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ECONOMICS PROGRAM SEMINARS

Here is a list of the previous seminars

 


April 2009


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
3 April
Kunal Sengupta
University of Sydney

Multi-person Bargaining With Complementarity: Is There Holdout?
(with Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Indian Statistical Institute)

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
7 April
Akihito Asano
ANU School of Economics

Students' Bias Towards Native Speaking Tutors

In Seminar Room A at 12:00

Tuesday
14 April
Hongbin Li
Tsinghua University

Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources (with Mark Rosenzweig & Junsen Zhang)

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
17 April
Tom Wilkening
University of Melbourne

Authority, Delegation, and Incentives in Organization

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
21 April
Peng Liu
ANU Crawford School (PhD student)

Is Reaction to Terrorist Attack a Localised Event?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
24 April
Takashi Kurosaki
Hitotsubashi University

How Does Credit Access Affect Children’s Time Allocation? Evidence from Rural India

In Seminar Room A at 12:00

Tuesday
28 April
Chung Tran
University of New South Wales

Temptation and Social Security in Altruistic Framework


March 2009


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
3 March
Richard Cornes
Economics RSSS 

The Scope of Aggregative Games

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
6 March
Lee J Alston
University of Colorado at Boulder 

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
10 March
Prasanna Gai
ANU Crawford School of Economics & Government 

A Mini-Lecture on Current Financial Crisis

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
17 March
David Blau
Ohio State University

How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth Accumulation?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
20 March
Lisa Cameron
University of Melbourne

Mistargetting of Cash Transfers, Social Capital Destruction and Crime in Indonesia

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
24 March
Ken Troske
University of Kentucky

Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
31 March
Andrew Leigh
Economics RSSS

Does Fiscal Policy Reduce Unemployment? Evidence from Pork-Barrel Spending (with Christine Neill)

In Seminar Room A at 1:00

Tuesday
31 March
Ralf Steinhauser
Economics RSSS

Does raising teacher pay boost student achievement? A regression discontinuity approach (with Andrew Leigh & Damien Moore)


February 2009


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
3 February
Omer Moav
Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Royal Holloway, University of London

Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty
(with Zvika Neeman)

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
6 February
Deborah Cobb-Clark
Economics RSSS

Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
(with Juan Baron & Nisvan Erkal)

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
10 February
Bobbi Wolfe
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tribal Casino Gaming and the Income and Health Effects on American Indians
(with Jessica Jakubowski, Robert Haveman, Hannah Goble & Marissa Courey, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
13 February
Bob Haveman
University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Role of Education and Occupation in U.S. Social Mobility: A Glimpse Inside the Black Box
(with Kathryn Wilson, Kent State University & Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
17 February
Martine Mariotti
Economics RSSS

Labor Markets during Apartheid in South Africa

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
20 February
Loren Brandt
University of Toronto

Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

In Seminar Room A from 12:00 - 1:30 note new day and time

Monday
27 February

Christian Dustmann
University College London

Growing Up in a High Crime Area and Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from a Random Allocation Experiment
(with Anna Piil Damm)

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 February

Vincent Hildebrand
York University

Height, Weight and Wage in Europe: A Semi-parametric Analysis


January 2009


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 January
Christian Dustmann
University College London

Ethnic Segregation in the Workplace
(with Albrecht Glitz & Uta Schoenberg)

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
27 January
Juan Baron
Economics RSSS Phd Student
Did Plan Colombia reduce homicide?

In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
30 January
Bob Gregory
Economics RSSS
Income Dynamics of the Working Poor with Children

December 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
2 December
Dandan Zhang
Economics RSSS PhD Student
Labour Market Impacts of Rural Migrants on Urban Residents in Chinese Cities.

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
5 December
Robert Slonim
University of Sydney

Creating or stealing altruism? Material incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
9 December

No Meeting --- RSSS Economics and Democracy Conference

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
12 December
Tim Hatton
RSSS, ANU

The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order


November 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
4 November

No Seminar - Public Holiday

In Seminar Room A at 10:30 - 5:30

Thursday
6 November

Workshop on British Economic and Social History

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 November
Peter Siminski
University of Wollongong

A QuasiDifferenced Panel Data Analysis of the Australian Public-Private Sector Wage Differential

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
11 November
Uwe Dulleck
Queensland University of Technology
The Experimental Economics of Credence Goods: On the importance of Liabilitity, Verifiability, Competition and Reputation

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 November
Alan Hamlin
University of Manchester

What is interesting about Conservatism?

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
18 November
Markus Schaffner
QUT, PhD Student
Using Heart Rate Variability Measurements to Examine the Relationship between Mental Stress and Economic Decision Making

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 November
Jan van Ours
Tilburg University

Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
25 November
Mathias Sinning
Economics Program RSSS
Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

In Coombs Lecture Theatre 8:30

Thursday
27 November

ANU Economics Showcase
Highlighting the breadth and depth of economics across campus

In Coombs Lecture Theatre 8:30

Friday
28 November

ANU Economics Showcase
Highlighting the breadth and depth of economics across campus

In Coombs Lecture Theatre 3:30

Friday
28 November
Richard Burkhauser
Cornell University

Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

October 2008


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
3 October
Nada Wasi
UTS

Modeling Heterogeneity in Consumer Choice Behavior: the G-MNL and MM-MNL models

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
7 October
Katherine Uylangco
University of Newcastle
An Examination of Within-Match Sports Betting in Tennis Matches

In Room 1012B (Faculty Suite), H. W. Arndt Building (25A), ANU Campus at 2:00
Joint Seminar with School of Economics - note new day, time and location

Thursday
9 October

John Quiggen
University of Queensland

Discounting, risk and equity in one easy lesson: What utility theory can (and can’t) tell us about climate change policy

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
14 October
Sylwia Nowak
PhD Student at the School of Economics, ANU

How Do Public Announcements Affect the Frequency of Trading in U.S. Airline Stocks?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
17 October
Ben Greiner
UNSW

Engineering Trust: Reciprocity and Strategic Behavior in the Production of Reputation Information

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
24 October

William Coleman
CBE

The Property Owning Democracy as Destructive of the Labour Monopoly Explanation of Unemployment

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
28 October
Chikako Yamauchi
Economics RSSS

The Effect of Child Care Openings on Utilization and Maternal Labor Supply

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
31 October

Dirk Bethmann
QUT

World War II, Missing Men, and Out-Of-Wedlock Chilbearing


September 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
2 September
Quan Gan
University of New South Wales

Housing Affordability Measurement

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
5 September
Olena Stavrunova
UTS

Background Risk and Household Portfolio Choice: Bayesian Analysis of a Generalized Selection Model

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
9 September
Yuji Tamura
Economics RSSS ANU

Role of Economic Concerns in Preference Formation

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
12 September
Steven Haider
Michigan State University

Can We Explain Black-White Disparities in Infant Mortality?

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
16 September
Lixin Cai
Melbourne Institute

Union Wage Effects in Australia: Evidence from Panel Data

In Short Course Room 1 Sir Roland Wilson building (Bldg. 120) at 4:00-5:30 -- Joint seminar with CAMA

Tuesday
16 September
David Vines
University of Oxford

Strategic Interactions between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
19 September

Sambit Bhattacharyya
RSPAS, ANU

Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption

In Seminar Room A at 3:00 - Note new day and time

Wednesday
24 September
Kotaro Suzumura
Hitotsubashi University

External Norms and Rationality of Choice

In Seminar Room A at 3:00 - Note new time

Friday
26 September

Michael Burda
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
30 September
Leng Lee
Oxford University PhD Student

Many children left behind: The welfare effect of rural-urban migration


August 2008


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
1 August
Mario Fiorini
UTS

The Effect of Home Computer Use on Children’s Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
5 August
Cathy Gong
Economics RSSS PhD Student

Household Income Mobility and Determinants of Income Change In Urban China 1992-2001

In the Arndt Building at 3:30 - Joint seminar with School of Economics

Friday
8 August
Leonard Mirman
University of Virginia

Choice and Allocation of a Risky Asset through Markets and Prices

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
12 August
Michelle Tan
Economics RSSS PhD Student

Investigating the relationship between personality and wages in Australia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
15 August

Mikal Skuterud
University of Waterloo

Immigrant Wage Assimilation: The Role of Model
Specification, Measurement Error, and Unobserved
Heterogeneity in Estimation

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
19 August
Xunpeng Shi
Economics Crawford PhD Student

Productivity and Efficiency of China’s Coal Mines: The Impacts of Transition Policies and Reforms.

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
22 August

Emilson Silva
Georgia Tech

Equitable and Efficient Federal Structures with Interregional Redistribution, Interregional Spillovers and Regional Attachment of Heterogeneous Labor

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
26 August
Kris Inwood
University of Guelph

Inequality and Physical Well-Being among Colored and White Men in the Cape Colony before 1900

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
29 August

Bill Griffiths
University of Melbourne

Posterior Distributions for Welfare Changes in Agricultural
Commodity Markets


July 2008


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
4 July
Maria Racionero
School of Economics, ANU

Unequal wages for equal utilities

In Seminar Room D at 2:00 - Note new day, time and venue

Monday
7 July
Joanna Poyago-Theotoky
Loughborough University

University Funding Systems and their Impact
on Research and Teaching

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
8 July
Peng Liu
Economics Crawford
PhD Student

Is Terrorist Attack a Localised Event? Comparison of the Labour Market Effects of September 11 and London Bombing on Middle Eastern Residents in UK

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
15 July
Raja Junankar
University of Western Sydney

Housing over the Life Cycle for Migrants

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 July
Martin Browning
University of Oxford

Spending time and money within the household

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
22 July
David Gray
University of Ottowa

Does the Sophistication of Unemployment Insurance Use Grow with Experience?  Evidence on Learning Effects in Canada

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
25 July
David Gray
University of Ottowa

Displacement of older workers: hastened retirement, disability, or other destimations

In Seminar Room A at 11:30 - 1:00 - Note new day and time

Monday
28 July
Dale Poirier
UC Irvine

Bayesian Interpretations of Heteroskedastic Consistent Covariance Estimators Using the Informed Bayesian Bootstrap


June 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
3 June
David Johnstone
University of Melbourne

Happiness Dynamics in Quarterly Data

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
6 June
Monika Bütler
Universität St. Gallen

The Role of the Annuity's Value on the Decision (Not) to Annuitize: Evidence from a Large Policy Experiment

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
10 June
Louis Jacobson
CNA Corporation

No Child Left Behind in the United States

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
13 June
Timo Henckel
Crawford ANU

Central Bank Credibility When Agents Have Inferential Expectations

Finkel Lecture Theatre, JCSMR

Thursday
19 June

Conference - New Techniques in Development Economics

Finkel Lecture Theatre, JCSMR

Friday
20 June
No Friday Seminar

Conference - New Techniques in Development Economics

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
24 June
Paul Burke
Economics RSPAS
PhD Student

Economic Growth and Democratisation

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 June
Philip Clarke
University of Sydney

Measuring achievement: Changes in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Australia


May 2008


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
2 May
Kieron Meagher
RSSS and UNSW

Foundation Seminar - Big Decisions and Little Fish: Theory and Evidence on Competition, Uncertainty and Delegation in Firms

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
6 May
Daniel Suryadarma
Economics RSSS PhD Student

Labour Market Returns to Ability in Developing and Developed Countries

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
9 May
Bruno Decreuse
University of Aix-Marseilles II

FDI and the labor share in developing countries: A theory and some evidence

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
16 May
Bob Schoeni
University of Michigan

The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course

Room 104, H. C. Coombs Extension 12:30 - 4:30

Tuesday
20 May
Robert Breunig
Rob Bray
Chris Ryan
Nicole Watson
Andrew Weiss

Special Workshop on Measurement Error

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 May
Karine Gente
CEDERS

Net Foreign Assets, Productivity and Real Exchange Rates in Constrained Economies

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
30 May
Lixin Cai
Melbourne Institute

The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model


April 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
1 April
David Prentice
Latrobe University

The roles of innovation, standardization and demand in the takeoff of the Portland cement industry

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
4 April
Jeffrey Williamson
Harvard University

Ancient Inequality

In Law Sparke Helmore Theatre 2 at 12:30 - Note new venue

Tuesday
8 April
Francesca Cornaglia
Queen Mary University of London & CEP LSE

The New Economics of Smoking

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
11 April
Paul Oslington
U
niversity of Notre Dame Australia

Adam Smith as Natural Theologian

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
15 April
Yuji Tamura
Economics RSSS

Abuse of Smuggled Migrants

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 April
Leah Brooks
McGill University

Inside the Gift Horse's Mouth: City Spending, Political Institutions, and the Community Development Block Grant Program

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
22 April
Myoung-jae Lee
Korea University

Measuring the Usage Effects of Tying a Messenger to Windows

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
25 April

No Seminar - Anzac Day & Labour Econometrics Workshop

In Baume Theatre at 1:00 - Note different Location and Time!

Tuesday
29 April
John Quiggin
University
of Queensland
Discounting and Intergenerational Equity

March 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
4 March
Gillian Hamilton
University of Toronto

Economic Status and Reproductive Success in New France

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 March
Richard Cornes
RSSS, ANU

Public Goods with Best-shot Technologies

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
11 March
Katrien Stevens
University College London
Adverse Economic Conditions at Labor Market Entry: Permanent Scars or Rapid Catch-up?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 March
Stephanie McWhinnie
University of Adelaide

The Impact of Rights-Based Management Regimes
on Fishery Productivity

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
18 March
Andrew Leigh
RSSS ANU

Media Slant

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 March
 

No Seminar - Good Friday

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
25 March
Maxym Chaban
University of Saskatchewan

Commodity currencies and equity flows

In Seminar Room D at 12:30 - Note 2 seminars today

Friday
28 March
Mirko Draca
Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics

Panic on the Streets of London

In Seminar Room A at 3:30 - Joined with School of Economics Seminar

Friday
28 March
Gary Hansen
UCLA

Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle:
How Important is On-The-Job Skill Accumulation?


February 2008


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
5 February
Philip Clarke
University of Sydney

Improving the Accuracy of Estimates of the Concentration Index when Income Data is Grouped

In Seminar Room E at 12:30 - Job Talk

Wednesday
6 February
Stephen Cheung,
University of Sydney

A Test of Employer Learning in the Labour Market for Young Australians

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
8 February
Bobbi Wolfe
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation:
The Case of ADHD Revisited

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
12 February
Robert Haveman
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Long Term Effects of Low Income Housing Vouchers on Geographic Mobility, Work and Earnings

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
15 February
 

No Seminar

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
19 February
Keiron Meagher
Economics RSSS ANU
Imperfect Competition in Incomplete Contracts: Public-Private Partnerships

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Friday
22 February
Damien Eldridge
La Trobe University
Multiple interactions and the management of local commons.

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
26 February
Michael Baker
University of Toronto

Evidence from maternity leave expansions of the impact of maternal care on early child development

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Friday
29February
Liana Jacobi
University of Melbourne.

Hard drug uptake among cannabis users: A Bayesian analysis


January 2008


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
22 January
Peng Yu
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Any causal relationship between parental income support receipt and child mortality? An Analysis of a cohort of Australian children with the Second Transgenerational Data Set

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
25 January
Robert Fairlie
University of California Santa Cruz

Mexican-American Entrepreneurship


December 2007


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
4 December
Jenny Williams
University of Melbourne

Cannabis Use and Mental Health

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 December
Jeff Borland
University of Melbourne

Does the AFL draft cause perverse incentive effects?

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
11 December
Christian Dustmann
University College London

The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 December
Michael Shields
Central Michigan University

Why Should State Government Invest in College Education?  An Equilibrium Approach For the US in 2000

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
18 December
Robert Fairlie
University of California Santa Cruz

Does employer based health insurance limit entrepreneurship?


November 2007


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
2 November
Shiko Maruyama
University of New South Wales

Measuring the Welfare Effect of Entry in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Medicare HMOs

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
9 November
Paulo Santos
University of Sydney

Heterogeneous wealth dynamics: on the roles of risk and ability

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
13 November
Geoffrey Brennan
Economics, RSSS

G. Brennan's Research Agenda

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
16 November
Joachim Frick
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)

Representative wealth data for Germany: The impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
20 November
 

Cancelled for the SPR(FaCSIA) Workshop

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 November

Cancelled for Trevor Swan Lecture by Kym Anderson

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
30 November

Cancelled for ANU Economics Showcase


October 2007


In Seminar Room D at 2:30 (Note new time)

Tuesday
2 October
Robert Breunig
Faculty, ANU

Disparate Interests: intra-household behaviour, firm dynamics and applications of non-parametric econometrics

In Seminar Room D at 10:00 (Note new day and time)

Wednesday
3 October
Richard Cornes
University of Nottigham

Four Neat Tricks for Games in Public Economics

In Seminar Room D at 2:30 (Note new day and time)

Wednesday
3 October
Michael Neugart
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Choice of Insurance in Labor Market

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
12 October
Sunghee Jeon
Melbourne Institute

CANCELLED

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
16 October
Gigi Foster
University of South Australia

Estimating Spillovers using Panel Data, with an Application to
the Classroom

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
19 October
Robert Kohn
University of New South Wales

Regression Density Estimation Using Smoothly Varying Normal Mixtures

In Seminar Room D at 12:30 Joint with Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI)

Tuesday
23 October
Julie Da Vanzo
RAND Institute

Dire Demographics:  Population Trends in Russia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
26 October
Nadezhda (Nadya) Baryshnikova
University of Adelaide

Pollution Abatement and Environmental Equity: A Dynamic Study

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
30 October
Michelle Tan
PhD Student
Economics RSSS

Is Divorce “Really” that Bad for the Mental Health of Children?


September 2007


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
4 September
Simon Gaechter
University of Nottingham

Performance Incentives and the Dynamics of Voluntary Cooperation

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 September
Denzil Fiebig 
University of New South Wales

Preferences for New and Alternative Cervical Screening Technologies: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment with Nested Choices

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
11 September
Ralf Steinhauser
Economics RSSS

Snooping Kuznets: We Just Ran A Billion Regressions. Forecasting US CO2 Emissions Using State-Level Data

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 September
John Gibson
University of Waikato

Landmines and the Value of Statistical Life in Cambodia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 September
Lorraine Dearden 
University of London

Using Copula Functions to Simulate the Lifetime Earnings Paths of Higher Education Graduates

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
28 September
Chris Pissarides
London School of Economics

The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?


August 2007


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
3 August
Harry Clarke
La Trobe University

The Regulation of Tobacco Smoking in Australia

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
7 August
Leon Berkelmans
Harvard

Generally General Equilibrium: Imperfect Common Knowledge and Confusion

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
10 August

Cancelled for Labour Econometrics Workshop - Aug 10 & 11th

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
14 August
Jim Spletzer
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Are the New Jobs Good Jobs

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
17 August
Emma Aisbett
RSSS, ANU

Police-powers, Regulatory Takings and the Efficient Compensation of Domestic and Foreign Investors

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
24 August
Pataporn Sukontamarn
University of Adelaide

Micro-credit, Fertility Decisions, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh

In Seminar Room D, 12:00 - 1:30pm (note different time)

Tuesday
21 August
Xin Meng
RSPAS, ANU

The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
31 August
KK Tang
University of Queensland

Analysis of Health Outcomes and Health System Efficiency using Realisation of Potential Life Years Saved (RePLYS): Evidence from the OECD


July 2007


In Seminar Room E at 12:00 - note change of day and venue

Monday
2 July
Daniel S. Hamermesh
University of Texas

Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
6 July
Roger Wilkins
Melbourne Institute

Earnings Premia for Observed and Unobserved Skill in Australia: Evidence and Explanations

In Seminar Room D at 12:30 - with RSPAS

Tuesday
10 July
Roland Hodler
Melbourne Institute

Institutions, Trade and the Political Economy of Financial Development

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
13 July
David Ribar
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
17 July
Jim Vere
University of Hong Kong

Social Security and Elderly Workers’ Labor Supply: A New Look at the Notch Cohorts

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
20 July
Benno Torgler
Queensland University of Technology

Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
24 July
Raj Arunachalam
University of Michigan

The Price of Fertility: Marriage Markets and Family Planning in Bangladesh

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 July
Martin Richardson
Faculty, ANU

Fair Trade


June 2007


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
1 June
Ian Walker
University of Warwick,
visiting at UNSW

The Returns to Observable and Unobservable Skills over Time: Evidence from a Panel of the Population of Danish Twins

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
5 June
Nisvan Erkal
University of Melbourne

Cooperative R&D under Uncertainty with Free Entry

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
8 June
Umut Oguzoglu
Melbourne Institute

Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
15 June
Fernando Lozano
Pomona College

Labor Market Outcomes of Mexican Women in Mexico and the United States

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
22 June
Andrew Clarke
University of Melbourne

The Dynamics of Learning in Manufacturing Establishments

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
26 June

Cancelled

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
29 June
Jim Spletzer
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Household- versus Establishment-Based Employment Measures: Can Issues with Measuring Self-Employment, Job Changing, or Multiple Job-Holding Explain Why Their Trends Have Differed?


May 2007


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
1 May
Tue Gorgens
SPEAR, RSSS, ANU

State Dependence in Australian Youth labor Market Experiences

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
4 May
Pablo Guillen
University of Sydney

Demographics and Performance in Economic Experiments: a Meta-Analysis.

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
11 May
Pushkar Maitra
Monash University

Social Pension, Migration and the Anticipation Effect: Evidence from South Africa

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
15 May
William Coleman
School of Economics, ANU

Trade Unionism and the Formulation of the Chicago Alternative to Keynesian Macroeconomics

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 May
Michael Keane
Uni of Technology, Sydney

The Career Decisions of Young Women

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
25 May
Hielke Buddelmeyer
Melbourne Institute

Parent's Perception of their Children's Weight

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
29 May
Seamus McGuinness
University of Melbourne

Overskilling, Job Security and Career Mobility


April 2007


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
3 April
Andrew Leigh
SPEAR, RSSS, ANU

Are Weekend Births More Dangerous?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
6 April
No Seminar

Good Friday

In Seminar Room A at 3:30 - Jointly with RSPAS

Friday
13 April
Catherine de Fontenay
University of Melbourne

Crime in Developing Countries

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
20 April
Russell Hillberry
University of Melbourne

Demographics, Ideology and Voting Behavior: A principal components analysis of state-wide ballot measures

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
24 April
Shane Worner
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Assortative Mating and Life Satisfaction, is there a Premium to being Positively Assortative Mating?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 April
Kazuki Onji
Crawford School , ANU

The Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Monitoring in Language Teaching: Evidence from daily records of self-learning English-listening activities


March 2007


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
2 March
Cuong Nguyen Viet
Nat’l Economics University, Hanoi

Poverty Targeting and Impact of Micro-Credit Program in Vietnam

In Seminar Room D at 12:30 - Cancelled

Tuesday
6 March
Andrew Leigh
SPEAR, RSSS, ANU

Are Weekend Births More Dangerous?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30 - Cancelled

Friday
9 March
Timo Henckel
Crawford School, ANU

TBA

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
16 March
Thor Olav Thoresen
Research Statistics, Norway

A Discrete Choice Model for Labor Supply and Child Care

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
20 March
Hazel Lim-Applegate
University of Canberra

TBA

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 March
Martin Richardson
School of Economics, ANU

Cancelled

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
27 March
Juan Baron
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Investigating the Determinants of Partner Abuse Against Women in Colombia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
30 March
Manisha Shah
University of Melbourne

Sex Work and Infection: What's Law Enforcement Got to Do With it?


February 2007


In Seminar Room B at 3:30 note different day and venue

Thursday
1 February
Arye Hillman
Bar-Ilan University

Development Failure

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
2 February
Jennifer Foster
University of SA
The Quantity and Quality of Child Care Provision in Australian Households

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
9 February
Jonah Rockoff
Columbia University

Predicting Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from New York City

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
13 February
Martin Byford
University of Melbourne

A Constrained Coalitional Approach to Price Formation

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
16 February
 

No Seminar - Swan Lecture
Sir Anthony Atkinson, Oxford University

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
20 February
Declan Trott
PhD Scholar, The Faculties

Give Leontief a Chance: aggregate versus occupational labour demand elasticities

In Seminar Room E at 12:00 - note different day, venue and time

Wednesday
21 February
Wanchuan Lin
University of California, LA

Why has Health Inequality Among Infants Declined?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 February
Sandro Cigno
Universita di Firenze

Division of Labour by Gender

 


January 2007


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
23 January
John Witte
University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Political Economy of School Choice: Charter Schools, Open Enrollment and Competition in American States

 


December 2006


Friday
1 December

No Seminar - Immigration Conference

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
5 December
Karen Mumford
University of York

Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britian

In Seminar Room E at 12:30 - note different day and venue

Wednesday
6 December
Christian Dustmann
University College London

Wages Structures and the Distribution of Wages in Germany

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
8 December
Anna Piil Damm
Aarhus School of Business

TBA

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
12 December
Peter Smith
University of York

The New Consensus in Monetary Policy: Is the NKM fit for the purpose of inflation targeting?

 


November 2006


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
3 November
Rod Tyers
Faculties, ANU

The Global Implications of Freer Skilled Migration

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
7 November
Rhema Vaithianathan
University of Auckland

Sibling Effects in Child Labor

 

Friday
10 November

No Seminar - PhD Conference

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
14 November

No Seminar

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
17 November
Patricia Apps
University of Sydney

Female Labour Supply, Tax and the New Discrimination - [no paper]

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
21 November
Dilaka Lathapipat
PhD Scholar, RSSS

A New Decomposition of the Wage Differential Between Genders

Friday
24 November

No Seminar - Swan Lecture

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
28 November
Philip Clarke
University of Sydney

Measuring Health Achievement: should we us an index or a plane?


October 2006


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
3 October
Hiau Joo Kee
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Culture and Fertility: Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain

 

Friday
6 October

No Seminar - Swan Lecture

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
10 October
Christine Neill
University of Toronto

The Effect of Tuition Fees on Students' Work in Canada

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
13 October
Francis Castles
University of Edinburgh

Social Expenditure and the Politics of Redistribution

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
17 October
Christine Yeo
PhD Scholar, RSPAS

Public Health Insurance Reform and Healthcare Utilization in Urban China

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
20 October
Guyonne Kalb
University of Melbourne
The Use of Childcare in Australia; the Evidence Different Data Sources

In Seminar Room D at 1:15 - 2:00 NOTE: new time

Tuesday
24 October
Michelle Tan
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Collecting Child Support Through the Tax System: Does this Affect Tax Payer Behaviour?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 October
TBA TBA

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
31 October
Shane Worner
PhD Scholar, RSSS

The Effects of Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: a decompositional analysis

 


September 2006


Friday
1 September

No Seminar - Swan Lecture

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
8 September
David Prentice
Latrobe University

Did the Australian Workplace Relations Act Increase Productivity?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
15 September
John Asker
New York University
Sharing Underwriters with Rivals: Implications for Competition in Investment Banking (with Alexander Ljungqvist)

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
22 September
Paul Frijters
Queensland Uni of Tech
Income and Happiness: Evidence, Explanations and Economic Implications

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
29 September
Colin Cameron
Uni of California, Davis
Robust Inference with Multi-way Clustering

August 2006


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
15 August
Ashley Lester
Brown University

When and Why Did Technical Change Become Skill-Biased?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 August
Phillip McCalman
Uni of California, Santa Cruz

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity Within and Across Industries: Theory and Evidence

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
22 August
Frank Vella
Georgetown University

Estimating a Class of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Exclusion Restrictions

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
25 August
Robert Russell
Uni of California, Riverside
Axiomatic Foundations of Efficiency Measurement on Data-Generated Technologies

In Seminar Room B at 3:30 - note different day and venue

Wednesday
30 August
Susan Mayer
University of Chicago
Government Policy and the Trend in Intergenerational Income Mobility

July 2006


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
4 July
Raja Junankar
Uni of Western Sydney

The Performance of the Australian Macroeconomy: Ten Years of John Howard

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 July
Richard Freeman
Harvard/LSE

Optimal Inequality: Experimental Evidence in a Tournament Setting

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 July
Peter Stemp
University of Melbourne

Solving Non-linear Models with Saddle-path Instabilities

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
28 July
Susana Iranzo
University of Sydney
College Education, Skill-Biased Technological Adoption and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from the US

June 2006


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
2 June
Kostas Mavromaras
Melbourne Institute

On the Post-unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
9 June
Max Tani
ADFA

Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
16 June
Harry Paarsch
University of Iowa

Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Space: An Application to British Columbia Forestry

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 June
Tina Kao
ANU Faculties

Bundling and Foreclosure (joint paper with Flavio Menezes)

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
30 June
Simon Grant
Rice University

Choice Under Uncertainty with the Best and Worst in Mind: Neo-additive Capacities


May 2006


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
5 May
Nic de Roos
University of Sydney

Decision Making Under Risk in Deal or no Deal

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
9 May
Benoit Freyens
ADFA

Effort Selection with Heterogeneous Dismissal Protection

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
12 May
Facundo Sepulveda
RSSS, ANU

The Market for Health Insurance with an Insurer of Last Resort

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
16 May
Juan Baron
PhD Scholar, RSSS

A Distributional Analysis of Gender Wage Differences in Australia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
19 May
Thorsten Stromback
Curtin University

By Chance or Choice: The Regulation of the Apprenticeship System in Australia, 1900-1930

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
30 May
Ann Harding
NATSEM

Assessing the Distributional Impact of Policy Change: Recent Developments in Microsimulation Modelling


April 2006


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 April
Vasilis Sarafidis
University of Sydney

A Test of Cross Section Dependence for a Linear Dynaic Panel Model with Aggressors

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 April

No Seminar - Good Friday

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 April
Chris Ryan
SPEAR, RSSS

Why are High Ability Individuals from Poor Backgrounds Under-Represented at University?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
28 April
Hajime Katayama
University of Sydney

Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?


March 2006


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
3 March
Andrew Leigh
SPEAR, ANU

TBA

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
7 March
Elliott Fan
RSSS, ANU

Public Pensions, Income Security and Consumption

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
10 March
Bob Gregory and Philip Clarke
RSSS, ANU & University of Sydney

Death is Expensive, Why not Live Longer? "Health Expenditure Projections for an Ageing Population"

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
14 March
Shane Worner
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Income Inequality and Assortative Mating in Australia

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Wednesday
15 March
Peng Yu
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Low Earnings, a Sticky Stepping Stone for Unemployment Benefit Recipients

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
17 March
Carol Propper
University of Bristol

Is Being in a Good Labour Market Bad for Your Health? The Impact of Skills and the Labor Market on Quality and Productivity in a Panel of Hospitals

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
21 March
Ian McRae
NCEPH, ANU

Factors Driving Change in Australian General Practice

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
24 March

Elliott Fan
RSSS, ANU

Income Transfers and Elderly Immigrants in Canada

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
31 March
Michael Graff
University of QLD

International Business Cycles. Theory and Evidence


February 2006


In Seminar Room E at 12:30

Friday
3 February
Gigi Foster
University of SA

Do Students Want to Succeed? Peer Group Choice, Social Influence, and Undergraduate Performance

Coombs Lecture Theatre at 10-11am. Jointly with NATSEM, University of Canberra

Tuesday
7 February
James Heckman
University of Chicago

Measuring the Shifting Returns to Skill in a Modern Economy

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
7 February
Russell Ross
University of Sydney

On the Links between Self Assessment Health and Labour Force Status: Evidence for Indigenous Australia

In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
10 February
Bobbi Wolfe and Bob Haveman
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Youth Responses to Expected Income and‘Relationship’ Consequences in Nonmarital Childbearing Choices: Are Youths Rational?

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
14 February
Chikako Yamauchi
SPEAR, RSSS

Governance and Delivery of Anti-Poverty Program

In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
17 February
Mick Coelli
University of Melbourne

Breaking the Cycle? The Effect of Education onWelfare Receipt Among Children of Welfare Recipients

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
21 February
Robert Ackland
ACSPRI, Centre for Social Research, Research School of Social Sciences

A Model of the Link Economy

In Seminar Room A at 3:30 (Note: Seminar Room A Resumes)

Friday
24 February
Chris Skeels
University of Melbourne

Some Recent Developments for Inference in Weakly Identified Structural Equations Models

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
28 February
Frank Lichtenberg
Columbia Business School

Pharmaceutical Innovation and Cancer Survival: U.S. and International Evidence


January 2006


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
24 January
Facundo Sepulveda
RSSS, ANU

Optimal Government Regulations and Red Tape in an Economy with Corruption

In Seminar Room D at 12:30 - Jointly with CAMA, RSPAS

Tuesday
31 January
Viv Hall
Victoria University of Wellington

Evolution of the New Zealand Business Cycle

 


December 2005


Tuesday
6 December

no seminar ALMR Workshop

In Seminar Room D at 3:30 (note change of venue due to renovations in A)

Friday
9 December
Christian Dustmann
University College London

TBA

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
13 December
Stephen Whelan
University of Sydney

TBA


November 2005


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
1 November
Benoit Freyens
ADFA

Dismissal Costs and their Impact on Employment: Evidence from Australian Small and Medium Enterprises

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
4 November
Philip Clarke
Oxford/RSSS

Optimal Recall Length in Survey Design

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
8 November
Martin Fukac
CERGE-EI

Should Private Expectations Concern Central Bankers?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
11 November
Jonathan Kearns
Reserve Bank of Australia

The Australian Business Cycle: A Coincident Indicator Approach

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
15 November
Philip Clarke
Oxford/RSSS

The Economics of Stockpiling of Antiviral Therapies for Use in Influenza Pandemic

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 November
Francesca Cornaglia
University College London

The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
22 November
Hiau Joo Kee
PhD Scholar, RSSS

How Much Does It Cost? Estimating the Costs of Motherhood by HILDA

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Friday
25 November
Nick Carroll
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Drought, Income and List Satisfaction

 


October 2005


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
4 October
Shane Worner
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Marriage and Education

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 October
Heather Anderson
ANU Faculties

Random Walk Smooth Transition Autoregressive Models

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
11 October
Peng Yu
PhD Scholar, RSSS

How Reliable Are Survey Data on Welfare Reliance:
A
Comparison of Australian Survey and Administrative Data

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 October
Emma Welch
ANU Faculties

A Solution to the Ownership-Performance Puzzle

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
18 October
Nicholas Biddle
PhD Scholar, CAEPR, ANU

CDEP, Neighbourhood or Household Characteristics: What Influences an Indigenous Youth to Continue on at School

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 October
Steve Dowrick
ANU Faculties

Measuring Global Poverty: Why PPP Methods Matter

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
25 October
Nicolas Herault
University of Bordeaux

Building and Linking a Microsimulation Model to a CGE Model: The South African Microsimulation Model

In Seminar Room E at 12:30

Wednesday
26 October
Tina Chang
ESPR

Dynamics of Internet Banking Adoption

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
28 October
Mary Morgan
London School of Economics

Measuring Instruments in Economics and the Velocity of Money


September 2005


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
13 September
Mel Butler
SPEAR, RSSS, ANU

A Hitchhikers Guide to Vocational, Education and Training Datasets

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Frisday
16 September
Agnes Walker
ANU NCEPH

Impact of Health on the Ability of Older Australians to Stay in the Workforce

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23 September
Jan Van Ours
Tilburg University

How Eligibility Criteria and Entitlement Characteristics of Unemployment Benefits Affect Job Finding Rates of Elderly Workers

 

Tuesday
27 September

No seminar - ACE Conference

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
30 September
Daniel Mulino
Monash University

Deal or No Deal”: A field experiment of risk aversion with very high stakes


August 2005


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
5 August
John Giles
Michigan State University

Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
9 August
Linda Richardson
DEWR

Effects of Tax and Transfer Changes on Households with Children

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
16 August
Bruce Weinberg
Ohio State University

People People: Social Capital and the Labour-Market Outcome of Underrepresented Groups

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
19 August
Paul Oslington
ADFA

Patterns of Specialisation, Diversification and Factor Prices in a World Economy Model

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
23 August
David Haugh
PhD Scholar, RSSS

The Influence of Consumer Confidence and Stock Prices on the US Business Cycle 1953-2003

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
26 August
Tim Hatton
ANU Faculties

Trade Policy and Migration Policy: Why the Difference?


July 2005


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
1 July
Hilary Hoynes
UC Davis

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
8 July
Richard Holden
Harvard University

Tba

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
12 July
Peter Whiteford
OECD

The Welfare Expenditure Debate: “Economic Myths of the Left and the Right” Revisited

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
15 July
Maria Racionero
ANU Faculties

Financing Schemes for Higher Education


June 2005


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
7 June
Drew Treasure
RSSS ANU

Powerpoint Seminar

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
10 June
Solomos Solomou
Cambridge University

Episodic Long Swings of Economic Growth: Japan 1885-1938

In Seminar Room C at 3:30

Wednesday
15 June
Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas at Austin

The Nature of Discrimination

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
21 June
Andrew Leigh
SPEAR/RSSS ANU

Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
24 June
Paul Frijters
RSSS ANU

Tba


May 2005


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
10 May
Bob Gregory & Paul Frijters
RSSS ANU

What are the Right Questions?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
13 May
Chris Ryan
RSSS ANU

School Achievement Effects on Subsequent Educational Attainment: Results from a Policy-Induced Natural Experiment

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
24 May
Nick Carroll
Phd Scholor, RSSS ANU

Unemployment and Psychological Well-being in Australia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 May
Philip Clarke & Tue Gorgens
Oxford University & RSSS ANU

Modeling Lifetime Health Care Costs: Insights from Australian individual health expenditure data


April 2005


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
1 April
Yvon Rocaboy
University of Rennes

Finite-Lived Politicians and Yardstick Competition

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
8 April
Michael Hoy
University of Guelph

Welfare Effects of Banning Genetic Information in the Life Insurance Market

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
19 April
Peng Yu
PhD Scholar, RSSS

Analysing Fertility

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
26 April
Damien Eldridge
University of Texas at Austin

Levering Relationships: Vicarious reputation in a moral hazard supergame

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
29 April
Vincent Hildebrand
York University

Tba


March 2005


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
4 March
Justin Trogdon
University of Adelaide

Hospital Volume and Quality of Care: Selective-referral or Practice-makes-perfect?

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
8 March
Andrew Leigh
SPEAR/RSSS

Minimum Wages and Family Income

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
11 March
Nicholas Dimsdale
Oxford University

Real Wages and Unemployment in Interwar Germany

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 March
Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu
Deakin University

Institutions and Economic Growth: A Systems Approach


 


February 2005


In Seminar Room E at 3.30pm (Note: different seminar room)

Friday
4 February
Tina Kao
ANU Faculties

Licensing of Sequential Innovations

In Seminar Room B at 2:00

Monday
7 February
Nick Carroll
Phd scholar, RSSS

The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Wednesday
9 February
Bob Haveman
University of Wisconsin-Madison

What Does Increased Economic Inequality Imply About the Future Level and Dispersion of Human Capital?

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
11 February
Bobbie Wolfe
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Understanding Racial Disparities in Health: The Income-Wealth Paradox

In Seminar Room A at 12.30pm

Monday
14 February
Chikako Yamauchi
UCLA

Evaluating Poverty Alleviation Through Microcredit: Methodological and Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
18 February
Daniel Mulino
Yale University

Demographics, Social Security and International Capital Flows

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
22 February
Miki Matsui
PhD Scholar, RSPAS

The transition from paid employment to housewife: Examining the persistency in Japanese female labour markets

In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Monday
28 February
Martin Paldam
University of Aarhus

Some Economics of Immigration from an LDC to a DC. Stressing the Case of a Nordic Welfare State


January 2005


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
7 January
David Soskice

Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
21 January
Jeff Frank
Royal Holloway College University of London

Gay Glass Ceilings

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
25 January
Hiau Joo Kee
Phd scholar, RSSS

Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor? Exploring the Australia Gender Pay Gap by Quantile Regression and the Counterfactual Decomposition Method'.


December 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
3 December
Timo Henckel
APSEG

Monetary policy with Randomly Distributed Lags

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
7 December
Xiaodong Gong
RSSS

Family Labour Supply & Financial Constraints in Australia

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
10 December
Christian Dustmann
University College London

Training and Union Wages

 


November 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
5 November
Facundo Sepulveda
RSSS

Training and Productivity in US Manufacturing

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
19 November
Joel Horowitz
Northwestern University

Nonparametric Estimation of an Additive Model with a Link Function

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
23 November
Andrew Leigh
RSSS

The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
30 November
Francesca Cornaglia
University College London

Prices, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

 


October 2004


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
5 October
Alison Booth and
Margi Wood

RSSS

Back-to-front Down-under: Panel Data Estimates of Part-time /Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
8 October
Martin Richardson
ANU Faculties

Third Party Anti-Dumping: a Tentative Rationale

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
15 October
Xiaodong Gong
RSSS

Impact of income growth and economic reform on nutrition intake in urban China: 1996-2000:

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
19 October
Paul Frijters
RSSS

Differentiated Winner Take All Markets Under Oligopoly: A General Result

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
22 October
Robert Ackland
RSSS

Approaches to Modelling Relational Capital on the WWW

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
29 October
Farshid Vahid
ANU Faculties

Are VAR models good enough for forecasting macroeconomic variables?


September 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
3 September
Maria Racionero
ANU Faculties

Fixed Wages and Bonuses in Agency Contracts: the Case of a Continuous State Space

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
10 September
Chris Edmond
University of Melbourne

Information and the Limits to Autocracy

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
17 September
Timothy Kam
ANU Faculties

Two Sided Learning and Optimal Open-Economy Monetary Policy

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
21 September
Jocelyn Finlay
PhD Scholar, Faculty

Endogenous Longevity and Economic Growth

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
24 September
Pushkar Maitra
University of Melbourne

Social Learning and Norms in a Public Goods Experiment with Intergenerational Advice


August 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
6 August
Rohan Pitchford
University of Sydney

The Generator in the Problem of Social Harm

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
16 August
Julian Blackham
FACs RSSS Secondee

Transitions of part-time workers and the role of preferences: An analysis of the HILDA survey.

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
20 August
Dwayne Benjamin
University of Toronto

Ceasless Toil? Health and labour supply of the elderly in rural China

In Seminar Room A at 2:00 (NOTE DIFFERENT DAY, TIME AND ROOM)

Wednesday
25 August
Eric Hanushek
Stanford University

New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement


July 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
2 July
Jan Van Ours
Tilburg University

How Changes in the Benefits Entitlement Affect Job Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian ‘Experiment’

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
16 July
Daiji Kawaguchi
University of Tsukuba

The Causal Effect of the Top University Graduation on Promotion: Evidence from the University of Tokyo’s Admission Freeze of 1969

In Seminar Room E at 12:30 (SEMINAR ROOM E INSTEAD OF D FOR THIS TUESDAY)

Tuesday
20 July
Steve Stillman
New Zealand Department of Labour

CPI Bias and Real Living Standards in Russia During the Transition

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
30 July
Simon Grant
Rice University

Updating ambiguous beliefs: A theory, an application, an implication, and a test


June 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
4 June
Yuan Chu
Faculty of Economics, University of Melbourne

Explaining Africa’s Growth Experience: Theoretical Models of Dictatorships, Ethnic Strife and External Conflicts

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
11 June
Flavio Menezes
Economics, Faculties, ANU

Auctions With an Option to Re-auction

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
18 June
Mardi Dungey
RSPAS, ANU

Unravelling Financial Market Linkages During Crises

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
25 June
Elena del Rey
University of Girona, Spain

Networking Effects in the Creation of Graduate Schools

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
29 June
Andreas Engel
University of Nuremberg

Risk Management in Procurement Auctions


May 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
7 May
Lisa Magnani
Economics Dept, UNSW

Technological Innovation and Diffusion and the Growth of Outsourcing in US Manufacturing

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
11 May
Rod Tyers
Economics, Faculties, ANU

Global Demographic Change and Labour Force Growth

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
14 May
Philip Clarke
University of Oxford

Income Related Inequality in the Use of Medical Care in 21 OECD Countries

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
18 May
Chris Ryan
Economics, RSSS, ANU

School Structure Effects on Literacy and Numeracy Performance

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
21 May
Boyd Hunter
CAEPR, ANU

The Dynamics of Marginal Attachment in the Australian Labour Market

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
28 May
Catherine de Fontenay
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Make versus Buy predictions in the Grossman-Hart-Moore framework versus Williamson


April 2004


In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
2 April
John Haisken-De New
RWI Essen, Germany

How Well Do Individuals Predict Their Future Life Satisfaction? Evidence From Panel Data Following A Nationwide Exogenous Shock

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
20 April
Aydogan Ulker
Economics RSSS ANU

Wealth Holdings and Portfolio Allocation of Older Couples: The Role of Spouses' Marital History

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
23 April
Bruce Chapman
Economics RSSS ANU

A Critical Analysis of the Governments Higher Education Reforms

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
30 April
Alison Booth
Economics RSSS ANU

Part-time Employment Traps and Childcare Policy


March 2004


In Seminar Room E at 12:30

Friday
5 March
Heather Antecol
Claremont McKenna College

Modelling Health Outcomes in Order to Evaluate Treatments for Chronic Diseases: An Application in Type 2 Diabetes

In Seminar Room E at 3:30

Friday
12 March
Bruce Chapman
Economics - RSSS - ANU
and Matthew Gray
Australian Institute of Family Studies

The Effect of Marital Separation on the Economic Well-being of Australian Mothers and their Children: Estimates from the HILDA Survey

In Seminar Room E at 12:30

Friday
19 March
Gigi Foster
University of South Australia

The Relative Influence of Peers and Friends in Higher Education

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
23 March
Svetlana Pevnitskaya
Ohio State University

Survival Auctions

In Seminar Room E at 12:30

Friday
26 March
Paul Frijters
Economics RSSS, ANU

Contacts and Development

 


February 2004


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
13 February
Bobbi Wolfe
University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Devil May Be in the Details: How the Characteristics of SCHIP Programs Affect Take-Up

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 February
Firman Witoelar
Michigan State University

Inter-household Allocations within Extented Households: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey


January 2004


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
13 January
Deborah Mabbet
Brunel University

Fiscal Stabiliser in Europe: Estimating the Responsiveness of Tax and Benefit Systems to Macroeconomic Changes

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
30 January
Robert Haveman
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Work and Earnings of Low Skill Women: A Sobering Comparison of Survey Responses and Administrative Records


December 2003


In Seminar Room A at 12:30

Tuesday
2 December
Philip Clarke
University of Oxford

Modelling Health Outcomes in Order to Evaluate Treatments for Chronic Diseases: An Application in Type 2 Diabetes

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
5 December
Julie Smith
Economics - RSSS - ANU

Tax expenditures: the $30 billion twilight zone of government spending

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
9 December
Jeremy Lise
Queens University

Consumption Inequality & Intra-Household Allocations

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
12 December
V. Bhaskar

Rational Adversaries? Evidence from Randomized Trials in the Game of Cricket


November 2003


In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
4 November
Tue Gorgens and Chris Ryan
Economics - RSSS - ANU

A Bound Analysis of School Completion Rates in Australia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
11 November
Alex Robson
Economics - Faculties - ANU

Optimal Public Enforcement of Law with the Possibility of Retrial

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
14 November
Philip Clarke
University of Oxford & RSSS

Time trade-off or time gain?: It all depends on your point of reference.

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Wednesday
19 November
Martin Burgess
FaCS

Rent Assistance - Facts and Fiction

In Seminar Room Aat 3:30

Friday
21 November
Deborah Cobb-Clark
Economics - RSSS - ANU

Identity and Racial Harassment

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
25 November
Luke Connelly
University of Queensland

Claims For Economic Loss: An Analysis Of Insurance Claim Prospensity And Claim Size For Injured Road Users

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
28 November
Chris Ryan
Economics - RSSS - ANU

The Impact of Early Schooling on Subsequent Literacy and Numeracy Performance - Estimates from a Policy-Induced 'Natural' Experiment


October 2003


In Seminar Room B at 3:30

Friday
3 October
Lisa Cameron
University of Melbourne

Economic Geography and Wages

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
14 October
Xiaodong Gong
Economics - RSSS - ANU

Transition Patterns for the Welfare Reliance of Low Income Mothers in Australia

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
24 October
Carol Propper
University of Bristol

Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991-99

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
31 October
Steve Dowrick
Economics, Faculties - ANU

Openness and Growth


September 2003


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
5 September
Ralph Bayer
University of Adelaide
The Excess Burden of Tax Evasion: An Experimental Detection-Concealment Contest

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
12 September
Keiko Shimono
UNSW
Portfolio Choice with Housing Purchase: Theory and Evidence

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
26 September
Karen Mumford
University of York
Employee Training, Wage Compression and Workplace Performance in Britain

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
30 September
Oliver Bruttel
Wissenschaftszentrum -
Social Science Research Center, Berlin

Institutional Economics and the Privatisation of the Public Employment
Service: An Evaluation
Framework

August 2003


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
1 August
Peter Smith
University of York
Macroeconomic Sources of Equity Risk

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
19 August
Sher Verick
(IZA)
The Impact of Dismissal Protection Legislation on Small German Firms

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
15 August
Sandrine Rospabe
University of Rennes
Trade Unions v Statistical Discrimination : Theory and Application to Post-Apartheid South Africa

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
22 August
Aydogan Ulker
RSSS, ANU
Household Structure and Consumption Insurance of the Elderly

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
29 August
Peter Brandon
University of Massachusetts
Do Disabilities in Former TANF Families Hasten their Returns to Cash Assistance?

July 2003


In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
4 July
Christian Bayer
Dept of Economics
Universität Dortmund
On the Interaction of Financial Frictions and Fixed Capital Adjustment Cost : Evidence from a Panel of German Firms

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
25 July
Paul Frijters
RSSS, ANU
Does Higher Income Lead to Better Health: Results from a German Longitudinal Panel

In Seminar Room D at 1:30

Monday
28 July
Robert Rowthorn
Cambridge University
Convergence and Stability in US Employment Rates

June 2003


In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
6 June

Simon Grant
Rice University

Accidents of Birth, Life Chances and the Impartial Observer Theorem

In Seminar Room D at 12:30

Tuesday
10 June
Tim Hatton
University of Essex and ANU
Seeking Asylum in Europe

In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
13 June
Mac Boot
Demography, RSSS, ANU
New Possibilities from Old Data: Revisiting G.H. Wood's Index of Wages in the Victorian Cotton Industry

In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
20 June
Bob Gregory
RSSS, ANU
Work and Welfare for Lone Mothers: An Evaluation of the June 2000 Tax Reforms

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
27 June
Prasana Gai
RSPAS, ANU
Good Housekeeping? Reputation, Fixed Exchange Rates and the "Original Sin" Problem

May 2003


In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
2 May
Patricia Apps
University of Sydney
Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

In Seminar Room D at 3:30

Friday
9 May
Richard Dickens
Queen Mary, University
of London, CEP, LSE,
visiting University of Melbourne
The Real Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Wage

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
16May
Xiaodong Gong
RSSS, ANU
The Effects of the Gender of Children on Expenditure Patterns in Rural China: A Semiparametric Analysis

In Seminar Room A at 3:30

Friday
23May
Jim Butler
NCEPH, ANU
Genetic Testing and Adverse Selection

In Seminar Room B at 3:30

Friday
30May
Glenn Otto
UNSW
Cross Country Evidence on the International Transmission of Business Cycle Fluctuations

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