RAND Labor & Population Seminars 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 seminar listings and topics from 1999 - 2008, see past seminars.

If you would like to suggest other speakers, please contact Paco Martorell (ext 6386) or Darius Lakdawalla (ext 7896).

Current Seminar Series

Date	Time/Place	Host	Speaker	Title of Seminar
9/15/08	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Gordon Hanson UC San Diego	Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
09/24/08	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Geoffrey Kabat Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Controversies Over Low-Level Environmental Exposures: An Epidemiologist's Perspective
10/02/08	Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. room 5401 DC: 12:00 p.m. room 7401 (host) Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. room 6208	Microeconomics Seminar	Jon Zinman Dartmouth	In Harm's Way? Payday Loan Access and Military Personnel Performance (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
10/08/08	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Kate Bundorf Stanford University	Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics
10/13/08	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Bruce Sacerdote Dartmouth College	When the Saints Come Marching In: Effects Of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
10/15/08	Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. room 5401 DC: 12:00 p.m. room 7401 (host) Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. room 6208	Microeconomics Seminar	Harsha Thirumurthy UNC	Health Worker Absence, HIV Testing and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Western Kenya (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
10/22/08	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Bhaven Sampat Columbia University
10/27/08	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Alexandre Mas UC Berkeley
11/10/08	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	David Wise Harvard
11/12/08	Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. room 5401 DC: 12:00 p.m. room 7401 (host) Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. room 6208	Microeconomics Seminar	Mark Duggan University of Maryland
11/17/08	2:00 – 3:30 p.m.	L&P	Michelle Goeree USC
12/01/08	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Sandra Black UCLA
12/03/08	Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. room 5401 DC: 12:00 p.m. room 7401 (host) Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. room 6208	Microeconomics Seminar	Ginger Jin UMD	Dynamic Learning and Selection: the Early Years of Prosper
12/03/08	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Tara Watson Williams College
03/12/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Jonathan Skinner Dartmouth College
03/18/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Allesandro Tarozzi Duke University
04/22/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Christopher Ruhm University of North Carolina Greensboro

These seminar series are sponsored by the Center for the Study of Aging and the Population Research Center in RAND Labor and Population, and RAND Health.

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