THURSDAY, MARCH 16:

6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Food

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MARCH 17:

7:45 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

Morning Session- Joint Meeting of Labor Studies and Productivity Programs

8:30 AM BRUCE A. WEINBERG, Ohio State University and NBER

Which Labor Economists Invested in Human Capital? Geography, Vintage,

and Participation in Scientific Revolutions

9:30 AM Break

9:45 AM DAVID H. AUTOR, MIT and NBER

WILLIAM R. KERR, Harvard University

ADRIANA D. KUGLER, University of Houston and NBER

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserver Board

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

Intangible Capital and Economic Growth

12:00 N Lunch

PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

Afternoon Program Meeting-Productivity Program

1:00 PM MARCELA ESLAVA, Universidad de Los Andes

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

ADRIANA KUGLER, University of Houston and NBER

MAURICE KUGLER, Southhampton

Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Discussant: CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM JOHANNES VAN BIESEBROECK, University of Toronto and NBER

Wages Equal Productivity: Fact or Fiction

Discussant: WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

(Joint with Chung-Yi Tse)

Creative Destruction in Industries

Discussant: SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

4:30 PM Adjourn

3/7/06