Economics Department Seminar Schedule: Fall 2012
The seminars for Fall 2012 are held in Jonas Clark Hall, room 118 and begin at 4:15 PM
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 17, 2012 | Katharine Sims, Amherst College | Two-Dimensional Evaluation: The Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Mexico's Payments for Hydrological Services Program |
| October 1, 2012 | Abigail Hornstein, Wesleyan University | Corporate Capital Budgeting and CEO Turnover |
| October 15, 2012 | Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College | Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer |
| November 5, 2012 | Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute | The Logic of Adaptive Sequential Experimentation |
| November 12, 2012 | Ricardo Lopez, Brandeis University | Factor Price Overshooting with Trade Liberalization: Theory and Evidence |
| November 19, 2012 | Jenny Aker, Tufts University | Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| November 26, 2012 | Justin Svec, College of the Holy Cross | Uncertainty and Major Choice |
Economics Department Seminar Schedule: Spring 2013
The seminars for Spring 2013 are held in Jonas Clark Hall, room 120 and begin at 4:15 PM
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 25, 2013 | Prakarsh Singh, Amherst College | Performance Pay in Public Health: Evidence from Two Experiments in India |
| March 11, 2013 | Junfu Zhang, Clark University | The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants |
| March 25, 2013 | Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University | Religion and Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from the Indian Subcontinent |
| April 1, 2013 | Adam Storeygard, Tufts University | Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| April 8, 2013 | Svetlana Ledyaeva, Helsinki School of Economics | If Foreign Investment is not Foreign: Round-trip versus Genuine Foreign Investment |