Coordinator:  Hilary Sigman

• All seminars will be held in New Jersey Hall Room 105 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.
• Copies of papers will be available in Adobe PDF format below.

Fall 2009

Friday, September 25
Ilker Dastan, Rutgers University  (Ph.D. Student)
"Labor market effects of smoking, obesity, and alcohol use"

Friday, October 9
Li Liu, Rutgers University (Ph.D. Student)
"Passing It On: The Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax under Imperfect Competition" 

Abstract

Friday, October 16 - **Note: Seminar will be held in the 3rd Floor Library NJH
Emel Yildirim, Rutgers University (Ph.D. Student)
"Supply-side Response to Declining Heroin Purity: The Fentanyl Overdose Episode of 2006"

*Note change of day and room
Wednesday, October 28 - NJ Hall 3rd Floor Library
Hylke Vandenbussche (Catholic University of Leuven  and CORE)
"Antidumping Protection hurts Exporters: Firm-level evidence from France"

Friday, November 6
Melanie Khamis, (IZA) Institute for the Study of Labor
"Comparative Advantage, Segmentation And Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach" (joint work with Omar Arias)

Friday, November 13
Lisa Robinson,  Independent consultant to the US Environmental Agency, the US Department of Homeland Security, the World Bank, and other regulatory agencies.

"Valuing "Statistical Lives" in Regulatory Analyses: Current Debates and Recent Research Results"

While the paper focuses on homeland security, it provides background information relevant to the many other regulatory contexts that will be discussed in the seminar.

Friday, November 20
Marcello Sartarelli, University of London
"Do achievement labels affect students' well-being?
Evidence from discontinuities in test scores in England"

Spring 2010

Friday, January 29
Jennifer Hunt, McGill University

Friday, February 19
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University (Newark)