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FRC Seminar Series

2009-2010 Seminar Series

April 2, 2010
David Albouy (University of Michigan) topic to be announced. 

March 19, 2010
Lucas Davis (University of Michigan) topic to be announced. 

November 6, 2009
Katherine Baicker (Harvard University School of Public Health) presented, "What Does Health Insurance Do? The Oregon Health Insurance Lottery." 

October 23, 2009
Hui Shan (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) presented, "Property Taxes and Elderly Mobility."

2008-2009 Seminar Series

March 13, 2009
Stuart Rosenthal (Syracuse University) presented, "Do the GSEs Expand the Supply of Mortgage Credit? New Evidence of Crowd Out in the Secondary Mortgage Market." 

February 20, 2009
Matthew Kotchen (University of California Santa Barbara) presented, "Green Clubs." 

February 13, 2009
Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia) presented, "Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Well-Being of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions." 

October 24, 2008
Roger Von Haefen (North Carolina State University) presented, "Distributonal and Efficiency Impacts of Increased US Gasoline Taxes." 

October 10, 2008
Jerry Auten (US Treasury Department) presented, "Income Mobility in the US: New Evidence From Tax Data 987-1996 and 1996-2005." 

September 19, 2008
Steven Craig (University of Houston) presented, "Do Cost Increases for the Elderly Reduce Benefits for the Disabled? State Government Design of Medicaid with Distinct Recipient Groups." 

September 12, 2008
Angela Fertig (University of Georgia) presented "Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes."

2007-2008 Seminar Series

April 11, 2008
Shelby Gerking (Galloway Professor of Economics, University of Central Florida) presented, "Perceptions of Health Risk and Adolescent Smoking Decisions." 

November 30, 2007
Monica Singhal (John F. Kennedy School of Government) presented, "Tax Preferences." 

November 9, 2007
William Hoyt (University of Kentucky) presented "Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of the River: The Choice of Where to Work and Where to Live for Movers." (paper)

September 21, 2007
Wolfram Schlenker (Department of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University) presented "Estimating the Impact of Climate Control on Crop Yields: The Importance of Non-Linear Temperature Effects." (paper)

July 12, 2007
Richard Bird (University of Toronto) presented "Experiences with VAT," focusing on the VAT at the state level.

2006-2007 Seminar Series

April 26, 2007
"Tough Choices or Tough Times," a presentation by Dr. Charles Knapp of the report from the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, sponsored by AYSPS and the College of Education.

April 6, 2007
Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers) presented "Corporate Taxes in the World Economy: Reforming the Taxation of Cross-Border Income." (paper)

March 23, 2007
Dr. Judy Temple (University of Minnesota) presented "Long-term effects of enriched preschool: Findings from the Chicago Child-Parent Centers."

September 29, 2006
Dr. Don Fullerton (University of Texas) presented "The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates" (ppt, paper)

2005-2006 Seminar Series

January 2006
Howard Chernick (CUNY) presented on "Redistribution: Consequences for Economic Growth in U.S. states" (paper).

November 2005
Yu-Hung Hong (Lincoln Institute) spoke on "In Search of A Property Tax Reform Strategy: The People's Republic of China".

October 2005
Matthew Murray (University of Tennessee) presented, "State Tax Amnesties: Policy Adoption and Revenue Effects" (paper).

October 2005
Douglas Krupka (GSU) presented, "The Stability of Mixed-Income Neighborhoods in America 1990-2000"(paper).

October 2005
Erik Hanushek (Stanford University’s Hoover Institute) spoke on "The Economic Importance of School Quality". This lecture and reception was hosted with the Dan L. Sweat Lecture Series, October 2005.

April 2005
Dr. Jay Mackie (U.S. Treasury Department) spoke on "Tax Reform, Asset Values, and Transition Relief for Old Capital" (paper).

March 2005
Dr. Henry Thompson (Auburn University) spoke on "Croatia's Accession to the EU: Projected Adjustments in a Specific Factors Model" (paper / powerpoint).