| Description |
Agenda | Papers
& Participants
Spatial
and Social Interactions in Economics - Agenda 
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| Friday,
April 4: |
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4:00
pm |
Session 1: Environmental
Effects
Chair: Carol McAusland, UCSB
Using Fluctuations in Climate to Estimate the
Economic Impacts of Global Warming - Olivier
Deschenes, UCSB and Michael Greenstone, University
of Chicago
Air
Pollution, Health and Socioeconomic Status: The Effect
of Outdoor Air Quality on Childhood Asthma
- Matthew Neidell, University of Chicago
Discussant: Jeff Dozier, UCSB
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6:30-8:00 pm |
Graduate Student
Reception at the hotel, sponsored by UCSB’s Graduate
Division |
|
8:00-10:00
pm |
Partcipants on
their own for dinner. |
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| Saturday,
April 5: |
|
8:00-8:25
am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:25-8:30
am |
Welcome: Peter
Kuhn, UCSB |
|
8:30-10:15
am |
Session 2: Spatial
Interactions among Firms and Unions
Chair: Antonio Bento, UCSB
Geographic
Spillover of Unionism - Tom Holmes, University
of Minnesota
Dynamics
of Local Interaction Models: Persistence and Propagation
of Local Shocks - Giorgio Topa, New York
University
Discussant: Enrico Moretti, UCLA
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|
10:15-10:30
am |
Break |
10:30-12:30
pm
|
Session 3: Econometric
Issues
Chair: Doug Steigerwald, UCSB
Spatial
Correlation Robust Inference without Perfect Distance
Measurements - Tim Conley, Chicago Graduate
School of Business and Francesca Molinari, Northwestern
University
Multinomial
Choice with Social Interactions - Steve Durlauf
and William Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discussant: Jack Porter, Harvard University
|
12:30-1:30
pm
|
Lunch
at the Upham |
| 1:30-3:00
pm |
Session 4: New Directions in Spatial Research
New Technologies for Collecting Spatial Data
- Mike Goodchild, UCSB
Software for spatial econometrics: a review and
assessment - Luc Anselin, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Emerging Funding Opportunities for Spatial Research
in Social Science - Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, National Science Foundation
Discussion co-ordinator: Peter Kuhn, UCSB
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3:00-3:30
pm |
Break |
| 3:30-5:30
pm |
Session 5: Social Interactions
in the Classroom
Chair: Kelly Bedard, UCSB
How
Important are Classroom Peer Effects? - Kevin
Lang, Boston University and Joshua Angrist, MIT
Good
Principals or Good Peers? Parental Valuation of School
Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive
Effects of Competition among Jurisdictions
- Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Julian Betts,UC San Diego
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| 5:30-8:00
pm |
Down Time |
|
8:00
pm onwards |
Conference dinner
at:
Brigitte's
1325 State Street
Santa Barbara 805-966-9676
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