NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers

April 4, 2003

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

6:30 PM Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

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

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM HENRY FARBER, Princeton University and NBER

The Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers: Going Home Happy

9:30 AM Break

9:45 AM MURIEL NIEDERLE, Stanford University and NBER

ALVIN ROTH, Harvard University and NBER

Market Culture: How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect

Market Performance

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM RAFAEL LAPORTA, Harvard University and NBER

FLORENCIO LOPEZ DE SILANES, Yale University and NBER

ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER

(Joint with Juan Botero and Simeon Djankov)

The Regulation of Labor

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM HILARY HOYNES, UC, Davis and NBER

(Joint with Marianne Bitler and Jonah Gelbach)

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare

Reform Experiments

Labor Studies Program, Page 2:

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM PAUL GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

(Joint with Manisha Shah and Stefano Bertozzi)

Sex Sells, But Risky Sex Sells for More

3:15 PM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

(Joint with Paul Glewwe and Nauman Ilias)

Teacher Incentives

4:15 PM Adjourn

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