ECONOMICS 251

Labor Economics Seminar
Spring 2007
Professor David Card
E-mail:
608-7 Evans
Thursday, 2-4 p.m.
Professor Enrico Moretti
E-mail:

* Note Change in Day, Location and Time

Announcement: The seminar will begin on February 15.

February 15 Michael Greenstone, M.I.T. (visiting UC Berkeley)
Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US (with Olivier Deschenes)
February 22+ Alan Kruger, Princeton University
New Developments in Measuring Subjective Well-Being
- Joint with Psychology & Economics Seminar -
March 1 Cancelled - No Meeting
March 8+
Joe Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania
Housing Dynamics (with Edward Glaeser)
- Joint with Public Finance Seminar -
March 15+ Elaina Rose, University of Washington
Siblings and Soldiers: Family Background and Military Service in the All-Volunteer Era (Updated 03/13/07)
March 22
Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley
How Much Crime Reduction Does the Marginal Prisoner Buy?
(with Rucker Johnson)
March 29
Spring Break - No Meeting
April 5+
Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College
Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
(with Douglas Staiger)
April 12+
Francine Blau, Cornell University
Changes in The Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000
(with Lawrence M. Kahn)
April 19 Robert McMillan, University of Toronto (visiting UC Berkeley)
A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods
(with Patrick Bayer and Fernando Ferreira)
April 26+ Giulio Zanella, University of Sienna
Social Interactions and Mobility: Searching for the Best Neighborhood
(with Yannis Ioannides)
May 3+ Imran Rasul, University College London
Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks in the Workplace
- Joint with Development Seminar -

+ Denotes a lunch with the speaker is planned for Economics graduate students to attend via sign-up

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