Spring 2009

Friday, 1: 00p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Room: C415A (one floor below lobby) Organizers: Ryan Edwards: redwards@qc.cuny.edu Theodore J. Joyce: Ted_Joyce@baruch.cuny.edu

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Date		Speaker		Affilation		Topic
Feb 13		Joel Cohen		Rockefeller Univ		"International migration beyond gravity: A statistical model for use in population projections"
Feb 20		Shelly Lundberg		Univ of Washington		"Psychological Traits and Family Outcomes"
Feb 27		Kevin Volpp		Penn Univ		"Experiments in Applying Behavioral Economics to Incentives for Healthy Behavior"
Mar 6		Thomas Buettner		United Nations		Cancelled
Mar 13		Ken Chay		Brown Univ		Cancelled (re-scheduled to May 1)
Apr 24		Jason Fletcher		Yale Univ		"Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement"
May 1		Kenneth Chay		Brown Univ		"Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth"
May 8		Vida Maralini		Yale Univ
May 15		Nancy Landale		Penn State Univ
Past seminars: 2008 spring 2008 fall
TA		Junnan Zhao				junnanzhao@gmail.com