IED/INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINARS

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Fall 2005
Seminars are on Mondays from 3:30-5:00PM in Room 315, 264 Bay State Road.

September 26 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
October 3

Paola Conconi (Brussels and Warwick)
Reelection Incentives and the Sustainability of International Cooperation
with Nicolas Sahuguet

October 17

Eric Verhoogen (Columbia)
Quality Upgrading and Establishment Wage Policies: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data
October 24

Martin Wittenberg (Cape Town)
Industrialisation and surplus labour: A general equilibrium model of sleep, work and leisure
October 31

Mark Pitt (Brown)
Sharing the Burden of Disease: Gender, the Household Division of Labor and the Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution

November 7

Ross Levine (Brown)
Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending

November 14 Bob Margo (Boston University)
The Economic Impact of the 1960s Riots: Evidence From Property Values
November 21 Stefan Klonner (Cornell)
Adverse Selection in Credit Markets:Evidence from South Indian Bidding Roscas
November 28 Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke)
Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality?
December 12 Matthias Schundeln (Harvard)
 Modeling Firm Dynamics to Identify the Cost of Financing Constraints in Ghanaian Manufacturing

Underlined titles can be downloaded for printing. Hard copies of seminar papers will be available outside Room 510 Thursday before the seminar..

Last updated: 11/28/05