Events and Lectures
Spring 2012
Research Seminar Series in Public Policy and Economics
All seminars will be held in Public Policy Room 438. You are welcome to bring your lunch.
Friday, February 10, 12:00 pm
Dave Marcotte, Department of Public Policy, UMBC
Public higher education tuition and enrollment
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Friday, March 9, 12:00 pm
Tara Watson, Department of Economics, Williams College
Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration enforcement and chilling effects in Medicaid participation
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Friday, March 30, 2:00 pm
Tom Vicino, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University
The fight for local control of immigration policy in the suburbs
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Friday, April 6, 2:00 pm
Jim Bessen, School of Law, Boston University
Patent failure
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Friday, April 27, 12:00 noon
Randall Reback, Department of Economics, Barnard College
Fiscal spillovers between local governments: Keeping up the the Joneses' school district
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Social Science Forums
These on-campus sessions present topics of interest to the social science community and beyond.

