Departmental Seminars


Spring 2009


Name
Title
Place
Date
Time
Sisi Zhang, Boston College
How Do Wage Shocks Affect the Labor Supply Decisions of Married Couples?
Hipp Hall, 204 Jan. 30
3:00pm
Amanda Griffith, Cornell Determinants of Grades, Persistence and Major Choice for Low-Income and Minority Students.
Hipp Hall, 202 Feb. 3
3:00pm
Jessica Hennessey, Maryland

The Adoption of Constitutional Home Rule: A Test of Endogenous Policy Decentralization

Hipp Hall, 202 Feb. 4
3:00pm
Molly Sherlock, CUNY The Effects of Financial Resources on Test Pass Rates
Hipp Hall, 202 Feb. 6
3:00pm
Chunwei Lai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
An Empirical Assessment of Labor Costs in U.S.
Vertical FDI: A Multinomial Logit Approach
Hipp Hall, 209
Feb. 23
2:30pm

Fall 2008


Name Title Place Date Time
Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard Policy Making for Posterity Hipp Hall, 204 Sept. 5 3:00pm
Barry Chiswick,
Illinois (Chicago) and IZA

Ten Myths of Immigration Burgiss Theater Oct. 23 7:00pm
The Economics of Language Hipp Hall, 202 Oct. 24 3:00pm
*Jon Rork, Georgia State No Country For Old Men (and Women): Do Income Taxes Drive Away the Elderly? Hipp Hall, 202 Nov. 18 3:00pm
* Department of Economics 2008 Visiting Scholar Lecture


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