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The Empirical Micro Club will be meeting this spring on Tuesdays from 12-1 in McNeil 410. Anyone interested in joining our listserv should send an email to karam2@econ.upenn.edu. Below is our schedule for the spring. If you would like to present on any of the open dates feel free to sign up, but just be sure to send an email to karam2@econ.upenn.edu (Karam).
FALL 2008
Sep 9 : Taka Adachi, "A Life-Cycle Model of Entrepreneurial Choice: Understanding Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment" Slides
Sep 23 : SeKyu Choi
Oct 7 : Viviana Velez-Grajales
Oct 21 : Michaela Gulemetova-Swan
Oct 28 : Shalini Roy
Nov 4 : Dionissi Aliprantis, "Human Capital in the Inner City"
Nov 11 : Ellie Harvill
Nov 18 : Walter Theseira
Nov 25 :
Dec 2 :
- Oct 14 is during Fall Break, but we can meet anyway.
SPRING 2009
Jan 20 :
Jan 27 : Naoki Wakamori (30 minutes)
Feb 3 : Gil Shapira
Feb 10 :
Feb 17 :
Feb 24 :
Mar 3 :
Mar 17 :
Mar 24 :
Mar 31 :
Apr 7 :
Apr 14 :
Apr 21 :
Apr 28 :
(Previous Schedule)
SPRING 2008
Jan 15: Michaela Gulemetova-Swan
Feb 26: Cristiano M. Costa
Mar 25: Alice Klynge (Yale), "The Returns to Literacy, Creativity, and Other Competencies"
Apr 1: Ellie Harvill
Apr 8: Nirav Mehta
Apr 15: Alexander Bick
Apr 22: Seth Richards
May 27: Michela Tincani
FALL 2007
Oct 9: Viviana Velez-Grajales, "How Pension Rules Affect Work and Contribution Patterns: A Behavioral Model of the Chilean Individual Account Pension System"
Oct 16 *: Claire Lim, "Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges"
Oct 23: Ellie Harvill, "An empirical model of ideological position, political knowledge and voting behavior", "Slides"
Oct 30: Marco Cosconati, "Parenting style and teenagers' academic performance"
Nov 6: Shalini Roy, "Parental Beliefs, Awareness Campaigns, and Early Childhood Investment in the Philippines"
Nov 13: Clement Joubert, "Saving Decisions under a Privatized Pension System with Mandatory Contributions"
Nov 20: Nicola Tosini, "The Socioeconomic Determinants and Consequences of Women's Body Mass"
Nov 27: Yijuan Chen, "Word of mouth in movies with platform release: Theory and evidence"
- October 16th is during Fall Break, but we are going to meet anyway.
