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Seminar Series

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
October 7 Frances Carter , UMBC Estimation of Average Treatment Effects of On-campus, Academic Year Research on STEM PhD Pursuit for Talented, Underrepresented Minorities 12:00 PM 203 PUP
October 9 Martha Bailey , University of Michigan The impact of US Family Planning Programs: Evidence from the War on Poverty and Title X 2:00 PM TBA
October 16 Melinda Miller , US Naval Academy Destroyed By Slavery?: The Effect of Slavery on African-American Family Formation Following Emancipation. 12:00 PM 367 PUP
October 21 Gary Burtless , Brooking Institution Is There Evidence Workers Are Rational in Preparing for Retirement? 12:00 PM 203 PUP
November 13 Allen Fawcett , Environmental Protection Agency Cap-and-trade bill 12:00 PM TBA
November 18 Joseph Sabia , American University Parental Involvment Laws, Sexual Activity, and Youth Suicide 12:00 PM 203 PUP
December 2 Laura Hussey , UMBC TBA 12:00 PM 203 PUP
December 9 Tim Brennan , UMBC Behavioral vs. standard economics: A dozen observations against, for & tied. 12:00 PM 203 PUP

 

 

 

Fall 2008

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
September 9 Tim Gindling and Sara Poggio, UMBC Family separation and re-unification as a factor in the United States 12:00 PM 204 PUP
September 17 Jonah Rockoff, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University Does mentoring reduce turnover and improve skills of new employees? Evidence from teachers in New York City 12:00 PM 203 PUP
September 29 Carolyn Hill, Graduate Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University Longer-term effects of the Tulsa Public Schools pre-K program 12:00 PM 203 PUP
October 8 Bill Rothstein, Dept. of Sociology, UMBC The great twentieth-century pandemic of coronary heart disease: How well do we understand it? 12:00 PM 203 PUP
October 15 Judy Shinogle, Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, UMBC Determinants and costs of physical inactivity 12:00 PM 203 PUP
October 29 Dylan Conger, School of Public Policy, George Washington University The effects of native language instruction on how quickly English learners can acquire proficiency 12:00 PM 203 PUP
November 12 Ted Joyce, Dept. of Economics, Baruch College TBA 12:00 PM 203 PUP
November 19 Don Norris, Dept. of Public Policy, UMBC Disirregardless of the facts, Ma'am: Technology, public opinion, advocacy groups and policy outcomes affection election administration in Maryland 12:00 PM 203 PUP
December 3 Jason Fletcher, School of Public Health, Yale University Peer influences on alcohol consumption 12:00 PM 204 PUP

 

 

 

Fall 2007

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
September 26 Betsey Stevenson The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports 12:00 PM 204 PUP
October 10 Randi Hjmalarsson UMCP (co-sponsored with Public Policy) Crime and Expected Punishment 12:00 PM PUP 203
October 17 Krishna Ladha UMBC Paradox of Unbiased Public Information 12:00 PM 367 PUP
October 24 James Hilger Federal trade Commission TBA 12:00 PM 367 PUP
October 29 David Walker, Government Accountability Office Elmendorf, Brookings Institution Butler, Heritage Foundation Bixby, Concord Coalition U.S. Fiscal Situation 5:00 PM Lecture Hall V Grad Student session 3:00
November 14 Melissa Kearney UMCP (co-sponsored with Public Policy) TBA 12:00 PM Public Policy Seminar Room (4th floor PUP)
December 5 David Mitch Department of Economics UMBC (co-sponsored with Public Policy) TBA 12:00 PM Public Policy Seminar Room (4th floor PUP)

Fall 2005

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
October 26 Scott Farrow Department of Economics UMBC When Is Some Number Better Than No Number 12:00 PM 367 PUP
November 11 Dennis Coates Department of Economics UMBC Spending on Sports: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey 4:00 PM 367 PUP

Fall 2004

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
October 6 Bill Lord Department of Economics UMBC Family Production and Economic Growth 1:00 PM 367 PUP
November 11 William J. Baumol New York University Independent Entrepreneurs and Gian Enterprises: The David-Goliath Pertnership? 4:00 PM Albert O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor
November 12 Nandita Dasgupta Department of Economics UMBC Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to India Since the 1990s--Issues and Challenges: Comparison with China 1:00 PM 367 PUP
November 19 Roger Betancourt University of Maryland College Park The Role of the State in a "Democratic" transition: Cuba 1:00 PM 367 PUP

Spring 2004

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
March 14 Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Georgetown University Long-Run International Inequality in Real Income and Human Development: Evidence from Europe and the New World 1:00 367 PUP
April 2 Kenneth Koford University of Delaware Experiments on trust and Bargaining in Bulgaria: The Effects of Institutions and Culture 1:00 367 PUP
April 16 Bryan L. Boulier and Herman Stekler George Washington University Evaluating National Football League Choices: The Passing Game 1:00 4th Floor Conference Room, PUP

Fall 2003

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
Sep. 24 Mark A. Carlson Federal Reserve Board of Govenors Were There Other Ways Out? Bank Failures During the Panics of the Great Depression 1:00 829 Admin
Oct. 10 Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong National Science Foundation and University of South Florida Alcohol Avalibility and Crime: A Robust Approach 1:00 829 Admin
Oct. 15 Tim Gindling UMBC The Effects of Legal Minimum Wages in Costa Rica on Wages, Employment, Hours Worked and Monthly Earnings Throughout the Distribution 1:00 829 Admin
Nov. 10 Daniel Hamermesh University of Texas Time Use, Time Crunch and Work Time in America 8th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture 3:00 AOK Library, 7th Floor

SPRING 2003

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
Mar. 10 John Robst Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "Estimation of a Hedonic Pricing Model for Medigap Insurance" 1:00 TBA
Apr. 4 Laura Razzolini University of Mississippi and National Science Foundation "Raising Revenues for Charity: Auctions Versus Lotteries" 1:00829 Admin
Apr. 4 Stanley Engerman University of Rochester "Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies" Washington Area Economic History Seminar For information about dinner preceding the seminar, contact David Mitch 8:00 pm 318 Commons
Apr. 11 Hakan Berument Bilken University treasury Auction Interest Rates and Economic Performance in Turkey Figure 1 Figure 2 1:00 829 Admin
Apr. 16 Eva Marikova Leeds, Moravian College Michael Leeds, Temple University Irina Pistolet, Temple University What's in a Name? The Value of Naming Rights 1:00 pm829 Admin
May 2 Bill Lord, UMBC "Re-thinking the Early Decline in American Fertility" 1:00 pm 829 Admin

FALL 2002

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
Sept. 26 Phil CookDuke University "Evaluating Gun Policy"(Sponsored by Social Sciences Forum) 4:00 pmUC, Room 312
Nov. 14 Gregory MankiwHarvard University "Economics Education and Economic Policy: From the Classroom to the White House" 7th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture 4:00 pmAOK Library, 7th floor
Dec. 6 Robert GoldfarbGeorge Washington University "Inequality of What Among Whom: Rival Conceptions of Distribution in the 20th Century" 1:00 pm Admin 829

SPRING 2002 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
Mar. 4 Malay K. DeyMorgan State Order Time, Multiple Shocks, and Short Selling in Security Price Adjustment 1:00 pmAdmin 829
Mar. 15 Dennis CoatesUMBC Voting on Stadium and Arena Subsidies 1:00 pmAdmin 829
Apr. 10 Mike BaileyGeorgetown University Do States Race to the Bottom? 1:00 pmAdmin 829
Apr. 15 Burton Malkiel Princeton A Random Walker Looks Back: Is the Stock Market Predictable After All? Sponsored by a generous donation from TIAA-CREF 4:00 AOK Library, 7th floor
May 1 Tim GindlingUMBC Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality in Costa Rica 1:00 pmAdmin 829
May 3 Tim Haab Ohio State University Information Conveyance on Behavioral Changes from Perceived Risks: An Application to Seafood Consumption and Pfiesteria Piscicida 1:00 pm Admin 829
May 8 Shoshana Grossbard-Schectman San Diego State University Marriage and the Economy 1:00Admin 829

FALL 2001 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
Sept. 14 George Deltas FTC and University of Illinois U.C. "Passenger Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on transatlantic Migration" 1:00 pm Admin 829
Oct. 16 Alice Rivlin The Brookings Institution "Reviving the Economy: What Can Policies Do?" 6th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture 4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

SPRING 2001 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date Speaker Presentation Title/Topic Time and Location
Mar. 30Nathan Rosenberg,Stanford "America's University/Industry Interfaces, 1945-2000" 7:45 pm, UC Room312
Feb. 15Philip Keefer,Development Research Group, The World Bank "When do special interests run rampant? Disentangling the role of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances in banking crises." 1:00 pm, UC Ballroom Lounge
Mar. 27 Stanley Black,Chapel Hill, IMF Economic Reform in Mongolia 1:00 pm, Location: TBA

FALL 2000 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date Speaker Presentation Title Time and Location
Sept. 13 Jim Bessen,Research on Innovation "The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution" 1:00 pm,Administration 829
Sept. 25 Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge Resource Policy in Imperfect Economies 5th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture 4:00 pm,Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Oct. 3 Tyler Cowan, George Mason University "The Economics of Global Culture" (Lecture sponsored by the UMBC Social Sciences and Humanities Forums) 4:00 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Nov. 30 Peyton Young, Johns Hopkins Univerity "The Evolution of Social Institutions" (Sponsors: Social Sciences Forum, Department of Economics, Department of Political Science) 4:00 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS • University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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1000 Hilltop Circle • Baltimore Maryland 21250
phone: 410-455-2160 • email: Mrs. Kelly Hodges <khodges@umbc.edu>