Fall 2015 Seminar Schedule
Wednesdays at 4:15 PM
Room 422, Public Affairs Center
Visitors: Driving directions and a campus map are available.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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September 23 |
Norma Padron (The New York Academy of Medicine) |
"The Effects of Teenage Childbearing on Adults Soft Skills Development" |
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September 30 |
Gary Lyn (Univeristy of Massachusetts, Lowell) |
"External Economics and International Trade:A Quantitative Framework" |
| October 7 | Hunt Allcott (NYU) |
"The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons" |
| October 21 | Sangah Lee (Wesleyan Visiting Professor) | "Knowing Your Students: The Effect of an Advisor-Advisee Network on Academic Publications." |
| October 28 | Erick Gong (Middlebury College) |
"Mental Accounting and Mobile Banking: Can labeling an M-PESA account increase savings?" |
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Friday-November 6 |
Hilary Hoynes (UC Berkeley) | "Effective Policy for Reducing Inequality? The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Distribution of Income" |
| November 18 | Kanda Naknoi (UCONN) | "Exchange Rates, Borrowing Costs and Exports: Firm-Level Evidence" |
| December 2 | Nazire Ozkan (Wesleyan Visiting Professor) | "Forecasting of State and Local Government Budgets: Exploiting Mixed Frequency and Cross-Border Data" |
| POSTPONED | Book Club Discussion - | "The New Geography of Jobs" by Enrico Moretti |