NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers



October 15, 2004

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14:



6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02140



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15:



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



8:30 AM AMITABH CHANDRA and DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Geographic Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

9:30 AM Break



9:45 AM FEDERICO ECHENIQUE, California Institute of Technology

ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER

On the Measurement of Segregation



10:45 AM Break



11:00 AM JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

ADRIANNA D. KUGLER, University of Houston

Coca, Conflict, and Rural Income: Evidence from Columbia



12:00 PM Lunch



Labor Studies Meeting, Page 2:



1:00 PM DAN ARIELY, MIT

URI GNEEZY, University of Chicago

GEORGE LOWENSTEIN, Carnegie Mellon University

NINA MAZAR, MIT

Large Stakes and Big Mistakes



2:00 PM Break



2:15 PM ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

LAURENCE IANNACCONE, George Mason University

GIUSEPPE RAGUSA, UC, San Diego

Empty Pews, Empty Cradles: Declining Religiosity and Fertility Decline

Among European Catholics



3:15 PM SANDRA BLACK, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

PAUL DEVEREUX, UC, Los Angeles

KJELL SALVANES, Norwegian School of Economics

The More the Merrier? The Effects of Family Composition on Children's Education



4:15 PM Adjourn



9/13/04