UC Riverside Department of Economics

Development/Applied Economics (DAE) Fall 2007

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 2206

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Oct 3	Todd Sorensen UCR	Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are A Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines.
Oct 10	Anita Alves Pena Colorado State Univ.	Locational Choices of Legal and Illegal Mexican Agricultural Workers in the U.S.
Oct 17	Christopher Carpenter UC Irvine	How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada
Oct 24	Doug Miller UC Davis	The South African pension program and the health of the elderly and their families
Oct 31	David Vazquez-Guzman Univ. of Stirling, Scotland	Inequality in Mexico: Methodological and Empirical Issues
Nov 7	Maurizio Mazzocco UCLA	Testing for efficient risk sharing in rural India
Nov 14	Vijaya Ramachandran Georgetown University	What matters to Firms in Africa? Relevance of Data on Perceptions
Nov 21	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY	NO SEMINAR
Nov 28	Jae Hee Son UCR	The Effects of Job Training on the Wages of Korean Women
Dec 5	Jorge Aguero & Mindy Marks UCR	Disentangling the Relationship Between Motherhood and Wages: Evidence from Latin America