Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, January 5, 2007

Conferences and Calls for Papers

SIAS Summer Institutes 2007-2008
The Vision Thing: Studying Divine Interventions_x000d_
Stanford, CA, June 25-July 6, 2007_x000d_
Application deadline: February 28, 2007_x000d_
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=154039
Bio-Fuels, Food and Feed Tradeoffs
St. Louis, MO, April 12-13, 2007_x000d_
Submission deadline: February 15, 2007_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Bio-fuels.pdf

Funding Opportunities

University of Minnesota
National Needs Doctoral Fellowships_x000d_
Deadline: February 1, 2007_x000d_
http://www.apecgrad.umn.edu/National_Needs_Doctoral_Fellowships.html
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Dissertation Fellowship Program in Retirement Research_x000d_
Deadline: February 28, 2007_x000d_
http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/DissertationFellowProp.pdf

Job Opportunities

University of California, Davis
Associate/Full Professor, Community and Regional Development and Policy_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UCDavisCommunityStudies.pdf
Luther College
Visiting Assistant Professor_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/LutherCollege.pdf
Kansas State University
Assistant Professor, Economics of Production Agriculture_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/KansasStateUniv.pdf
Public Policy Institute of California
Summer Interns_x000d_
http://www.ppic.org/main/position.asp?i=1201_x000d_
Dissertation Fellow_x000d_
http://www.ppic.org/main/position.asp?i=1430 _x000d_
Visiting Fellows_x000d_
http://www.ppic.org/main/position.asp?i=1496_x000d_
Senior Fellow, Research Fellow, Research Associate_x000d_
http://www.ppic.org/main/opportunities.asp

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman
(with S. Keng). "Binge Drinking and Labor Market Success: A Longitudinal Study on Young People." Journal of Population Economics, published online January 18, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-005-0053-8