UNC-Duke Applied Micro Workshop
Spring 2005

Department of Economics
UNC-Chapel Hill
Wednesdays, 3:45-5:15pm

Date Title Presenter (Affiliation) Place
2/2 "The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path" Amalia Miller (Virginia) Duke
2/16 "Why Should we Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor" Rajeev Dehejia (Columbia) Duke
2/23 "TBA" Aprajit Mahajan (Stanford) Duke
3/2 "Electronic Filing, Tax Preparers, and Participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit" Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia) Duke
3/9 "Insuring Happiness and Consumption through Church Membership" Tom DeLeire (Michigan) Duke
3/23 CANCELLED Janet Currie (UCLA) Duke
4/6 "Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment" Dean Karlan (Princeton) Duke
4/13 "The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare" Amy Finkelstein (Harvard) UNC
4/20 "On the Response of Worker Effort to Piece Rates: Evidence from a Field Experiment" Bruce Shearer (Laval) UNC
4/26 "TBA" David Autor (MIT) Duke

Seminars typically meet at UNC (Gardner 211) or at Duke (Social Science 327). For further information, email Wilbert van der Klaauw (UNC coordinator) or Peter Arcidiacono (Duke coordinator).

UNC-Duke Applied Micro Workshop
Fall 2004

Department of Economics
UNC-Chapel Hill
Wednesdays, 3:45-5:15pm

Date Title Presenter (Affiliation) Place
8/25 "The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Covered Labor Demand" Walt Wessels (NC State) Duke
9/1 "A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department" Kate Antonovics (UC San Diego) Duke
9/8 "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis" Felix Oberholzer (Harvard) UNC
9/15 "The Impact of Crack Cocaine" Steve Levitt (Chicago) Duke
10/6 "Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers" Meta Brown (Wisconsin) UNC
10/20 "Maternal Time, Child Care and Children's Cognitive Development" Raquel Bernal (Northwestern) UNC
11/3 "Optimal Consumption and Investment with Labor Income Uncertainty and Endogenous Retirement" Matt Woolley (UNC - PhD candidate) UNC
11/10 "Individual Rather than Household Euler Equations: Identification and Estimation of Individual Preferences using Household Data" Maurizio Mazzocco (Wisconsin) UNC
11/17 "Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers" Joe Hotz (UCLA) Duke
12/1 "Investments in Children Vulnerable to Bondage" Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth) Duke

Seminars typically meet at UNC (Gardner 211) or at Duke (Social Science 327). For further information, email Wilbert van der Klaauw (UNC coordinator) or Peter Arcidiacono (Duke coordinator).