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NERDS:
New Economic Research
Development Series

2007/8 Academic Year
 
Spring 2008
   
Friday, February 8

Jason Barr (Rutgers University)

"Skyscraper Height"

Wednesday, February 20
Kirby 104, 4:10 p.m.

Thomas Seager (RIT)

"Stochastic Criteria Weighting for Life
Cycle Impact Assessment in
Applications with High Uncertainty:
Diesel Fuel Alternatives "

Friday, February 22
John Lott (University of Maryland)

"Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic
Events Politically Biased?: Reagan
to Bush II
"

Friday, March 7
Vivian Hoffmann (Cornell University)

"Psychology, gender, and the
intra-household allocation of
free and purchased mosquito nets
"

Friday, March 28

TBA

Friday, April 11


Tara Sinclair (George Washington Univ.)

"Asymmetry in the Business Cycle:
Revisiting the Friedman Plucking
Model
"


Friday, April 25


Dhaval Dave (Bentley College)

"Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral
Hazard: Evidence from Medicare
"


Friday, May 9
Carli Cochi Ficano (Hartwick College)

"Firm Dynamics in the New World
of Large Format Retail: Does
Wal-Mart Really Matter?
"

 
Fall 2007
   
Friday, September 7

Stephen Snyder
(Lehigh University)

"The DOHaD Hypothesis, the 1918 Influenza Epidemic and Economists"

Friday, September 14
Susan Averett (Lafayette College)

"For Better or Worse: Relationship
Status and Body Mass Index
"

Friday, Septfember 21
Lewis Davis (Union College)

"Do All Countries Follow the Same Growth Process?"

Thursday - Friday,
October 11-12

Policy Studies Energy Conference

Friday, October 26


Hope Corman (Rider University)

"Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Father's Criminal Activity"

Friday, November 9


Jonathan Munemo (Moravian College)

"Foreign Aid and Export Diversification
in Developing Countries
"


Friday, November 30
Eugene White (Rutgers University)

"Bank Examination and Supervision in
the United States, 1863-2007
"