Seminars

Special Lecture: David Levine - Washington University

March 5, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm

Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Lunch Seminar: Liam Graham - University College London

March 29, 2010
1:00 pmto2:00 pm

Learning from Prices

Lunch Seminar: Marco Lippi - University of Rome “La Sapienza” & EIEF

March 8, 2010
1:00 pmto2:00 pm

Fundamentalness, VARs, DSGEs

John Duffy - University of Pittsburgh

June 15, 2010
5:30 pmto7:00 pm

A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach to Asset Pricing Experiments

Special Lecture: Kenneth D. West - University of Wisconsin

March 11, 2010
9:30 amto11:00 am

Forecast Evaluation

Special Lecture: Kenneth D. West - University of Wisconsin

March 4, 2010
9:30 amto11:00 am

Forecast Evaluation

LABOUR Lectures: Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 25, 2010
3:00 pmto4:30 pm

Early Life and Human Capital Development: Evidence Regarding the Effectiveness of Remediation

Reading:
Almond, Douglas and Janet Currie. “Human Capital Development Before Age 5,” forthcoming in Handbook of Labor Economics, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), North Holland, 2011.
Currie, Janet and Firouz Gahvari. “Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data,” Journal of Economic Literature, 46 #2, June 2008, 333-383.

LABOUR Lectures: Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 24, 2010
2:30 pmto6:00 pm

Early Life and Human Capital Development: Evidence Regarding the Causal Relationship Between Child Health, Parental SES, and Human Capital Development

Reading:
Currie, Janet, Mark Stabile, Phongsack Manivong, Leslie L. Roos. “Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes,“ forthcoming Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2010.
Currie, Janet. “Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development,” Journal of Economic Literature, 47 #1, March 2009, 87-122.
“Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey,” Journal of Health Economics, 28 #3, May 2009, 688-703, with Matthew Neidell and Johannes Schmeider.(NIHMSID 96893)

LABOUR Lectures: Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 23, 2010
2:30 pmto6:00 pm

Early Life and Human Capital Development: Human Capital Development Before Age Five

This course will provide an overview of recent literature in Economics linking early life experiences to human capital development and longer term outcomes.

Reading:
Almond, Douglas and Janet Currie. “Human Capital Development Before Age 5,” forthcoming in Handbook of Labor Economics, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), North Holland, 2011.

Gary Charness - University of California, Santa Barbara

March 22, 2010
4:00 pmto5:30 pm

Participation