Political Economy & Development Spring 2005 Seminars

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

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar.

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

April 6	Shawn Kantor UC Merced	Striking the Roots of Crime: The Impact of the New Deal on Criminal Activity
April 13	Lopamudra Bannerjee Economics (Graduate Student) UCR	Of Floods and Agricultural Wage Rates in Bangladesh: Empirical evidences from the recent past
April 20	Giovanni Peri UC Davis	Gains from "Diversity": Theory and Evidence from Immigration in U.S. Cities
April 27	Haider Khan University of Colorado, Denver	Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in Computable General Equilibrium Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments
May 4	Robert Plotnick University of Washington	The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-Marital Child-Bearing
May 11	Anjini Kochar Stanford University	Schooling Externalities and Public Labor Markets: Empirical Evidence from Urban India
May 18	Jere Behrman University of Pennsylvania	The Impact of Experimental Nutritional Interventions on Education into Adulthood in Rural Guatemala: Preliminary Longitudinal Analysis Returns to Birthweight
May 25	Marc Law University of Vermont	Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
June 1	Roger L. Ransom Professor of History and Economics University of California, Riverside President, Economic History Association	Historical Imagination and Economic Reality: Counterfactual History and the Civil War
June 10	Symposium in Honor of Azizur R. Khan Note: This is a Friday