IBER’s donors  and the John Carter Endowment make it possible for the Institute to award small Dissertation Research Awards  (aka “mini-grants” to UC Berkeley Ph.D.  students in  Agricultural and Resource Economics, Demography, Economics, and Public Policy.  The maximum grant is generally  $1,000  and may be used to cover out-of-pocket expenses directly associated with conducting dissertation research.

Academic year 2012/2013 IBER Dissertation Research Award Recipients:

	Jiakai Chen, (Haas) "LIBOR's Poker: Interbank Borrowing Costs and Strategic Reporting'"
	Aluma Dembo, (ARE) "The Effects of Social interaction on Risk Preferences"
	Willa Friedman, (Economics) "Monitoring and Public Sector Productivity"
	Simon Galle, (Economics) "Understanding Ethnic Cooperation in Kenya"
	Guojun He, (ARE) “Health effects of air pollution:  evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games”
	Yongdong Liu, (ARE) "Cross-platform Behaviors of Mobile Applications Developers"
	Michaela Pagel, (Economics) "Expectations-based Reference-dependent Consumption and Portfolio Choice -- Evidence from the Lab"
	Moon Parks, (ARE) "The Effect of Information Provision About Eye Care Coverage on Utilization of Eye Care Service among the Medicare Beneficiaries"
	Gigi Perry, (Haas) "Elasticities of Demand for Low-fat Products”
	Antonio Rosato, (Economics) “‘Limited Availability Deals and Consumer Loss Aversion”
	Serafinelli, Michel, (Economics) “De-agglomeration, Productivity and Labor Quality: an Event-study Based on Closures of Large High-wage Plants”
	Vera Te Verde, (Economics) "Identifying Beliefs-based Social Preferences"
	Frenk Urrusti, Maria Sinaia Luz (Economics) "The Political Economics of Media Capture in Mexico"

IBER thanks the following for their recent donations in support of the Institute's dissertation research awards:

• David Arsen
• Martin Blank and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
• Letitia Wai-Lok Casebeer
• James Fish and Carolyn Corwin
• Vivian Hwa
• The John Carter Endowment

Only through individual gifts and endowments can IBER continue to make grants to graduate students in support of their dissertation research.  Please consider making a gift to IBER through Give To Cal.

To view past years' recipients, please choose the year from the list below
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