The ARE Departmental Seminar
Fridays
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
201 Giannini Hall
| Friday, May. 10, 2013 |
Derek Lemoine University of Arizona-Economics dlemoine@email.arizona.edu |
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| Friday, May. 3, 2013 |
Ujjayant Chakravorty Tufts University-Economics ujjayant.chakravorty@tufts.edu |
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| Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 |
Craig McIntosh UC San Diego-School of International Relations and Pacific Studies ctmcintosh@ucsd.edu |
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| Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 |
David McKenzie World Bank-Lead Economist/Data & Research research@worldbank.org |
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| Friday, Apr. 5, 2013 |
Kevin Novan ARE - UC Davis knovan@ucdavis.edu |
Overlapping Environmental Policies: When Does Renewable Electricity Reduce Pollution? |
| Friday, Mar. 15, 2013 |
Reed Walker Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy University of California - Berkeley rwalker@berkeley.edu |
The Early Life Environment and Long-Run Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Earnings Records in the United States |
| Friday, Mar. 8, 2013 |
Robert Jensen UC Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs robertjensen@ucla.edu |
MARKET SIZE, COMPETITION AND THE GROWTH OF FIRMS: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT IN INDIA |
| Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 |
Lucas Davis Haas School of Business-Economic Analysis and Policy Group ldavis@haas.berkeley.edu |
Free Riders and the High Cost of Energy-Efficiency Subsidies |
| Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 |
Michael Anderson ARE- UC Berkeley mlanderson@berkeley.edu |
Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns: The Impacts of Public Transit on Traffic Congestion |
| Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 |
Sofia Villas-Boas ARE- UC Berkeley sberto@berkeley.edu |
Generic Aversion and Social Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market |
| Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 |
Tommy Lundgren Tommy.Lundgren@slu.se |
Evironmental performance and profits |
| Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 |
Alex Whalley UC Merced-Economics awhalley@gmail.com |
University Research and Regional Development in American Agriculture |
| Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 |
Elisabeth Sadoulet ARE- UC Berkeley esadoulet@berkeley.edu |
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| Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 |
Pierre Merel ARE - UC Davis merel@primal.ucdavis.edu |
Cars on crutches: How much abatement do smog check repairs actually provide? |
| Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 |
Dave Rapson UC Davis-Economics dsrapson@ucdavis.edu |
The Effect of a Mandatory Time-of-Use Pricing Reform on Residential Electricity Use |
| Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 |
Christian Traeger ARE- UC Berkeley traeger@berkeley.edu |
Climate Policy and Growth Uncertainty: Dicing with DICE |
| Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 |
Kate Foreman ARE- UC Berkeley kforeman@berkeley.edu |
Crossing the Bridge: the Effects of Time-Varying Tolls on Curbing Congestion in the Bay Area |
| Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 |
Lunyu Xie ARE- UC Berkeley xielunyu@berkeley.edu |
Urban Rail Transit Expansion and Transportation Mode Usage: Evidence from an Natural Experiment in Beijing |
| Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 |
Jeremy Magruder ARE- UC Berkeley jmagruder@berkeley.edu |
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi |
| Friday, Sep. 28, 2012 |
Catie Hausman ARE- UC Berkeley calmirall@berkeley.edu |
Corporate Incentives and Nuclear Safety |
| Friday, Sep. 21, 2012 |
Seminar cancelled |
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| Friday, Sep. 14, 2012 |
Lutz Kilian University of Michigan-Economics lkilian@umich.edu |
The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil |
| Friday, Sep. 7, 2012 |
Anna D'Souza USDA-ERS adsouza@ers.usda.gov |
Food Insecurity in Vulnerable Populations: Coping with food price shocks in Afghanistan |
| Friday, May. 11, 2012 |
Hans Binswanger Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane, South Africa Binswangerh@gmail.com |
India 1960‐2010: Structural Change, the Rural Nonfarm Sector, and the Prospects for Agriculture |
| Friday, May. 4, 2012 |
Chris Timmins Duke University-Department of Economics timmins.c@gmail.com |
Meeting Urban Housing Needs: Do People Really Come to the Nuisance? |
| Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 |
Marcel Fafchamps Oxford University-Department of Economics marcel.fafchamps@economics.ox.ac.uk |
Are Gifts and Loans between Households Voluntary? |
| Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 |
Chris Costello UC Santa Barbara-Donald Bren School of Envrionmental Science and Management costello@bren.ucsb.edu |
The value of secure property rights: global evidence from fisheries |
| Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 |
Ryan Kellogg University of Michigan-Economics kelloggrk@gmail.com |
The Formation and Persistence of Automobile Brand Preferences |
| Friday, Apr. 6, 2012 |
Sriniketh Nagavarapu Brown University ssn@brown.edu |
Resource Management in Low-Monitoring Environments: Can Granting Cooperatives User Rights Work? |
| Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 |
Wolfram Schlenker Columbia University Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate |
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| Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 |
Rick Hornbeck Harvard University hornbeck@fas.harvard.edu |
When the Levee Breaks: Labor Mobility and Economic Development in the American South |
| Friday, Mar. 9, 2012 |
William Dow UC Berkeley-School of Public Health wdow@berkeley.edu |
Incentivising safe sex: a randomised trial of conditional cash transfers for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention in rural Tanzania |
| Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 |
Pascaline Dupas Stanford Univeristy-Economics pdupas@stanford.edu |
Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment |
| Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 |
Nick Wilson Williams-Economics nicholas.l.wilson@williams.edu |
Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya |
| Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 |
Paulina Oliva UC Santa Barbara oliva@econ.ucsb.edu/paulinaoliva |
The Effect of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality in Mexico City ( joint with Eva Arceo and Rema Hanna) |
| Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 |
Ralph Winter University of British Columbia- Sauder School of Business ralph.winter@sauder.ubc.ca |
Innovation and the Dynamics of Global Warming |
| Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 |
Ruth Uwaifo Georgia Insitute of Technology -Economics ruth.uwaifo@econ.gatech.edu |
Conflict and its impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What we can learn from recent IDPs |
| Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 |
Jenny C. Aker Tufts University-Fletcher School and Department of Economics Jenny.Aker@tufts.edu |
Can Mobile Phones Improve Learning? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Niger |
| Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 |
Minjung Park UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business mpark@haas.berkeley.edu |
A Dynamic Model of Subprime Mortgage Default: Estimation and Policy Implications |
| Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 |
Meredith Fowlie UC Berkeley/ARE fowlie@berkeley.edu |
Designing markets for pollution when damages vary across sources : Evidence from the NOx Budget Program |
| Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 |
Armon Rezai University of Vienna-Environmental Economics The Political Economy of Environmental Policy with Overlapping Generations |
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| Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 |
Bard Harstad Northwestern-Kellogg School of Management harstad@kellogg.northwestern.edu |
The Dynamics of Climate Agreements |
| Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 |
Matt Harding Stanford University-Economics mch@stanford.edu |
Goal‑Setting and Energy Efficiency |
| Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 |
Leo Simon UC Berkeley/ARE leosimon@Berkeley.EDU |
Exaggeration and Polarization in Information Aggregration Games |
| Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 |
Christophe Gouel INRA-Public Economics christophe.gouel@grignon.inra.fr |
Optimal food price stabilisation in a small open developing country |
| Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 |
Luosha Du UC Berkeley/ARE luosha@berkeley.edu |
Industrial Agglomeration, Transportation Infrastructure, and Firm Performance: Evidence from China 1998-2007 |
| Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 |
Alex Solis UC Berkeley/ARE alexsolis@berkeley.edu |
Credit Constraints for Higher Education |
| Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 |
Gianmarco Leon UC Berkeley/ARE gianmarco@berkeley.edu |
Incentives to Vote, Political Preferences and Information:Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Peru |
| Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 |
Chuck Mason University of Wyoming-Department of Economics and Finance bambuzlr@uwyo.edu |
On Climate Jumps and Fat Tails |
| Friday, Sep. 16, 2011 |
Kelly Jones UC Berkeley/ARE kelly.jones@berkeley.edu |
Growing up together: Cohort composition and child investments |
| Friday, Sep. 9, 2011 |
Jing Cai UC Berkeley/ARE caijing516@berkeley.edu |
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| Thursday, May. 5, 2011 |
John List Department of Economics, Univeristy of Chicago Giannini Foundation Lecture-NOTE LOCATION: UC Berkeley Faculty Club |
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| Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 |
Antony Millner UC Berkeley/ARE a.millner@berkeley.edu |
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks |
| Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 |
Alan Spearot Department of Economics-UC Santa Cruz acspearot@gmail.com |
Relaxing CAFE: NAFTA, Foreign Direct Investment, and Fuel Economy Standards |
| Friday, Apr. 15, 2011 |
Michael Anderson Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB mlanderson@berkeley.edu |
Learning from the Cloud: Regression Discontinuity Estimates of the Effects of an Online Review Database |
| Friday, Apr. 8, 2011 |
Rema Hanna Harvard Kennedy School Rema_Hanna@ksg.harvard.edu |
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia |
| Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 |
Jeff LaFrance Washington State University/ARE jtlafrance@wsu.edu |
Risk Management in a Micro-to-Macro Empirical Environment |
| Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 |
NO SEMINAR-Spring Break |
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| Friday, Mar. 18, 2011 |
Jeremy Magruder Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB jmagruder@berkeley.edu |
Can Minimum Wages Cause a Big Push? Evidence from Indonesia |
| Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 |
Wolfram Schlenker Columbia University wolfram.schlenker@columbia.edu |
Air Pollution and Contemporaneous Health: Evidence from Random Variation in Pollution Shocks from Airports |
| Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 |
J. Miguel Villas-Boas UC Berkeley/Haas School of Business villas@haas.berkeley.edu |
Optimal Search for Product Information |
| Friday, Feb. 25, 2011 |
Claus Portner University of Washington-Dept. of Economics cportner@u.washington.edu |
Sex Selective Abortions, Fertility and Birth Spacing |
| Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 |
Christian Traeger UC Berkeley/ARE traeger@berkeley.edu |
Ambiguity, Confidence, and Discounting |
| Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 |
Hossein Farzin UC Davis/ARE farzin@primal.ucdavis.edu |
Sustainaility, Optimality, and Development Policy |
| Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 |
Marianne Bitler UC Irvine-Economics mbitler@uci.edu |
Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates |
| Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 |
Katrina Jessoe UC Davis-A.R.E. kkjessoe@ucdavis.edu |
Elections at what Cost? The Impact of Electricity Subsidies on Groundwater Extraction and Agricultural Production |
| Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 |
Robert Innes UC Merced-Economics rinnes@ucmerced.edu |
Is Dishonesty Contagious? |
| Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 |
Marcelo Moreira Columbia University mjmoreira@columbia.edu |
Contributions to the Theory of Similar Tests," joint with Humberto Moreira (FGV) |
| Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 |
James Sallee University of Chicago/Harris School sallee@uchicago.edu |
What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices? |
| Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 |
Kitt Carpenter Paul Merage School of Business-UC irvine kittc@uci.edu |
Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) |
| Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 |
Travis Lybert Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UC Davis tlybbert@ucdavis.edu |
POWDERY MILDEW FORECASTS & CALIFORNIA WINE GRAPES: HOW DO GROWERS RESPOND TO DISEASE FORECASTS & TO WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT? |
| Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 |
NO SEMINAR |
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| Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 |
Heather Royer/Dept. of Economics-UCSB Joint Seminar w/UCB Econ Dept., Location: 608-7 Evans Hall royer@econ.ucsb.edu |
Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company |
| Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 |
Fangwen Lu Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB fangwen@berkeley.edu |
Insurance Coverage and Agency Problems in Doctor Prescriptions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China |
| Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 |
Steve Hamilton California Polytechnic-SLO , Joint Seminar with UCEI shamilto@calpoly.edu |
Emissions Standards and Ambient Environmental Quality Standards in Stochastic Receiving Media |
| Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 |
Ben Crost Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB bencrost@berkeley.edu |
Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict (with Patrick Johnston) |
| Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 |
Ted Miguel Dept. of Economics-UCB emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu |
Long-run Labor Market Impacts of Child Health Investments in Kenya |
| Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 |
Koichiro Ito Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB Koichiro@berkeley.edu |
How Do Consumers Respond to Nonlinear Pricing? Evidence from Household Electricity Demand |
| Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 |
Erick Gong Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB erick.gong@berkeley.edu |
HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behavior |
| Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 |
Damian Bickett Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB bickett@berkeley.edu |
The Evolution of Water Marketing in California |
| Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 |
Santiago Guerrero Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB sguerreroe@berkeley.edu |
Exposing violators in the news: Evidence from the Mexican gasoline Market |
| Friday, Sep. 3, 2010 |
Jon Robinson Department of Economics -UC Santa Cruz jmrtwo@ucsc.edu |
The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya: Evidence from Inventories |
| Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 |
Howard Chong Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics-UCB hgchong@berkeley.edu |
This Old House: Energy Efficiency of New Versus Old Residential Buildings in Response To High Temperatures in California |
| Sunday, Jul. 4, 2010 |
None |
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| Friday, May. 14, 2010 |
Doug Miller UC Davis dlmiller@ucdavis.edu |
Caution Drivers! Children Present. Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health |
| Friday, May. 7, 2010 |
Matt Kahn UC Los Angeles mkahn@ioe.ucla.edu |
Environmental Ideology and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Electricity, Transportation and Housing Markets |
| Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 |
Jeff Perloff UC Berkeley -A.R.E. jperloff@berkeley.edu |
The iPhone Goes Downstream: Mandatory Universal Distribution |
| Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 |
Stephen Ryan MIT-Economics sryan@mit.edu |
Joint Seminar with UCEI (presentation at UCEI 3:30-5:00--SEE--http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/) |
| Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 |
CANCELLED |
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| Friday, Apr. 9, 2010 |
Christian Traeger UC Berkeley-A.R.E. traeger@berkeley.edu |
Trading Off Generations: Infinitely-Lived Agent Versus OLG |
| Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 |
Scott Irwin University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign sirwin@illinois.edu |
The Price Impact of Index Funds in Commodity Futures Markets: Evidence from the CFTC’s Daily Large Trader Reporting System |
| Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 |
Darius Lakdawalla RAND dlakdawa@sppd.usc.edu |
Tort Liability and the Market for Pharmaceuticals [no paper available] |
| Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 |
Fred Finan UC Berkeley -Economics Department ffinan@econ.berkeley.edu |
Vote-buying and Reciprocity [no paper available] |
| Friday, Mar. 5, 2010 |
Michael Anderson UC Berkeley -A.R.E. manderson@berkeley.edu |
Vehicle Weight, Highway Safety, and Energy Policy [no paper available] |
| Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 |
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro UC Berkeley & University of Toronto marcog@berkeley.edu |
Roads to Development: Experimental Evidence from Urban Road Pavement |
| Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 |
Suzi Kerr Stanford University-Economics/MOTU suzi.kerr@motu.org.nz |
Emissions trading for forestry and agriculture: Policy design and integrated simulations in New Zealand |
| Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 |
Jeremy Magruder UC Berkeley-A.R.E. jmagruder@berkeley.edu |
Who gets the job referral? Evidence from a social networks experiment |
| Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 |
Hilary Hoynes UC Davis-Economics Department hwhoynes@ucdavis.edu |
Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes |
| Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 |
Gordon Rausser UC Berkeley -A.R.E. rausser@berkeley.edu |
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| Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 |
Stefan Reichelstein Stanford University-Graduate School of Business reichelstein_stefan@gsb.stanford.edu |
Carbon Capture by Fossil Fuel Power Plants: An Economic Analysis |
| Friday, Dec. 11, 2009 |
Jill Luoto UC Berkeley-A.R.E. jillluoto@gmail.com |
Information and Persuasion: Achieving SafeWater Behaviors in Kenya |
| Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 |
Justin Marion/UCSC* *presentation at UCEI/UCB 3:30-5:00--SEE--http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/ marion@ucsc.edu |
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| Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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| Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 |
Laurian Unnevehr USDA/Director, Food Economics Division lunnevehr@ers.usda.gov |
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| Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 |
Alan Sorensen Stanford University asorensen@stanford.edu |
Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants |
| Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 |
Carlos Dobkin UC Santa Cruz-Dept. of Economics cdobkin@ucsc.edu |
Can Supply-Side Interventions Reduce Drug Use and its Adverse Consequences? |
| Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 |
Leo Simon/Gordon Rausser UC Berkeley -A.R.E rausser@berkeley.edu |
The Determinants of Bargaining Power in Multilateral Negotiation Games |
| Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 |
David Matsa Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Business dmatsa@kellogg.northwestern.edu |
Competition and Product Quality in the Supermarket Industry |
| Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 |
Sarah Baird George Washington University-Dept of Global Health sbaird@gwu.edu |
Sex and the Classroom: Can Girls Schooling be a Weapon Against HIV? |
| Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 |
Alan Olmstead UC Davis-Econ alolmstead@ucdavis.edu |
Adjusting to Climatic Variation: Historical Perspectives from North American Agricultural Development |
| Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 |
Larry Karp UC Berkeley -A.R.E karp@are.berkeley.edu |
Cap and Trade with a Safety Valve in the next Climate Agreement |
| Friday, Sep. 25, 2009 |
Meredith Fowlie UC Berkeley-ARE **Presentation at Morgan Hall Lounge** fowlie@are.berkeley.edu |
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| Friday, Sep. 18, 2009 |
CANCELLED |
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| Friday, Sep. 11, 2009 |
Guanming Shi /University of Wisconsin-Madison **Presentation at Morgan Hall Lounge** gshi@wisc.edu |
An Analysis of Pricing in Horizontal and Vertical Markets: The Case of the U.S. Cottonseed Market |