RAND Labor & Population Seminars and RAND Health Economics Seminars
Past Seminars
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2009
Date |
Time/Place |
Host |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3/09/09 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Raj Chetty |
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3/12/09 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Jonathan Skinner |
Technology and Expenditure Growth in Health Care |
3/23/09 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Julie Cullen |
|
4/01/09 |
DC: |
Microeconomics Seminar |
Alexander Gelber |
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4/08/09 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Allesandro Tarozzi |
Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Evidence from Orissa (India) |
4/13/09 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Olivier Deschenes |
Weather and Death in India: Implications for Climate Change |
4/20/09 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Erzo Luttmer |
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4/22/09 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Christopher Ruhm |
Inheritances, Health and Death |
4/27/09 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Daniel Silverman |
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5/04/09 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Christian Dustmann |
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. |
Health |
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |
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. |
L&P |
Frederico Finan |
Corrupting Learning: Evidence from missing federal transfers in Brazil |
5/19/09 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Jay Bhattacharya |
Who Pays for Obesity |
5/20/09 |
DC: |
Microeconomics Seminar |
Alejandro Ponce-Rodriguez |
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5/27/09 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Robert Town |
Adverse Selection, Welfare and the Optimal Pricing of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans |
2008
Date |
Time/Place |
Host |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3/03/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Stefan Hoderlein |
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3/17/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Leah Platt Boustan |
|
3/26/08 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Marco Huesch |
|
4/02/08 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
James Enstrom |
How Misuse of Epidemiology is Adversely Impacting Californians: My Five-Year Saga About Secondhand Smoke and Lysenko Pseudoscience |
4/07/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Bernard Fortin |
|
4/09/08 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Michael Rothschild |
What Do We Know About Early Intervention; and How Do We Think About Using This Information to Inform Policy and Research? |
4/14/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Orazio Attanasio |
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4/21/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Jesse Shapiro |
Competition and Diversity in the Media: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers |
4/23/08 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Emily Oster |
Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa |
4/28/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Salvador Navarro |
|
5/07/08 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Partha Deb |
Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditures: Analyses Using Copulas and Finite Mixtures |
5/12/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Hoyt Bleakley |
|
5/19/08 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Mel Stephens |
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6/04/08 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Gordon Dahl |
Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime? |
9/15/08 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Gordon Hanson |
|
09/24/08 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Geoffrey Kabat |
Controversies Over Low-Level Environmental Exposures: An Epidemiologist's Perspective |
10/02/08 |
Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. DC: 12:00 p.m. Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. |
Microeconomics Seminar |
Jon Zinman |
|
10/08/08 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Kate Bundorf |
Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics |
10/13/08 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Bruce Sacerdote |
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10/15/08 |
Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. DC: 12:00 p.m. Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. |
Microeconomics Seminar |
Harsha Thirumurthy |
|
10/22/08 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Bhaven Sampat |
|
10/27/08 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Alexandre Mas |
|
11/10/08 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
David Wise |
|
11/17/08 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Michelle Goeree |
|
11/19/08 |
Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. DC: 12:00 p.m. Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. |
Microeconomics Seminar |
Mark Duggan |
|
12/01/08 |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
L&P |
Sandra Black |
|
12/03/08 |
Santa Monica: 9:00 a.m. DC: 12:00 p.m. Pittsburgh: 12:00 p.m. |
Microeconomics Seminar |
Ginger Jin |
Dynamic Learning and Selection: the Early Years of Prosper |
12/10/08 |
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Health |
Tara Watson |
Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes |
2007
Date |
Time |
Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
02/20/07 |
Time change: 3:30 - 5:00pm |
UCLA - 9383 Bunche Hall |
Alan Krueger |
Seminar Co-sponsored by RAND Labor & Population and the UCLA Department of Economics "The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures" Paper: |
03/02/07 |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Tomas Philipson |
"Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Health Care Technology Assessment Procedures" |
03/05/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Elaina Rose |
"Siblings and Soldiers: Family Background and Military Service in the All-Volunteer Era" Paper: |
03/07/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
David Meltzer |
"Self-Selection in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Relevance to Analyses of Type 2 Diabetes and Prostate Cancer Treatments" |
03/12/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Ulf Böckenholt and Maria Kratcholova |
"On Measuring Non-compliance with Randomized Response Methods" Paper: |
03/21/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Vivian Ho |
"Certificate of Need for Cardiac Care: Controversy over the Contributions of CON" |
03/26/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Jerome Adda |
"The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking" Paper: |
04/04/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Diana Farrell |
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04/09/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Jon Krosnick |
"The Brave New World of Survey Research: New Modes Bring New Opportunities" |
04/18/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Jessica Reyes |
"Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Aggression and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents" |
04/23/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Mel Stephens |
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04/25/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Matthew Kahn |
"Population Change Near Polluting Power Plants: Implications for the Social Cost of Power Generation" |
04/30/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Phil Oreopoulos |
"Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink: An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement" Paper: |
05/09/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Christopher Snyder |
"Industrial Organization of the Vaccine Market" |
05/14/07 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Darren Lubotsky |
"Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers" Paper: |
05/23/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
David Grabowski |
"Ownership Conversions and Nursing Home Performance" |
05/30/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Bapu Jena |
"The Macro Value of Life" |
06/13/07 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Eric Sun |
"Estimating the Welfare Effects of Alternative Product Liability Regimes Authors" |
9/10/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Scott Carrell |
|
09/13/07 |
11:30am – 1:00pm |
Co-sponsored by the COMPARE Project and RAND Health |
John Bertko |
Health Care Change: Lessons Learned from Part D |
9/24/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Dora Costa |
Do Social Networks Reduce the Negative Effects of Stress? |
09/26/07 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Anup Malani |
|
10/11/07 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Michelle Mello |
New Evidence about the Accuracy of the Medical Malpractice System |
10/22/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Maurizio Mazzocco |
|
11/5/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Joseph Price |
|
11/7/07 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
David Levine |
Perfectly Competitive Innovation |
11/12/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Georges Dionne |
|
11/14/07 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Robin McKnight |
Patient Cost-sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly |
12/3/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Andrew Clark |
|
12/10/07 |
2:00 – 3:30pm |
L&P |
Kevin Milligan |
|
12/19/07 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Health |
Kosali Ilayperuma Simon |
Do You Get What You Pay For? The Relationship between Premiums and Benefits in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans |
2006
Date |
Time |
Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3/1/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Michael Kremer |
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3/6/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Solomon Polachek |
The Gender Pay Gap: A Cross-Country Analysis Paper: |
3/8/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Mireille Jacobson |
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3/27/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
John Ham |
Selection Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments Paper: |
4/3/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant |
"Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants" Paper: |
4/5/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Loren Baker |
"Managed Care, Adoption of Cardiac Care Technologies, and Health of AMI Patients" Paper: |
4/12/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Joseph Doyle |
"Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care" Paper: |
4/17/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Eileen Crimmins |
"Is there a Hispanic Paradox in biological Risk?" |
5/1/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Daniel S. Hamermesh |
"The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and Their Implications for Retirement" Paper: |
5/15/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Richard Easterlin |
"Life Cycle Happiness and its Sources: Intersections of Psychology, Economics, and Demography" |
5/24/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 3312 |
Mark Stabile |
"Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins" Paper: |
6/5/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Orazio Attanasio |
"Medium and Long Run Effects of Nutrition and Child Care" Paper: |
8/23/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Rebecca London |
"The Role of Community Technology Centers in Youth Skill-Building and Empowerment" Paper: |
8/24/06 |
3:00 - 4:30pm |
Room 4312 |
Robert Fairlie |
"Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital" |
9/20/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 3312 |
Sean Nicholson |
"Impact of Financing on Drug Development" |
10/04/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Ted Bergstrom |
"One Chance in a Million: The Economics of Bone Marrow Donations" |
10/09/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Eric French |
"Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles" Paper: |
10/16/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Gary Engelhardt |
"Pensions and Household Saving" Paper: |
10/18/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Michael Schwarz |
"Do Tax Subsidies and Medicaid Increase Access to Essential Medications?" |
10/23/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Franco Peracchi |
"Drug Compliance, Co-payment and Health Outcomes" Paper: |
11/08/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5401 |
Michael Baker |
"The Early Development and Health Benefits of Maternity Leave Mandates" |
11/13/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Adriana Lleras-Muney |
"The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health" Paper: |
11/15/06 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5401 |
Iain Cockburn |
"Intellectual Property Rights and the Globalization of Clinical Trials for Medicines" |
11/20/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Marianne Bertrand |
"Politicians, Firms and the Political Business Cycle: Evidence from France" Paper: |
12/11/06 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Tom Crossley |
"Estimating a Collective Household Model with Survey Data on Financial Satisfaction" Paper: |
2005
Date |
Time |
Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1/20/05 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Room 4312 |
Mark Pauly |
Conflict and Compromise Over Tradeoffs in Universal Health Insurance Plans |
1/25/05 |
1:30 - 3pm |
Room 4312 |
Victor Fuchs |
Universal Healthcare Vouchers: Securing Equity and Efficiency in Health Care Finance |
3/3/05 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Mike Chernew |
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3/11/05 |
12 - 1:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Noreen Goldman |
Biomarkers, Stress and Health: New Findings and Plans for the Second Wave of the Taiwan Study |
3/17/05 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Botond Koszegi |
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3/21/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 5312 |
Doug Staiger |
Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality
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3/31/05 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Room 4312 |
Edward Norton |
Intervivos Transfers and Exchange
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4/4/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 5312 |
Jerome Adda |
Prices, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
4/11/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 5401 |
Caroline Hoxby |
The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement |
4/18/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 5312 |
Maarten Lindeboom |
Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
4/21/05 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Leemore Dafny |
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4/25/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 5312 |
Chad Jones |
The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending |
5/5/05 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Phil Cook |
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5/9/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 5312 |
Olivia Mitchell |
Better Plans for the Better Paid? Determinants and Effects of 401(k) Plan Design |
5/19/05 |
2:00 - 3:30pm |
Room 4312 |
David Canning |
Schooling, Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence |
5/31/05 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Stephen Bronars |
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9/12/05 |
3:30 – 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Moshe Buchinsky |
Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S. Papers: |
9/14/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Alwyn Young |
The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations |
9/28/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
David Blanchflower |
Money, Sex, and Happiness |
10/17/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Soren Blomquist |
Where should the elderly live and who should pay for their care? A study in demographics and geographical economics Paper: |
10/19/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Amy Finkelstein |
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10/25/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Peter Kooreman |
Teenage Income, Turning 18, and Transfers within the Family Paper: |
10/26/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Jonah Gelbach |
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10/31/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Annamaria Lusardi |
Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing Paper: |
11/7/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Rajeev Dehejia |
Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations Paper: |
11/9/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Tom Dee |
Gay Marriage and Risky Sexual Behavior |
11/14/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
5312 |
Jean Yeung |
The Black-White Test Score Gap: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Paper: |
11/21/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Emmanuel Saez |
Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block Paper: |
11/30/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Amitabh Chandra |
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12/05/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Ryan Edwards |
Inequality in Life Spans and a New Perspective on Mortality Convergence Across Industrialized Countries Paper: |
12/12/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 5312 |
Justin McCrary |
Crime, Punishment, and Myopia Paper: |
12/14/05 |
3:30 - 5:00pm |
Room 4312 |
Alan Garber |
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2004
Date |
Time |
Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1/6/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
David Cutler |
Why is the Quality of Medical Care So Poor? |
3/1/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Sherry Glied |
Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
3/8/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Brigitte Madrian |
Consumption-Wealth Comovement of the Wrong Sign Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
3/9/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1734 |
Beth Soldo |
Aging in Mexico; Part I: The Mexican Health and Aging Study and Part 2: Modeling Type-2 Diabetes with MHAS |
3/15/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1822 |
Enrico Moretti |
The Demand for Sons: Evidence From Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication. |
3/22/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Richard Frank |
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3/29/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1822 |
Ann Huff Stevens |
What You Don’t Know Can’t Help You: Pension
Knowledge and Retirement Decision Making Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
4/5/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Main Conference Room |
Pierre Azoulay |
Medical Progress and Health Care Financing: Research
in Academic Medical Centers Following the 1997 Medicare Cuts |
4/12/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Main Conference Room |
Steven Haider |
Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current
and Lifetime Earnings |
4/26/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Jeffrey Morenoff |
Is There a Latino Paradox of Crime and Delinquency?
Evidence from Adolescent Cohorts in Chicago Neighborhoods |
5/3/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Bill Crown |
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5/5/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Main Conference Rm |
Alan Gustman |
"Older Workers and the Labor Market/Labor Market Policies for the Older Worker" (Note: Paper available upon request) |
5/10/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
John DiNardo |
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5/17/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Jeff Brown |
The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance:
Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market |
5/24/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Paul Gertler |
Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex |
6/21/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Kelly Raley |
Maternal Cohabitation and Children’s
Transition to Adulthood |
8/23/04 |
1:30 - 3pm |
Rm 1517 |
Marta Tienda |
Assessing the "Mismatch" Hypothesis:
Differentials in College Graduation Rates by Institutional Selectivity |
9/9/04 |
1:30 - 3pm |
North Conference Rm |
Rick Steckel |
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times:
Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America |
9/13/04 |
1:30 - 3pm |
Main Conference Rm |
Doug Miller |
Rearranging the Family? Income Support
and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country |
9/20/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Jason Seligman |
Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity
Markets, and Retirement Savings |
9/23/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
North Conference Rm |
Jay Bhattacharya |
Employment and Adverse Selection in Health
Insurance |
9/27/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Ted Bergstrom |
Benefit-Cost in a Benevolent Society |
10/4/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
David Blau |
Retirement and Consumption in a Life
Cycle Model |
10/7/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Main Conference Rm |
Ken Chay |
The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating
Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools |
10/14/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Room 1725 |
Ken Thorpe |
Health Care Proposals by President
Bush and Senator Kerry |
10/28/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
North Conference Rm |
Bob Town |
Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality:
An Analysis of the Elderly |
11/1/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 4312 |
Hilary Hoynes |
What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform
Experiments |
11/11/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Room 4312 |
Bob Kaestner |
Backlash: Effects of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs Living in the U.S |
11/29/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1226 |
Mark Rosenzweig |
Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern
World: Caste, Gender and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy |
12/2/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Room 3312 |
Mark Duggan |
The Impact of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments:
Evidence for California's Medicaid Population |
12/6/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1242 |
Courtney Coile |
Effects of Inheritance Receipt |
12/16/04 |
2 - 3:30pm |
Room 5312 |
Michael Greenstone |
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12/20/04 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1226 |
David Laibson |
Impulsivity |
2003
Date |
Time |
Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9/22/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Kathleen McGarry |
Private Information and its Effect on Market Equilibrium:
New Evidence from Long-term Care Insurance |
9/29/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Erik Hurst |
Consumption vs. Expenditure |
10/6/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
David Card |
The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage
on Health Care Access, Utilization, and Health: Evidence from Medicare |
10/13/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Anup Malani |
Testing for Placebo Effects using Data from Medical
Trials |
10/20/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
USC campus |
Daniel Hamermesh |
|
10/27/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Tom Buchmueller |
Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees |
11/3/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Main Conference Rm |
Jason Barro |
"House Staff Turnover, Resource Utilization And Patient Outcomes In Teaching Hospitals" and "The July Effect: Labor Turnover And Productivity In Teaching Hospitals" |
11/10/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
Room 1734 |
Steven Stern |
Long-Term Care, Formal Home Health Care, and Informal
Care |
11/17/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Dan Kessler |
Detecting Medicare Abuse |
12/1/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Dalton Conley |
A Pound of Flesh or Just Proxy? Using Twin Differences
to Estimate the Effect of Birth Weight on Life Chances |
12/5/03 |
10:30 - 12pm |
North Conference Rm |
Alison Jacknowitz |
The Role of Workplace Characteristics in Breastfeeding Practices (practice job talk) |
12/8/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Tony LoSasso |
The Effect of State Policies on the Market for Private
Non-Group Health Insurance |
12/15/03 |
3:30 - 5pm |
North Conference Rm |
Lance Lochner |
Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System |
2002
Date, Time & Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|
June 30, 2003 |
Jacob Alex Klerman |
Linux Computing in the Labor and Population Program |
June 23, 2003 |
Caroline Danielson |
Dynamic Effects of Time Limits and Other Policies on the Welfare Caseload |
June 16, 2003 |
Andrew Samwick |
Patience, Pensions, and Savings Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
June 9, 2003 |
Aaron Edlin |
The Accident Externality from Driving Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
June 2, 2003 |
David Ribar |
An Analysis of Poverty and Food Sufficiency Dynamics
(co-authored with Karen Hamrick) Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
May 19, 2003 |
Erich Battistin |
Errors in Survey Reports of Consumption Expenditures Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
May 12, 2003 |
Patrick Heuveline |
The Mortality-Fertility Link and Population Dynamics in Post-Khmer-Rouge Cambodia Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
May 5, 2003 |
Frank Lichtenberg |
The Impact of New Drug Launches on Longevity: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-level Data from 52 Countries, 1982-2001 Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
April 28, 2003 |
Karl Scholz |
Are Americans Preparing Adequately for Retirement? Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
April 21, 2003 |
Jim House |
CANCELED - To Be Rescheduled For Another Date |
April 14, 2003 |
Marty Gaynor |
Competition Among Hospitals Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
April 9, 2003 |
Robert Moffitt |
The Role of Non-Financial Factors in Exit and
Entry in the TANF Program |
April 7, 2003 |
David Meltzer |
TBA |
March 31, 2003 |
John Casterline |
CANCELED - To Be Rescheduled For Another Date |
March 24, 2003 |
Michael Chernew |
Rising Health Care Costs and the Decline in Insurance
Coverage |
March 17, 2003 |
Joe Altonji |
The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children |
March 10, 2003 |
Jonathan Skinner |
Technological Innovation and Health Outcomes: A New Look |
March 3, 2003 |
Jeff Kling |
Out of Prison and Into the Labor Market |
|
February 17, 2003 |
Michel Guillot |
The Momentum of Mortality Decline |
February 10, 2003 |
Andrew Cherlin |
Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Union Formation: Insights from a Three-City Study |
February 3, 2003 |
Charles Horioka |
The Impact of Bequest Motives on the Saving Behavior
of the Aged in Japan |
December 16, 2002 |
Antonio Rangel |
Addiction and Cue-conditioned Cognitive Processes |
December 09, 2002 |
Marianne Bitler |
Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment
on Infant Health Outcomes: Evidence from Twin Births. |
December 5, 2002 |
Iliana Kohler |
The Effect of Marriage on Mortality: Selection or Protection? Evidence from Danish Twins using Fixed-Effect Survival Models |
December 2, 2002 |
Tom McGuire |
What Should (Health) Report Cards Report? Quality
Disclosure in a Second-Best World. |
November 25, 2002 |
Amitabh Chandra |
Is the Convergence in the Racial Wage Gap Illusory? |
November 22, 2002 |
Martina Morris |
Networks and the Population Dynamics of HIV |
November 18, 2002 |
Bart Hamilton |
Economic Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials: the Case of ACTG175 |
November 15, 2002 |
Susann Rohwedder |
The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement |
November 11, 2002 |
Hans Peter Kohler |
The Emergence of Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe During the 1990s |
November 4, 2002 |
Bill Evans |
The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence From the Social Security Notch |
October 28, 2002 |
Mark Rosenzweig |
Democratization, Decentralization and Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy |
October 14, 2002 |
Ken Chay |
Does Low Birth Weight Matter? Evidence from the U.S. Population of Twin Births |
October 7, 2002 |
Chris Ruhm |
Healthy Living in Hard Times |
September 30, 2002 |
Elizabeth Powers |
The Impact of Public Health Insurance on the Detection of Children's Health Problems and Children's Wellbeing: Evidence from the 1990s |
September 23, 2002 |
Mark Pauly |
Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured? |
August 22, 2002 |
David Wise |
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation |
July 26, 2002 |
Li Gan |
Individual Subjective Survival Curves |
April 19, 2002 |
Melonie Heron |
The Health Status of Older Immigrants in the U.S. (Practice Talk) |
March 14, 2002 |
John Bongaarts |
The End of the Fertility Transition in the Developed World |
March 8, 2002 |
Jan van Ours |
From parent to child; the educational and labor market position of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands |
February 27, 2002 |
Amy Tsui |
Demography Seminar Co-sponsored by RAND ADP and the UCLA California Center for Population Research |
2001
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|
December 12, 2001 |
Lingxin Hao |
Adolescents' School Enrollment And Employment:Effect Of State Welfare Policies |
December 7, 2001 |
Ronald Lee |
Children's Economic Roles in the Context of the Maya Family Life Cycle: Cain, Caldwell and Chayanov Revisited |
December 3, 2001 |
Steven Stillman |
The Response of Consumption in Russian Household to Economic Shock (Practice Job Talk) |
November 9, 2001 |
Shailender Swaminathan |
The Effects of Health on Wages of Men: Evidence from Indonesia |
October 12, 2001 |
Joachim Winter |
Bracketing Effects in Categorized Survey Questions and the Measurement of Economic Quantities |
September 21, 2001 |
John Giles |
Risk, Shock and Weak Property Rights in the Labor Allocation of Rural Chinese Households |
July 10, 2001 |
Susann Rohwedder |
Pension Wealth and Household Saving: Evidence from Pension Reform in the UK |
June 8, 2001 |
Melonie Heron |
Compression of Morbidity |
May 25, 2001 |
Cameron Campbell |
Connections Within and Between Households in Rural Liaoning, China, 1789-1909 |
May 11, 2001 |
Maria Cancian |
Results from the Child Support Demonstration Evaluation |
April 27, 2001 |
Luigi Guiso |
Risk Aversion, Wealth and Background Risk |
May 4, 2001 |
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue |
Recent Educational Transitions in Africa and A Policy Tool for Guiding Education Reforms |
April 20, 2001 |
David Neumark |
Living Wages |
April 13, 2001 |
Susan Watkins |
Responses to AIDS: Husbands and Wives in Rural Malawi |
April 6, 2001 |
Martin Wittenberg |
Conflictual Intra-Household Allocations |
March 23, 2001 |
Shelly Lundberg |
A Boy Needs a Father: Child Gender and the Transition to Marriage from Single Parenthood |
February 23, 2001 |
Paul Gertler |
An Experiement in Incentive-Based Welfare: The IMpact of PROGRESA on Health in Mexico |
February 9, 2001 |
Suzanna Loeb |
Power Disequalization: The Effect of State and
Local Tax Deductibility |
January 10, 2001 |
Mark Rosenzweig |
In-law Resources, Parental Resources and Distribution in Marriage |
2000
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|
December 15, 2000 |
Frank Bean |
Legal Limbo and Political Spin: Developing and Interpreting New Estimates of the Size of the Unauthorized Mexican Population in the United States |
December 1, 2000 |
Una Okonkwo Isili |
Giving to the Family versus Giving to the Community : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia |
November 3, 2000 |
Ted Bergstrom |
Cultural inheritance and natural selection for behavior in families and tribe |
October 20, 2000 |
Steven Stillman |
The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach |
August 31, 2000 |
Tom Philipson |
Merit Motives and Government Intervention: |
August 11, 2000 |
Michael Brien |
Widows Waiting to Wed?: |
May 5, 2000 |
Amy Ratcliffe |
Men's Fertility and Marriages: Male Reproductive Strategies in Rural Gambia |
April 28, 2000 |
Elaina Rose |
The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's Labor Supply and Wages |
March 29, 2000 |
Arie Kapteyn |
Saving and Reference Groups |
March 21, 2000 |
John Knodel |
AIDS and Older Persons in Thailand: Methodological Issues and Substantive Findings |
February 4, 2000 |
Hong Peng Ong |
Government Policy, Education, and Earnings in Malaysia |
January 28, 2000 |
Bill Axxin |
Mass Education and Fertility Limitation |
1999
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
|---|---|---|
December 13, 1999 |
Vassilis Hajivassiliou |
Unemployment and Liquidity Constraints |
December 1, 1999 |
Graeme Hugo |
International Immigration in South East Asia |
October 8, 1999 |
Randall Kuhn |
The Logic of Letting Go: Family and Individual Migration from Rural Bangladesh |
September 1, 1999 |
Andrew Hildreth |
An Introduction to the California Census Research Data Center |
July 9, 1999 |
Judith Seltzer |
Legal Fatherhood after Divorce and Nonmarital Childbearing |
June 18, 1999 |
Steven Haider |
The Impact of Job Loss on Older Workers |
May 14, 1999 |
Michael Keane |
The Effect of Parental Transfers and Borrowing Constraints on Educational Attainment |
May 7, 1999 |
Janet Currie |
Does Management Matter? Non Price Barriers to Medicaid Coverage and Infant Health |
March 22, 1999 |
Richard Blundell |
Interpreting Movements in Aggregate Wages: The Role of Labor Market Participation |
March 1, 1999 |
Seth Sanders |
The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust |
February 26, 1999 |
Sri Moertiningsih Adioetomo |
Reproductive Health in Indonesia during the Economic Crisis |
February 12, 1999 |
Michael Brien |
Teenage Childbearing and Cognitive Development |
January 29, 1999 |
Maria Cancian |
Life after Welfare: Income and Earnings after Leaving Welfare |
These seminar series are sponsored by the Center for the Study of Aging, the Population Research Center, the Center for the Study of the Family in Economic Development in RAND's Labor and Population Program, RAND Health, and UCLA.

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