UC Riverside Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Spring 2007

Fridays, 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.

April 2, Monday (not Friday)	David Swanson University of Mississippi Dir. Center of Population Studies	Assessing Katrina's Demographic and Social Impacts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Preliminary Results
April 20	Erica Field Harvard University	Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania
April 27	Jorge Aguero UC Riverside	Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
May 4	Latika Chaudhary (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution)	An Economic Analysis of Education in Colonial India
May 11	Jae-Hee Son UC Riverside	Reappraising the Job-Training Effect on Labor Market Outputs of Korean Women
May 18	Subhrendu Pattanayak RTI/North Carolina State	Nature’s Call: Can social mobilization promote toilet use and improve welfare? Results from a field experiment in Orissa, India
May 25	Michael Steinberger Pomona College	Sexual Orientation, Earnings, and Occupational Choice
June 1 CANCELLED	Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside (joint w/ Political Economy & Development)	Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia
June 8	Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside	John Stuart Mill on welfare and public action