Seminar Series 2014
Cain Polidano is the program coordinator of these seminars. A time table for forthcoming seminars is presented below. If you would like to subscribe to the Melbourne Institute seminar electronic mailing list please email Cain Polidano.
| SPEAKER | TOPIC | LOCATION | DATE |
|---|---|---|---|
Professor Robert Haveman and Professor Barbara (Bobbi) Wolfe |
Labor Market, Geographic Mobility, and Other Effects of Housing Subsidies |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 23rd January 2014 |
Professor Simon Burgess, Department of Economics, University of Bristol |
Student Effort and Educational Attainment: Using the England Football Team to Identify the Education Production Function |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 27th February 2014 |
Dr Kamila Cygan-Rehm, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Parental Leave Benefit and Differential Fertility Responses: Evidence from a German Reform |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 20th March 2014 |
Stephen Zubrick, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia |
An Introduction to Australia’s National Mental Health Survey |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 27th March 2014 |
Hugh Gravelle, University of York |
TBA |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 3rd April 2014 |
Agneiszka Tymula, University of Sydney |
Neuroanatomy Predicts Risk Attitudes |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 17th April 2014 |
Yixiao Zhou, Crawford School of Public Policy, Anstralian National University |
Trade and Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 1st May 2014 |
Salma Ahmed, Deakin University |
A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 15th May 2014 |
Amy Catalinac, ANU |
Pork to Policy: The Rise of National Security in Elections in Japan |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 22th May 2014 |
Tim Moore, Department of Economics, George Washington University |
Social Security Disability Insurance Replacement Rates and Beneficiary Work Activity: Estimates from a Regression Kink Design |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 29th May 2014 |
Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales |
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah? |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 5th June 2014 |
Adam Jaffe, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research |
Evaluating the effect of public research funding using regression discontinuity design |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Tuesday 8th July 2014 |
Chaire Kamp Dush, Ohio State University |
Deinstitutionlized or Uber-institutionalized: A Longitudinal Test of Two Theories of Modern Marriage in Two Cohorts |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 10th July 2014 |
Gary Fields, Cornell University |
Changing Income Inequality and Panel Income Changes in Times of Economic Growth and Economic Decline |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 17th July 2014 |
Damien de Walque, The World Bank |
Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Conditionality |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 24th July 2014 |
Dan Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin |
Age and Co-Authorship |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 31st July 2014 |
Professor Regina Riphahn, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Maternal Labor Supply after Birth: Effects of a Reform of Parental Leave Benefits in Germay |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 7th August 2014 |
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore |
Are Employers Susceptible to Coarse Thinking? Implications for Wage Determination and Returns to Signalling |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Tuesday 12th August 2014 |
| Claire Thibout, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and INED (French National Institute for Demographic Studies) | How do students make educational choices? The influence of gender stereotypes about abilities | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Monday 18th August 2014 |
Tarun Jain, Indian School of Business |
Does who you know matter? Unravelling the influence of student networks on academic performance |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 28th August 2014 |
Stephen Billings, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
The Housing and Educational Consequences of the School Choice Provisions of NCLB: Evidence from Charlotte, NC |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 4th September 2014 |
| Dr Susan Mendez, Melbourne Institute | Regulation of pharmaceutical markets | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Monday 8th September 2014 |
| Mr Ou Yang, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University | Binge Drinking, Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours, and Beverage Types | Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 11th September 2014 |
Dr Marc Chan, University of Technology, Sydney |
Measuring the Dynamic Effects of Welfare Time Limits |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 25th September 2014 |
Dr Tue Gorgens, ANU |
Moment Restrictions and Identification in Linear Dynamic Panel Data Models |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 9th October 2014 |
Professor Anne Kavanagh, Melbourne School of Population Health |
Disability: A public health issue? |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 6th November 2014 |
Dr Peter Siminski, University of Wollongong |
The Role of Education in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Australia |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 13th November 2014 |
Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Test Scores, Education and Earnings in the United States |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 20th November 2014 |
Dr Stephen Whelan, University of Sydney |
Negotiating the Gender Wage Gap |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 27th November 2014 |
Elisabeth Mueller, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
Quality increase of Chinese patents – Do they yet reach international standards? |
Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** | Thursday 11th December 2014 |
** Melbourne Institute Seminar Room is located on the 6th Floor, Room 6.05, Faculty of Business & Economics Building (formerly ICT Building), 111 Barry Street, Carlton.