A Festschrift for Tony Lancaster - April 14-15, 2007
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A conference in honour of Tony Lancaster will take place at Brown University on the weekend of April 14-15. It will feature papers by colleagues and students past and present, a splendid dinner, and time to meet old friends and celebrate Tony's illustrious career. It is intended that the papers presented will form the basis of a Festschrift (download programme).

Conference booking

The conference will be held at Brown University, Cabinet Building, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St., Providence , RI, USA, and has been generously sponsored by Brown University's Economics department. To be included in the guest list please contact Frank Kleibergen at Brown.

Website

In addition, the website that you are looking at has been set up with the intention of being a place where those who wish to celebrate Tony's achievements may do so. While the conference program has been assembled by invitation, anyone who feels that they would like to contribute to the website may do so by sending a paper, or a message, by email to Bonnie Brimstone at cemmap.

Conference papers

Guido Imbens (Harvard) and Susan Athey: "Discrete Choice Models with Multiple Unobserved Choice Characteristics"

Wilbert van der Klaauw (North Carolina) and David Blau: "The Impact of Social and Economic Policy on the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States"

Orna Intrator (Brown): "Prospective Modelling of End-of-Life Utilization and Costs"

Devendra Gupta (Delhi): "Population, Development, and Women's Status for India"

Geert Ridder (USC): To be announced.

Karsten Hansen (Northwestern): "Recent Developments in Empirical Marketing"

Tiemen Woutersen (Johns Hopkins): "Testing for Heterogeneity in Duration Models: A New Semiparametric Test"

Andrew Chesher (cemmap, UCL and IFS): "Endogeneity and Discrete Outcomes"

Sung Jae Jun (Penn State): Weak identification and conditional moment restrictions

Frank Kleibergen (Brown) and Lennart Hoogerheide, Herman van Dijk: Natural Conjugate Priors for the Instrumental Variables Regression Model applied to the Angrist-Krueger data

Gary Chamberlain (Harvard) and Marcelo Moreira: "Decision Theory Applied to a Linear Panel Data Model"