Brown Bag Seminars
Labor and Population Brown Bag Seminars occur on Fridays, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information on these seminars, or if you would like to request a paper, please contact Donna White at (310) 393-0411, ext. 7462.
To suggest a seminar speaker please contact Sarah Meadows (ext. 7916).
Current Seminar Series
Date |
Time |
Place |
Speaker |
Title of Seminar |
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2/17/12 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Claude Berrebi |
Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions |
2/8/12 |
12-1 |
m4312 |
Emily Rauscher |
Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws 1850 – 1930 |
Postponed [was 01/27/12] |
Kathleen Mullen |
Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants |
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12/16/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Paco Martorell |
The Effect of Incentives for Increasing Summer School Attendance: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
12/09/11 |
12-1 |
m4312 |
Arie Kapteyn |
Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities? Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization |
11/15/11 |
12-1 |
m5401 |
Gema Zamarro |
Induced Entry into the Social Security Disability Program: Using Past SGA Change as a Natural Experiment |
11/11/11 |
12-1 |
m5401 |
Mathijs van Dijk |
Do Cartels Undermine Economic Efficiency and Innovation? |
10/21/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Dayanand Manoli
|
Are There Returns to Experience at Low-Skill Jobs? Evidence from Single Mothers in the United States Over the 1990s |
10/14/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Arie Kapteyn
|
The State of Labor & Population Address |
10/07/11 |
12-1 |
m3312 |
Fabian Duarte
|
Getting Better Students to Become Teachers: The Effect of Targeted Subsidies in Chile |
09/30/11 |
12-1 |
m4312 |
Long, Long-term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers in Colombia Joint seminar with RAND Education |
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09/16/11 |
12-1 |
m2309 |
Please Remind Me That I Cannot Control Myself: Can Information Reduce Present-Biased Behavior? |
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09/09/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Luisa Blanco |
The Impact of Insecurity on Democracy and Trust in Institutions in Mexico |
09/02/11 |
12-1 |
m4312 |
Jesse Cunha |
The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers |
08/19/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Alan Barreca |
The AAA, Malaria, and Migration |
08/12/11 |
12-1 |
m5401 |
Elizabeth Baker |
The Effect of Maternal and Own Education on BMI Trajectories from Adolescence to Adulthood: Variations by Immigrant Generation |
07/22/11 |
12-1 |
m5212 |
Gender Discrimination and Social Identity: Experimental Evidence from Urban Pakistan |
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07/15/11 |
12-1 |
m5401 |
Provider Reimbursement, Treatment Intensity, and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Prospective Payment Systems in Home Health Agencies and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities |
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07/08/11 |
12-1 |
m5212 |
Luis Vasconcelos |
On the Trade-off between Efficiency in Job Assignment and Turnover: The Role of Break-up Fees |
06/17/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Priscillia Hunt |
Immigrant impacts on natives' wages and hours worked in the UK from 1993-2009 |
06/03/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Elaine F. Frey Jill Caviglia-Harris |
The Environmental Impacts of Advancing Infrastructure in Forest Frontiers |
05/06/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Erik
Meijer and Titus Galama |
Empirical Tests of Health Capital Theory |
04/08/11 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Hannes Schwandt |
Is Wealth Causing Health? Evidence from Stock Market Induced Wealth Shocks |
02/18/11 |
12-1 |
m1226/1228 |
Jinkook Lee, Bas Weerman, Jeremy Lupoli, Gema Zamarro, Erik Meijer, Drystan Phillips, Kevin Feeney, Kelly Aderhold, Henu Zhao, & Sung-bou Kim |
The Survey Meta Data Repository: Disseminating HRS-family of Surveys |
01/28/11 |
12-1 |
m4144 |
Kathleen Mullen |
Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt |
11/19/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Sally Kwak |
How Much Does Length of School Year Matter? Evidence From Hurricane Ike |
11/05/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Rodrigo Soares |
The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon |
10/22/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Arie Kapteyn |
Annual update on L&P activities |
08/13/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Titus Galama |
A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle |
08/06/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Mitch Hoffman |
Training Contracts |
07/30/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Adeline Delavande |
HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Behavior in Malawi |
07/09/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Luis Vasconcelos |
Platform Pricing Structure and Moral Hazard |
07/06/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Dr. Randall Olsen |
National Longitudinal Surveys |
06/04/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Fabian Pfeffer |
Assets and Opportunities. A cross-national comparison |
05/28/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Joanne Yoong |
Using Behavioral Economics To Increase The Effectiveness of Financial Education: A Research Review And Recommendations For the OECD |
05/14/10 |
12-1 |
m4312 |
David Powell |
The Price Elasticity of Medical Expenditures: A Panel Data Quantile Estimation Approach |
05/13/10 |
12-1 |
m1226 |
Stefan Staubli |
Labor Supply Effects of Changes in Disability Eligibility |
05/07/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Paco Martorell |
The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma |
04/30/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Silvia Barcellos |
Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants |
04/09/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Mireille Jacobson |
Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services |
04/02/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Mario Padula |
Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys |
03/19/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Ben Vollaard |
Does regulation of built-in security reduce crime? Evidence from a regression discontinuity approach |
03/12/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Zafar Nazarov |
The effects of benefits on work transitions of workers injured at work: evidence from the SIPP 1986-2004 |
03/05/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
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L&P Proposal Writing Panel |
02/19/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Andrea Weber |
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01/29/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
John Romley |
Do Hospitals Use an Efficient Mix of Administrative and Medical Personnel? |
01/08/10 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Lesley Chiou |
Is Pharmaceutical Advertising Informative? |
12/04/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Peter B. Brownell |
Low Pay for Unauthorized Immigrants: “Superexploitation” or Employers' Risk of Sanctions? |
11/13/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Thomas Light |
The Time-Use Effects of Commuting |
10/09/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Arie Kapteyn |
Numbers, What Good Are Numbers? |
09/18/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
David Mayer-Foulkes |
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09/04/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Zafar Nazarov |
The Effect of Unemployment Duration on Reemployment Wages: A Dynamic Discrete Time Hazard Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity |
08/07/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Adeline Delavande |
HIV Testing in Malawi |
07/31/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Luis Vasconcelo |
Star Wars: Exclusive Talents and Collusive Outcomes in the Labor Market |
07/24/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Katja Kaufmann |
(NOTE: This document is not a RAND publication.) |
05/22/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Dayanand S. Manoli |
Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities |
03/27/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Emma Aguila |
Non-contributory Pensions and Poverty Alleviation Among the Elderly |
03/13/09 |
12-1 |
m3312 |
Titus Galama |
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02/13/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 |
Joanne Yoong |
Long-term Financial Incentives And Investments in Daughters: Evidence from Conditional Cash Transfers in North India This is work jointly co-authored with Nistha Sinha of the World Bank |
01/30/09 |
12-1 |
m5312 (host), w7126, p6206 |
Ted Miguel |
Joint seminar between the International Development Speaker Series and the L&P brown bag Government Transfers and Political Support |
01/16/09 |
12-1 |
m4312 |
Michael Pollard |
Friendship Networks and Trajectories of Adolescent Tobacco Use |
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