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Andreea Balan Cohen presented her paper "Healthy,
Wealthy and Wise? The Impact of the Old Age Assistance Program on
Elderly Mortality in the United States" at the 19th Annual Health
Economics Conference hosted by the Center for Health and the Social
Sciences, University of Chicago on March 20-21, and at a conference
on "The Economics of the Health Care and the Pharmaceutical
Industry" hosted and organized by Universite Toulouse and The
Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse, on January
25-26. She also presented her paper "Sobering Up: The Impact of the
1985-1988 Russian Prohibition on Child Health" at the CeMENT
National Workshop organized by the Committee on the Status of Women
in the Economics Profession. This Spring Professor Balan Cohen has
joined the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University as a Faculty Associate.
Marcelo Bianconi presented his paper: "Cross-listing Premium
in the US and the UK Destination'" joint with Liang Tan (Tufts EC MA'05,
Northwestern) at the department of Economics of FEA-USP in Sao
Paulo, Brazil on March 17.
Drusilla Brown and Sharun Mukand continued their work with an
interdisciplinary team of Tufts scholars to study the impact of the
International Labour Organization (ILO)’s Better Work Program in
Vietnam. This research is designed to determine the causal
relationship between workplace based interventions and enterprise
level changes in labor standards and economic performance, as well
as the direct benefits to workers and their families. This research
is supported by the ILO and the International Finance Corporation
(Word Bank).
Rajeev Dehejia gave a talk on "The Consequences of Child Labor:
Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Tanzania" at the University of
Maryland, and presentations on "Do Financial Incentives Affect
Fertility?" at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in March,
at Brandeis and the University of Chicago in April, and at the
University of Bristol (England) in May.
Thomas Downes and Jeff Zabel were awarded a contract
on "The Impact of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act," MassINC.
Yannis Ioannides gave a research seminar, on "Searching for the Best
Neighborhood" and series of three lectures, titled "Economics of
Social Interactions," to graduate students and faculty, the
Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, March 2008. He worked
as a member of the organizing committee, composed of an
international group of scholars (Salvator Barbera, Andreu Mas-Colell,
Mathew Jackson, Yves Zenou and others), for a Conference in Memory
of Antoni Calvo-Armengol, , on "Social Networks and Peer Effects," Institut
d' Analysi Economica, Barcelona, May 29--31, 2008. This
Spring Professor Ioannides also completed his work as Associate
Editor, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition,
PalgraveMcMillan, general eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Laurence E.
Blume. Published online, March 2008; forthcoming in hardcopy, May
2008. His areas of responsibility were: urban and regional
economics, economic geography, network formation and complexity.
Edward Kutsoati presented his work on "Examining Interest Rate
Sensitivities among Micro-Finance Loan Clients," at a conference on
Microfinance: A Tool for Achieving the Millenium Development Goals
in Africa," which took place in Ghana in January, and participated
in an NBER conference on "The Economics of Success Stories in
Sub-Saharan Africa," sponsored by the Gates Foundation.
Maggie McMillan received a $350,000 grant from the Wellspring
Foundation for Financial Literacy Training in Ghana. She was an
invited participant in the NBER Africa Project Conference in
February, and gave research presentations at the NBER International
Trade and Investment Meeting in March and at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston in May. Her work was mentioned in Dani Rodrik’s
weblog and other online outlets.
Gilbert Metcalf presented a paper on federal energy tax policy at
the American Economic Association annual meeting in New Orleans in
January, gave a paper on climate policy at a Conference on Climate
Change Policy at Rice University and was one of two main speakers at
Baruch College Public Affairs Week's evening event on Climate Change
and U.S. Climate Policy. He participated in a conference on Cost
Containment in U.S. Climate Policy held by the National Commission
on Energy Policy and Resources for the Future in Washington, DC,
which included a briefing for Senate staff in the Capitol on climate
policy, and gave a talk at the New England Sustainable Energy
Association annual meeting in Boston and at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington, DC. In January, Metcalf also gave a
presentation on carbon taxation and participated at an event hosted
by Vice President Al Gore on climate policy in New York City. In
addition, Metcalf presented new research on federal tax expenditures
at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference in Florida as
well as the National Tax Association Spring Symposium in Washington,
DC, and gave seminars at the Tufts Energy and Climate Forum, MIT's
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, the
Brookings Institution, the Harvard Environmental Studies Seminar
Series, and Harvard Kennedy School's New Directions in Regulation
Seminar Series. He also served as an outside expert for the
Department of Energy on a DOE report on federal subsidies in energy
markets.
In May Gilbert Metcalf, along with Henry Aaron at Brookings,
circulated a non-partisan letter opposing a Gas Tax Holiday. The
letter has gathered 250 signatures including those of five Nobel
Laureates in Economics and three current or former presidents of the
American Economic Association.
Gilbert Metcalf has been cited numerous times in the media this
Spring including a Boston magazine article on oil markets (Read the
article), a Forbes magazine article on tax policy, a CNBC story (Read the article.), an article on the Gas
Tax Holiday in Reuters (April 30,
Read the article), a Richmond (VA)
Times-Dispatch column on gas prices (May 2), and in numerous blogs
and media outlets on the Gas Tax Holiday letter.
In June Enrico Spolaore will give a talk on "Federalism,
Interregional Redistribution, and the Stability of Countries" at an
international conference in Barcelona, and will present his research
on "Trade, History and Geography" at the Einaudi Institute for
Economics and Finance in Rome.
Jeff Zabel was awarded a $170,000 grant from the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) for the project "Estimating the Social
Benefits of Cleanup Activities by EPA’s Underground Storage Tank
Program: Two Approaches," with Anna Alberini, University of
Maryland, Cynthia Morrison and Robert Paterson, Industrial Economics
Inc. He presented his research on housing markets at Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Economics in World Bank
Projects at the World Bank, and was awarded a position as Visiting
Scholar at the New England Public Policy Center, to be undertaken
Fall 2008 – Spring 2009.
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