The UC Berkeley Integrated Graduate Education Research and
Training Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy

 

 

Contact Information

The IGERT PEPPP Program
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley
2607 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-7320


Tel: (510)-643-0536

 

 

IGERT Program

 

The IGERT Workshop

Spring 2008 Schedule

The IGERT Workshop meets weekly in room #105 at the Goldman School of Public Policy from 12:00 to 1:30. The workshop features the research of IGERT fellows, affiliated faculty, and outside visitors.

January 23

Elizabeth Ty Wilde

Do Response Times Matter? The Impact of EMS Response Times on Health Outcomes

January 30

Lori Beaman, Robert Woods Johnson  Fellow, UC Berkeley

Social Networks and the Dynamics of Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Refugees

February 6

Saurabh Bhargava, Economics, UC Berkeley

Perception is Relative: Sequential Contracts in the Field

February 13

Daniel Rubinfeld, Economics and Boalt, UC Berkeley

Federal Institutions and the Demographic Transition: Learning from South Africa

February 20

Michael Stoll, UCLA

The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on the Hiring of Ex-Offenders

February 27

Robert Van Houweling, Political Science, UC Berkeley

The Electoral Implications of Candidate Ambiguity

March 5

Brendan O’Flaherty, Economics, Columbia

Peaceable Kingdoms and Warzones: Preemption, Ballistics, and Murder in Newark

March 12

Neil Finkelstein, Research Co-Director, Wested

 The Bumpy Road to Causation: Large Scale Experimental Studies in Public Education

March 19

Carlos Dobkin, Economics, UC Santa Cruz

Minimum Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, Mortality and Criminal Offending

Paper 1

Paper 2

March 26

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

April 2

Leah Platt Boustan, Economics, UCLA

Was Postwar Suburbanization White Flight? Evidence from the Black Migration

April 9

Justin Mccrary, Boalt, UC Berkeley

New Evidence on Schooling and Fertility

April 16

Deborah Reed, Public Policy Institute of California

Changes in Family Structure, Child-Bearing, and Employment: Implications for the Level and Trend in Poverty

April 23

Jennifer Eberhardt, Psychology, Stanford

The Criminalization and Dehumanization of Blacks in the Modern Era

April 30

Rebecca Pettit, Sociology, University of Washington

The Demographic Implications of the Prison Boom

May 7

Susanna Loeb

Stanford University

TBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The UC Berkeley Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy
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