Graduate Student Workshop 2019
Saturday, October 19, 2019
UC Davis, CA

Program of Events

 8:30 AM            Coffee, Fruit and Pastries

9:20 AM             Introductions

9:30 AM             "Persistnent Human Capital Spillovers: Evidence from China's Send-down Migration."
                            Peter (Zhixian) Lin, UC Davis

10:20 AM           "Fireside Chats: Communication and Consumers' Expectations in the Great Depression
                            Mathieu Pedemonte, UC Berkeley

11:10 AM            Break

11:30 AM            “The Quantity and Quality of Pre-Imdustrial Children: Evidence from Quebecois Twins”
                             Matthew Curtis, UC Davis

12:20 PM            Lunch

1:30 PM              “Immigrants and Industries"
                            Sebastian Ottiniger, UCLA

2:20 PM             “Blowing against the Wind? a Narrative Approach to Central Bank Foreign Exchange Intervention."
                            Alain Naef, UC Berkeley

3:10 PM              Break

3:30 PM             “The decline of U.S. Labor Unions: Sectoral Shifts, Trade and Automation.”
                           Zachary Schaller, UCI

4:20 PM             “Forced Labor, State Capacity and Trade: The Case of Colonial Indonesia”
                            Mark Hup, UCI

5:10-5:40 PM    Discussion of job market strategies

6:00 PM             Dinner