2005-2008 Brown Bag Seminars


Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title of Seminar

12/19/08

12-1

m5312

Emily Haisley
Yale University

Behavioral Economics and Incentive Design

12/05/08

12-1

m5312

Elena Stancanelli
CNRS, THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise

How do spouses allocate time: the effects of wages and income

11/21/08

12-1

m5312

Neeraj Sood
RAND

The Impact of Federal Funding on University R&D

10/17/08

12-1

m5312

Sarah Meadows
RAND

Stability and Change in Family Structure and Maternal Health Trajectories

10/10/08

12-1

m5312

Erik Meijer
RAND

First results from SHARE wave 2 compared with ELSA wave 3 and HRS wave 8

10/03/08

12-1

m5312

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeno
University of Girona and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

The Rise in Obesity Across the Atlantic: an Economic Perspective joint work with Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud

09/19/08

12-1

m5312

Arie Kapteyn
RAND

L&P Overview

09/12/08

12-1

m3312

John Romley and Dana Goldman
RAND

The Demand for Hospital Amenities

08/29/08

12-1

Santa Monica: m5312

DC: w7126

Yang Lu
RAND

The effects of food prices on obesity and the subsequent health implications: evidence from China 1991 – 2006

08/22/08

12-1

m5312

Paul Heaton
RAND

Does Treatment Respond to Reimbursement Rates? Evidence from Trauma Care
(joint work with Eric Helland)

06/06/08

12-1

m5312

Gema Zamarro
RAND

Teacher Quality, Teacher Licensure Tests, and Student Achievement (joint work with Richard Buddin)

05/09/08

12-1

m5312

Robert Jensen
Brown University and NBER

Joint seminar between the International Development Speaker Series and the L&P brown bag

Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition? Evidence from China

05/02/08

12-1

m5312

Paul Heaton
RAND

Do Police Discriminate? Evidence from Multiple-Offender Crimes (with Charles Loeffler)

04/18/08

12-1

m5312

Raffaelle Vardavas
RAND

Agent-based inductive reasoning games – An Application to influenza vaccination

Related Papers:
Mean-field analysis of an inductive reasoning game: Application to influenza vaccination
Can Influenza Epidemics Be Prevented by Voluntary Vaccination?

04/11/08

12-1

m5312

Jui-Chung Allen Li
RAND

What Money Can and Cannot Buy: Divorce, Gender, and Health

01/28/08

12-1

m5312

Special Brown Bag:
Carlos González Gutiérrez
Executive Director, Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior

Speaking on the Mexican Diaspora

01/18/08

12-1

m5312

Arkadipta Ghosh
PRGS Fellow

The Effect of Land Reforms on Long Term Health and Well-being in India

12/14/07

12-1

m5312

Vanessa Estrada
RAND

 

12/07/07

12-1

m5312

Raymond Gradus
Director of Directorate for Financial and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Netherlands

The SADNAP Model: Social Affairs Department of the Netherlands' Ageing and Pensions Model

11/02/07

12-1

m5312

Sue Hosek
RAND

RAND Presidential Commission on Wounded Warriors: Issues and Experiences

10/26/07

12-1

m5312

Paul Heaton
RAND

Information Technology, Productivity, and Organization in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Department

09/28/07

12-1

m5312

Katie Carman
Tilburg University

Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Value of a Statistical Life with Peter Kooreman

09/21/07

12-1

m5312

Joanne Yoong
RAND

"Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation"

09/14/07

12-1

m5312

Michael Rendall
RAND

"Emigration and Schooling among Second-generation Mexican-American Children"

09/07/07

12-1

m5312

Stijn Hoorens
RAND Europe

On demographic and long term economic impact of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

08/24/07

12-1

m5312

Lawrence Wu
New York University

Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility for U.S. Women

08/10/07

12-1

m4312

Leah Platt Boustan
UCLA

Going Postal: What Black Employment in the Postal Service Reveals About the Increasing Cost of Racial Segregation, 1940-2000

08/03/07

12-1

m5312

Mitchell Stevens
New York University

Individualized Consideration and Social Inequality in Selective College Admissions

07/27/07

12-1

m5312

Emma Aguila and Julie Zissimopoulos
RAND

 

07/20/07

12-1

m5312

Michael Pollard
RAND

Disparities in Birthweight by Maternal Educational Attainment and Race/Ethnicity

07/06/07

12-1

m5312

Adeline Delavande
RAND

Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi

06/29/07

12-1

m5312

Paul Heaton
RAND

Childhood Educational Disruption and Later Life Outcomes: Evidence from Prince Edward County

06/22/07

12-1

m5312

Dana Goldman and John Romley
RAND

Hospital Quality, Productivity and Costs: A Revealed-Preference Approach

06/08/07

12-1

m5312

Emmet Keeler and Baoping Shang
RAND

Evaluating HSAs with a Microsimulation Model

06/01/07

12-1

m5312

Berna Torr
RAND

Black-White Differences in the Coresidential Experience Mothers of Young Children, 1880-2000

05/04/07

12-1

m5312

David Evans
RAND

The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya

04/27/07

12-1

m5312

John Giles
Michigan State University

Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China

04/20/07

12-1

m5312

Paco Martorell
RAND

Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation

04/13/07

12-1

m5312

Shailender Swaminathan
University of Alabama, Birmingham

Mortality and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation into the Role of Status on Life Expectancy

03/23/07

12-1

m5312

Rainer Winkelmann
University of Zurich

The Happiness Gains From Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market

03/16/07

12-1:30

m5312

Pat Reagan
Ohio State University

Does the measure of economic disadvantage matter? Exploring the effect of individual and relative deprivation on IUGR

03/08/07

12-1

m5312

Michael Kremer
Harvard

The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya: Evidence from Inventory Choices

03/02/07

12-1

m5312

Seth Seabury and Darius Lakdawalla
RAND

Malpractice Liability and Medical Costs

12/15/06

12-1

m5312

Jean Yeung
New York University

Did Industrialization Promote Children's Health and Education? Evidence from China (Preliminary Report)

12/08/06

12-1

m5312

Takashi Yamashita
RAND

Sibship Size and Health Outcomes in Later Life among the Mexican Elderly?

12/01/06

12-1

m5312

Elaine Reardon
RAND

Do Women-Owned Small Businesses Get a Fair Share of Federal Contract Dollars?

11/10/06

12-1

m5312

Arnab Mukherji
RAND

Treatment Effects of a Community Driven Agricultural Intervention : A Case Study from Sheopur District, MP

10/30/06

12-1

m5312

Jacob Klerman
RAND

The CPS Medicaid Undercount and Counting the Uninsured

10/11/06

12-1

m4312

Jacob Klerman
RAND

Explaining the Decline in Teenage Fertility: A Proximate Determinants Approach

10/06/06

12-1

m5312

Julie Zissimopoulos
RAND

Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

09/22/06

12-1

m5312

Arie Kapteyn
RAND

The First 1000 Days, Taking Stock of L&P

08/28/06

12-1

m5312

Jason Seligman
University of Georgia

Active Pension Participation and Household Wealth Accumulation: Evidence of Learning by Doing

07/14/06

12-1

m5312

Paige Skiba
UC Berkeley

Measuring the Individual-Level Effect of Access to Credit Using Payday Loans

07/07/06

12-1

m5312

Nicole Maestas
RAND

Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap

06/30/06

12-1

m5312

Ashlesha Datar and Nancy Nicosia
RAND

The Effect of Mother's Work on Children's School Meal Participation

06/23/06

12-1

m5312

Cassie Guarino, Kanika Kapur, and Mark Schuster
RAND

The Impact of Poor Health on the Academic Achievement of Young Children

06/07/06

12-1

m3312

Sergio Della Pergola
Brandeis University

Demography in Israel and Palestine: Trends, Scenarios and Political Implications

06/02/06

12-1

m5312

Julia Lane
NORC

Economic Turbulence

05/19/06

12-1

m5312

Graciela Teruel,
Universidad Iberoamericana
Luis Rubalcava,
Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas

Do Mexicans with Higher Human Capital Immigrate to the United States?
Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey

04/28/06

12-1

m5312

Felicia LeClere
Director, Data Sharing for Demographic Research, ICPSR, University of Michigan

"Data Sharing for Demographic Research," with Myron Gutmann

04/21/06

12-1

m5312

Takashi Yamashita
RAND

Primogeniture, Sibling Rivalry and Educational Attainment in Early 20th Century Japan

04/14/06

12-1

m5312

Robert J. Willis
University of Michigan

Estimating Knightian Uncertainty from Survival Probability Questions on the HRS

04/07/06

12-1

m2309

Alessandro Tarozzi
Duke University

Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality?

March (Postponed from 02/10/06)

12-1

m5312

Ryan Edwards and Alair MacLean
RAND

Health and Rank Among Veterans: Early Results on Cohort and Age/Time Effects

03/24/06

12-1

m2309

Pierre-Carl Michaud
RAND

Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

03/03/06

12-1

m5312

Giovanna Merli
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Modeling the Spread of HIV/AIDS in China: The Role of Sexual Transmission

02/24/06

12-1

m2309

Damon Clark
University of Florida

Politics, Markets and Schools: Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Impact of Autonomy and Competition from a Truly Revolutionary UK Reform

02/10/06

12-1

m5312

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02/03/06

12-1

m5312

Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo
RAND

Disparities in Children's Depressive Behaviors: What the LAFANS Data Tells Us

01/27/06

12-1

m2309

Emily Hannum
University of Pennsylvania

Gender, Poverty and Schooling in Rural Northwest China

01/13/06

12-1

m5312

Erik Meijer
Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen

Measuring Welfare Effects in Models with Random Coefficients

12/09/05

12-1:30

m5312

Fred H. Wulczyn
Chapin Hall Center for Children

Adoption Dynamics and The Adoption and Safe Families Act

12/02/05

 

 

None Scheduled

 

11/25/05

 

 

None Scheduled

 

11/18/05

12-1

m5312

Raquel Benito Fonseca
RAND

Welfare Effects of Social Security Reforms Across Europe: the Case of France and Italy

11/11/05

12-1

m5312

Elizabeth D'Amico
RAND

Innovative Interventions with at Risk Youth

11/04/05

12-1

m5312

Krishna Kumar
RAND

Village Versus Market Social Capital: An Approach to Development

10/28/05

12-1

m5312

Arie Kapteyn
RAND

TBA

10/14/05

12-1

m5312

Li Gan
Texas A&M University

Estimating Interdependence between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model

9/30/05

12-1

m5312

Takashi Yamashita
RAND

Generational Aspects of the Great Compression

9/23/05

12-1

m5312

Ryan Edwards
RAND

Health Shocks and Consumption Among Elderly U.S. Households

9/9/05

12-1

m5312

Julie Zissimopoulos
RAND

Transitions to self-employment at older ages: the role of wealth, health, health insurance and other factors

8/26/05

12-1

m5312

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
Cornell University

Family Size and Schooling in sub-Saharan settings: A Reexamination

8/12/05

12

m5312

Emmett Keeler
and Glen Melnick

RAND

The Effects of Hospital Systems and Competition on Prices

8/5/05

12

m5312

Sonia Bhalotra
University of Bristol

Gender differences in Under-5 Mortality Trends in India

7/8/05

12-1

m5312

Ashlesha Datar,
M. Rebecca Kilburn,
and David Loughran

RAND

Health Endowments and Parental Investments in Early Childhood

6/17/05

12-1

m5312

Fredrik Johansson
Uppsala University

A Measurement Error Analysis of Survey Data: Using Administrative Data as a Validation Source

Explaining the Size and Nature of Response Behavior in a Survey on Health Status and Economic Standard

6/3/05

12-1

m2309

David Bjerk
RAND

The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across Occupational Sector

5/20/05

12-1

TBA

Dave Loughran

The Interactive Effect of Common Parental Investment and Birth Weight on Child Test Scores

5/13/05

12-1

m5312

Ben Karney

Family Values: Who Needs Them? Who Wants Them?

4/29/05*

12-1:30

m2309

David Grusky
Stanford University

Will Our Children Become Professors or Professionals? A Critical Test of the Class Reproduction Hypothesis

4/22/05*

12-1:30

m5312

Joseph Sanders
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

Evidence-based Transformation: Developing the Mission Case for Air Force Diversity

CANCELLED

4/15/05

12-1

m5312

Shailender Swaminathan
University of Alabama, Birmingham

Effects of Very Low Birthweight Children on Subsequent Marital Instability

4/8/05*

12-1:30

m5312

Eric Grodsky
UC Davis

The Declining Significance of Race: Race-based Affirmative Action in College Admissions between 1986 and 2003

4/1/05



None scheduled

TBA

3/25/05

12-1

m5312

Nancy Nicosia
RAND

The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health and Crime (based on work with Carlos Dobkin, UC-Santa Cruz)

3/18/05

12-1

m5312

Jelmer Ypma
University of Groningen

Arie Kapteyn
RAND

Bureaucrats, Interviewers and Respondents: Sources of Errors in Register and Survey Data

2/25/05*

12-1:30

m5312

Peter Morrison
RAND

Counting on Demography: Fostering Applications of the Social Sciences

2/18/05

12-1

m5312

Ryan Edwards
RAND

Mortality Among U.S. Military Retirees, 1974-2003 and Projections to 2050

2/11/05

12-1

m5312

Daver Kahvecioglu
RAND

Asset Allocation, Bequests and Wealth Dynamics of the Elderly

1/28/05

12-1

m5312

Takashi Yamashita
RAND

The Effects of the Great Depression on Educational Attainment

1/14/05

12-1

m5312

James Bigelow and Lynn Karoly
RAND

Results of the Packard Report

* Is part of the Sociology and Demography Seminar Series and is 1 ½ hours instead of 1.

These seminar series are sponsored by RAND's Labor and Population Program and RAND Health.

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