Labor/Public Economics Prospectus Workshop, 2004/05–2011/12
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2011/12 | |
Sep. 13 | Seth Zimmerman and Christopher Neilson, Yale University, "The Returns to College and College Major in Chile" |
Sep. 20 | Martin Hackmann, Yale University, "Yardstick Competition and the Impact of Reimbursement Rates on Nursing Home Quality" |
Sep. 27 | Priyanka Anand, Yale University |
Oct. 4 | Christopher Neilson, Yale University, "Getting Good Students to Become Teachers: The Effect of Targeted Incentive in Chile" |
Oct. 11 | Vincent Pohl, Yale University, "Medicaid and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers: Implications for Health Care Reform" |
Oct. 18 | Rebecca Edwards, Yale University, "Women's Labor Supply - Motherhood and Work Schedule Flexiblity" |
Oct. 25 | Yvonne Jie Chen, Yale University, "Inequality of Opportunity for Health: Evidence from U.K. and U.S." |
Nov. 1 | Jacob Goldin, Yale University, "Optimal Tax Salience" |
Nov. 8 | Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "Affirmative Action in College Admissions and the Signalling Power of College Grades" |
Nov. 15 | Marianne Bruins, Yale University, "Changes in the Allocation of Resources to Children: 1965 to 2005" |
Nov. 29 | Erica Blom, Yale University, "Labor Market Determinants of College Major" |
Dec. 6 | Sukjin Han, Yale University, "Nonparametric Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models with Weak Instruments" |
Dec. 13 | Kota Mori, Yale University, "Combating Corruption through International Agreements" |
Feb. 14 | Martin Hackmann, Yale University, "The Impact of Medicaid Reimbursement Rates on Nursing Home Quality" |
Feb. 21 | Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia, "Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply" (with Laura Turner) |
Feb. 28 | Katja Maria Kaufmann, University of Bocconi, "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil" |
Mar. 20 | Olga Yakusheva and Jason Fletcher, Yale University, "Learning from Teen Childbearing Experiences of Friends: Evidence Using Miscarriages as a Natural Experiment" [Paper] |
Apr. 3 | Jamin Speer, Yale University, "The Long-Term Career Effects of Initial Under- and Over-Employment" |
Apr. 10 | Thibaut Lamadon, Yale University, "Search, Firm Shocks and Optimal Contracting" |
Apr. 24 | Marianne Bruins, Yale University, "Woman's Economic Opportunities and the Allocation of Resources to Children" |
May 1 | Rebecca Edwards, Yale University, "Work-schedule Flexibility, Motherhood & Female Labor Supply" |
May 8 | Nicolas Werquin, Yale University |
May 15 | Adam Kapor, Yale University, "The College Market Under a Percentage Plan" |
May 22 | Adam Osman, Yale University, "Tackling Youth Unemployment" |
Jun. 4 | Erica Blom, Yale University, "Labor Market Determinants of College Major Choice" |
2010/11 | |
Sep. 7 | Rachel Heath, Yale University, "Why Do Firms Hire Using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories" |
Sep. 14 | Christopher Neilson, Yale University, "Birth Weight, Parental Investments and Academic Achievement in School" |
Sep. 28 | Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "The Effect of School Construction on Property Values and Student Outcomes" |
Oct. 19 | Yvonne Jie Chen, "Education and Long Term Health Outcome" |
Oct. 26 | Rebecca Edwards, Yale University, "Job Flexibility and the Labor Supply of Recent Mothers" |
Nov. 2 | Priyanka Anand, Yale University, "The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Prices on Labor Market Outcomes" |
Nov. 16 | Christopher Neilson, Yale University, "Estimating Demand for College and Careers" Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "Merit Aid and the Returns to College Education" |
Nov. 30 | Vincent Pohl, Yale University, "The Impact of Health Insurance on the Labor Supply of Single Mothers" |
Dec. 14 | Erica Blom, Yale University, "Finding the Right Fit: How Much Does College-student Matching Matter? |
Feb. 22 | Seth Zimmerman, Yale University, "The Effect of School Construction on Property Values and Student Outcomes" |
Mar. 1 | Marianne Bruins, Yale University, "The Evolution of Marriage and its Effects on the Allocation of Resources to Children" |
Mar. 22 | Anant Nyshadham, Yale University, "Heterogeneous Coefficients with Learning: A Dynamic Panel Data Model of Returns to Schooling" |
Mar. 29 | Jason Fletcher, Yale University, "Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use" |
Apr. 12 | Doug Chung, Yale University, "Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans" (with Thomas Steenburgh, K. Sudhir) [Paper] |
Apr. 19 | Priyanka Anand, Yale University, "The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Prices on Labor Market Outcomes" |
May 3 | Vincent Pohl, Yale University, "Health Insurance and Labor Supply of Single Mothers" |
2009/10 | |
Sep. 14 | Florian Hoffman, University of Toronto, "Earnings and Mobility Dynamics in a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model: Estimation and Applications" |
Sep. 28 | Erica Blom, "Gender Differences and Child Production Functions" Rebecca Edwards , "Women's Labor Supply in their Child-bearing Years" |
Oct. 5 | Katherine Ho, Columbia University, “Welfare Consequences of Health Plan Choice by Employers rather than Employees" |
Oct. 19 | Dora Gicheva, "Working Long Hours and Career Wage Growth" |
Oct. 26 | Vincent Pohl, "The Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on the Labor Supply of Welfare Recipients" |
Nov. 2 | Steven Bednar, "The Effect of Campaign Visits on Election Outcomes" |
Nov. 9 | Priyanka Anand, "The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Costs on Labor Market Outcomes" |
Nov. 16 | Jamin Speer, "A Task-Based Approach to Occupational Matching" Douglas Norton, "Efficiency and the Distribution of Medical Spending" |
Nov. 30 | Matthew Johnson, "Borrowing Constraints, College Enrollment, and Delayed Entry" |
Dec. 7 | Rick Mansfield, "Estimating the Distribution of Teacher Quality" |
Feb. 15 | Anant Nyshadham, "Illness, Healthcare Choice, and Intra-Household Labor Allocation" |
Feb. 22 | Sylvain Chabe-Ferret, Cemagref/Cowles visitor, "To Control or Not to Control? Bias of Simple Matching vs Difference-In-Difference Matching in a Dynamic Framework" [Paper] |
Mar. 1 | Jamin Speer "Skills, Tasks, and Occupational Matching" |
Mar. 22 | Mark Klee "The Welfare Effects of Occupational Licensing" |
Mar. 29 | Vincent Pohl "The Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on the labor Supply of Welfare Recipients" |
Apr. 5 | Rick Mansfield "Estimating the Distribution of Teacher Quality" |
Apr. 12 | Priyanka Anand "Rising Health Insurance Costs and Labor Market Outcomes" |
Apr. 19 | Anant Nyshadham "Subsidized Learning or Leisure: Merit-Based Tuition Assistance Programs" |
Apr. 26 | Rebecca Edwards "Women's Labor Supply in their Child Bearing Years - Do We Observe Learning?" |
May 3 | Erica Blom "Undermatching in college applications" |
May 10 | Rachel Heath "Why do Employers Hire Using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories" |
2008/09 | |
Sep. 15 | Martin Browning, Oxford, "Spending Time and Money within the Household" |
Sep. 22 | James Choy |
Sep. 29 | Rafael de Melo |
Oct. 6 | Kyle Hood |
Oct. 13 | William Bunting |
Oct. 20 | Lisa Kahn, Yale SOM, "Job Durations, Match Quality and the Business Cycle: What We Can Learn from Firm Fixed Effects" |
Nov. 3 |
Jason Fletcher, Yale School of Public Health, "The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Individual Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health" (with Robert Bifulco and Stephen Ross) [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Kaj Thomsson, "Public and Private Welfare States" |
Nov. 17 | Matt Johnson, "Causes and Consequences of Delayed College Entry" |
Dec. 8 | Peter McHenry, "The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms" |
Dec. 15 | Priyanka Anand, "Understanding the Achievement Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants in the U.S." Vincent Pohl, "Marital Protection and Marital Selection — Evidence from Aggregate Data" |
Mar. 30 | Steve Bednar, "The Return to Campaign Visits" |
Apr. 6 | Rick Mansfield, "Estimating the Distribution of Teaching Quality" |
Apr. 13 | Dora Gicheva |
Apr. 20 | Vincent Pohl, "The Effect of Marital Status on the Use of Preventive Services" |
Apr. 27 | Priyanka Anand |
May 4 | Rachel Heath |
2007/08 | |
Sep. 10 | Maggie McConnell, Caltech University, "Volunteers and Reputation Signaling" |
Sep. 24 | Analia Schlosser, Princeton University, "Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School" (with Victor Lavy) [Paper] |
Oct. 1 | Rafael Lopes de Melo, Yale University |
Oct. 8 | Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, "Reinterpreting Returns to Experience" |
Oct. 22 | Kenneth Couch, UCONN, visiting Yale, "Earnings, Losses and Mass Layoffs" (with Dana W. Placzek) [Paper] |
Nov. 5 | Una Okonkwo Osili, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Immigrants' Access to Financial Services and Asset Accumulation" [Paper] |
Nov. 26 | Richard Mansfield, Yale University |
Dec. 3 | Stephen Ross, UCONN, visiting Yale, "The Effects of Public School Choice on Those Left Behind: Evidence from Durham, NC" (with Robert Bifulco and Helen F. Ladd) [Paper] |
Feb. 19 | Peter McHenry, "The Relationship between Schooling and Migration: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws" |
Feb. 26 | Alice Klynge, “The Returns to Literacy, Creativity, and Other Competencies” |
Mar. 25 | Therapy (one more spot available): Rick Mansfield |
Apr. 1 | Dora Gicheva |
Apr. 8 | Prashant Bharadwaj, "Sterilization, Fertility and Household Outcomes" |
Apr. 15 | Juan Eberhard |
Apr. 22 | Matt Johnson |
Apr. 29 | Therapy: Steven Bednar, "Returns to Campaign Visits" |
May 6 | Therapy: Rick Mansfield, "An Equilibrium Model of the Teacher Labor Market" |
May 20 | Melissa Tartari |
2006/07 | |
Sep. 25 | Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Insurance under Multiple Sources of Risk" |
Oct. 2 | Kyle Hood, Yale University, "Spatial Regional Evolutions" |
Oct. 9 | Bruno Falcao, Yale University, "The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor" |
Oct. 16 | Peter McHenry, Yale University, "Migration and Local Wage Structures" |
Oct. 23 | Fabian Lange, Yale University, "Public Sector Employment and Black Economic Progress" |
Oct. 30 | Rafael Lopes de Melo, Yale University, "Theories of Wage Determination and Wage Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment" |
Nov. 6 | Prashant Bharadwaj, YaleUniversity, "The Impacts of Changes in Marriage Laws" |
Nov. 13 | Björn Brügemann, Yale University, "Involuntary Dismissal" |
Nov. 27 | Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Global Wage Differences and International Student Flows" |
Dec. 4 | Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Social Insurance under Multiple Sources of Risk" |
Dec. 11 | Jeremy Magruder, Yale University, "Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa" |
Feb. 26 | Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "The Determinants of the Wages of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US" (with Mark Rosenzweig) |
Mar. 5 | Brian Knight, Brown University, "Momentum in Presidential Primaries" |
Apr. 2 | Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships" (with Ronald D. Fischer and Alexander Goletovic) [Paper] |
Apr. 9 | Dora Gicheva, Yale University, "Working Hours and the Slope of the Wage Profile" |
Apr. 16 | Jeffrey Weinstein, Yale University, "Do School Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?" |
Apr. 23 | Matthew Johnson, Yale University, "Uncertainty, Choices in College, and Precautionary Saving" |
Apr. 30 | Steve Bednar, Yale University, "Media Projection Bias" |
May 7 | Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College, "An IV-based Analysis of Optimal Healthcare Expenditure Using Medicare Data" (with Amitabh Chandra and Xiaohong Chen) |
May 14 | Peter McHenry, Yale University, "The Relationship between School Quality Inputs and Local Wage Structures" |
2005/06 | |
Sep. 12 | Stephen Ross, Yale University, "Neighborhood Information Externalities and the Provision of Mortgage Credit" |
Oct. 3 | Xia Li, Yale University, "Home Responsibility, Employers Perception and Endogenous Gender Gap" |
Oct. 17 | Seik Kim, Yale University, "Human Capital and Wage Dynamics" |
Oct. 24 | Jaymin Lee (Yale University, Yonsei University), "Union and Profitability of Korean Firms before the Crisis" [Paper] |
Oct. 31 | Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University, "Marital Networks and Labor Market Outcomes" |
Nov. 7 | Peter McHenry, Yale University, "Marital Status and the Effects of Migration" |
Nov. 28 | Kaj Thomsson, Yale University, "Modeling the Internal Political Process of Labor Unions" |
Dec. 12 | Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Information provision and decision making: A Field Experiment in School Choice" |
Feb. 20 | Joshua Lustig, "Peer Effects and Welfare Use" |
Mar. 20 | Lori Beaman, "Ethnic Networks and the Labor Market: Evidence from Refugees Resettled in the U.S." |
Mar. 27 | Seik Kim, "Estimating an Earnings Equation Using Rotating Panel Data" |
Apr. 3 | Peter McHenry, "Family Migration and Labor Market Outcomes" |
Apr. 10 | Shing-yi Wang, "The Role of Marital Ties and Selection in the Labor Market" |
May 1 | Kaj Thomsson, "Interest Groups and the Political Economy of Labor Market Institutions" |
Jun. 12 | Justine Hastings, "No Child Left Behind" |
Jun. 19 | Seik Kim |
Jul. 10 | Emiko Usui |
Jul. 17 | Lauren Lax |
Jul. 24 | Ian Vidangos |
Jul. 31 | Kaj Thomsson and Alessandro Bonatti, "Political Bargaining and the Distribution of New Deal Funds" |
Aug. 7 | Jeffrey Weinstein, "Do School Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?" |
Aug. 14 | Lori Beaman |
Sep. 18 | Seik Kim, Yale University, "Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States" |
2004/05 | |
Sep. 13 | Joseph Altonji, "Statistical Discrimination and Occupational Attainment" |
Sep. 20 | Patrick Bayer, "Inequality and Segregation" |
Oct. 4 | Hanming Fang, "Estimating Returns to Non-Cognitive Skill Investment" |
Oct. 11 | Ebonya Washington, "Female Socialization: How the Gender of a Congressman's Children Affects His Voting on Women's Issues" |
Oct. 25 | Peter Arcidiacono, "Do Race Conscious Admissions Foster Inter-racial Contact?" |
Nov. 8 | Xia Li, "Estimating the Impact of Childbearing on Women's Labor Market Outcomes: New Method and Evidence" |
Nov. 15 | Renzo Comolli, "Wage Differentials and Endogenous Disclosure of Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals" |
Nov. 22 | Justine Hastings, "Public School Choice and Academic Achievement: Random Assignment from a School Choice Lottery" |
Nov. 29 | Lauren Lax, "A Structural Model of Full, Partial, and Reverse Retirement" and "Retirement in an Extended Family Context" |
Dec. 13 | Jeffrey Weinstein, "A General Equilibrium Model of Commute Times" |
Jan. 10 | Organizational Lunch |
Apr. 18 | Lauren Lax, "Retirement and the Extended Family" |
Apr. 25 | Shamena Anwar, "Testing for Cultural Affinity Using Data from the Game Show 'Street Smarts'" |
Jun. 6 | Ebonya Washington, "Sticking With Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting" |
Jul. 11 | Kaj Thomsson "Unions and Voter Turnout" |
Aug. 15 | Jeffrey Weinstein, "Voting and Disappointment: Do Voters Respond Asymmetrically to Losses and Gains?" |
Aug. 29 | Santosh Anagol "Race and Gender Differences in Small Business Production" |