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RAND Labor and Population and RAND Health Economics Seminars

For more information on these seminars, or if you would like to meet with any of the speakers, or request a paper, please contact Diana Malouf at (310) 393-0411, ext. 6462. For previous seminar listings and topics (since 1999), see past seminars.

If you would like to suggest other speakers, please contact Leandro Carvalho (ext. 6172) or Srikanth Kadiyala (ext. 6330).

Note: papers linked below are not RAND publications.

Current Seminar Series

Date	Time/Place	Host	Speaker	Title of Seminar
03/04/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST room 5312	L&P	Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University	Disability Insurance and the Dynamics of the Incentive-Insurance Tradeoff
03/25/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PDT room 5312	L&P	Anant Nyshadham USC	Booms, Busts, and Household Enterprise: Evidence from Coffee Farmers in Tanzania
03/27/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m5212, w4130, p6408, b9005	Health	Manisha Shah UCLA	Does Decriminalization of Indoor Prostitution Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections? Evidence from the Rhode Island Experiment
04/01/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PDT room 5312	L&P	Aprajit Mahajan UCLA	Micro-Loans, Bednets and Malaria: Evidence from Orissa (India)
04/03/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m3312, w4128, p6206, b9005	Health	Bhash Mazmuder Federal Reserve	In Utero Ramadan Exposure and Children's Academic Performance
04/15/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PDT room 5312	L&P	Sally Sadoff UC San Diego	The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance (See also her NBER working paper, Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment)
04/24/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m5212, w4130, p6208, b9005	Health	Jishnu Das World Bank	Quality and Accountability in Health: Audit Evidence From Primary Care Providers
05/08/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m5212, w4130, p6206, b9005	Health	Dan Kessler Stanford University	The Effect of Medicare Advantage on Hospital Admissions and Mortality
05/13/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PDT room 5312	L&P	Steve Trejo University of Texas, Austin	The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
05/22/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m5212, w4130, p6206, b9005	Health	Joseph Sabia San Diego State University	The Effect of Combat Exposure on Risky Behaviors: New Evidence from the Global War on Terrorism
06/05/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m5212, w4130, p6205, b9005	Health	Timothy Moore George Washington University	The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of Crack Cocaine Markets
06/10/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PDT room 5312	L&P	Sandra Black University of Texas, Austin	TBD
06/12/13	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PDT room m5401	Health	Isaac Ehrlich SUNY and NBER	TBD
06/19/13	10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT rooms m5312, w4130, p6408, b9005	Health	Sam Kleiner Cornell University	TBD