DEPARTMENT OF

Policy Analysis and Management



PAM Seminar Series

 
 
Spring 2009 Seminars
Time: Tuesdays, 3pm - unless otherwise noted
Location: Rushmore Conference Room, 114 MVR Hall
Titles will be announced as they become available

 

 
January 26
4:15-5:45
115 Ives
John DiNardo
University of Michigan
co-sponsored with Labor Economics
"Finite Sample Properties of Semiparametric Estimators of Average Treatment Effects"
February 9
4:15-5:45
115 Ives
Kenneth A. Couch
University of Connecticut
co-sponsored with Labor Economics
"Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers Revisited"
February 17
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
University of Chicago

"Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program"
March 3
Daniel S. Nagin
Carnegie Mellon University
"Extending Group-Based Trajectory Modeling to Account for Subject Attrition"
March 9
4:15-5:45
115 Ives
Jesse Rothstein
Princeton University
co-sponsored with Labor Economics
"Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement"
March 31
Eric Helland
Claremont McKenna College
"Does Treatment Respond to Reimbursement  Rates? Evidence from Trauma Care"
April 6
4:15-5:45
115 Ives
Kerwin Charles
University of Chicago
co-sponsored with Labor Economics
"Labor Market Performance and Voter Turnout"
April 13
4:15-5:45
115 Ives
Amitabh Chandra
Harvard University
co-sponsored with Labor Economics
"Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare"
April 28
Kenneth Chay
Brown University
"Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth"