NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers



October 18, 2002

NBER, Offices

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM





THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17:



6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139

617/864-3400



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18:



7:45 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER.



8:00 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER.



8:00 AM Continental Breakfast



POVERTY



8:30 AM BRUCE D. MEYER, Northwestern University and NBER

JAMES X. SULLIVAN, University of Notre Dame

Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption



9:30 AM Break



RETIREMENT



9:45 AM JAMES J. CHOI, Harvard University

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

BRIGITTE C. MADRIAN, University of Chicago and NBER

ANDREW METRICK, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Benign Paternalism and Active Decisions: A Natural Experiment in Savings

10:45 PM Break Over, Please!

Labor Studies Meeting, Program Continued, Page 2:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, Continued:

EDUCATION



11:00 AM MICHAEL OSTROVSKY and MICHAEL SCHWARZ, Harvard University

Equilibrium Information Disclosure: Grade Inflation and Unraveling



12:00 N Lunch



1:00 PM AUSTAN GOOLSBEE and JONATHAN GURYAN , University of Chicago

and NBER

The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools

2:00 PM Break



2:15 PM CHRISTOPHER AVERY and CAROLINE M. HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?

3:15 PM LANCE LOCHNER, University of Rochester and NBER

ALEXANDER MONGE-NARANJO, Northwestern University

Education and Default Incentives with Government Student Loan Programs



4:15 PM Adjourn



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