NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers

October 21, 2005

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005

6:30 PM Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2005

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

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

8:15 AM Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM SANDRA BLACK, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

PAUL DEVEREUX, University College Dublin

KJELL G. SALAVANES, Norwegian School of Economics

From the Cradle to the Grave? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult

Outcomes of Children

9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM GUIDO IMBENS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

JEFFREY WOOLDRIDGE, Michigan State University

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM CHUL-IN LEE, Konkuk University

GARY SOLON, University of Michigan and NBER

Trends in Intergenerational Income Moblity

12:15 PM Lunch

LABOR STUDIES MEETING PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

1:00 PM STEFANO DELLAVIGNA, UC, Berkley amd NBER

ETHAN KAPLAN, UC Berkely

The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM ABDURRAHAMAN AYDEMIR, Statistics Canda

GEORG BORJAS, Harvard University and NBER

A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration:

Canada, Mexico, and the United States

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM ANDREA ICHINO, European University Institute

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Absenteeism, Earning and Biological Gender Differences

4:30 PM Adjourn

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