NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers

April 12, 2002

NBER Offices,

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139

617/864-3400

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

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

8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER

The North-South Wage Gap, Before and After the Civil War

10: 00 AM Break

10:15 AM CHINHUI JUHN, University of Houston and NBER

KEVIN M. MURPHY, University of Chicago and NBER

ROBERT H. TOPEL, University of Chicago and NBER

U.S. Unemployment in Historical Perspective

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM DAVID CARD, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

LARA D. SHORE-SHEPPARD, Williams College and NBER

Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions

12:30 PM Lunch

Labor Studies Program, Page 2:

1:15 PM ALAN B. KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER

ALEXANDRE MAS, Princeton University

Strikes, Scabs, and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of

Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM Roundtable Discussion of Policies Related to 401(K) Plans, ESOPs, and Employer-Provided Retirement Benefits:

DOUGLAS L. KRUSE, Rutgers University and NBER

Research Evidence on Prevalence and Effects of Employee Ownership

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

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OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Company Stock and Retirement Plan Diversification