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Boston College Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Fall 2007 Schedule

Organizer:
Peter Gottschalk

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., 21 Campanella Way,
Seminar Room 429 (unless otherwise noted).

Date

Speaker

Title

08/28 1:30-3:30 PM

In Choi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

"Efficient Estimation of Factor Models"

09/24

Patrik Guggenberger, UCLA

"On the Asymptotic Size of Testing Procedures"

Wed., 09/26,
12:00-1:30 PM
Heights Room
Corcoran Commons

Paul Zak, Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, Claremont Graduate School

"The Neuroeconomics of Trust"

10/01

John Knowles, University of Pennsylvania

"Why are Married Men Working so Much? The Macroeconomics of Bargaining Between Spouses"

10/15

Markus Jäntti, Abo Akademi University, visiting Russell Sage Foundation

"Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries" (w/O. Raaum, B. Bratsberg, K. Roed, E. Osterbacka, T. Eriksson, R. Naylor)

10/22

Arthur Lewbel, Boston College

"Returns to Lying When the Truth is Unobserved" and "Measurement Error Models Without Instruments" (w/Y. Hu)

10/29

Silvio Rendon, SUNY Stony Brook

"International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the U.S."

11/05

Jinyong Hahn, UCLA

"Adaptive Design of Multiple Stage Experiments Using the Propensity Score" (w/K. Hirano and D. Karlan)

11/12

Marco Leonardi, University of Milano

"Employment Protection Legislation and Wages" (w/G. Pica)

11/19

Eric Renault, University of North Carolina

"Efficient GMM with Nearly-Weak Identification" (w/B. Antoine)

11/26

Xiaohong Chen, Yale University

"Efficient Estimation of Sequential Moment Restrictions Containing Unknown Functions" (w/C. Ai) and "Efficient Estimation of Weighted Average Derivative of Nonparametric Quantile IV Regression" (w/D. Pouzo) and Abstracts

12/03

Melissa Tartari, Yale University

CANCELLED

12/10

Paola Giuliano, Harvard University

"The Power of the Family"(w/A. Alesina)

12/17

Shannon Seitz, BC

"An Empirical Model of Intra-Household Allocations and the Marriage Market"(w/E. Choo and A. Siow)

 

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