APPLIED MICRO LUNCH Department of Economics Columbia University This lunch is organized by Till von Wachter. The lunch is mostly for junior faculty and students from the Economics Department, the Business School, and the Barnard Economics Department, but also the School of Social Work, Teachers' College, and the School of Public Health. We meet for lunch each TUESDAY, from 13:10 - 14:00. Lunch is provided. For further information, or to be added to the e-mail list for this lunch group, send e-mail to: Applied Micro Lunch or give me a call at 854-5712.

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SPRING 2006

Date	Room in IAB	Speaker	Topic
January 24	1027	Dan Silverman	Other-Regarding Behavior: Theory and Evidence (Joint with Nicola Persico)
January 31	1027	Sue Dinarski	Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor
February 7	1027	Kristin Mammen	Fathers' Time Investments in Children: Do Sons Get More?
February 14	1027	Claudia Olivetti (PER)	Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
February 21	1027	Monica Paiella	Intertemporal consumption choices, transaction costs and limited participation to financial markets: reconciling data and theory.
February 28	1027	Herdis Steingrimsdottir / Yinghua He	Parental Leave and Job Market Outcomes: Looking at a Policy Reform in Iceland & College Availability, Schooling Decisions, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Unusual Quota Increase in China
March 7	1027	Emilia Simeonova / Stephan Litschig	Racial Disparities in Health Care: Evidence from the Veterans Health Administration & Can federal grants buy better local public service delivery? Evidence from a natural experiment in Brazil
March 14	1027	Spring Break	TBA
March 21	1027	Ting Wu / Muhammad Asali	Competition or Collusion: Evidence from Payday Lenders' Entry Decisions & Discrimination in an Equilibrium Search Model: The Intifada as a Natural Experiment
March 28	1027	Joshua Goodman / Vikrant Vig	Changing the Price of Public College: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship & Liquidation Value and The Structure of Corporate Debt Financing
April 4	1027	Pierre Azoulay	Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
April 11	1027	Sebastian Galiani	The Effect of Pre-Primary Education on Primary School Performance
April 18	1027	No Lunch	TBA
April 25	1027	Miguel Urquiola & Erik Verhoogen	TBA
May 2	1027	Daniele Paravisini	TBA
May 9	1027	Richard Blundell (PER)	TBA