Boston College Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Fall 2011 Schedule

Organizer:
Stefan Hoderlein

Papers will generally be available from this page as .pdf files.
Click on the paper title to download the paper.

All seminars are held on Mondays, 3:30-5:00 P.M., Maloney Hall,
Seminar Room 429 (unless otherwise noted).

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 12, O'Neill 247

Kevin Thom, New York University

"Education and Smoking Over the Life-Cycle" (w/S. Reinhold)

 

Sept. 19

Xiaohong Chen, Yale University

"Sensitivity Analysis in a Semiparametric Probability Model: A Partial Identification Approach" (w/E. Tamer and A. Torgovitsky)

 

Sept. 30, 11:30-1:00 PM

Eric Gautier, ENSAE Paris Tech

"Estimating the Distribution of Treatment Effects"

 

Oct. 7, 11:30-1:00 PM

Che-Lin Su, U. of Chicago, Booth School of Business

"Estimating Discrete Choice Games of Incomplete Information"

 

Oct. 14, 11:30-1:00 PM

Anna Mikusheva, MIT

"Maximum Likelihood Inference in Weakly Identified DSGE Models"

 

Oct. 17

Xavier d'Haultfoeuille, Paris

"Identification of Nonseparable Models with Endogeneity and Discrete Instruments" (w/P. Fevrier)

 

Oct. 21, 11:30-1:00 PM

Haiqing Xu, University of Texas, Austin

"Inference on Social Interactions: A Game Theoretic Approach"

 

Oct. 24

Guido Imbens, Harvard University

"An Empirical Model for Strategic Network Formation" (w/N. Christakis and J. Fowler)

 

Oct. 28, 11:30-1:00 PM

Yuya Sasaki, Brown University

"Heterogeneity and Selection in Dynamic Panel Data"

 

Oct. 31

Joseph Altonji, Yale University (visiting Harvard)

"Methods for Using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables" (w/T. Conley, T. Elder and C. Taber)

 

Nov. 4, 11:30-1:00 PM

Matias Cattaneo, U. of Michigan (visiting Harvard)

"Robust Nonparametric Bias-Corrected Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design"

 

Nov. 7

John Ham, University of Maryland

"Pollution, Test Scores and the Distribution of Academic Achievement: Evidence from California Schools 2002-2008" (w/J. Zweig and E. Avol)

 

Nov. 11, 11:30-1:00 PM

Matthew Harding, Stanford University

"A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Duration Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity"

 

Nov. 18, Friday

BC-BU Econometrics Mini-Conference

Program

 

Nov. 21

Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University

"Consumption Poverty in Canada 1997-2008" (w/S. Norris)

 

Nov. 28

Erica Field, Duke University

"Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia" (w/N. Ashraf and J. Lee)

 

Dec. 2, 11:30-1:00 PM

Dror Brenner, Brown University

"The Returns to Schooling and Family Income"