Spring 2001
Thursday, 4:00-6:00PM, 608-7 Evans
Organizer: Daniel McFadden

                           

January 25	Joint with recruitment seminar
February 1	Marcelo Moreira, UC Berkeley
	"Power of Test Statistics in the Simultaneous Equations Model"
February 8	Whitney Newey, MIT
	"Nonparametric Estimation with Nonlinear Budget Sets: New Results"
February 15	Guido Imbens, UCLA
	"Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score"
February 22	Cheng Hsiao, University of Southern California
	"Identification and Estimation of Nonstationary VAR Models"
March 1	Arnold Zellner, University of Chicago
	"Bayesian Modeling of Economies and Data Requirements"
March 8**	Joint with Departmental Seminar
March 15	Xiaohong Chen, London School of Economics
	"Non semi-parametric Engel Curve Estimation with Endogenous Total Expenditure"
March 22	Joachim Winter, University of Mannheim
	"Time preference and decision rules in a price search experiment"
April 5	Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan Lewis, UC Berkeley
	"Is Performance on the AFQT Exogenous? New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design"
	Chuan Goh, UC Berkeley
	"Bandwidth Selection for Density-Weighted Averages using the Bootstrap"
April 12**	Joint with Departmental Seminar
April 19	Anders Karlstrom, Royal Institute of Technology
	"Analyzing a Pension Reform: Econometric Models and Applied Welfare Economics
April 26	David Brownstone, UC Irvine
	"Modeling non-ignorable attrition and measurement error in panel surveys: an application to travel demand modeling"
May 3*	Jin Hahn, Brown University (Joint with Labor Seminar)
	"Bias Corrected Instrumental Variables Estimation for Dynamic Panel Models with Fixed Effects"

* Note change in time and place

** Note change in date, time and place