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Seminar Series
The La Follette School Seminar Series engages participants in discussion of a range of public policy issues and showcases the research of faculty from La Follette and other departments, as well as invited guests from outside the University of Wisconsin-Madison community. Faculty, students and visitors take part in lively dialogue about topics that include poverty and welfare, health, education, international affairs, trade and finance, and the environment.
Fall 2008 seminars
Tuesday, September 23
Health Care and New Governance: The Search for Effective Regulation
Louise G. Trubek, clinical professor of law and senior fellow, Center for World Affairs & the Global Economy (WAGE). Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, September 30
David L. Weimer, La Follette School of Public Affairs. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, October 14
Katherine Cramer Walsh, associate professor of political science. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, October 28
Thomas R. Oliver, associate professor of Population Health Sciences, and associate director for health policy, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, November 25
Ariel Kalil, associate professor of public policy and director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Spring 2008 seminars
Friday, May 2
Ratcheting Private Standards: New Modes and Mechanisms of Governance in the Forest Sector
Christine Overdevest, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Florida. Noon. 336 Ingraham. Information:
. Co-sponsors: Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the Department of Rural Sociology.
Wednesday, April 30
Did Improving Public Health Services in England Pay Political Dividends for the Labour Party under Tony Blair?
Gwyn Bevan, professor of management and health care, London School of Economics. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
. Co-sponsored by Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy.
Monday, April 28
Virtue Out of Necessity? Commitment vs. Compliance Approaches to Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Richard Locke, Alvin J. Siteman professor of entrepreneurship and professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Noon. 206 Ingraham. Information:
. Co-sponsored by the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wednesday, April 16
Closing the Aboriginal–Non-Aboriginal Education Gap in Canada
John Richards, Public Policy Program at Simon Fraser University. Noon-1:30 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, April 8
Happiness After Widowhood: Is It Money or Marriage That Matters?
La Follette School professor Karen Holden. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, April 1
Upgrading Local Enterprises in Developing Economies: Building Standards and Networks
Paola Perez-Aleman, associate professor of strategy and organization at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. Noon. 206 Ingraham. Information:
. Co-sponsored by the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tuesday, March 25
Mothers, Men, and Child Protective Services Involvement
La Follette School affiliate Lawrence M. Berger,
assistant professor at the School of Social Work and faculty affiliate at Institute for Research on Poverty. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, March 4
Further Examination of Volume-Quality Relationships in Health Care: Some Methodological Considerations
La Follette School affiliate John Mullahy,
professor of population health sciences and economics. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, February 26
“Half-Hearted:” Anticorruption Reform in China
Baishun Yuan, visiting scholar at the La Follette School and the Center for East Asian Studies. He is vice dean at the School of Politics and Public Administration and executive associate director of the Anticorruption Research Institute, both at Hunan University. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Monday, February 18
Are China's and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last?
Eswar Prasad, Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. 7:30-9 p.m. ATT Lounge, Pyle Center. Information:
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Sponsors: Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Co-sponsors: Center for International Business Education and Research, Global Studies, Center for South Asia, Center for East Asian Studies, Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Tuesday, February 12
Do BITs Really Work? Revisiting the Empirical Link between Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment
La Follette School affiliate Jason Webb Yackee,
assistant professor of law and political science. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, February 5
Coordinating Policies on Climate Change and Air Quality
La Follette School affiliate Tracey Holloway,
assistant professor of environmental studies, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and civil and environmental engineering,
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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2007 seminars
Tuesday, December 11
Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South
La Follette School affiliate Byron Shafer, political science. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Monday, December 10
David Hummels, professor of economics at the Krannert School of Management, at Purdue University and a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. 11:30 a.m. La Follette School conference room. Information:
. He gives a second presentation the same day, 3:45-5:15 p.m in 8417 Sewell Social Science: "Explaining Import Variety and Quality: The Role of the Income Distribution." Copy of paper
Tuesday, December 4
Crisis Management and Network Theory
Donald Moynihan, La Follette School of Public Affairs. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Wednesday, November 28
James Harrigan is research officer and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; research associate with the International Trade and Investment Program, National Bureau of Economic Research; and adjunct professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Harrigan speaks again the same day on "Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade," 4 p.m. 8417 Sewell Social Science. Information:
. Presentation paper / Vita
Tuesday, November 6
Choose Your Weapon: Trade Policy, Exchange Rates and the Politics of Protection
Mark Copelovitch, La Follette School of Public Affairs. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, October 30
Can the World's Biggest Borrower Remain the World's Only Superpower?
Brad Setser, fellow at the Geoeconomics Center at the Council on Foreign Relations. A prominent person in the business and policy end of international finance, he is a blogger on the Roubini Global Economics Monitor. Noon. 8417 Sewell Social Science Building.
Monday, October 29
Recent Research on Cross-National Issues: Immigration and Old Age Poverty
Timothy Smeeding, a visiting scholar with the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, speaks. Noon-1:30 p.m. La Follette School conference room. He presents “Explaining the 21st Century American Welfare State in the Gilded Age” at 4 p.m. in 104 Van Hise. Information:
. Smeeding CV / Presentation slides
Tuesday, October 23
Climate Change & Health: Risks and Opportunities
Jonathan Patz, associate professor of environmental studies and population health sciences, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
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Tuesday, October 9
The Gloves-Off Economy: Problems and Possibilities at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Laura Dresser, Center on Wisconsin Strategy. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
Tuesday, October 2
Public Policy, Investment, and Improvements in Wind Power in California
Greg Nemet, La Follette School of Public Affairs. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
Tuesday, September 25
Sustainability Risk Management: Reducing Risks and Building Business Opportunities Using Sustainable Strategies
Dan Anderson, Business School, speaks. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
Tuesday, September 4
A Burned Out Light Bulb? The Wisconsin Idea, Public Universities, and the Shaping of Public Policy
Noel Radomski, managing director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks at the La Follette School Seminar. Noon. La Follette School conference room. Information:
Wednesday, May 2
The Emerging Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European
Union
La Follette School professor Jonathan Zeitlin. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School
conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038. La Follette
School working paper
Thursday, April 26
What Makes a Good School Teacher? Evidence from Value-Added Analysis and Implications for Educational Policy
La Follette School alum and University of WisconsinMadison educational policy assistant professor Doug Harris discusses his research on teacher quality. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, April 25
La Follette School assistant professor Pamela Herd. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, April 11
Raj Shukla of The Climate Project will present the slideshow on global climate change popularized by former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar award-winning movie An Inconvenient Truth. Shukla is one of about 1,000 people Gore and a renowned team of scientists and environmental educators trained to give this slideshow presentation. He is also the husband of first-year La Follette student Tora Frank. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038. Presentation flier
Wednesday, March 28
Increasing Access to Higher Education: the Role of Tax Policy
La Follette School professor
Andrew Reschovsky. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School
conference room. Information:
shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, March 14
Alasdair Roberts, associate professor at Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Roberts addresses 9/11 and the Crisis of Authority in American Government, a preview of a book he is writing about the Bush administrations response to September 11, 2001. His research interests include public sector restructuring and transparency in government. Sponsored by the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE). Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Monday, March 12
Tribal Members: A Surprisingly Diverse Group
Elizabeth Arbuckle Wabindato, an assistant professor at Northern Arizona
University, addresses how tribal members view their tribal identity. 4
p.m. 6240 Sewell Social Science Building. Information:
shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038. Wabindato
CV / Paper: Tribal Members: A Surprisingly
Diverse Group
Wednesday, March 7
Distorted Measures of Employment in Charitable Organizations: Causes, Impact and Remedies
Martin H. David, professor emeritus of economics, discusses improving
estimates of the number of workers employed by nonprofit organizations in
the United States. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School
conference room. Information:
shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Monday, February 19
Greg Nemet, University of California at Berkeley. Nemet's research is in energy policy, technological change and climate change. His dissertation is on innovation in low-carbon energy technologies and policy options for addressing climate change. The intellectual basis of his research encompasses public policy, economics, management, energy systems and earth science; methods include energy and climate modeling, risk analysis, statistics and econometrics. 4-5 p.m. 140 Science Hall. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, February 14
The Role of State Governance in the Adoption of Pharmaceutical
Technologies in Substance Abuse Treatment
La Follette School professor Carolyn Heinrich. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School
conference room. Information:
shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038. La Follette
School working paper
Friday, February 9
Thomas Oliver, associate professor and director, MHS program in health policy, Johns Hopkins University. Noon-1 p.m. 1420 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: pagrubb@wisc.edu.
Wednesday, February 7
Elizabeth Powers, associate professor of economics and faculty member, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Noon-1 p.m. 1420 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Friday, February 2
How Much Choice? Nonlinear Relationships Between the Number of Health
Plan Options and the Behavior of Medicare Beneficiaries
Brian Elbel, Yale University School of Public Health. Noon-1 p.m.
132 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: pagrubb@wisc.edu.
Thursday, February 1
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment: Correlation versus Causation
Emma Aisbett, University of California at Berkeley. Noon-1:15 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: info@lafollette.wisc.edu.
Wednesday, January 31
Medical Expenditure Burdens: The Impact of Tax Subsidies, Within-Year Expenditure Concentration, and More
Tom Selden, senior economist, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Noon-1 p.m. 1420 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038. Thomas Selden's curriculum vita
Friday, January 26
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Early Retirees: Impacts on Retirement, Health and Health Care
Erin Strumpf, Harvard University. Noon-1 p.m. 1420 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: pagrubb@wisc.edu.
Wednesday, January 24
Thomas DeLeire, associate professor, Department of Economics, Michigan State University (currently on leave in a position as senior analyst at the Health and Human Resources Division of the Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C.) Noon-1 p.m. 1420 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: pagrubb@wisc.edu.
Friday, January 19
Do Newer Prescription Drugs Pay for Themselves? Evidence from Long-Term Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
Yuting Zhang, Harvard University. Noon-1 p.m. 1420 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 614 Walnut St. Information: pagrubb@wisc.edu.
2006 seminars
Wednesday, December 6
The 'China' Issue in U.S. Macroeconomic Policy
La Follette School professor Menzie Chinn. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, November 29
Visiting Institute for Research on Poverty scholar Scott Allard speaks at La Follette School Seminar Series. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, November 8
Election 2006 Recap and Analysis
La Follette School professor Dennis Dresang and political science professor Barry Burden speak at La Follette School Seminar Series. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, October 25
Alternative Approaches to Child Support Policy in the Context of Multiple-Partner Fertility
La Follette School professor Maria Cancian. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, October 11
Access to Higher Education: Exploring the Variation Among Universities in the Prevalence of Pell Grant Recipients
La Follette School professor Bob Haveman, La Follette School student Matthew Steinberg and Patrizio Piraino of the University of Siena, Italy. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, October 4
How Social Experience Gets under the Skin: Neurobiological Approaches to Understanding Children at Risk
Psychology professor Seth Pollak, director of the Child Emotion Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room. Information: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu, 262-3038.
Wednesday, September 27
Medical Governance: Are We Ready to Prescribe?
David Weimer, professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs, discusses his plenary presentation he will give as president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. The La Follette School hosts the APPAM's national research conference Nov. 2-4 at Monona Terrace. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School conference room.
Wednesday, September 13
La Follette School Director Barbara Wolfe discusses health economics and the field's contribution to public policy decisions. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School Conference Room.
Wednesday, September 6
The Importance of Ability Bias and Leaving School Before the Exam in Analyzing Academic Performance
Sholeh Maani, associate professor of economics at the University of
Auckland. Noon-1 p.m. La Follette School
Conference Room.
Abstract of paper.
News story: La Follette
School seminar series opens Wednesday.