Labor Economics  /  LER Seminar
Fall 2008
Friday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
35/43 ILIR 
Updated August 2008
  
Department of Economics Organizer: Aparna Joshi
Email:  aparnajo@illinois.edu
School of Labor and Employment Relations *Denotes change of day, time, and/or location
University of Illinois      Aug. 29  David Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
at Urbana-Champaign         Title: Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm
September
   Sept. 9*    Rebecca Givan, Cornell University
   *Tu.         
   Sept. 16*  Andy Foster, Brown University 
   *Tu.         (Joint with Development)
   Sept. 19   Sergey Popov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Sept. 30*  Mel Stephens, Carnegie Mellon University
   *Tu.         (Joint with CBPP)
October
   Oct. 3      Kiwook Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
   Oct. 10    Adam Stevenson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Oct. 17    Rich Trumka, AFL-CIO
    Oct. 31    Marianne Bitler, University of California, Irvine
                    
November
   Nov. 7      Jason Shaw, University of Minnesota
   Nov. 21    Soohyung Lee, University of Maryland   
     
   Nov. 28    **No Meeting, Thanksgiving Break**    
December
  
Sneak preview of Spring 2009 
   Jan 23         Kim Wade-Benzoni, Duke University (Joint with the College of Business)
   Jan 30          Elizabeth Gorman, University of Virginia
   Feb 13          Ruby Mendenhall, Sociology, University of Illinois
   Feb 20         Chichun Fang and John Dencker, LER
   Feb 27         Timothy Vogus, Vanderbilt University (Joint with College of Business)
   March 6       Eric Neuman, College of Business, University of Illinois
   April 17       Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University
   May 1         Josh Angrist, MIT