Melbourne Institute Brown Bags 2012
Cain Polidano is the coordinator of the Brown Bags. A schedule of 2012 is presented below.
| DATE/ TIME | SPEAKER | TOPIC | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 24 January 2012 12pm |
Michael Kind (RWI Essen, Germany) | Bridge Unemployment in Germany: Response in Labour Supply to an Increased Statutory Retirement Age. | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 6 March 2012 12pm |
Justin William Van De Ven | Analysing Behavioural Responses to Policy | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 20 March 2012 12pm |
Ingo Isphording (University of Bochum, Germany) | An Overview of the Economics of Linguistic Distance | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 3 April 2012 12pm |
John Haisken-DeNew | PanelWhiz | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Wednesday 4 April 2012 3.30pm |
Daniel Kuehnle (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) | Does Family Income have an Effect on Child Health? Further Evidence on the Transmission Channels from the UK | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 17 April 2012 12pm |
Gaetan De Rassenfosse | Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding Out Low Quality Patents? | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 24 April 2012 12pm |
Barbara Hanel with Hielke Buddelmeyer and Cain Polidano |
Explaining the SES School Completion Gap in Australia | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 26 April 2012 11am |
John Moriarty (Queen’s University Belfast) | Social Interactions in the Belfast Youth Development Study | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 1 May 2012 12pm |
Rosanna Scutella and Mark Wooden | The Journeys Home Study | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 10 May 2012 12pm |
Nikhil Jha with Deborah Cobb-Clark |
Educational Achievement and School Financial Measures | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 22 May 2012 12pm |
Trinh Le with Guyonne Kalb, Boyd Hunter and Felix Leung |
Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 29 May 2012 12pm |
Deborah Cobb-Clark and Sonja Kassenboehmer | Healthy Lifestyle Choices: The Connection between Diet, Exercise and Locus of Control | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 5 June 2012 12pm |
Tony Scott | Measuring the Monetary Motivation of Physicians | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 7 June 2012 12pm |
Sonja Kassenboehmer | Prediction Errors: Comparing Subjective and Objective Re-Employment Probabilities | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 12 June 2012 12pm |
Domenico Tabasso | Trust: The Role of Culture, Institutions and Economic Conditions | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 14 June 2012 12pm |
Rosanna Scutella | An Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Inequality Reducing Mobility | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 19 June 2012 12pm |
Mike Helal | Evaluating the Smarter Schools National Partnership | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 21 June 2012 12pm |
Justin William Van De Ven | An Empirical Investigation of Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 26 June 2012 12pm |
Nicole Watson | Measuring Employment: Exploring Bias in Inequality Research Across Two Countries | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 28 June 2012 12pm |
Rong Zhang | Parameter Estimation for a Discrete-Response Model with Double Rules of Sample Selection: A Bayesian Approach | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 3 July 2012 12pm |
Ning Li | Testing Survey Data for Rounding Errors | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 10 July 2012 12pm |
Bruce Bradbury (University of New South Wales) | Pensions for Couples and Singles | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
|
Friday 27 July 2012 11am |
Brendan Houng | Topics in Education: Unemployment, Inequality and Selective Schools | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 31 July 2012 12pm |
Mark Wooden and Tony Scott | Shaping the Domestic Economic Policy Agenda: Is It Important? | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 2 August 2012 12pm |
Ari Kang | Childhood Parental Inputs and the Labor Market Success of Children | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 7 August 2012 12pm |
Guyonne Kalb | Reading to Young Children: a Head-Start in Life | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 9 August 2012 12pm (TBC) |
Judith Sloan | How to Write an Op-ed | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Friday 24 August 2012 12pm |
Takuya Hasebe (City University of New York) | A Flexible Selection Model: A GTL-Copula Approach | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 28 August 2012 12pm |
Chris Ryan | Measurement Error in NAPLAN: Magnitudes, Consequences and Responses | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 4 September 2012 12pm |
Nikhil Jha | Relationship between Housing Foreclosure and Educational Outcome | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Thursday 6 September 2012 12pm |
King Fok | Residential Segregation: The Life Satisfaction Angle | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 11 September 2012 12pm |
Sonja Kassenboehmer | The Impact of Middle-Years Marijuana Use and Suspension/Expulsion from School on Educational Outcomes | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Monday 17 September 2012 11am |
David Black | The Utilisation of Human Capital from Education in Australian Labour Markets: Over-education? | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 18 September 2012 12pm |
Beth Webster | Do Patents Shield Disclosure or Assure Exclusivity when Transacting Technology? | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 23 October 2012 12pm |
Michael Shields | Local Area Characteristics and Physical (In)activity | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 13 November 2012 12pm |
Gary Marks | Evaluating Effectively Maintained Inequality: School and Post-School Transitions, Socioeconomic |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 20 November 2012 12pm |
Peter Sivey | Hospital and School Report Cards: Quality Competition vs Risk Selection |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** |
| Tuesday 27 November 2012 12pm |
Francisco Azpitarte | The Dynamics of Income and Social Exclusion in Australia: A Duration Analysis Based on HILDA Data |
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).