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Spring
2007 Seminar Series
Thursday, January 18, 2-3 p.m., SHB 139
Labor Market Effects
of Preferential College Admission [Job talk]
Christopher L. Barlett, University of Texas at
Austin
Wednesday, January 24, 3:20 -4:30 p.m., SHB 139
Peer and Leadership Effects in Academic and
Athletic Performance [Job talk]
Scott Carrell, Dartmouth College
Thursday, January 25, 2-3 p.m., SHB 139
Dead on Arrival: Zero Tolerance Laws Don't Work
[Job talk]
Darren Grant, University of Texas at Arlington
Monday, January 29, 3:20-4:30 p.m., SHB 139
An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price
Under Private and Common Values [Job talk]
Quazi Shahriar, University of Arizona
Thursday, February 1, 2-3 p.m., SHB 139
Physician
Code Creep: Evidence in Medicaid Billing?
[Job talk] CANCELLED
Eric Seiber, Clemson University
Wednesday, February 7, 2-3 p.m., SHB 105
Toxic
Release Inventory, Stockholder Reaction and Restructuring
of the Electric Utility Industry [Job talk]
Sherry Bartz, University of Miami
Friday, February 9, 11a.m.-12 noon (Locationa
TBA)
Do Immigrants and their Remittances
Respond to the Exchange Rate? [Job talk]
Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Vermont
Thursday, March 8, 2:30 -4 p.m., SHB 133
The
Effect of Social Security Contributions of Wages:
The Colombian Experience
Andres J Vargas, Texas Tech University
Thursday, March 29, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 133
A Drive Up the
Capital Coast: Contributions to Post-Reform Growth
across Chinese Provinces
Kiril Tochkov, Texas Christian University
Thursday, April 5, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 133
Subjective Well-Being:
Keeping up with the Joneses. Real or Perceived?
Cahit Guven, University of Houston
Thursday, April 12, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 133
Outsourcing, Innovation,
and Wage Inequality in the United States: What
Happened to the Outsourcing Effect on Wage
Inequality in the 1970s?
Glenn Hsu, Texas A&M University
Thursday, April 19, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. SHB 133
The
Effectiveness of Border Enforcement in Deterring
and Postponing Repetitive Illegal Crossings
Attempts
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University
Thursday,
April 26, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 133
An Empirical
Test of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis with Strategic
Environment and Trade Policy
Derek K. Kellenberg, Georgia Institute of Technology

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