Saturday, January 28, 2006

Economics Department Seminars

The following presentations will be held from 11:30 to 1 in the Economics Department conference room (HW 1538 - on the 15th Floor). Please note that the dates for the talks range from January 30th to February 16th.

Shamena Anwar, Yale University - Monday, January 30, 2006 - Testing forStatistical Discrimination: Evidence from the Game Show Street smarts http://pantheon.yale.edu/~sya5/jobmarketpaper.pdf

Radha Iyengar, Princeton University, Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - Not Getting Their Due Process: An Evaluation of the Performance of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel http://www.princeton.edu/~riyengar/indigent_defense_v10.pdf

Gunjan Sharma, University of Maryland - Friday, February 3, 2006 -Competing or Collaborating Siblings? Industrial and Trade Policies in India http://glue.umd.edu/~gsharma/1Jan_GSharma_JMPaper.pdf

Henry Schneider, Yale University - Monday, February 6, 2006 - A FieldExperiment to Measure Agency Problems in Auto Repair
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hss27/Henry%20Schneider%20-%20Auto%20Repair.pdf

Pascaline Dupas, Paris - Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - Relative Risksand the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies, and HIV in Kenya
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~pd482/Dupas_RelativeRisks.pdf

Claudia Perez-Canals, Columbia University - Thursday, February 9, 2006 -What Explains the Widening Wage Gap? Outsourcing vs. Technology
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ecc2069/CanalsJobMarket.pdf

Joyce Chen, Harvard University - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 -Identifying Non-Cooperative Behavior Among Spouses: Child Outcomes inMigrant-Sending Households
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chen20/papers/non-coop.pdf

Matthew Baker, USNA - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - Marriage,Specialization, and the Customary Gender Division of Labor
http://ideas.repec.org/p/usn/usnawp/1.html

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