DATE & LOCATION

GUEST SPEAKER

SEMINAR TITLE

Wed. Jan 29, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

Peter Arcidiacono

Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University

"Addicted to Love? A Dynamic Model of Teen Sex and Fertility"*

Friday Feb. 7, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Assistant Professor Rural Sociology, Cornell University

"Can Family Planning Programs Help Close Gender Gaps in Education? Theory, Simulation & Application to African Countries"***

Friday Feb. 14, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

John Rust

Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

"How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?"

Friday Feb. 28, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

Michael Kremer

Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

"Teacher Incentives"

Friday March 7, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

Seth Sanders

Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Director Maryland Population Research Center

"The Role of Measurement Error in Studying Minority Groups"

Friday April 4, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

Shawn Bushway

Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of Maryland

"School to Work Transitions for High School Students and its Relationship to Crime"

Friday April 18, 2003
12 noon
1101 Art-Sociology Bldg

Carol Stack

Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

"Coming of Age At Minimum Wage"**

Friday May 9, 2003
12 noon
1101
Art-Sociology Bldg

Linda Burton

Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

"Growing Up A Little Faster: An Ethnographic Life Course Perspective on Adultified Children."***

*Co-Sponsored with Dept. of Economics, Public/Labor Workshop **Co-Hosted by CRGE

***The seminar scheduled for February 7 was cancelled due to snow emergency.