Seminars

Fall 2009

Sep. 9

Snorre Kverndokk - Frisch Centre, University of Oslo, Norway

Title: Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy 

Oct. 14

Michael Roberts - North Carolina State University

Title: The U.S. Biofuel Mandate and World Food Prices: An Econometric Analysis of the Demand and Supply of Calories

Oct. 21

Shawn Cole - Harvard

Title: Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Nov. 4

Markus Goldstein - World Bank

Title: Health Worker Absence, HIV Testing and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Western Kenya

Nov. 11

Stacy Sneeringer - Wellesley College

CANCELED. Rescheduled for Nov. 18.

Nov. 18

Stacy Sneeringer - Wellesley College

Title: Does Water Quality Regulation Work? Testing the Effects of the 1990 Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments  on Water Quality

Dec. 2

Karen Macours - SAIS at Johns Hopkins University

Title: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Dec. 9

Larry Karp - UC Berkeley

Title: Time Perspective and Climate Change Policy