"Seminars" provide a forum for both outside speakers and Wharton faculty to present applied economic research of interest to the broad Wharton community. "Workshops" are a forum in which Wharton and allied faculty present applied economic research-in-progress.

Spring 2006 Schedule
Jan 18	Cecilia Rouse, Princeton (joint with GSE) Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools?
Jan 25	Leah Platt Boustan, Harvard: Economics (joint with Real Estate) Inside the Black Box of ‘White Flight’: The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods (Main paper) Was Postwar Suburbanization ‘White Flight”? Evidence from the Black Migration (Secondary paper)
Feb 03	Matthew Kahn, Tufts (joint with Real Estate): JMHH G65 Measuring the Demand for New Transit Oriented Communities- Evidence from 14 Cities that Expanded and Built Rail Transit Systems
Feb 06	Dora Costa, MIT: 4:00-5:30 pm - JMHH F45 Social Capital: Lessons from Wartime  (The talk will cover these 4 papers) Cowards and Heroes- Group Loyalty in the American Civil War Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration Forging a New Identity- The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps
Feb 08	Patrick Bayer, Yale (joint with Real Estate) Separate when Equal- Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation
Feb 15	Steven Levitt, Chicago
Feb 22	Darius Lakdawalla, Rand (joint with Health Care) HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior
Mar 01	Stephen Redding, LSE Multi-Product Firms and the Dynamics of Product Mix
Mar 08	Spring Break
Mar 15	Esther Duflo, MIT Saving Incentives for Low and Middle-Income Families- Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block
Mar 22	David Card, UC Berkeley
Mar 29	Francine Blau, Cornell
Apr 05	Ian Ayres, Yale Law Market Failure and Inequality: An Anti-Competitive Conduct Standard for Assessing When Disparate Impacts are Unjustified
Apr 12	Janet Currie, Columbia
Apr 19	John J. Donohue III, Yale (joint seminar with Law and Economics)

Past Seminar Schedules

Spring 2008   | Summer 2008  | Fall 2008

Spring 2007   | Summer 2007  | Fall 2007

Spring 2006   | Summer 2006  | Fall 2006

Spring 2005   | Summer 2005  | Fall 2005  

Spring 2004   | Summer 2004  | Fall 2004

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