Queen's University at KingstonJohn Deutsch Institute
Quantitative Workshop
Department of Economics


NUMERICALLY INTENSIVE
E
CONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS
April 28-29, 2000
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario

[Speakers and Papers] [Student Presenters]
[Program][Other Participants] [Details]

SPEAKERS AND PAPERS
[conference volume*]

NAME
AFFILIATION
TITLE**
Hanming Fang
University of Pennsylvania
& Yale University
Disentangling the CollegeWage Premium:  Estimating a Model of Endogenous Education Choices
Susumu Imai
Pennsylvania State University
Estimating a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Crime
Michael Keane
New York University
Estimating the Impact of Welfare on the Education, Employment, Fertility and Marriage Decisions of Women
Shannon Seitz University of Western Ontario 
& Queen's University
Employment and the Sex Ratio in a Two-Sided Model of Marriage
Bruce Shearer
Laval University
Piece Rates Fixed Wages and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Matthew Shum
University of Toronto
Competition and the Winner's Curse in Procurement Auctions
  *All papers contained in a single bookmarked PDF File
**Indivdual Papers in PDF Files

 

STUDENT PRESENTERS*

NAME
AFFILIATION
TOPIC
Ahmed Khwaja 
University of Minnesota &
University of Pennsylvania
Life cycle model of health insurance and medical care choices
Seok Joon Hwang
Pennsylvania State University
The value of neighborhood and the subsidization of homeownership
Peter Vechnak
Pennsylvania State University
Assessing The Effects of Substance Abuse on Employment Status
* Abstract or draft paper is contained in the conference volume.

 

PROGRAM

Location
Time
Item
Notes
Thursday, April 27
*location change*
Kingston Brew Pub
34 Clarence St.
8:00PM
Informal Beer / Coffee / Desert 2 blocks from the hotel; just come by to say hi.
Friday April 28
Urquhardt Reading Rm
Dunning Hall 3rd Floor
9:00AM
Coffee / Welcome / Email Breakfast downtown;
Electronic Classroom open; places to work & talk.
Dunning Hall Room 27
10:30
Bruce Shearer
Urquhardt Reading Rm
 11:45
Lunch
Dunning Hall Room 27
 1:00PM
Hanming Fang
 2:15
Break
Dunning Hall Room 27
 2:30
Shannon Seitz
 4:15
Break
Dunning Hall Room 27
 4:15
Graduate Students:
Khwaja, Hwang, Vechnak
5:30
Free Time
Oliver's & Smith's
172 Ontario St.
 7:00
Dinner
Saturday, April 29
Dunning Hall Room 27
  8:00AM
Continental Breakfast 
  8:30
Paper 4: Susumu Imai
  9:45
Break
10:00
Paper 5: Michael Keane
Stauffer Library,
Fireplace Room
11:30
Lunch Across Union St. from Dunning; 2nd floor
12:45PM
Paper 6: Matthew Shum
  2:15
Conclusion
4:30
Reception at C. Ferrall's house
(alternative location: TBA)
weather permitting
Saturday Night Dinner Options
Restaurant
Address
Take-out at C. Ferrall's house
weather permitting
Dinner Cruise to the 1000 Islands
 details
Curry Original
253A Ontario
Casa Domenico
35 Brock
Windmills
184 Princess
Chez Piggy
68-R Princess
Hoppin Eddy's
393 Princess 
General Wolfe Hotel
Walk-on ferry to Wolfe Island

 

OTHER PARTICIPANTS

AFFILIATION
NAMES
Queen's University
James MacKinnon; Jason Hwang; Susanna Esteban; Andrew Leach; Stefan Dodds; Charles Beach; Kathleen Benyon; Allen Head
Brock University
David Love
Penn State University Nezih Guner

ACCOMODATION

A block of rooms has been reserved at:

Howard Johnson's - Confederation Place
237 Ontario Street, Kingston ,ON K7L 2Z4
hjconfed@adan.kingston.net
Tel: (613) 549-6300
Fax: (613) 549-1508

You can fill out a Reservation Form using the "John Deutsch Institute" for the Company name.
 
 

TRAVEL
to Kingston Thursday / From Kingston Sunday

Method
Ottawa
Toronto
Montreal Syracuse
Train
Schedule
take cab to
Ottawa Station
(15 min.)
Schedule
cab or bus to downtown
Union Station 
(30-80 min.)
Schedule
walk(?) to
Dorval Station
(5 minutes)
Bus
Voyageur  Schedule
take cab to bus station
Trentway-Wagar Airport Bus
(4 hours travel time)
 1-800-461-76611
Departures
 
from Terminal
2:30 PM
7:00 PM
9:30 PM
 from Queen's
1:30AM
6:30AM
12:00PM
Limo/Shuttle/Rental Car
2 1/4 hrs
3 1/4 hrs
3 hrs
2 3/4 hrs
 Alcorn Shuttle
Anthony's Limo
ExecuTrans
(613) 547-5412
(613) 376-6690
(613) 384-8412
         

 

Contacts, Maps, and Links

Kingston, Ontario

From New York State
From I-81 cross the 1000 Islands Bridge
Take Highway 401 towards Toronto/Kingston

To Howard Johnson's:
Take the Montreal St. Exit for Kingston.
Follow Montreal to Princess St., take left onto Princess (one way), at the 
Turn right onto Ontario Street.

To Dunning Hall:
Take the Division Street Exit
Follow Division Street until it ends at Union Street.
Turn right on Union Street.

Organizers
Chris Ferrall
Sharon Sullivan