Joseph Altonji (Yale University)

Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use (joint with Sarah Cattan, Iain Ware)

Friday, September 17 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Aloysius Siow

Louis-Philippe Morin (University of Ottawa)

Gender and Competition: From the Lab into the Classroom

Friday, September 24 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University)

The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (joint with et al)

Friday, October 1 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton

Amy Finkelstein (MIT)

Selection On Moral Hazard In Health Insurance (joint with Liran Einav, Stephen Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark Cullen)

Friday, October 8 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Leah Brooks and Robert McMillan

Jean Marc Robin (Sciences Po Paris)

Marriage with Labor Market (joint with Nicolas Jacquemet)

Thursday, October 14 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics/Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gueorgui Kambourov, Robert McMillan, and Shouyong Shi

Christian Dippel (U Toronto)

Forced Integration and Economic Development - The Case of Native American Reservations

Friday, October 15 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Sacha Kapoor (U Toronto)

Incentive Provision in Multitask Jobs: Field Evidence from the Workplace

Friday, October 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University)

The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (joint with Jesse M. Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi)

Friday, October 29 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Hugh Macartney (U Toronto)

The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Friday, November 5 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Tat-kei Lai (U Toronto)

How Does Information and Communication Technology Affect Workplace Organization?

Friday, November 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University)

Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies (joint with Andrew C. Thomas)

Friday, November 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Econometrics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Martin Burda

Chris Robinson (University of Western Ontario)

Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth

Friday, November 26 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Dwayne Benjamin and Robert McMillan

Gregorio Caetano (University of Rochester)

Identification and Estimation of the Parental Value of School Quality in the US

Friday, December 3 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Lei Tang (U Toronto)

Heterogeneity in individual dynamic decision-making among Middle school, High school and University students

Friday, December 10 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Thomas Fujiwara (University of British Columbia)

Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil

Friday, January 21 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis

Shari Jane Eli (U.C. Berkeley)

Wealth is Health: Pensions and Disease Onset in the Gilded Age

Tuesday, January 25 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Elaine Kelly (University College London)

A Ticket to Ride: Does Free Bus Travel Promote Active Ageing?

Monday, January 31 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Leah Brooks

Koichiro Ito (UC Berkeley)

Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing

Wednesday, February 2 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizer: Matthew Turner

Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)

Strategy Choice in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma (joint with Guillaume Fréchette)

Friday, March 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Yosh Halberstam

Quy-Toan Do (World Bank)

On mechanisms of land acquisition

Friday, March 11 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Loren Brandt

Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan)

The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges (joint with Eleanor Dillon)

Friday, March 18 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Robert McMillan

Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas - Austin)

'Beauty is the Promise of Happiness'? (joint with Jason Abrevaya)

Friday, March 25 2011 16:00–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Michael Baker and Gustavo Bobonis

Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University)

Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access" (joint with Pinar Keskin)

Friday, April 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton

Alexander Gelber (University of Pennsylvania)

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men

Friday, April 8 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Michael Smart

Adam Found (U of Toronto)

Scale Economies in Municipal Services: A Look at General Government, Fire, and Police

Friday, April 15 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Adonis Yatchew