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2009

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

pdfSufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

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

pdfJockeying for Position: High School Student Mobility and Texas’ Top-Ten Percent Rule

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

pdfHow do 401(k)s Affect Saving? Evidence from Changes in 401(k) Eligibility

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

pdfThe Perception Of Social Security Incentives For Labor Supply And Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think

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

pdfConsumption, Retirement and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers

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

pdfDo consumers borrow on their cheapest credit card?: Evidence from Mexico

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

2008

Date

Time/Place

Host

Speaker

Title of Seminar

3/03/08

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Stefan Hoderlein
Mannheim University

pdfHow Many Consumers are Rational?

3/17/08

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Leah Platt Boustan
UCLA

pdfEscape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization

3/26/08

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

Marco Huesch
UCLA

 

4/02/08

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 3312

Health

James Enstrom
UCLA

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
room 5312

L&P

Bernard Fortin
University of Laval

pdfIdentification of Peer Effects through Social Networks

4/09/08

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 3312

Health

Michael Rothschild
Princeton University

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
room 5312

L&P

Orazio Attanasio
University College London

pdfNutrition and Child Care Choices: Evaluating a Community Nursery Programme in Rural Colombia

4/21/08

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Jesse Shapiro
University of Chicago GSB

Competition and Diversity in the Media: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers

4/23/08

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 3312

Health

Emily Oster
University of Chicago

Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

4/28/08

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Salvador Navarro
University of Wisconsin

pdfA Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Treatment Effects: Grade Retention and Test Scores

5/07/08

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

Partha Deb
Hunter College

Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditures: Analyses Using Copulas and Finite Mixtures

5/12/08

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Hoyt Bleakley
University of Chicago GSB

pdfMalaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

5/19/08

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Mel Stephens
Carnegie Mellon

pdfCan Governments Help Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits

6/04/08

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

Gordon Dahl
University of California San Diego

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?

9/15/08

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

Gordon Hanson
UC San Diego

pdfIncome Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

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

pdfIn Harm's Way? Payday Loan Access and Military Personnel Performance

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

pdfWhen the Saints Come Marching In: Effects Of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees

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

pdfHealth Worker Absence, HIV Testing and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Western Kenya

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

pdfLong-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999

11/10/08

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

David Wise
Harvard

pdfSocial Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment

11/17/08

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

L&P

Michelle Goeree
USC

pdfCaught in the Bulimic Trap: Do Eating Disorders Reflect Addictive Behavior?

11/19/08

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

pdfThe Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

12/01/08

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

Sandra Black
UCLA

pdfToo Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age

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

12/10/08

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
room 4312

Health

Tara Watson
Williams College

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
Princeton University

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
University of Chicago

"Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Health Care Technology Assessment Procedures"

03/05/07

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Elaina Rose
University of Washington

"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
University of Chicago

"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
McGill University, Montreal

"On Measuring Non-compliance with Randomized Response Methods"

Paper:

03/21/07

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Vivian Ho
Rice University

"Certificate of Need for Cardiac Care: Controversy over the Contributions of CON"

03/26/07

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Jerome Adda
University College London

"The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking"

Paper:

04/04/07

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Diana Farrell
CANCELLED

 

04/09/07

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Jon Krosnick
Stanford University

"The Brave New World of Survey Research: New Modes Bring New Opportunities"

04/18/07

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Jessica Reyes
Amherst College

"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
CANCELLED

 

04/25/07

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Matthew Kahn
University of California, Los Angeles

"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
University of Toronto

"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
Dartmouth College

"Industrial Organization of the Vaccine Market"

05/14/07

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Darren Lubotsky
University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana

"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
Harvard University

"Ownership Conversions and Nursing Home Performance"

05/30/07

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Bapu Jena
University of Chicago

"The Macro Value of Life"

06/13/07

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Eric Sun
University of Chicago

"Estimating the Welfare Effects of Alternative Product Liability Regimes Authors"

9/10/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Scott Carrell
UC Davis

pdfPeer and Leadership Effects in Academic and Athletic Performance

09/13/07

11:30am – 1:00pm
room 4312

Co-sponsored by the COMPARE Project and RAND Health

John Bertko
Retired Chief Actuary (Humana Inc.) and MedPAC Commissioner

Health Care Change: Lessons Learned from Part D

9/24/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 4312

L&P

Dora Costa
MIT / UCLA

Do Social Networks Reduce the Negative Effects of Stress?

09/26/07

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

Anup Malani
University of Chicago

pdfIncentives for Surveillance and Reporting of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

10/11/07

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

Michelle Mello
Harvard University

New Evidence about the Accuracy of the Medical Malpractice System

10/22/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Maurizio Mazzocco
UCLA

pdfLabor Supply, Wealth Dynamics, and Marriage Decisions

11/5/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Joseph Price
Brigham Young University

pdfTime vs. Money: Which Resources Matter for Children?

11/7/07

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

David Levine
Washington University, St. Louis

Perfectly Competitive Innovation

11/12/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Georges Dionne
HEC Montreal

pdfEfficiency of Insurance Firms with Endogenous Risk Management and Financial Intermediation Activities

11/14/07

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 5312

Health

Robin McKnight
University of Oregon

Patient Cost-sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly

12/3/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Andrew Clark
PSE, Ecole normale supérieure

pdfLooking For Labour Market Rents with Subjective Data

12/10/07

2:00 – 3:30pm
room 5312

L&P

Kevin Milligan
University of British Columbia

pdfDoes Family Income Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

12/19/07

3:30 – 5:00pm
room 4312

Health

Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
Cornell University

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
Harvard

 

3/6/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Solomon Polachek
SUNY Binghamton

The Gender Pay Gap: A Cross-Country Analysis

Paper:

3/8/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Mireille Jacobson
UCI

 

3/27/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

John Ham
USC

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
DIW Berlin

"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
Stanford University School of Medicine

"Managed Care, Adoption of Cardiac Care Technologies, and Health of AMI Patients"

Paper:

4/12/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Joseph Doyle
MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER

"Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care"

Paper:

4/17/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Eileen Crimmins
USC

"Is there a Hispanic Paradox in biological Risk?"

5/1/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Daniel S. Hamermesh
University of Texas at Austin

"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
USC

"Life Cycle Happiness and its Sources: Intersections of Psychology, Economics, and Demography"

5/24/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 3312

Mark Stabile
University of Toronto and NBER

"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
University College London

"Medium and Long Run Effects of Nutrition and Child Care"

Paper:

8/23/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Rebecca London
UC-Santa Cruz

"The Role of Community Technology Centers in Youth Skill-Building and Empowerment"

Paper:

8/24/06

3:00 - 4:30pm

Room 4312

Robert Fairlie
UC-Santa Cruz

"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
Cornell

"Impact of Financing on Drug Development"

10/04/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Ted Bergstrom
UCSB

"One Chance in a Million: The Economics of Bone Marrow Donations"

10/09/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Eric French
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

"Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles"

Paper:

10/16/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Gary Engelhardt
Syracuse University

"Pensions and Household Saving"

Paper:

10/18/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Michael Schwarz
Berkeley

"Do Tax Subsidies and Medicaid Increase Access to Essential Medications?"

10/23/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Franco Peracchi
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

"Drug Compliance, Co-payment and Health Outcomes"

Paper:

11/08/06

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5401

Michael Baker
University of Toronto

"The Early Development and Health Benefits of Maternity Leave Mandates"

11/13/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Adriana Lleras-Muney
Princeton

"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
Boston University

"Intellectual Property Rights and the Globalization of Clinical Trials for Medicines"

11/20/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Marianne Bertrand
University of Chicago

"Politicians, Firms and the Political Business Cycle: Evidence from France"

Paper:

12/11/06

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Tom Crossley
McMaster/Cambridge

"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
Wharton University

Conflict and Compromise Over Tradeoffs in Universal Health Insurance Plans

Papers:

An Adaptive Credit Plan for Covering the Uninsured

Conflict and Compromise Over Tradeoffs in Universal Health Insurance Plans

(NOTE: These documents are not RAND publications.)

1/25/05

1:30 - 3pm

Room 4312

Victor Fuchs
Stanford University

Universal Healthcare Vouchers: Securing Equity and Efficiency in Health Care Finance

Papers

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

3/3/05

2 - 3:30pm


Mike Chernew
University of Michigan


3/11/05

12 - 1:30pm

Room 5312

Noreen Goldman
Princeton

Biomarkers, Stress and Health: New Findings and Plans for the Second Wave of the Taiwan Study

3/17/05

2 - 3:30pm


Botond Koszegi
UC Berkeley


3/21/05

3:30 - 5pm

Room 5312

Doug Staiger
Dartmouth

Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

3/31/05

2 - 3:30pm

Room 4312

Edward Norton
University of North Carolina

Intervivos Transfers and Exchange

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

4/4/05

3:30 - 5pm

Room 5312

Jerome Adda
Institute for Fiscal Studies

Prices, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

4/11/05

3:30 - 5pm

Room 5401

Caroline Hoxby
Harvard University

The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

4/18/05

3:30 - 5pm

Room 5312

Maarten Lindeboom
University of Michigan

Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

4/21/05

2 - 3:30pm


Leemore Dafny
Northwestern


4/25/05

3:30 - 5pm

Room 5312

Chad Jones
UC Berkeley

The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

5/5/05

2 - 3:30pm


Phil Cook
Duke University


5/9/05

3:30 - 5pm

Room 5312

Olivia Mitchell
Penn

Better Plans for the Better Paid? Determinants and Effects of 401(k) Plan Design

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

5/19/05

2:00 - 3:30pm

Room 4312

David Canning
Harvard University

Schooling, Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

5/31/05

3:30 - 5pm


Stephen Bronars
University of Texas, Austin


9/12/05

3:30 – 5:00pm

Room 5312

Moshe Buchinsky
UCLA

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
University of Chicago

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
Darmouth

Money, Sex, and Happiness

10/17/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Soren Blomquist
Uppsala University

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
Harvard

 

10/25/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Peter Kooreman
University of Groningen

Teenage Income, Turning 18, and Transfers within the Family

Paper:

10/26/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Jonah Gelbach
Maryland

 

10/31/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Annamaria Lusardi
Dartmouth

Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing

Paper:

11/7/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Rajeev Dehejia
Columbia

Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

Paper:

11/9/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Tom Dee
Swarthmore

Gay Marriage and Risky Sexual Behavior

11/14/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

5312

Jean Yeung
NYU

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
Berkeley

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
Dartmouth

 

12/05/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 5312

Ryan Edwards
RAND

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
Michigan

Crime, Punishment, and Myopia

Paper:

12/14/05

3:30 - 5:00pm

Room 4312

Alan Garber
Stanford

 

2004

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title of Seminar

1/6/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

David Cutler
Harvard

Why is the Quality of Medical Care So Poor?

3/1/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Sherry Glied
Columbia

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
Wharton

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
University of Pensylvania

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
UCLA

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
Harvard


3/29/04

3:30 - 5pm

Room 1822

Ann Huff Stevens
UC Davis

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
Columbia

Medical Progress and Health Care Financing: Research in Academic Medical Centers Following the 1997 Medicare Cuts
Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

4/12/04

3:30 - 5pm

Main Conference Room

Steven Haider
Michigan State

Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings
Paper

4/26/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Jeffrey Morenoff
University of Michigan

Is There a Latino Paradox of Crime and Delinquency? Evidence from Adolescent Cohorts in Chicago Neighborhoods
Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

5/3/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Bill Crown
Medstat


5/5/04

3:30 - 5pm

Main Conference Rm

Alan Gustman
Dartmouth College

"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
University of Michigan


5/17/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Jeff Brown
University of Illinois-
Urbana/Champaign

The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market

Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

5/24/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Paul Gertler
UC Berkeley

Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex

Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

6/21/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Kelly Raley
University of Texas

Maternal Cohabitation and Children’s Transition to Adulthood

Paper (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

8/23/04

1:30 - 3pm

Rm 1517

Marta Tienda
Princeton University

Assessing the "Mismatch" Hypothesis: Differentials in College Graduation Rates by Institutional Selectivity

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

9/9/04

1:30 - 3pm

North Conference Rm

Rick Steckel
Ohio State

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

9/13/04

1:30 - 3pm

Main Conference Rm

Doug Miller
UC Davis

Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

9/20/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Jason Seligman
University of Georgia

Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, and Retirement Savings

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

9/23/04

2 - 3:30pm

North Conference Rm

Jay Bhattacharya
Stanford

Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

9/27/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Ted Bergstrom
UC Santa Barbara

Benefit-Cost in a Benevolent Society

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

10/4/04

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

David Blau
University of North Carolina

Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

10/7/04

2 - 3:30pm

Main Conference Rm

Ken Chay
UC Berkeley

The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

10/14/04

2 - 3:30pm

Room 1725

Ken Thorpe
Emory

Health Care Proposals by President Bush and Senator Kerry

Federal Costs and Newly Insured under President Bush's Health Insurance Proposals

Federal Costs and Savings Associated with Senator Kerry's Health Care Plan

The Impact of Sen. John Kerry's Health Care Proposal on Health Care Costs

(NOTE: These documents are not RAND publications.)

10/28/04

2 - 3:30pm

North Conference Rm

Bob Town
University of Minnesota

Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

11/1/04

3:30 - 5pm

Room 4312

Hilary Hoynes
UC Davis

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

11/11/04

2 - 3:30pm

Room 4312

Bob Kaestner
University of Illinois at Chicago

Backlash: Effects of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs Living in the U.S

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

11/29/04

3:30 - 5pm

Room 1226

Mark Rosenzweig
Penn

Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

12/2/04

2 - 3:30pm

Room 3312

Mark Duggan
University of Maryland

The Impact of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments: Evidence for California's Medicaid Population

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

12/6/04

3:30 - 5pm

Room 1242

Courtney Coile
Wellesley College

Effects of Inheritance Receipt

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

12/16/04

2 - 3:30pm

Room 5312

Michael Greenstone
MIT


12/20/04

3:30 - 5pm

Room 1226

David Laibson
Harvard University

Impulsivity

Papers:

Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions

Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

(NOTE: These documents are not RAND publications.)

2003

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title of Seminar

9/22/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Kathleen McGarry
UCLA

Private Information and its Effect on Market Equilibrium: New Evidence from Long-term Care Insurance

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

9/29/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Erik Hurst
University of Chicago, GSB and NBER

Consumption vs. Expenditure

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

10/6/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

David Card
UC Berkeley

The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Access, Utilization, and Health: Evidence from Medicare

(co-authored with Nicole Maestas, RAND)

10/13/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Anup Malani
UVA Law School

Testing for Placebo Effects using Data from Medical Trials

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

10/20/03

3:30 - 5pm

USC campus

Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas


10/27/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Tom Buchmueller
UC-Irvine

Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees

11/3/03

3:30 - 5pm

Main Conference Rm

Jason Barro
Harvard

"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
University of Virgina

Long-Term Care, Formal Home Health Care, and Informal Care

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

11/17/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Dan Kessler
Stanford

Detecting Medicare Abuse

12/1/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Dalton Conley
New York University

A Pound of Flesh or Just Proxy? Using Twin Differences to Estimate the Effect of Birth Weight on Life Chances

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

12/5/03

10:30 - 12pm

North Conference Rm

Alison Jacknowitz
RGS

The Role of Workplace Characteristics in Breastfeeding Practices (practice job talk)

12/8/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Tony LoSasso
Northwestern

The Effect of State Policies on the Market for Private Non-Group Health Insurance

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

12/15/03

3:30 - 5pm

North Conference Rm

Lance Lochner
Rochester

Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)


2002

Date, Time & Place

Speaker

Title of Seminar

June 30, 2003
3:30 - 5:00
North Conference Facility

Jacob Alex Klerman
RAND

Linux Computing in the Labor and Population Program

June 23, 2003
3:30 - 5:00
Main Conference Room

Caroline Danielson
RGS and University of California, WPRP

Jacob Klerman
RAND

Dynamic Effects of Time Limits and Other Policies on the Welfare Caseload

June 16, 2003
3:30 - 5:00
North Conference Facility

Andrew Samwick
Dartmouth

Patience, Pensions, and Savings

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

June 9, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Aaron Edlin
UC Berkeley

The Accident Externality from Driving

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

June 2, 2003
3:30 - 5:00
Main Conference Room

David Ribar
George Washington University

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
3:30-5:00
Room 1517

Erich Battistin
Institute for Fiscal Studies

Errors in Survey Reports of Consumption Expenditures

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

May 12, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Patrick Heuveline
University of Chicago

The Mortality-Fertility Link and Population Dynamics in Post-Khmer-Rouge Cambodia

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

May 5, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Frank Lichtenberg
Columbia University

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
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Karl Scholz
University of Wisconsin

Are Americans Preparing Adequately for Retirement?

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

April 21, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Jim House
University of Michigan

CANCELED - To Be Rescheduled For Another Date

April 14, 2003

Marty Gaynor
Carnegie-Melon

Competition Among Hospitals

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

April 9, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Robert Moffitt
Johns Hopkins University

The Role of Non-Financial Factors in Exit and Entry in the TANF Program

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

April 7, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

David Meltzer
University of Chicago

TBA

March 31, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

John Casterline
Population Council

CANCELED - To Be Rescheduled For Another Date

March 24, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Michael Chernew
University of Michigan

Rising Health Care Costs and the Decline in Insurance Coverage

Working Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

March 17, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Joe Altonji
Northwestern University

The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

March 10, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Jonathan Skinner
Dartmouth

Technological Innovation and Health Outcomes: A New Look

March 3, 2003
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Jeff Kling
Princeton University

Out of Prison and Into the Labor Market

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

February 17, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Michel Guillot
University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Momentum of Mortality Decline

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

February 10, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Andrew Cherlin
Johns Hopkins University

Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Union Formation: Insights from a Three-City Study

February 3, 2003
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Charles Horioka
Osaka University/
Visiting at Claremont

The Impact of Bequest Motives on the Saving Behavior of the Aged in Japan

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

December 16, 2002
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Antonio Rangel
Stanford University

Addiction and Cue-conditioned Cognitive Processes

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

December 09, 2002
3:30-5:00
Room: TBA

Marianne Bitler
RAND

Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant Health Outcomes: Evidence from Twin Births.
(Practice job talk)

December 5, 2002
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Iliana Kohler
University of California-Berkeley

The Effect of Marriage on Mortality: Selection or Protection? Evidence from Danish Twins using Fixed-Effect Survival Models

December 2, 2002
3:30-5:00
North Conference Room

Tom McGuire
Harvard University

What Should (Health) Report Cards Report? Quality Disclosure in a Second-Best World.

Paper   (NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.)

November 25, 2002
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Amitabh Chandra
Dartmouth

Is the Convergence in the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?

November 22, 2002
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Martina Morris
University of Washington

Networks and the Population Dynamics of HIV

November 18, 2002
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Bart Hamilton
Washington University

Economic Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials: the Case of ACTG175

November 15, 2002
3:30-5:00
Room 1822

Susann Rohwedder
RAND

The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement

November 11, 2002
3:30-5:00
Room 2620

Hans Peter Kohler
University of California-Berkeley

The Emergence of Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe During the 1990s

November 4, 2002
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Bill Evans
University of Maryland

The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence From the Social Security Notch

October 28, 2002
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Mark Rosenzweig
Harvard University

Democratization, Decentralization and Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy

October 14, 2002
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Ken Chay
University of California-Berkeley

Does Low Birth Weight Matter? Evidence from the U.S. Population of Twin Births

October 7, 2002
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Chris Ruhm
University of North Carolina

Healthy Living in Hard Times

September 30, 2002
3:30-5:00
Main Conference Room

Elizabeth Powers
University of Illinois

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
3:30-5:00
North Conference Facility

Mark Pauly
University of Pennsylvania

Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?

August 22, 2002
1:30-3:00 PM
Main Conference Room

David Wise
Harvard University

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation

July 26, 2002
1:30-3:00 PM
Room 1734

Li Gan
University of Texas

Individual Subjective Survival Curves

April 19, 2002
10:30-12:00PM
Room 4760

Melonie Heron
RAND

The Health Status of Older Immigrants in the U.S. (Practice Talk)

March 14, 2002
9:00 AM
Room 1517

John Bongaarts
Population Council

The End of the Fertility Transition in the Developed World

March 8, 2002
3:00-4:30PM
North Conference

Jan van Ours
Tilburg University

From parent to child; the educational and labor market position of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands

February 27, 2002
4:00 PM
Room 1730

Amy Tsui
Johns Hopkins University

Demography Seminar Co-sponsored by RAND ADP and the UCLA California Center for Population Research


2001

Date

Speaker

Title of Seminar

December 12, 2001
3:00 PM
North Conference

Lingxin Hao
Johns Hopkins University

Adolescents' School Enrollment And Employment:Effect Of State Welfare Policies

December 7, 2001
3:00 PM
Main Conference

Ronald Lee
UC Berkeley

Children's Economic Roles in the Context of the Maya Family Life Cycle: Cain, Caldwell and Chayanov Revisited

December 3, 2001
3:30 PM
Conference Room 1730

Steven Stillman
RAND, Labor and Population

The Response of Consumption in Russian Household to Economic Shock (Practice Job Talk)

November 9, 2001
3:00 PM
Conference Room 1734

Shailender Swaminathan
University of Michigan

The Effects of Health on Wages of Men: Evidence from Indonesia

October 12, 2001

Joachim Winter
University of Mannheim

Bracketing Effects in Categorized Survey Questions and the Measurement of Economic Quantities

September 21, 2001

John Giles
Michigan State University

Risk, Shock and Weak Property Rights in the Labor Allocation of Rural Chinese Households

July 10, 2001

Susann Rohwedder
University College London/Institute for Fiscal Studies

Pension Wealth and Household Saving: Evidence from Pension Reform in the UK

June 8, 2001

Melonie Heron
RAND

Compression of Morbidity

May 25, 2001

Cameron Campbell
UCLA

Connections Within and Between Households in Rural Liaoning, China, 1789-1909

May 11, 2001

Maria Cancian
University of Wisconsin

Results from the Child Support Demonstration Evaluation

April 27, 2001

Luigi Guiso
University of Sassari

Risk Aversion, Wealth and Background Risk

May 4, 2001

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
Cornell University

Recent Educational Transitions in Africa and A Policy Tool for Guiding Education Reforms

April 20, 2001

David Neumark
Public Policy Institute of California
Michigan State University

Living Wages

April 13, 2001

Susan Watkins
University of Pennsylvania

Responses to AIDS: Husbands and Wives in Rural Malawi

April 6, 2001

Martin Wittenberg
University of Witwatersrand

Conflictual Intra-Household Allocations

March 23, 2001

Shelly Lundberg
University of Washington

A Boy Needs a Father: Child Gender and the Transition to Marriage from Single Parenthood

February 23, 2001

Paul Gertler
UC Berkeley

An Experiement in Incentive-Based Welfare: The IMpact of PROGRESA on Health in Mexico

February 9, 2001

Suzanna Loeb
Stanford University

Power Disequalization: The Effect of State and Local Tax Deductibility
on the Distribution of School Spending

January 10, 2001

Mark Rosenzweig
University of Pennsylvania

In-law Resources, Parental Resources and Distribution in Marriage


2000

Date

Speaker

Title of Seminar

December 15, 2000

Frank Bean
UC Irvine

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
Indiana University-Purdue University

Giving to the Family versus Giving to the Community : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

November 3, 2000

Ted Bergstrom
UC Santa Barbara

Cultural inheritance and natural selection for behavior in families and tribe

October 20, 2000

Steven Stillman
RAND

The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach

August 31, 2000

Tom Philipson
University of Chicago

Merit Motives and Government Intervention:
Public Finance in Reverse Crisis

August 11, 2000

Michael Brien
University of Virginia

Widows Waiting to Wed?:
(Re)Marriage and Economic Incentives in Social Security Widow Benefits

May 5, 2000

Amy Ratcliffe
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Men's Fertility and Marriages: Male Reproductive Strategies in Rural Gambia

April 28, 2000

Elaina Rose
University of Washington

The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's Labor Supply and Wages

March 29, 2000

Arie Kapteyn
CentER
Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

Saving and Reference Groups

March 21, 2000

John Knodel
University of Michigan
Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

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
University of Michigan

Mass Education and Fertility Limitation


1999

Date

Speaker

Title of Seminar

December 13, 1999

Vassilis Hajivassiliou
London School of Economics

Unemployment and Liquidity Constraints

December 1, 1999

Graeme Hugo

International Immigration in South East Asia

October 8, 1999

Randall Kuhn
RAND

The Logic of Letting Go: Family and Individual Migration from Rural Bangladesh

September 1, 1999

Andrew Hildreth
University of California at Berkeley

An Introduction to the California Census Research Data Center

July 9, 1999

Judith Seltzer
RAND

Legal Fatherhood after Divorce and Nonmarital Childbearing

June 18, 1999

Steven Haider
RAND

The Impact of Job Loss on Older Workers

May 14, 1999

Michael Keane
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

The Effect of Parental Transfers and Borrowing Constraints on Educational Attainment

May 7, 1999

Janet Currie
UCLA Dept of Economics

Does Management Matter? Non Price Barriers to Medicaid Coverage and Infant Health

March 22, 1999

Richard Blundell
University College London

Interpreting Movements in Aggregate Wages: The Role of Labor Market Participation

March 1, 1999

Seth Sanders
Carnegie Mellon and Hoover Institution

The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust

February 26, 1999

Sri Moertiningsih Adioetomo
University of Indonesia-Jakarta

Reproductive Health in Indonesia during the Economic Crisis

February 12, 1999

Michael Brien
Univ of Virginia & Social Security Administration

Teenage Childbearing and Cognitive Development

January 29, 1999

Maria Cancian
Univ of Wisconsin

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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