Melbourne Institute Brown Bags 2011

Domenico Tabasso is the coordinator of the Brown Bags. A schedule of 2011 is presented below.

DATE/ TIME SPEAKER TOPIC LOCATION
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 12pm Matt Sutton (University of Manchester)

Can payers use prices to improve quality? Evidence from English hospitals.

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 12pm Jongsay Yong The Risk of Risk Adjustment in Measuring Hospital Quality. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 12pm Francisco Azpitarte Raposeiras On Intermediate Inequality Measures: A Lorenz Dominance Criterion. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12pm Jinhu Li Family SES, Childhood Life-events and the Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 11am Moshe Justman

Estimating and Comparing Value-Added in Victorias Primary Schools: Some Preliminary Results.

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11am Deborah Cobb-Clark / Regina Riphahn (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) How to Write a Paper/ Getting Published in International Journals. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 12pm Terence Cheng A simultaneous equation approach to measuring the effects of removing subsidies for private health insurance on public expenditure for health care. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 12pm David Neumark (University of California - Irvine) Interacting with policymakers and dealing with controversies. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 12pm Guyonne Kalb Dynamics of Household Joblessness: Evidence from Australian Micro-Data 2001-2007. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 11am Duncan McVicar Cross Country Estimates of Peer Effects in Adolescent Substance Use using Instrumental Variables and School Fixed Effects. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 12pm Viet Nguyen Informational Integration in Currency Spot Markets: A GVAR Approac Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 12pm David Black Over-education: Is it voluntary for some individuals? Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 12pm Cain Polidano Second chance education: Re-engagement in education of early school leavers. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Thursday, 2 June 2011, 11am Mike Helal PhD Confirmation Talk Essays in the Economics of Education: Student Achievement and School Effectiveness. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 12pm Gatan de Rassenfosse

Systematic biases in innovation studies: A simple test

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 12pm Cain Polidano

Labour market impacts of disability onset.

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 11am Robert F. Elliott (University of Aberdeen) Does Centralised Pay Setting Harm Pupil's Performance? Spatial wage differences, teacher vacancy rates and pupil performance. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 12pm Neville Norman (Department of Economics) Price effects of global drivers: trade policy and exchange rates: new evidence, new theories? Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 12pm Julie Moschion The Impact of Fertility on Mothers Labour Supply in Australia: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 12pm Michael Shields Destined for Happiness. Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

** Melbourne Institute Seminar Room is located on the 6th Floor, Alan Gilbert Building (Building A), 161 Barry Street, Carlton (enter via 7th floor reception).