DEPARTMENT SEMINAR

Economics 291
Fall, 2003
Organizer: EMMANUEL SAEZ

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Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans Hall
Schedule: Wednesday, 4-6pm
         
* Friday,
September 12
2 - 4pm
Hank Farber , Princeton University
  "Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers"
Wednesday,
September 24
Tim Besley , London School of Economics
  "Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents" (joint with Maitrees Ghatak)
Wednesday,
October 15
John Karl Scholz , University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "Are Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement?" (joint with Ananth Seshadri and Surachai Khitatrakun)
Wednesday,
October 22
at 4:30 PM
George Loewenstein , Carnegie Mellon University
  "Affect in Economics: What Adam Smith knew and contemporary economists are beginning to discover."

Related Papers:
Wednesday,
October 29
Patrick Bolton , Princeton University
  "Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets" (joint with José Scheinkman, and Wei Xiong)
* Friday,
December 5
2 - 4pm
Larry Katz , Harvard University
  "Moving to Opportunity:Interim Impacts Evaluation (joint with L.Sanbonnmatsu, J.Liebman, J. Kling)

"Are Neighborhood Effects Nonlinear? Estimates from the MTO Experiment" (joint with J. Liebman and J. Kling)

Web link to the Executive Summary and full report
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