Labor/Public Economics Workshop, 2004/05 - 2011/12
| 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events
2011/12 | |
Sep. 8 | David Autor, MIT, " The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States" (with David Dorn and Gordon Hanson) [Paper] Joint with International Trade Workshop |
Sep. 15 | Juan Pantano, Washington University in St. Louis, "Using Subjective Expectations Data to Allow for Unobserved Heterogeneity in Hotz-Miller Estimation Strategies" (with Yu Zheng) [Paper] |
Sep. 22 | Lance Lochner, The University of Western Ontario, "Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family" |
Sep. 29 | Mario Macis, John Hopkins, "Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment on Blood Donation" (Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Rober Slonim) [Paper] |
Oct. 6 | Ahu Gemici, New York University, "Marriage and Cohabitation" (with Steve Laufer) [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions and Enrollment in the College Market" [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | Priyanka Anand, Yale University, "The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Prices on Compensation and Employment" |
Oct. 21 | Vincent Pohl, Yale University, "Medicaid and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers: Implications for Health Care Reform" |
Oct. 27 | Enrico Moretti, University of California Berkeley, visiting Cowles, "Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push: One Hundred Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority" |
Nov. 3 | Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Isolating Mechanisms for the Racial Divide in Education and the Labor Market: Evidence from Interracial Families" (with andrew Beauchamp, Marie Hull and Seth Sanders) [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Kathryn Shaw, Stanford Graduate School of Business, "The Value of Bosses" (with edward P. Lazear and Christopher T. Stanton) [Paper] |
Nov. 17 | Ted Rosenbaum, Yale Unversity, "Low Cost Location vs. Right Next Door: A Dilemma of Manufacturing Site Selection" |
Feb. 9 | Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania/Cowles Visitor, "The Production of Child Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility" (with Anna Aizer) |
Feb. 16 | Amanda Dawn Pallais, Harvard University, "Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets" [Paper] |
Mar. 1 | Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto, "Sectoral Shift, Job Mobility and Wage Inequality" (with Florian Hoffmann) |
Mar. 22 | Claudia Goldin, Harvard University, "The Career Cost of Family" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
Mar. 29 | Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank, Cowles Visitor, "The Effect of DI Receipt on Labor Supply" |
Apr. 5 | Jeremy Lise, University College London, Cowles Visitor, "The Macro-dynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms" (with Jean-Marc Robin) |
Apr. 12 | John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility" [Paper] |
Apr. 19 | Hamish Low, University of Cambridge, Cowles Visitor, "Saving on a Rainy Day, Borrowing for a Rainy Day" (with Sule Alan and Tom Crossley) [Paper] |
Apr. 26 | Sue Dynarski, University of Michigan, "Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion" (with Joshua M. Hyman, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach) [Paper] |
May 3 | Kelly Bedard, University of California, "Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives?" (with Philip Babcock, Gary Charness, John Hartman and Heather Royer) [Paper] |
2010/11 | |
Sep. 10 | Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA, "Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?" (with Silvia Helena Barcellos and Leandro Carvalho) [Paper] |
Sep. 17 | Tal Gross, Columbai University, "The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services" (with Michael Anderson and Carlos Dobkin) [Paper] |
Sep. 24 | Richard Mansfield, Yale University, "Teacher Quality and Student Inequality" [Paper] |
Oct. 1 | Christian Dustmann, University College London, "Referral-Based Job Search Networks" (with Albrecht Glitz and Uta Schoenberg) [Paper] |
Oct. 8 | Janet Currie, Columbia University, "Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass" (with Reed Walker) [Paper] |
Oct. 15 | Donna Gilleskie, University of North Carolina, "Untangling the Direct and Indirect Effects of Body Mass on Earnings" (with Euna Han and Edward Norton) [Paper] |
Oct. 22 | Mark Klee, Yale University, "Aggregate Welfare under Professional Licensing and Certification with Coarse Signals" |
Oct. 29 | Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University, "Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance" (with Hamish Low) [Paper] |
Nov. 5 | Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania, "Aligning Learning Incentives: An Experiment in Mexican High Schools to Improve Mathematics Performance" (with Jere Behrman, Susan Parker, and Petra Todd) |
Nov. 12 | Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, "Can Risk Adjustment Reduce Selection in Private Insurance Markets? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program" (with Jason Brown, Ilyana Kuziemko, and William Woolston) [Paper] |
Nov. 19 | Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin, "Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Employment and Productivity" (with Dale T. Mortensen) [Paper] |
Dec. 3 | Andrew Shephard, Princeton University, "Equilibrium Search and Tax Credit Reform" [Paper] |
Dec. 10 | Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences Po, Paris, "Marriage with Labor Supply" (with Nicolas Jacquemet) [Paper] |
Dec. 15 | Melissa Tartari, Yale University, "The Impacts of the 1992-1996 California Welfare Experiment" |
Jan. 26 | Joseph Hotz, Duke University, "Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals" (with Peter Arcidiacono and Songman Kang) [Paper] |
Feb. 11 | Aspen Gorry, UC, Santa Cruz, "Experience and Worker Flows" [Paper] |
Feb. 18 | Jonah Gelbach, Yale University, "Testing for Racial Discrimination in Bail Setting Using Nonparametric Estimation of a Parametric Model" (with Shawn Bushway) [Paper] |
Feb. 25 | Alexandre Mas, Princeton University, "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction" (with David Card, Enrico Moretti, Emmanuel Saez) [Paper] |
Mar. 4 | Nancy Qian, Yale University, "The General Equilibrium Effects of China's Urban Housing Reforms on the Wage Structure" (with Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng and Xiaoxue Zhao) [Paper] |
Mar. 25 | Moshe Buchinsky, UCLA, visiting Cowles, "The Dynamics of Educational Choices in the United States" (with Alvaro Mezza and Douglas McKee) [Paper] |
Apr. 1 | Costas Meghir, Yale University, "Education Policy and Crime" |
Apr. 8 | Kory Kroft, Yale Universty, "Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence" (with Matthew J. Notowidigdo) [Paper] |
Apr. 15 | Victor Lavy, University of London, "How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns? Evidence from an Unusual Pay Reform in Israel's Kibbutzim" (with Ran Abramitzky) [Paper] |
Apr. 22 | Amitabh Chandra, Harvard Kennedy School, "Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare" (with Douglas Staiger) [Paper] |
Apr. 29 | Raj Chetty, Harvard University, "Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply" [Paper] |
May 6 | Ronni Pavan, University of Rochester, "The Specifity of General Human Capital: Evidence from College Major Choice" (with Josh Kinsler and Jong-Suk Han) |
2009/10 | |
Sep. 11 | Kirabo Jackson, Cornell University, "Peer Quality or Input Quality?: Clean Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago" [Paper] |
Sep. 17 | Jonathan Gruber, MIT, "Consumer Choice for Medicare Part D Plans" [Paper] Joint with Industrial Organization Seminar |
Sep. 18 | Dora Gicheva, Yale University, "Working Long Hours and Career Wage Growth" [Paper] |
Sep. 25 | Steven Bednar, Yale University, "The Effect of Campaign Visits on Election Outcomes" |
Oct. 2 | Derek Neal, University of Chicago, "Pay for Percentile" (with Gadi Barlevy) [Paper] |
Oct. 9 | Todd Elder, Michigan State University, "Donorcycles: Do Motorcycle helmet Laws Reduce Organ Donations?" (with Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Brian Moore) [Paper] |
Oct. 16 | Fabian Duarte, Yale University, "Price Elasticity of Expenditure across Health Care Services" |
Oct. 23 | Matthew Johnson, Yale University, "Borrowing Constraints, College Enrollment, and Delayed Entry" [Paper] |
Oct. 30 | Costas Meghir, University College, London, "Wages and Informality in Developing Countries" (with Renata Narita and Jean Marc Robin) [Paper] |
Nov. 6 | Daniel Aaronson, Federal Research Bank of Chicago, "The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement" (with Bhashkar Mazumder) [Paper] |
Nov. 13 | John Abowd, Cornell University, "National Estimates of Gross Employment and Job Flows from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with Demographic and Industry Detail" (with Lars Vilhuber) [Paper] |
Nov. 20 | David Blau, Ohio State University, "How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth Accumulation?" [Paper] |
Dec. 4 | Paul Oyer, Stanford University, "The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School" (with Scott Schaefer) [Paper] |
Dec. 11 | Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago, "Voter Turnout and the Labor Market" (with Melvin Stephens) [Paper] |
Feb. 5 | Hank Farber, Princeton University, "Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections" [Paper] |
Feb. 12 | Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago, "Speech Patterns and Racial Wage Inequality" [Paper] |
Feb. 19 | Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University, "Anti-Lemons: Social Reputation and Educational Quality" (with Miguel Urquiola) [Paper] |
Feb. 26 | Janet Currie, Columbia University, "Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass" (with Reed Walker) [Paper] |
Mar. 26 | Christopher Robinson, University of Western Ontario, "Occupational Mobility, Occupation Distance and the Evolution of Basic Skills" [Paper] |
Apr. 9 | Robert Gibbons, MIT Sloan School of Management, "Relational Contracts and the Origins of Organizational Capabilities" [Paper] |
Apr. 16 | Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College, "Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care" (with Douglas Staiger) [Paper] |
Apr. 23 | Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago, "The Declining Quality of Household Survey Data" [Paper] [Tables] |
2008/09 | |
Sep. 5 | Betsey Stevenson, Wharton, UPenn, "Economic Growth and Subjective Well-being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox" (with Justin Wolfers) [Paper] |
Sep. 15 | Martin Browning, Oxford "Spending Time and Money within the Household" |
Sep. 19 | Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, "Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004" (with Peter Gottschalk) [Paper] |
Sep. 26 | David Albouy, University of Michigan, "Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-life Estimates Across Cities" [Paper] |
Oct. 3 | Christopher Taber, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Oct. 10 | Fernando Ferreira, Wharton, UPenn, "The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design" (with Stephanie R. Cellini amd Jesse Rothstein) [Paper] |
Oct. 17 | Peter McHenry, "The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms" [Paper] |
Oct. 24 | Jonah E. Rockoff, Columbia University Business School, "Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality" (with Lesley J. Turner) [Paper] |
Oct. 31 | Pedro Carneiro, University College London, "A Flying Start? Maternity Leave and Long-term Outcomes for Mother and Child" (with Katrine Løken and Kjell G. Salvanes) [Paper] |
Nov. 7 | Doug McKee, Yale University, "Do Good Kids Finish First? Characterizing the Bequest Motive in Mexico" (with Beth Soldo) [Paper] |
Nov. 14 | Lawrence Katz, Harvard University, "Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors" (with Marianne Bertrand and Claudia Goldin) [Paper] |
Nov. 21 | Nicole Fortin, University of British Columbia, "Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out and the Persistent Appeal of Housewifery" [Paper] |
Dec. 5 | Petra Todd, UPenn, "How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile" (with David Bravo and SankarMukhopadhyay) [Paper] |
Dec. 12 | Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University,"Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937" (with Emmanuel Saez) [Paper] |
Feb. 20 | Todd Stinebrickner, University of Western Ontario, "Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision" (with Ralph Stinebrickner) [Paper] |
Feb. 27 | Francis Kramarz, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, "Labor Market Outcomes and the Enforcement of the Employment Protection Legislation" (with Henri Fraisse and Corinne Prost) [Paper] |
Mar. 27 | Arnaud Dupuy, Maastricht University, "Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger" [Paper] |
Apr. 3 | Alan Krueger, Princeton University, "Validating the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): How Well Do People Remember What They Were Doing Yesterday?" |
Apr. 10 | Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA, "Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences" (with Shiv Saini) [Paper] |
Apr. 17 | David Blau, Ohio State University, "How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth Accumulation?" [Paper] |
Apr. 24 | Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University, "The Causal Effects of Education on Health" (with Jim Heckman & Gabriella Conti) [Paper] |
May 1 | Juanna Joensen, Stockholm School of Economics, "Academic and Labor Market Success: The Impact of Student Employment, Abilities, and Preferences" [Paper] |
2007/08 | |
Sep. 7 | Raj Chetty, UC Berkeley, "Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity in Unemployment Insurance" [Paper] |
Sep. 14 | H. Wilbert van der Klaauw, New York Federal Reserve Bank, "The Impact of Social and Economic Policy on the Family Structure Experience of Children in the United States" (with David Blau) [Paper] |
Sep. 21 | Christopher Flinn, New York University, "Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts" |
Sep. 28 | Patrick Kline, Yale, "Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program" |
Oct. 5 | David Card, UC Berkeley, "Does Medicare Save Lives?" (with Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas) [Paper] |
Oct. 12 | Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, "Arbitrage in Housing Markets" (with Joseph Gyourko) [Paper] |
Oct. 19 | Shannon Seitz, Boston College, "Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations" |
Oct. 26 | Jeffrey Matthew Weinstein, Yale, "The Relationship Between School Characteristics and Neighborhood Characteristics: Evidence from School Redistricting" |
Nov. 2 | Alan Manning, LSE, visiting MIT, "The Plant Size-place Effect: Agglomeration and Monopsony in Labour Markets" [Paper] |
Nov. 9 | Daniele Paserman, Boston University/Hebrew University, "Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players" [Paper] |
Nov. 16 | Jonah Gelbach, University of Arizona, "Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform Effects? Evidence from Connecticut's Jobs First Experiment" [Paper] |
Nov. 30 | Anders Björklund, Stockholm University, "Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968" (with Markus Jäntto and Matthew J. Lindquist) [Paper] |
Dec. 7 | Holger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University, "The Joy of Giving and the Greater Joy of Receiving: Estimating Multiple-Discrete Choice Models of Philanthropic Giving" (with Jipeng Zhang) [Paper] |
Feb. 22 | Alex Mas, UC Berkeley, "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999" (with David Lee) [Paper] |
Feb. 29 | Joseph Altonji, Yale Univeristy, "Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes" (with Fabian Lange and Prashant Bharadwaj) [Paper] |
Mar. 7 | Manuela Angelucci, University of Arizona, "Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption?" (with Giacomo De Giorgi) [Paper] |
Mar. 28 | Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, "Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants" (with Michael Greenstone and Richard Hornbeck) [Paper] |
Apr. 4 | Jeff Liebman, Harvard University "Earnings Responses to Increases in Payroll Taxes" (with Emmanuel Saez) [Paper] |
Apr. 11 | Till von Wachter, Columbia University, "Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data" (with Daniel Sullivan) [Paper] |
Apr. 18 | David Autor, MIT, "Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States" (with David Dorn) [Paper] |
Apr. 25 | Michael Elsby, University of Michigan "Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Unemployment Flows" (with Ryan Michaels) [Paper] |
May 2 | Gary Solon, Michigan State, "Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?" (with Donggyun Shin) [Paper] |
May 9 | Tat Chan, Washington University at St. Louis, "Using Subjective Expectations to Infer Managerial Objectives and Choices" (with Barton H. Hamilton and Christopher Makler) [Paper] |
2006/07 | |
Sep. 8 | Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University, "Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?" [Paper] and "Suburbanization and Transportation in the Monocentric Model" [Paper] |
Sep. 15 | Meta Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Tied Transfers" (with Maurizio Mazzocco, John K. Scholz and Ananth Seshadri) [Paper] |
Sep. 22 | Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto, "Marriage Matching, Efficient Risk Sharing and Spousal Labor Supplies" (with Eugene Choo and Shannon Seitz) [Paper] |
Sep. 29 | Jim Heckman, University of Chicago, "The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in the U.S. Economy" (with Flavio Cunha) [Slides] |
Oct. 6 | Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, "Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls" (with Perry Singleton and Jae Song) [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Kenneth Y. Chay, UC Berkeley, "The Long Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era" (with Douglas Almond) [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia, "Unconditional Quantile Regressions: Theory and Application" (and Sergio Firpo) [Paper] |
Oct. 27 | Adriana Lleras-Muney, Princeton University, "The Needs of an Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health" [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Dora Costa, MIT, "Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps" (and Matthew Kahn) [Paper] |
Dec. 1 | Jean Marc Robin, University College London, "An International Comparison of Lifetime Labor Income Values and Inequality" (with Audra J. Bowlus) [Paper] |
Dec. 8 | Seik Kim, Yale University, "Economic Assimilation of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States: An Overlapping Rotating Panel Analysis" [Paper] |
Dec. 15 | Jacob Vigdor, Duke University, "The Welfare Effects of Urban Decay and Revitalization" [Paper] |
Feb. 23 | Jérôme Adda, University College London, visiting UC Berkeley, "Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A Study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes" (with Mónica Costa Dias and Costas Meghir) [Paper] |
Mar. 2 | Derek Neal, University of Chicago, visiting Yale, "Current and Future Effects of Test-Based Accountability Systems" |
Mar. 9 | Amy Finkelstein, MIT, "EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates" [Paper] |
Mar. 30 | Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, "Peers at Work" (and Alexandre Max) [Paper] |
Apr. 6 | Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Input and Technology Choices In Regulated Industries: Evidence from the Health Care Sector" (with Amy Finkelstein) [Paper] |
Apr. 13 | Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago, "Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination" (with Kerwin Kofi Charles) [Paper] |
Apr. 20 | Donna B. Gilleskie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics" (with Zhou Yang and Edward C. Norton) [Paper] |
Apr. 27 | Steven Stern, University of Virginia, "Marriage, Divorce and Asymmetric Information" (with Leora Friedberg) [Paper] |
May 4 | Marcos Rangel, University of Chicago, "Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families" [Paper] |
May 11 | Steve Pischke, London School of Economics, visiting MIT, "Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS" (with Andreas Ammermueller) [Paper] |
2005/06 | |
Sep. 9 | James Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Incomes in South Africa since the Fall of Apartheid" (with Murray Leibbrandt and Justin McCrary) [Paper] |
Sep. 16 | Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth" (with Kaivan Munshi) [Paper] |
Sep. 23 | Joseph Doyle, MIT, "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care" [Paper] |
Sep. 30 | Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and Jeff Kling, Princeton University, Special Session on What We Have Learned from the Move to Opportunity Program (a HUD initiative that enabled inner-city poor to move to more affluent areas in a randomized experiment to assess the impact of living in a lower-crime area with better schools) Joint with Law, Economics and Organization Workshop |
Oct. 7 | Gianluca Violante, New York University, "Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion" (with J. Heathcote and K. Storesletten) [Paper] |
Oct. 21 | Costas Meghir, University College London, "Career Progression and Formal versus on the Job Training" (with J. Adda, C. Dustmann and J.-M. Robin) [Paper] |
Oct. 28 | Xia Li, Yale University, "Women's Labor Market Outcomes and Childbearing" |
Nov. 4 | Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, "The Effect of Transfer Programs on Labor Supply under Preference Heterogeneity and Variable Takeup" [Paper] |
Nov. 11 | Shamena Anwar, Yale University, "Testing for Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from the Game Show Street Smarts" |
Nov. 18 | Richard Blundell, University College London, "Earned Income Tax Credit Policies: Impact and Optimality" (based on work with Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard) [Paper] |
Dec. 2 | Steven Ross, University of Connecticut, Yale University, "Mortgage Lending in Chicago and Los Angeles: A Paired Testing Study of the Pre-Application Process" (with Margery Turner, Erin Godfrey and Robin R. Smith) [Paper] |
Dec. 9 | Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and Melissa Schettini Kearney, Brookings Institution, "The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation" [Paper] |
Feb. 24 | Dan Silverman, University of Michigan, "Consumption and Retirement: Evaluating Social Security Reform with a Life-Cycle Model" (with John Laitner) [Paper] |
Mar. 3 | Melissa Kearney, The Brookings Institution, "The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation" (with Mark Duggan) [Paper] |
Mar. 24 | Frank Vella, Georgetown University) "Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions via Conditional Second Moments" [Paper 1] [Paper 2] |
Mar. 31 | Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania, "Minority-Majority Differences in Female Life Cycle Behavior" [Paper 1] [Paper 2] |
Apr. 21 | Emiko Usui, Wayne State University/Yale University, "Gender Occupational Segregation in an Equilibrium Search Model" [Paper] |
Apr. 28 | Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto, "Lifecycle Marriage Matching: Theory and Evidence" (with Eugene Choo) [Paper] |
2004/05 | |
Sep. 17 | David Autor, MIT, "Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?" (with David Scarborough) [Paper] |
Sep. 24 | Rasmus Lentz, Boston University, "Productivity Growth and Worker Reallocation: Theory and Evidence" (with Dale T. Mortensen) [Paper] |
Oct. 1 | David Card, University of California-Berkeley, "Racial Segregation and the Black-White Score Gap" (with Jesse Rothstein) [Paper] |
Oct. 8 | Randi Pintoff, Yale University, "The Impact of Incarceration on Juvenile Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach" [Paper] |
Oct. 15 | Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University, "Wage Risk and Employment Risk Over the Life Cycle" (with Hamish Low and Costas Meghir) [Paper] |
Oct. 22 | Joseph G. Altonji (Yale University, "Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students" (with Ching-I Huang and Christopher R. Taber) [Paper] |
Oct. 29 | Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Estimating Spillovers in the Classroom with Panel Data" (with Gigi Foster, Natalie Goodpaster and Josh Kinsler) [Paper] |
Nov. 5 | Fabian Lange, Yale University, "The Social Value of Education and Human Capital" (with Robert Topel) [Paper] |
Nov. 12 | Luigi Guiso, University of Sassari & University of Chicago, "Learning to be an Entrepreneur" (with Fabiano Schivardi) [Paper] |
Nov. 18 | Anne Laferrère, CREST, INSEE, "Leaving the Nest: The Interaction of Parental Income and Family Environment" [Paper] |
Nov. 19 | Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University, "People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups" (with Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel) [Paper] |
Dec. 3 | Kevin Lang, Boston University, "Education and Labor-Market Discrimination" (with Michael Manove) [Paper] |
Dec. 10 | Kevin Hallock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees" (with Craig A. Olson) [Paper] |
Feb. 11 | Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Estimating Demand for School Quality: Evidence from a School Choice Experiment" [Paper] |
Feb. 18 | Dan Silverman, University of Michigan, "Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement" [Paper] |
Feb. 25 | John Ham, Ohio State University, "Propensity Score Matching, a Distance-Based Measure of Migration, and the Wage Growth of Young Men" (with Xianghong Li and Patricia Regan) [Paper] |
Mar. 4 | John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions" (with James Walker) [Paper] |
Mar. 25 | Robert Topel, University of Chicago, "The Value of Health and Longevity" (with Kevin M. Murphy) [Paper] |
Apr. 1 | Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto, "The Intergenerational Consequences of Unexpected Job Loss" (with Marianne Page and Ann Huff Stevens) [Paper] |
Apr. 8 | Hoyt Bleakley (UC San Diego, "Long-Term Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Malaria: Evidence from the Malaria Eradication Campaign in Latin America" |
Apr. 15 | Hanming Fang (Yale University, "An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice on Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence" (with Shamena Anwar) [Paper] |
Apr. 22 | Brian Knight, Brown University), "The Political Economy of School District Mergers" (with Nora Gordon) [Paper] |
Apr. 29 | Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago, "Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wage since 1975" (with Yona Rubinstein) [Paper] |
May 6 | Paul Devereux, UCLA, "The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education" (with Sandra Black and Kjell Salvanes) [Paper] |