NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers



March 7, 2008

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



THURSDAY, MARCH 6:



6:30 PM Dinner

Restaurant Dante

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA 02142



FRIDAY, MARCH 7:



7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue



8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue



8:15 AM Continental Breakfast



8:45 AM AMITABH CHANDRA, Harvard University and NBER

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare



9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM PATRICIA CORTES, University of Chicago

JOSE TESSADA, MIT

Cheap Maids and Nannies: How Low-Skilled Immigration is Changing

the Labor Supply of High-Skilled American Women



11:00 AM Break



11:15 AM JENNIFER HUNT, McGill University and NBER

How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

12:15 PM Lunch



1:00 PM XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

JOHN DRISCOLL, Federal Reserve Board

(Joint with Sumit Agarwal)

The Age of Reason Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle



2:00 PM Break

Over, Please!



LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM, PAGE 2:



2:15 PM JEFFREY KLING, Brookings Institution and NBER

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

(Joint with Eldar Shafir, Lee Vermeulen, and Marian V. Wrobel)

How We Choose: Medicare Drug Plan Selection

3:15 PM Break



3:30 PM M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Boston University and NBER

ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University

VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University and NBER

Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood

Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes



4:30 PM Adjourn



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