DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC SEMINARS Fall 2006 3:30 p.m. Bryan Room 206 Brown Bags meet 12-1:15 in Bryan 456 Author/Speaker Title Type Date Steven Scroggin UC-SD “Exploitable Actions of Believers in the 'Law of Small Numbers' in Repeated Constant-Sum Games” Seminar 9/8 3:30 pm Erdal Tekin Georgia State University “Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?” Seminar 9/15 3:30 pm Richard Depolt UNCG Academic Achievement and Teacher Bonuses: An Examination of North Carolina’s ABCs of Education Rewards Program BB 9/22 12 pm Michael Munger Duke (Poli Sci & Econ) “Did Southerners Favor Slavery? Inferences from an Analysis of Prices in New Orleans, 1805-1860” BB 9/29 12 pm Steven Puller Texas A & M “The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses” Seminar 10/13 3:30 pm Maria Hanratty University of Minnesota “Who Benefits from Expanded Paid Family Leave? Impact of Family Leave Expansions in Canada on Mothers’ Employment After Birth” Seminar 10/20 3:30 pm Beomsoo Kim UNCG “Does Experience Make Better Doctors? Evidence from Lasik and Other Refractive Eye Surgeries” BB 10/27 12 pm Koleman Strumpf University of Kansas “Manipulating Political Stock Markets: A Field Experiment and a Century of Observational Data” (with Paul Rhode) Seminar 11/3 3:30 pm David Blau UNC “Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers” Seminar 11/10 3:30 pm Allen Sinai Decision Economics “Seismic Shifts in the US, Global Economies, and Markets” Bryan School Distinguished Visiting Professor Seminar 11/14 4:30 p.m. Bryan 160 Steven Wagner UNCG “Do Relationships Matter? Changes in Small Business Lending Technology” BB 11/17 12 pm Old seminars: Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Fall 2003 Links: Seminars at Duke University Seminars at UNC Chapel Hill Seminars at Wake Forest
ECONOMIC SEMINARS Fall 2006 3:30 p.m. Bryan Room 206
Brown Bags meet 12-1:15 in Bryan 456
Author/Speaker
Title
Type
Date
Steven Scroggin
UC-SD
“Exploitable Actions of Believers in the 'Law of Small Numbers' in Repeated Constant-Sum Games”
Seminar
9/8
3:30 pm
Erdal Tekin
Georgia State University
“Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?”
9/15
Richard Depolt
UNCG
Academic Achievement and Teacher Bonuses: An Examination of North Carolina’s ABCs of Education Rewards Program
BB
9/22
12 pm
Michael Munger
Duke (Poli Sci & Econ)
“Did Southerners Favor Slavery?
Inferences from an Analysis of Prices in New Orleans, 1805-1860”
9/29
Steven Puller
Texas A & M
“The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses”
10/13
Maria Hanratty
University of Minnesota
“Who Benefits from Expanded Paid Family Leave? Impact of Family Leave Expansions in Canada on Mothers’ Employment After Birth”
10/20
Beomsoo Kim
“Does Experience Make Better Doctors? Evidence from Lasik and Other Refractive Eye Surgeries”
10/27
Koleman Strumpf
University of Kansas
“Manipulating Political Stock Markets: A Field Experiment and a Century of Observational Data” (with Paul Rhode)
11/3
David Blau
UNC
“Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers”
11/10
Allen Sinai
Decision Economics
“Seismic Shifts in the US, Global Economies, and Markets”
Bryan School Distinguished Visiting Professor Seminar
11/14 4:30 p.m. Bryan 160
Steven Wagner
“Do Relationships Matter? Changes in Small Business Lending Technology”
11/17
Old seminars: Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Fall 2003
Links: Seminars at Duke University Seminars at UNC Chapel Hill
Seminars at Wake Forest