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[edit] Schedule

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.
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