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Brown bag Seminar SeriesThis is the homepage of the brown bag seminar for the Department of Economics, organized by Viktoria Kahui. The seminar takes place on Mondays between 1.00 p.m. and 1.50 p.m. in room CO. 520 during the semester. It is intended for presentations of work in progress. There is no restriction concerning topics other than they should belong to the field of economics. Please send your offers to: Department of Economics University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin Tel 64(3)479 5278 Fax 64(3)479 8174 mailto:viktoria.kahui@otago.ac.nz
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 6.8 | David Kidson Ross Wilson |
Presentations by Honours Students |
| 9.8 | Tom Lawson Siti Seh Omar Corey Allen |
Presentations by Honours Students |
| 16.8 | Rupert Hunt Will Chisholm |
Presentations by Honours Students |
| 6.9 | Nick Stone | Presentation by Honours student |
| 18.10 | Aurelia Lepine | "Health care utilization in Senegal: The facts before the extension of health insurance to farmers" |
| 8.11 | David Fielding | "The Red Queen, the Court Jester and the Econometrician" |
| 15.11 | Angela Müench | "The Spread of Epidemic Diseases: Public Spending on Health as Political Instrument?" |
| 22.11 | Stephen Knowles | "Giving to Africa and Perceptions of Poverty" |
| 29.11 | Alexis Le Nestour | "Family size and birth order effects on children's education in Senegal: use of twins as a natural experiment" |
| 13.12 | Aurelia Lepine | "The effect of socio-economic status on medical out-of-pocket spending with controls for endogenous provider choice" |
Semester 1, 2010
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 24.2 | Elodie Blanc *Note 2.00pm |
"The impact of climate change on agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa" |
| 8.3 | Willie Lahari | "Business Cycle Synchronisation- Prospects for a Pacific Islands Currency Union" |
| 15.3 | Shah Syed | "Sustainability of Fiscal Policy: A Comparison of Contemporary Models for Asian Developing Countries" |
| 12.4 | Charles Ombuki | "The Effect of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) on Exports to USA: Panel Data Evidence" |
| 19.4 | Trudy Sullivan | "Setting priorities in a publicly-funded health system" |
| 22.4 | Kris Inwood | "Rather above than under the common size? Stature and Living Standards in New Zealand" |
| 3.5 | Corey Allen David Kidson Tom Lawson |
Presentations by Honours Students |
| 10.5 | Ross Wilson Siti Seh Omar Nick Stone |
Presentations by Honours Students |
| 17.5 | Rupert Hunt Will Chisholm |
Presentations by Honours Students |
| 24.5 | Chaz Forsyth | "Firearm-armed violent offending in New Zealand - extent, and likely costs" |
| 31.5 | Aurelia Lepine | "Why and how should we invest in health in developing countries? Evidence from rural Senegal" |
| 10.6 | Alexis Le Nestour | "Demand for Schooling in Senegal" |
If you are not a staff member of the Department of Economics and would like to be included in the mailing list for this seminar, please contact the organiser at the email address above.
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