Economics Department Seminar Series, Spring 2005 All seminars will be on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 pm in the Science Library Building, Room 206 unless noted otherwise Note: You need Acrobat Reader to be able to read papers that are online. Date Speaker Affiliation Paper Title February 4 Todd Schmit Cornell University Optimal Institutional Mechanisms for Funding Generic Advertising: An Experimental Analysis February 11 Christopher Ruebeck Lafayette College Colorism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South February 18 David Stifel Lafayette College Isolation, Welfare and Agricultural Productivity February 25 Stephen Wu Hamilton College Fatalistic Tendencies: An Explanation of Why People Don't Save March 4 Christopher Parmeter SUNY Binghamton The Econometrics of Cross-Country Income Dispersion: Join the Club March 11 Talan Iscan Dalhousie University Productivity Growth and Agricultural Out-Migration in the United States (Appendices Available on Personal Website) March 14 Jun Xiang SUNY Binghamton The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis (Monday in Fine Arts, Room 247) April 1 Dustin Chambers Salisbury University Inequality and Growth: A Semiparametric Investigation April 8 John Moran Syracuse University Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from Notch Cohorts April 15 Ozgen Sayginsoy SUNY Albany Powerful and Serial Correlation Robust Tests of the Economic Convergence Hypothesis April 22 Paul Johnson Vassar College Parameter Heterogeneity in Growth Regressions with Endogenous Explanatory Variables (Postponed) May 5 Gavin Wright Stanford University Slavery and American Economic Development (Romano Lecture Series - Thursday 5:15pm, Casadeus Recital Hall) May 6 German Zarate SUNY Cortland The Development Impact of Migrant Remittances in Mexico Links to past seminar lists: Fall 2004 Spring 2004 Fall 2003 Spring 2002 Fall 2001 Spring 2000 Page maintained by Andreas D Pape Revised: January 19, 2005 Return to previous page...
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