ICPSR Link Added

For those of you looking for social/political survey data, a permanent link has been added for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research in the righthand column of this page. New sources will be added as they become available.

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

A good example of IV usage

Apropos Prof. Deb's lecture tonight, I was reminded of an article I read over the break that demonstrated good usage of an instrumental variable (religious market density) to isolate the effect of religious participation on income. The link to Jonathan Gruber's paper is http://www.nber.org/papers/w11377. You can download the entire paper by submitting your Hunter e-mail address.

Note, I first learned of this paper through an 'Economics Focus' article in The Economist.

Also, in light of tonight's talk, I'd also like to encourage everyone who finds a good data source to send me an e-mail. We'll begin to compile these sources on the blog.