ECONOMICS 291

Department Seminar
Spring 2007
Professor George A. Akerlof
E-mail:
608-7 Evans
Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m.

* Note Change in Day, Location and Time

Announcement: The seminar will begin on February 14 and then meet on selected weeks.

February 14 David Card, University of California, Berkeley
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools
(with Alexandre Mas and Jesse Rothstein)
February 21 David S. Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Crime and Optimal Punishment: Structural Estimates from a Quasi-Experiment
(with Justin McCrary)
March 14 Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Gender Based Taxation (with Andrea Ichino)
March 21
George A. Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley
Economics and Identity
April 4 Antonio Rangel, California Institute of Technology
The Role of Visual Attention in Simple Economic Choice
April 18
Botond Koszegi, University of California, Berkeley
Dynamic Reference-Dependent Preferences
(with Matthew Rabin)


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