Schedule for Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

All seminars are open to the public, and ordinarily meet on fridays from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in Giannini 201. Asterisks indicate some (possibly unknown) deviation from this schedule or location.

1/25/08*	Kelly Bishop	"A Dynamic Model of Location Choice and Hedonic Valuation"
1/18/08*	Ulrich Wagner	"Estimating Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Game of Timing"
1/21/08*	John Lynham	"Information Spillovers Among Resource Extractors"
1/23/08*	Ryan Kellogg	"Learning by Drilling"
2/1/08	Christian Traeger	"Intertemporal Risk Aversion, Stationarity, and Discounting"
2/8/08	Daniel Klapper	"Slotting Allowances and Long-Run Channel Efficiency"
2/15/08	Jennifer Alix-Garcia	"Identity, Civic Participation, and the Distribution of Government Programs in Mexico"
2/22/08	No Meeting
2/29/08	Gal Hochman (w/David Zilberman)	"The Corruption of Transition"
3/7/08	Michael Anderson	"Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?"
3/12/08*	Justine Hastings (Joint w/ERE)	"Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments"
3/14/08	Karen Macours	"Can Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Compensate for Delays in Early Childhood Development?"
3/21/08	Harry de Gorter (Cornell)
3/28/08	No Meeting	Spring break
4/4/08	Seema Jayachandran	Life expectancy and human capital investments
4/11/08	Nicolas Treich	"The value of a statistical life under ambiguity aversion"
4/18/08	Second-Year Empirical Papers
4/25/08	Second-Year Empirical Papers
5/2/08	Severin Borenstein	"Equity and Efficiency Effects of Increasing-Block Electricity Pricing"
5/9/08*	Wolfram Schlenker (Joint w/ERE)	"Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yields and Land Values in U.S. Agriculture"