Graduate Lab Lunch Schedule

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"