"


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