DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC SEMINARS Fall 2005 3:30 p.m. Bryan Room 206 Brown Bags meet 12-1:15 in Bryan 456 Author/Speaker Title Type Date Charles Baum Middle Tennessee State University "The Effect of Cigarette Taxes on Obesity" Seminar 8/26 3:30pm David Figlio University of Florida “Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap” Seminar 9/23 3:30pm Bruce Caldwell Rationality BB 9/30 3:30pm David Ribar George Washington University “Watching the Clocks: The Role of Food Stamp Recertification and TANF Time Limits in Caseload Dynamics.” *** Note time & location *** Seminar 10/5 3:30 pm Bryan 204 F. Michael Kunz Medical College of South Carolina Health Economics *** Note time & location *** BB 10/26 3:30 pm Bryan 204 Diane Whitmore University of Chicago “Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?” Seminar 10/28 3:30pm Michelle Sylvester UNCG “Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Kinship Care Families?” **** Note time & location **** Seminar at WFU 11/1 4:00 pm B. Ravikumar U. of Iowa “The Return to Capital and the Business Cycle” Seminar 11/11 3:30pm BB 11/18 12:00pm Dr. William E. Jackson III Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta flier “Does SBA Guaranteed Lending Increase Economic Growth in Low Income Areas?” NC A&T map.jpg 11/21 4:00pm Andrew Yates University of Richmond “Citizen Participation and Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Pollution Control” **** Note time & location **** Seminar 12/2 1:00pm Martin Heintzelman University of Michigan “Community Assets: Measuring the Property Value Effects of Voter Referenda for Preservation” Seminar 12/9 3:30pm Links: Spring 2005 seminars Fall 2004 seminars Fall 2003 seminars Seminars at Duke University Seminars at UNC Chapel Hill Seminars at Wake Forest
ECONOMIC SEMINARS Fall 2005 3:30 p.m. Bryan Room 206
Brown Bags meet 12-1:15 in Bryan 456
Author/Speaker
Title
Type
Date
Charles Baum
Middle Tennessee State University
"The Effect of Cigarette Taxes on Obesity"
Seminar
8/26
3:30pm
David Figlio
University of Florida
“Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap”
9/23
Bruce Caldwell
Rationality
BB
9/30
David Ribar
George Washington University
“Watching the Clocks: The Role of Food Stamp Recertification and TANF Time Limits in Caseload Dynamics.”
*** Note time & location ***
10/5
3:30 pm
Bryan 204
F. Michael Kunz
Medical College of South Carolina
Health Economics
10/26
Diane Whitmore
University of Chicago
“Do School Lunches Contribute to
Childhood Obesity?”
10/28 3:30pm
Michelle Sylvester
UNCG
“Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Kinship Care Families?”
**** Note time & location ****
Seminar at WFU
11/1
4:00 pm
B. Ravikumar
U. of Iowa
“The Return to Capital and the Business Cycle”
11/11 3:30pm
11/18 12:00pm
Dr. William E. Jackson III
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta flier
“Does SBA Guaranteed Lending Increase Economic Growth
in Low Income Areas?”
NC A&T
map.jpg
11/21
4:00pm
Andrew Yates
University of Richmond
“Citizen Participation and Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Pollution Control”
12/2 1:00pm
Martin Heintzelman
University of Michigan
“Community Assets: Measuring the Property Value Effects of Voter Referenda for Preservation”
12/9
Links: Spring 2005 seminars Fall 2004 seminars Fall 2003 seminars
Seminars at Duke University Seminars at UNC Chapel Hill
Seminars at Wake Forest
