NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers



November 7, 2003

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6:



6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02140

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7:



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



8:30 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER.



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM SEWIN CHAN, New York University

ANN HUFF STEVENS, UC, Davis and NBER

What You Don't Know Can't Help You:

Knowledge and Retirement Decision Making

10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM STEVEN J. HAIDER, Michigan State University

MELVIN STEPHENS JR., Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Is There a Retirement-Consumption Puzzle?

Evidence Using Subjective Retirement Expectations



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM GORDON DAHL, University of Rochester and NBER

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility

and Unwed Mothers in the U.S. and Around the World



12:30 PM Lunch

Over, Please

Labor Studies Meeting, Page 2:



1:30 PM JENNIFER HUNT, University of Montreal and NBER

Trust and Bribery: The Role of Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime



2:30 PM JUSTIN McCRARY, University of Michigan

The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition

and Quality of Police



3:30 PM Adjourn





10/21/03