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
3/09/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Raj Chetty UC Berkeley	Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
3/12/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Jonathan Skinner Dartmouth College	Technology and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
3/23/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Julie Cullen UC San Diego	Jockeying for Position: High School Student Mobility and Texas’ Top-Ten Percent Rule (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
4/01/09	DC: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m w8401 Santa Monica: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. m3323 Pittsburgh: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. p4318	Microeconomics Seminar	Alexander Gelber The Wharton School, UPenn and NBER	How do 401(k)s Affect Saving? Evidence from Changes in 401(k) Eligibility (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
4/08/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Allesandro Tarozzi Duke University	Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Evidence from Orissa (India)
4/13/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Olivier Deschenes UC Santa Barbara	Weather and Death in India: Implications for Climate Change
4/20/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 4144	L&P	Erzo Luttmer Harvard	The Perception Of Social Security Incentives For Labor Supply And Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
4/22/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 3312	Health	Christopher Ruhm University of North Carolina Greensboro	Inheritances, Health and Death
4/27/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Daniel Silverman University of Michigan	Consumption, Retirement and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
5/04/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Christian Dustmann University College London	The Effect of Growing Up in a High Crime Area on Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from a Random Allocation Experiment
5/06/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach University of Chicago	Is Being in School Better? Using School Starting Age to Identify the Impact of Schools on Children's Obesity
5/11/09	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. room 5312	L&P	Frederico Finan UCLA	Corrupting Learning: Evidence from missing federal transfers in Brazil
5/19/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Jay Bhattacharya Stanford University	Who Pays for Obesity
5/20/09	DC: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m TBDbr> Santa Monica: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. TBD Pittsburgh: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. TBD	Microeconomics Seminar	Alejandro Ponce-Rodriguez IFC /World Bank Group	Do consumers borrow on their cheapest credit card?: Evidence from Mexico (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)
5/27/09	3:30 – 5:00 p.m. room 4312	Health	Robert Town University of Minnesota	Adverse Selection, Welfare and the Optimal Pricing of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

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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