NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Labor Studies Workshop
Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 30-August 3, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 30:
8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
INCENTIVES, INTERNAL LABOR MARKETS, and CHANGES IN THE WORK PLACE
8:30 AM JAMES REBITZER, Case Western and NBER
MARTIN GAYNOR, Carnegie-Mellon and NBER
LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie-Mellon
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM PAUL OYER, Stanford University
SCOTT SCHAEFER, Northwestern University
Why Do Some Firms Give All Employees Stock Options? An Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
JOHN J. DONOHUE, Stanford University and NBER
The Costs of Wrongful Discharge Laws
(Joint with STEWART SCHWAB, Cornell University)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM JOHN DINARDO, UC, Irvine and NBER
DAVID LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER
The Impact of Unionization on Establishment Closure:
A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Representation Elections
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM SANDRA E. BLACK, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
ANYA KRIVELYOVA, Boston College,
LISA LYNCH, Tufts University and NBER
Restructuring the Workplace and Changing Skill Demands
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3:15 PM KENNETH TROSKE, University of Missouri-Columbia
Workforce Diversity and Productivity: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data
(Joint with LINDA BARRINGTON, The Conference Board)
4:15 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 31:
8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
JOINT WITH CHILDREN'S GROUP MEETING, ORGANIZED BY JONATHAN GRUBER
8:30 AM THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER
Improving School Accountability
9:30 AM SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER
Loans, Liquidity, and the Market for Higher Education
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM JANET CURRIE and JOSEPH HOTZ, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Accidents Will Happen:
Unintentional Injuries, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM MARIANNE PAGE, UC, Davis
ANN HUFF STEVENS, Yale University and NBER
A Dynamic Analysis of the Economic Costs of Growing up in a Single Parent Family: Does Welfare Help?
2:00 PM LENA EDLUND, Columbia University
Custodial Rights and the Rise of Out of Wedlock Fertility
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
DAN LEVY, Mathematica Policy Research
Peer Effects from Alcohol Use Among College Students
4:30 PM Adjourn
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1:
8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
IN MEMORY OF SHERWIN ROSEN (co-organized with ROBERT TOPEL)
8:30 AM RUEBEN GRONAU, Hebrew University and NBER
DANIEL HAMERMESH, University of Texas and NBER
The Demand for Variety -- A Household Production Perspective
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM GARY BECKER, University of Chicago
EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
Explaining International Differences in Fertility
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM JOSEPH ALTONJI, Northwestern University and NBER
Work Hours and Vacation Leave
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM ROBERT TOPEL, University of Chicago and NBER
Pharmaceutical Research and the Value of Improving Health
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM BRIAN JACOB, University of Chicago
STEVEN LEVITT, University of Chicago and NBER
Teacher Cheating
3:15 PM DEREK NEAL, University of Wisconsin and NBER
Is the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women Too Small?
4:15 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2:
8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
8:30 AM CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER
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9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM ERIC HANUSHEK, Stanford University and NBER
JOHN KAIN, University of Texas-Dallas
STEVEN RIVKIN, Amherst College
Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement:
The Cost and Benefit of Switching Schools
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM MARKUS MOBIUS, Harvard University and NBER
How Ghettos Evolve -- Evidence from Chicago
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM LANCE LOCHNER, University of Rochester
ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles
The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates
2:00 PM SUSUMU IMAI, Pennsylvania State University
KALA KRISHNA, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Employment, Dynamic Deterrence and Crime
3:00 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY AUGUST 3:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
LABOR ECONOMETRICS AND EARNINGS FUNCTIONS
9:00 AM JAMES J. HECKMAN, University of Chicago and NBER
LANCE LOCHNER, University of Rochester
PETRA TODD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
50 Years of Mincer Earnings Functions
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER
ESTHER DUFLO and SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER
How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?
11:15 AM Break
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11:30 AM AMITABH CHANDRA, Dartmouth College
Is the Convergence of the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM JOHN KENNAN and JAMES R. WALKER, University of Wisconsin and NBER
Geographical Wage Differentials, Welfare Benefits, and Migration
2:30 PM MOSHE BUCHINSKY, Brown University and NBER
Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
(Joint with DENIS FOUGERE and FRANCIS KRAMARZ, CREST-INSEE
and RUSTY TCHERNIS, Brown University)
3:30 PM Adjourn
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