The Fifteenth Biweekly Academic Forum of Labor Economics co-organized by CIER and the School of Labor and Human Resources of RUC will be held at 4: 00 to 5: 30 on the afternoon of Mar.3rd (Wednesday). We hereby notify the related matters as follows:
         1. Topic: Job Quality and Economic Independence of Welfare Users
         2. Speaker: Dr. Hao Qi
         Dr. Hao Qi received Economics Ph. D from University of Wisconsin-Madison and now teaches in Xiamen University. His research areas mainly are public economics, labor economics, econometrics and American antipoverty policies and so on. He particularly concerns about labor market and welfare, and his representative papers are “A Structural Analysis of Mothers ’Work and Welfare Participation Decisions and Children’s Attainments”, “The Effects of the Expansion in the EITC Program and Welfare Time Limits on Single Mothers’ Welfare and Work Decisions”, “The Effects of Single Mothers’ Welfare and Labor Force Participation Decisions on Children’s Attainments” and so on.
         3. Working Language: Chinese
         4. Venue: Room 347 of Qiushi Building of RUC
         5. Participants: members of CIER, teachers and students of the School of Labor and Human Resources, and other teachers and students are both welcome.

 CIER
 Feb.24th, 2010