Seminars at Columbia
Monday September 18th 2:30pm to 3:45pm - IAB 1101
Economic Theory Workshop - Itai Ashlagi
Title Not Available Tuesday September 19th 12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 307
Columbia Macro Lunch Group - Pierre Yared
Title Not Available 2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
Industrial Organization and Strategy - Rebecca Diamond (Stanford)
The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States (with Hunt Allcott and Jean-Pierre Dube) 4:15pm to 5:45pm - 1101 IAB
Money-Macro Workshop - Manuel Amador (University of Minnesota)
Foreign Reserve Management at Zero Interest Rates (with Javier Bianchi, Luigi Bocola, and Fabrizio Perri) Wednesday September 20th 2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
International Economics Workshop - Cecilia Fieler (UPenn)
Title Not Available Thursday September 21st 12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 330
Marketing Seminars - Randy Bucklin (UCLA)
Title Not Available
Seminars at NYU
Tuesday September 19th
12:30pm to 2:00pm - NYU Psychology Room 551
Social Psychology Brown Bags - Maureen Craig (NYU)
Towards a “Majority-minority” Nation: Understanding Political Attitudes & Intergroup Relations in the 21st Century
2:40pm to 4:00pm - 19 W 4th Street Room 517
Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Kenneth Langa (University of Michigan)
Is the Risk for Alzheimer’s and Dementia on the Decline?: Epidemiological Evidence from Around the World Thursday September 21st 12:30pm to 1:30pm - NYU Psychology Room 551
Cognition and Perception Colloquia - Scott Johnson (UCLA)
Social Attention in Infancy 4:00pm to 5:00pm - NYU Psychology Room 551
Social Neuroscience Colloquia - Kevin Ochsner (Columbia University)
From the self to social contexts
4:00pm to 5:30pm - Room 326, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street
Behavioral Economics and Public Policy Workshop - Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley)
Uniform Pricing in U.S. Retail Chains
Article of the Week
Why trained musicians are better at making decisions
Kirsten Smayda of the University of Texas–Austin along with colleagues Bharath Chandrasekaran of UT–Austin and Darrell Worthy of Texas A&M, recently found that when faced with a complex decision-making task, participants who began musical training after age eight made better choices than those who started earlier, or never took lessons at all. One possible explanation," the researchers note "is that music training beginning late in childhood capitalizes on the period of significant maturation in the prefrontal cortex." | 
