Research Seminars
Sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson lecture series
April 12, 2012
TBA
Masami Imai
Wesleyan University
March 8, 2012
“The Long Arm of Colonialism? Landownership and Institutions in Early Independent Peru”
Leticia Arroyo Abad
Middlebury College
November 30, 2011
“Taxation and the Extraction of Exhaustible Resources: Evidence from California Oil Production”
Nirupama Rao
New York University
October 27, 2011
“Does Happiness Matter? The Effect of Teacher Job Satisfaction on Productivity”
Lauren Calimeris (Colby ’03)
Metropolitan State College of Denver
October 19, 2011
“Child Ability, Parental Investments and Child Nutrition in Ecuador”
Emilie Bagby
Mathematica Policy Research
March 17, 2011
“Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment”
Danila Serra
Florida State University
February 21, 2011
“Media Proliferation and Electoral Outcomes with Quasi-Rational Voters”
Daniel Stone
Oregon State University
February 8, 2011
“Building Vintage and Electricity Use: Old Homes Use Less Electricity in Hot Weather”
Howard Chong
University of California-Berkeley
February 1, 2011
“Radical and Ethnic Disparities in Federal Sentencing: A Quantile Regression Approach”
Beth Freeborn
University of Virginia
December 1, 2010
“Recommendations and Demand for Digital Music”
Peter Newberry (Colby ’03)
University of Wisconsin
November 17, 2010
“Choosing Where to Teach: The Effect of Teacher Quality on the Charter Versus Public School Decision”
Lauren Calimeris (Colby ’03)
University of Colorado
November 3, 2010
“Explaining Health and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany Post-Reunification”
Jackie Smith Zweig (Colby ’04)
University of Southern California
October 6, 2010
“Effects of an Advertising Campaign to Boost Energy Efficiency”
Laura Malaguzzi Valeri
Colby College
September 23, 2010
“Induced Development in Risky Locations: Fire Suppression and Land Use in the American West”
Sheila M. Olmstead
Resources for the Future
April 23, 2010
“Does Access to Equity Finance Limit Innovative Activity? New Evidence from Europe”
Jamie Brown
College of Business, Iowa State University
April 2, 2010
“How Low Will You Go? The Depth of Negative Equity and Mortgage Default Decisions”
Jane Dokko
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
February 2010
“Identifying the Role of Risk Shocks in the Business Cycle using Stock Price Data”
Sami Alpanda
Amherst College
November 13, 2009
“Deterrence and Incapacitation: Towards a Unified Theory of Criminal Punishment”
Thomas Miceli
University of Connecticut
October 16, 2009
“How Big (Small) Are Fiscal Multipliers?”
Ethan Ilzetzki
London School of Economics
October 2, 2009
“Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China”
Heiwai Tang
Tufts University
September 25, 2009
“The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China”
Xiaobo Zhang
International Food Policy Research Institute
April 17, 2009
“The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa”
Nathan Nunn
Harvard University
November 14, 2008
“International Gross Capital Flows: A New Measure and Application to a Global Panel”
Daniel Riera-Crichton
Bates College
October 17, 2008
“Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices”
Peter Leeson
George Mason University
October 3, 2008
“Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide”
Richard Akresh
University of Illinois
September 19, 2008
“The Persistence of Tax Refunds: Evidence from Panel Data”
Sara LaLumia
Williams College
April 25, 2008
“‘Everything in Common…But the Language’?: Intergenerational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850″
Jason Long
Colby College
April 11, 2008
“Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Contracts”
Andrew Seltzer
Royal Halloway, University of London
March 7, 2008
“Fish in Space: The Efficiency and Political-Economics of Spatially Structured Regulations”
Ta Herrera
Bowdoin College
November 16, 2007
“Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty”
James Sullivan
Notre Dame
November 9, 2007
“Grassroots Democracy and Income Distribution: Evidence from Village Elections in Rural China”
Yang Yao
China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
October 12, 2007
“Heterogeneity and the Welfare Cost of Inflation”
Paola Boel
Bowdoin College
September 14, 2007
“Children’s Work and Schooling in Northern Mali”
Andrew Dillon
Cornell University
March 15, 2007
“Why are Immigrants’ Incarceration Rates So Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation”
Kristin Butcher
Wellesley College and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
February 22, 2007
“The Launch of the European Central Bank: Learning About Europe, and About Central Banks”
Michael Klein
Tufts University
November 3, 2006
“Foreign Trade of Russian Regions”
Vladimir Sherov-Ignatiev
St. Petersburg State University
September 29, 2006
“Federal Medicaid Assistance to States: Impact on Prenatal Care”
Michael Quinn
Bentley College
September 21, 2006
“Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process”
Bart Wilson
George Mason University
April 20, 2006
“Wealth Effects on Consumer Spending: Asset Liquidity and Asymmetric Behavior”
Michael Donihue
Colby College
April 7, 2006
“Why Not Retire? The Timing and Timing Costs of Market Work”
Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas
March 14, 2006
“Rulers Ruled by Women: An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights in Ancient Sparta”
F. Andrew Hanssen
Montana State University
February 28, 2006
“The Cost of Convenience: The Effect of New Subway Lines on Housing Prices in Santiago, Chile”
Claudio Agostini
Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile)
November 11, 2005
“New Evidence on the Effects of Taxes on Charitable Bequests”
Jon Bakija
Williams College
September 22, 2005
“Trade Policy, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from Indian Districts”
Eric Edmonds
Dartmouth College
April 15, 2005
“Nominal Wage Rigidity Under Low Inflation: Evidence from Personnel Records”
Andy Seltzer
University of London, Royal Holloway College
April 11, 2005
“Strict Product Liability and the Accident Rate: Evidence From the General Aviation Market”
Randy Nelson
Colby College
March 16, 2005
“Risk and Incentives in Whaling Employment Contracts: Evidence from the Civil War”
Eric Hilt
Wellesley College
November 22, 2004
“Monetary Policy in the Aftermath of the NASDAQ Bubble”
Brad Delong
University of California, Berkeley
October 21, 2004
“Risk Management in International Banking”
Eric Rosengren
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
