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Maryland Population Research Center
2003-2004 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:	Jeff Smith Associate Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
TITLE:	"What is the Value Added by Case Workers?"
DATE:	Fri. Oct 24, 2003
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Jeffrey Smith, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1996 and joined the Maryland faculty in 2001. Prior to coming to Maryland he was Associate Professor and CIBC Chair in Human Capital and Productivity at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He received the 1997 Polanyi prize from the Province of Ontario, which is awarded each year to an outstanding young economist in Ontario. His research centers on methods for the evaluation of social programs such as job training for the disadvantaged. He has also written papers examining the labor market effects of university quality and the use of statistical treatment rules to assign persons to government programs. Recent publications include "Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of An Influential Social Experiment" (with James Heckman, Neil Hohmann and Michael Khoo), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, "The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programmes" (with James Heckman and Robert LaLonde) in the Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3A 1999, and "The Pre-Programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme: Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies" (with James Heckman), Economic Journal 1999 (winner of Royal Economic Society prize for article in the Economic Journal in 1999).

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/fall2003.shtml