Broom Lab Lunch Seminar, 2014/15
All meetings are from 1:00-‐2:30 pm in North Hall, room 2111
(Thormahlen Family Seminar Room)
Fall 2014:
Monday October 13 Methods lecture: Olivier Deschenes (UCSB, Economics) “Distinguishing causation from correlation using natural experiments and instrumental variables”
Monday October 27 Methods lecture: Heather Royer (UCSB, Economics) “Distinguishing causation from correlation using regression discontinuity designs” CANCELLED
Monday December 1 Grad student talk (lunch is provided):
Megan Costa (U Penn, Demography, visiting Broom) “No Casualties of the Fertility Transistion? Child Growth Consequences for Birth Orders Exceeding Ideal Family Size in a High Fertility Population”
Vedant Koppera (UCSB, Economics), “Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Education Risen in the U.S.?”
Winter 2015:
Monday February 2 Grad student talk (lunch is provided):
Corey White (UCSB, Economics) "Catching a Cold: The Dynamic Relationship between Temperature and Health"
Angela Garcia (UCSB,Anthropology) "Relativity of poverty: the signature of an individual's reference group on stress and health outcomes on the island of Utila, Honduras.
Monday March 2 Methods lecture: Olivier Deschenes (UCSB, Economics) "Distinguishing causation from correlation using Regression, Matching, and Difference-in-Difference Methods"
Spring 2015:
Monday April 27 Grad student talk (lunch is provided):
Jenna Stearns (UCSB, Economics) "Long-Run Effects of Maternity Leave: Evidence from Great Britain"
Anne Pisor (UCSB, Anthropology) "Strategic affiliation with out-groups in lowland Bolivian horticulturalists: The role of present and past resource shortfalls."
Monday May 11 Grad student talk (lunch is provided):
Melanie Martin (UCSB, Anthropology) “Are shorter exclusive breastfeeding durations among Tsimane Amerindians associated with maternal reproductive fitness and energetic trade-offs?”
Jessica Marter-Kenyon (UCSB, Geography) "Population Resettlement in an Era of Global Environmental Change: A Preliminary Analysis of Rwanda's National Imidigudu Policy"