NBER  Summer Institute 2011 Week 3 Master Agenda

 

Monday, July 25

 

8:30 am

LS

Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
Discrimination and Job Search

9:00 am

PRIPE

Naomi Hausman, Harvard University
Effects of University Innovation on Local Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship

 

 

 

9:15 am

PENS

Ioana Petrescu, University of Maryland

 

 

Black Markets and Economic Sanctions

 

 

 

9:20 am

LS

David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Susan Houseman, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings

 

 

 

9:30 am

AW

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Stephen Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Paul Schrimpf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

Mark Cullen, Stanford University

 

 

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

 

 

 

9:50 am

PRIPE

Ralf Martin, London School of Economics
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics
David Hemous, Harvard University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

 

 

 

10:20 am

AW

Norma B. Coe, Boston College and NBER

 

 

Courtney H. Van Houtven, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

 

 

Long-Term Care Decisions: Using Informal Caregiving to Tease Out the Difference Between Genetics and Preferences

 

 

 

10:30 am

LS

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Benn Eifert, University of California at Berkeley
Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University

 

 

David McKenzie, The World Bank

 

 

Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

 

 

 

10:45 am

PENS

Colonel Michael Meese, U.S. Military Academy at West Point

 

 

Economic Development in Conflict and Post Conflict Situations: A Current Outlook on Afghanistan

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRIPE

Anup Malani, University of Chicago and NBER
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Is Medical R&D Different? The Link Between Input- and Output Markets

 

 

 

11:20 am

LS

Patrick Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Can Public Investment Shift Regional Growth Equilibria? 100 Years of Evidence from the TVA

 

 

 

11:30 am

AW

John Beshears, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER

 

 

David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Brigitte C. Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Katherine L. Milkman, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

 

 

 

11:50 am

PRIPE

Deepak Hegde, New York University
Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University
The Political Economy of Publicly-Funded Biomedical Research: Evidence from NIH Allocations for Rare Diseases

 

 

 

1:00 pm

HE

Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Individually Mandated Health Insurance and Labor Market Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform

 

 

 

 

PENS

Ryan Edwards, City University of New York at Queens College and NBER

 

 

A Review of War Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan

 

 

 

1:25 pm

LS

Guy Michaels, London School of Economics

 

 

Ashwini Natraj, London School of Economics 

 

 

John van Reenan, London School of Economics

 

 

Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from 11 Countries over 25 Years

 

 

 

1:30 pm

AW

Elena Stancanelli, THEMA University Cergy Pontoise

 

 

Arthur van Soest, RAND Corporation

 

 

Retirement and Time Use in Couples: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

 

 

 

1:50 pm

PRIPE

Dual Session:  Back in the USSR
Ina Ganguli, Harvard University
Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears

George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

 

 

 

2:15 pm

LS

Ivan Vidangos, Federal Reserve Board
Jason M. DeBacker, Department of the Treasury
Bradley Heim, Indiana University
Vasia Panousi, Federal Reserve Board
Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent

 

 

 

 

HE

Jenny Williams, University of Melbourne

 

 

Jan C. van Ours, Tilburg University

 

 

Michael Grossman, City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER

 

 

Why Do Some People Want to Legalize Cannabis Use?

 

 

 

 

PENS

Jeffrey Friedman, Harvard University

 

 

Manpower in Counterinsurgency: Empirical Foundations for Theory and Doctrine

 

 

 

2:20 pm

AW

Melissa Boyle, Holy Cross University

 

 

Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University

 

 

Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance:  Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion

 

 

 

2:40 pm

PRIPE

Kevin Boudreau, London Business School
Karim Lakhani, Harvard University
"Fit" Field Experimental Evidence on Creative Worker Sorting on an Innovation Task

 

 

 

3:25 pm

LS

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, University of London
Mirko Draca, London School of Economics
Christian Fons-Rosen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Revolving Door Lobbyists

 

 

 

3:30 pm

HE

Costas Meghir, Yale University

 

 

Marten Palme, Stockholm University

 

 

Emilia Simeonova, Tufts University

 

 

Education and Health: Is More Always Better?

 

 

 

 

AW

Maria Fitzpatrick, Stanford University

 

 

How Much Do Public School Employees Value Their Retirement Benefits?

 

 

 

3:40 pm

PRIPE

PANEL: Incentives for Innovation: Prizes and  other Non-Traditional Mechanisms

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PENS

Colonel Joe Felter, Stanford University

 

 

Reconstruction and Violence in the Philippines

 

 

 

4:15 pm

LS

Marianne Betrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Maltilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia and NBER
Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia and NBER
Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process

 

 

 

Tuesday July 26:

 

 

 

8:00 am

AW

Antoine Bozio, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

 

Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

 

Gemma C. Tetlow, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

 

Do the Rich Really Save More? Evidence from Lifetime Earnings and Retirement Resources in England

 

 

 

8:30 am

LS/PETSI

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Neighborhood and Peer Effects in Tax Policy: Evidence from the EITC and Saver’s Credit

 

 

 

8:50 am

AW

Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation

 

 

Expectations and Behaviors by Households During the Great Recession

 

 

 

9:00 am

HE

Heather Royer, UC Santa Barbara and NBER

 

 

Mark Stehr, Drexel University

 

 

Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin

 

 

Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company

 

 

 

 

PRENT

Miriam Bruhn, The World Bank
Bilal Zia, The World Bank
Business and Financial Literacy for Young Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina

 

 

 

9:20 am

LS/PETSI

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Sara Taubman, NBER

 

 

Heidi Allen, CORE

 

 

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Bill Wright, CORE

 

 

Katharine Baicker, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

The Oregon Medicaid Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

 

 

 

9:45 am

PRENT

Robert Fairlie, University of California at Santa Cruz
Dean Karlan, Yale University
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
GATE Opens, GATE Shuts: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Entrepreneurship Training in a Randomized Evaluation

 

 

 

10:00 am

AW

Robin L. Lumsdaine, American University and NBER

 

 

The Incentive Effects of Grandchildren

 

 

 

10:30 AM

LS/PETSI

Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

 

 

 

10:50 am

AW

Joyce Manchester, Congressional Budget Office

 

 

Jae Song, Social Security Administration

 

 

Till von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

The Persistent Effect of Layoffs on Labor Supply and Claiming of Social Security Benefits

 

 

 

10:45 am

PRENT

Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University
Development Uncorked: Reputation Acquisition in the New Market for Chilean Wines

 

 

 

11:00 am

PERE

Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

Matthew A. Turner, University of Toronto

 

 

Wilbert van der Klaauw, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

Land use regulation and welfare

 

 

 

11:20 am

LS/PETSI

Alan Krueger, Princeton University and NBER
Andreas Mueller, Stockholm University
Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment

 

 

 

11:30 am

HE

Grant Miller, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Renfu Luo, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

 

Linxiu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

 

Sean Sylvia, University of Maryland

 

 

Yaojiang Shi, Northwest University

 

 

Patricia Foo, Stanford University

 

 

Qiran Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

 

Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University

 

 

Alexis Medina, Stanford University

 

 

Scott Rozell, Stanford University

 

 

A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China

 

 

 

 

PRENT

Suresh de Mel, University of Peradeniya
David McKenzie, The World Bank
Christopher Woodruff, University of California at San Diego and NBER
What is the Cost of Formality? Experimentally Estimating the Demand for Formalization

 

 

 

12:30 pm

AW

Adeline Delavande, RAND Corporation

 

 

Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

Francisco Martorell, RAND Corporation

 

 

Costs of Dementia

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

Leah Brooks, University of Toronto

 

 

Byron Lutz, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Sclerosis of the City: Inefficiency and the Assembly of Urban Land

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LS

Edward Miguel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Sarah Baird, George Washington University
Joan Hamory Hicks, IPA
Micheal Kremer, Harvard University and NBER
Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child Health Gains

 

 

 

 

PRENT

David Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University
Private Equity in the 21st Century: Cash Flows, Performance and Contract Terms from 1984 -2010

 

 

 

1:20 pm

AW

Norma B. Coe, Boston College and NBER

 

 

Kelly L. Haverstick, Boston College

 

 

Measuring the Spill-over to Disability Insurance due to the Rise in the Full Retirement Age

 

 

 

1:30 pm

PETSI

Fiscal Stimulus Session I

N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University and NBER

Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

Emi Nakamura, Columbia University and NBER
Jon Steinsson, Columbia University and NBER
Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PERE

Dennis Epple, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

 

Judy Geyer, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Holger Sieg, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

The Welfare Costs of Failing to Maintain Public Housing

 

 

 

2:05 pm

LS

Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Dan Black, University of Chicago

 

 

Magdalena Muszynska, Duke University

 

 

Seth Sanders, Duke University

 

 

Evan Taylor, University of Michigan

 

 

The Great Migration and African-American: Mortality: Evidence from Mississippi

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRENT

Adair Morse, University of Chicago
Large Investors' Influence in Private Equity Funds

 

 

 

2:30 pm

AW

Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

 

Arie Kapteyn, RAND Corporation

 

 

Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

 

 

 

2:40 pm

PETSI

Fiscal Stimulus Session II

Daniel Shoag, Harvard University

 

 

The Impact of Government Spending Shocks: Evidence on the Multiplier from State Pension Plan Returns

 

 

 

 

 

Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

Philippe Wingender, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers

 

 

 

 

 

 Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, University of California at Berkeley
Laura Feiveson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zachary Liscow, University of California at Berkeley
William Gui Woolston, Stanford University

 

 

Does State Fiscal Relief During Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel J Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

Fiscal Spending Job Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

 

 

 

2:55 pm

LS

Eric Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Chang Tai Hseih, University of Chicago and NBER
Chad Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Pete Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
The Allocation of Talent and Economic Growth

 

 

 

3:00 pm

PRENT

Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto
Christian Catalini, University of Toronto
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
The Geography of Crowdfunding

 

 

 

3:20 pm

AW

James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Steven F. Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

David A. Wise, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PERE

Panle Jia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

The Costs of Free Entry: Evidence from Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston

 

 

 

3:45 pm

LS

Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame
George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

 

 

 

4:15 pm

PETSI

Hunt Allcott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER
Dmitry Taubinsky, Harvard University

 

 

Externalizing the Internality

 

 

 

 

AW

Panel on Age Discrimination

 

 

 

4:45 pm

LS

Panel Discussion: New Directions for Research on Age Discrimination and Labor Market Opportunities for Older Workers

 

 

 

Wednesday July 27:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PERE

Brian Melzer, Northwestern University

 

 

Mortgage Debt Overhang: Reduced Investment by Homeowners with Negative Equity

 

 

 

 

LE

Raghavendra Rau, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

 

 

(Joint with Steven Yan-Leung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, and Aris Stouraitis, Hong Kong Baptist University)

 

 

Which Firms Benefit from Bribes, and How Much? Evidence from Corruption Cases Worldwide

 

 

 

9:00 am

LS/ED

Steven Levitt  John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Sally Sadoff, University of Chicago

 

 

The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

 

 

 

 

SS/AW/PE

Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Why Has the US Fallen Behind in Life Expectancy?

 

 

 

 

PRIPP

Michael Roach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

Wesley Cohen, Duke University and NBER

 

 

Patent Citations as Measures of Knowledge Flows from Public Research:  A Comparison with Survey Data from US R&D Labs

 

 

 

9:25 am

LE

Leah Brooks, University of Toronto

 

 

(Joint with Byron Lutz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

 

 

Sclerosis of the City: Inefficiency and the Assembly of Urban Land

 

 

 

9:50 am

SS/AW/PE

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

John Shoven, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Sita N. Slavov, Occidental College

 

 

How Well Are Social Security Recipients Protected From Inflation?

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS/ED

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University
Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Achievement  Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

 

 

 

 

PERE

Richard Stanton, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

Nancy Wallace, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and the Crisis of 2007-2009

 

 

 

 

PRIPP

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Joerg Ohmstedt, Cornell University

 

 

Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Patents and Inventive Output: Evidence from Hybrid Corn

 

 

 

11:00 am

SS/AW/PE

Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation

 

 

Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation

 

 

Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration

 

 

Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work?  Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

 

 

 

 

PERE

Fernando Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Anatomy of the Housing Boom in U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS/ED

David Deming, Carnegie Mellon University
Justine S. Hastings, Brown University and NBER
Thomas J. Kane, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Douglas O.Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

School Choice  School Quality and Post-secondary Attainment

 

 

 

11:30 am

PRIPP

Kamran Bilir, Stanford University

 

 

Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of US Multinationals

 

 

 

11:35 am

LE

Shmuel Leshem, University of Southern California Law School

 

 

(Joint with Ehud Guttel, Duke University Law School)

 

 

Buying the Right to Harm: The Economics of Buyouts

 

 

 

11:50 am

SS/AW/PE

David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Ellen Meara, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Seth Richards-Shubik, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Health Shocks and Disability Transitions among Near-elderly Workers

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David, Ohio State University

 

 

Serdar Dinc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

The Politics of Mortgage Foreclosures

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LS

Christian Dustmann, UCL
Anna Piil Damm, University of Aarhus
The Effect of Growing Up in a High Crime Area on Criminal Behavior

 

 

 

 

ED

Jing Li, University of Texas at Dallas

 

 

Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University

 

 

Rodney Andrews, University of Michigan

 

 

Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas

 

 

 

 

LE

Yonca Ertimur, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

 

 

(Joint with Fabrizio Ferri, Stern School, New York University, and David Maber, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business)

 

 

Reputation Penalties for Poor Monitoring of Executive Pay: Evidence from Option Backdating

 

 

 

1:30 pm

PRIPP

Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas

 

 

The Impact of File Sharing on Movies

 

 

 

1:40 pm

SS/AW/PE

Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Ellen Meara, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Lower Back Pain and the Transition to Disability

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PERE

Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University

 

 

Johanna Lacoe, New York University

 

 

Claudia Sharygin, New York University

 

 

Do Foreclosures Cause Crime?

 

 

 

2:05 pm

LS

David Figlio, Northwestern University and NBER
Sarah Hamersma, University of Florida
Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida
Information Shocks and Social Networks

 

 

 

2:10 pm

LE

John Zhu, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

(Joint with Alex Edmans, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and NBER and Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

 

 

Contracting With Synergies

 

 

 

2:15 pm

ED

Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER

 

 

What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

 

 

 

2:30 pm

SS/AW/PE

John Beshears, Stanford University

 

 

James J. Choi, Yale University

 

 

David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Brigitte C. Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Jung Sakong, NBER

 

 

Self Control and Liquidity: How to Design a Commitment Contract

 

 

 

 

PRIPP

Lee G. Bransteter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

 

Chirantan Chatterjee, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Matthew Higgins, Georgia Tech

 

 

Regulation and Welfare:  Evidence from Paragraph IV Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

3:15 pm

LS

David Matsa, Northwestern University
Amalia Miller, University of Virginia
A Female Style in Corporate Leadership?

 

 

 

 

ED

Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER
Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

What's a Good Teacher Worth?  The Impact of Teacher Value-Added on Earnings

 

 

 

3:25 pm

LE

Viral Acharya, Stern School, New York University and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Marco Pagano, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, and Paolo Volpin, London Business School)

 

 

Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PERE

Arthur Korteweg, Stanford University

 

 

Morten Sorensen, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Estimating House Prices, LTVs, and Foreclosure Behavior

 

 

 

3:40 pm

SS/AW/PE

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PRIPE

Neil Thompson, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

David Mowery, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Arvids Ziedonis, University of Oregon

 

 

Patents, Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) and the Flow of Scientific Knowledge

 

 

 

4:05 pm

LS

Jeffrey Flory, University of Maryland
Andreas Leibbrandt, University of Chicago
John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers?

 

 

 

4:20 pm

LE

Jun Yang, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

 

 

(Joint with Daniel Sungyeon Kim, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)

 

 

Beating the Target: A Closer Look at Annual Incentive Plans

 

 

 

Thursday, July 28:

 

 

 

8:30 am

LS/CH

David Card, Stanford University and NBER
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami

 

 

Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Behavior of Friends

 

 

 

 

PPL

Björn Bartling, University of Zurich
Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich
Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich
The Endogenous Emergence of Authority

 

 

 

9:00 am

AW/HC

Karine Lamiraud, University of Lausanne
Strategic Pricing Behaviors in the Presence of Consumer Inertia: The Case of Health Insurance

 

 

 

 

LE/CRI

Daniel S. Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

G. Matthew Snodgrass, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

The Effect of Incarceration on Offending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pennsylvania

 

 

 

9:20 am

LS/CH

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Joseph Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Effects of Juvenile Incarceration: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges

 

 

 

9:45 am

PPL

Carola Frydman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Era of Finance Capitalism

 

 

 

10:00 am

AW/HC

Anupam Jena, Harvard University
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

 

 

 

 

LE/CRI

Sarath Sanga, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

Officer Race and Police Outcomes

 

 

 

10:30 am

LS/CH

Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Sex Differences in the Care of Young Children

 

 

 

11:00 am

PPL

Camelia M. Kuhnen, Northwestern University
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
Exploration for Human Capital: Ability, Fit, and Risk

 

 

 

11:15 am

AW/HC

Pinar Karaca-Mandic, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota
What Affects Medical Loss Ratios in the Individual Market?

Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Roger Feldman and Peter Graven, University of Minnesota
The Role of Agents and Brokers in the Market for Health Insurance

 

 

 

 

LE/CRI

Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

 

 

Stefanie Sieber, London School of Economics

 

 

The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

 

 

 

11:20 am

LS/CH

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Jessica Pan, University of Chicago

 

 

 

12:45 pm

LE

David A. Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

 

 

(Joint with Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia)

 

 

A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PPL

Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

 

 

 

1:10 pm

CH

Hilary Hoynes and Douglas Miller, University of California at Davis and NBER
David Simon, University of California at Davis

 

 

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LS

Arnaud Maurel, Duke University
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, INSEE
Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

 

 

 

 

CRI

Shawn Bushway, State University of New York at Albany

 

 

Jonah Gelbach, University of Arizona

 

 

Testing for Racial Discrimination in Bail Setting Using Nonparametric Estimation of a Parametric Model

 

 

 

1:30 pm

AW/HC

Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Carol Propper, University of Bristol
Stephan Seiler, London School of Economics
Free to Choose: Reform and Demand Response in the British National Health Service

 

 

 

1:40 pm

LE

Asaf Zussman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

On the Sources of Discrimination against Minorities in the Marketplace: Evidence from Israel

 

 

 

2:00 pm

CH

Veronica Amarante, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Marco Manacorda,
Queen Mary University of London
Edward Miguel,
University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Andrea Vigorito,
Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

 

 

Do Cash Transfers to the Poor Affect Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Administration Data

 

 

 

2:05 pm

LS

Nicolas Roys, University of Wisconsin
Estimating Labor Market Rigidities with Hetergeneous Firms

 

 

 

2:15 pm

CRI

Olivier Marie, Maastricht University

 

 

The Best Ones Come Out First! Early Release and Recidivism: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

 

 

 

 

PPL

Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Classic Promotion Tournaments Versus Market Based Tournaments

 

 

 

2:30 pm

AW/HC

Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance

 

 

 

2:55 pm

LE

Andrew F. Daughety, Vanderbilt University

 

 

Jennifer F. Reinganum, Vanderbilt University

 

 

Search, Bargaining, and Agency in the Market for Legal Services

 

 

 

3:10 pm

CH

Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascaline Dupas, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

 

 

 

3:15 pm

LS

Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER
Anti Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality

 

 

 

 

CRI

Jan C. van Ours, Tilburg University

 

 

Ben Vollaard, Tilburg University

 

 

The Engine Immobilizer: a Non-Starter for Car Thieves

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PPL

Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER
What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

 

 

 

3:50 pm

LE

Daniel L. Chen, Duke University Law School

 

 

(Joint with David S. Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School)

 

 

A Market for Justice: The Effect of Third Party Litigation Funding on Legal Outcomes

 

 

 

4:00 pm

CH

Luojia Hu, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls’ Well-Being: Evidence from India

 

 

 

 

AW/HC

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sarah Taubman
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
Katherine Baicker, Harvard University and NBER
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the first year

 

 

 

4:05 pm

LS

Guido Imbens, Harvard University and NBER
Michal Kolesar, Harvard University
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments

 

 

 

4:15 pm

CRI

Steven Raphael, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

Incarceration and Incapacitation: Evidence from the 2006 Italian Collective Pardon

 

 

 

Friday, July 29:

 

 

 

8:30 am

LS/PPL

Kelly Shue, Harvard University
Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers

 

 

 

 

EEE

Nicholas Sanders, Stanford University

 

 

Charles Stoecker, University of California at Davis

 

 

Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure the Effect of Pollution on Fetal Death Rates

 

 

 

9:00 am

AW/HC

Joseph Doyle, Massachusetts of Technology and NBER
John Graves, Harvard University
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts of Technology and NBER
Samuel Kleiner, Cornell University and NBER
Hospital Costs and Outcomes in a Causal Framework

 

 

 

 

CRI

Rodrigo R. Soares, Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro

 

 

Ariaster B. Chimeli, Ohio University

 

 

The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon

 

 

 

9:30 am

EEE

Lucas Davis and Catherine Wolfram, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power

 

 

 

9:45 am

LS/PPL

Kenneth Whelan, Cornell University
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University and NBER
Kevin F. Hallock, Cornell University and NBER
Ronald Seeber, Cornell University
The Cornell Staff Retirement Incentive Program

 

 

 

10:00 am

AW/HC

David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER
Jeanette Chung, University of Chicago
Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine:
An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States

 

 

 

 

CRI

Dina Pomeranz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

No Taxation Without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

 

 

 

11:00 am

LS/PPL

James Spletzer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Role of Establishments (and the Jobs Therein) in Wage Inequality Growth

 

 

 

 

EEE

Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Paulina Oliva, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

 

The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City

 

 

 

11:15 am

AW/HC

Peter Huckfeldt, RAND Corporation
Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER
Jose Escarce, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
David Grabowski, Harvard Medical School
Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
Provider Reimbursement, Treatment Intensity, and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment System
                                          &
The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy:  Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

 

 

 

 

CRI

Mireille Jacobson, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

Tom Chang, University of Southern California

 

 

Going to Pot? The Impact of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries on Crime

 

 

 

1:00 pm

LS/PPL

Christopher A Parsons, University of California at San Diego
Edward D. Van Wesep
, University of North Carolina
The Timing of Pay

 

 

 

1:30 pm

AW/HC

Jeffrey Clemens, Harvard University
Joshua Gottlieb, Harvard University
How Does Medical Practice Respond to Prices? Evidence from Shocks to Medicare Reimbursement Rates

 

 

 

2:15 pm

LS/PPL

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Value of Bosses

 

 

 

 

CRI

Benjamin Hansen, University of Oregon

 

 

Gregory DeAngelo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

 

Life and Death in the Fast Lane: Police Enforcement and Roadway Safety

 

 

 

2:30 pm

EEE

Laurence Levin, VISA Decision Sciences

 

 

Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University

 

 

Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

High Frequency Evidence on the Demand for Gasoline

 

 

 

 

AW/HC

Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California at Los Angeles
Are For-Profit Insurers Different?

 

 

 

3:15 pm

CRI

Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

 

Oeindrila Dube, New York University

 

 

Omar Garcia Ponce, New York University

 

 

Cross Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

 

 

 

3:30 pm

LS/PPL

Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago
Pay for Performance

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EEE

Christoph Böhringer, University of Oldenburg

 

 

Jared C. Carbone, University of Calgary

 

 

Thomas F. Rutherford, ETH Zurich

 

 

Embodied Carbon Tariffs

 

 

 

4:15 pm

CRI

Cindy J. Redcross, MDRC

 

 

Valerie Levshin, Vera Institute of Justice

 

 

Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners: Three-Year Impacts, Benefits and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities Prisoner Reentry Program

 

 

 

Saturday, July 30

 

 

 

8:30 am

EEE

Kelly Bishop and Alvin Murphy, Washington University in St. Louis

 

 

Incorporating Dynamic Behavior into the Hedonic Model

 

 

 

 

EEE

Bard Harstad, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Coase, Climate, and Coal: Deposit Markets as Environmental Policy

 

 

 

9:30 am

EEE

Christopher Timmins, Duke University and NBER

 

 

Meeting Urban Housing Needs: Do People Really Come to the Nuisance?

 

 

 

 

EEE

Don Fullerton, University of Illinois and NBER

 

 

Dan Karney, University of Illinois

 

 

Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois

 

 

Negative Leakage

 

 

 

11:00 am

EEE

Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 

 

Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EEE

Joseph Cullen, Harvard University

 

 

Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind-Generated Electricity

 

 

 

2:15 pm

EEE

Derek M. Lemoine, University of Arizona

 

 

Christian P. Traeger, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

Tipping Points and Ambiguity in the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EEE

Olivier Deschenes, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER

 

 

Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts of Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

Joseph Shapiro, Massachusetts of Institute of Technology 

 

 

Defending Against Environmental Insults: Drugs, Emergencies, Deaths, and the NOx Emissions Markets