NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

 Labor Studies Workshop

 

 Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers

 

July 23 -27, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Grand Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY JULY 23:

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

KERWIN CHARLES and ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

NICK ROUSSANOV, University of Chicago

 

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Bias in Hollywood: An Empirical Analysis of Horror Films

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

ROBERT MARGO, Boston University and NBER

 

Going Postal: What Black Employment in the Postal Service Reveals About the Increased Cost of Ghettoization, 1940-2000

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

JOSEPH PRICE, Cornell University

 

JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Racial Discrimination among NBA Referees

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

EMMA HALL, UK Department of Health

 

CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets and Skills on Hospital Quality and Productivity

 

 

 3:30 pm

JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER

 

STEFANO DELLA VIGNA and ENRICO MORETTI, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

VIKRAM PANTHANIA, UC, Berkeley

 

The Effect of Increases in the Supply of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 24:

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

SERGIO FIRPO, PUC-Rio

 

NICOLE FORTIN, University of British Columbia

 

THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Decomposing Wage Distributions using Recentered Influence Function Regressions

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

STEVEN KAPLAN and JOSHUA RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in Highest Incomes?

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER

 

EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

JAE SONG, Social Security Administration

 

Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

RICHARD HORNBECK, MIT

 

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

ENRICO MORETTI, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from 'Million Dollar' Plants

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

JEFFREY GROGGER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Income Maximization and the Sorting of Emigrants across Destinations

 

 

 3:30 pm

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

 

MARK ROSENZWEIG, Yale University

 

The Determinants of Wages of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 25:

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH EDUCATION

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

PARAG PATHAK, Harvard University

 

Lotteries in Student Assignment

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, Stanford University and NBER

 

ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER

 

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

DOUGLAS HARRIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

TIMOTHY SASS, Florida State University

 

What Makes a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell?

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

 

SONALI MURARKA,

 

The Effects of New York City's Charter Schools on Student Achievement

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

LEIGH LINDEN, Columbia University

 

MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

 

FELIPE BARRERA, The World Bank

 

FRANCISCO PEREZ, Fedesarrollo

 

Designing Incentives for Education in Secondary School: The Bogota Subsidios Program

 

 

 3:30 pm

BRIAN JACOB, University of Michigan and NBER

 

An Examination of Non-Renewal Policy in the Chicago Public Schools

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

MARKUS MOBIUS, Harvard University and NBER

 

MURIEL NIEDERLE, Stanford University and NBER

 

PAUL NIEHAUS, Harvard University

 

TANYA ROSENBLATT, Wesleyan University

 

Gender Differences in Incorporating Performance Feedback

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University

 

Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

 

MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance: Preliminary Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program

 

 

12:15 pm

Luncheon in Honor of WALTER OI, University of Rochester

 

Speakers:

 

STANLEY ENGERMAN, University of Rochester and NBER

 

RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

ERIC HANUSHEK, Stanford University and NBER

 

KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 1:30 pm

JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

STACEY CHEN, SUNY Albany

 

Long Term Effects of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

JESSE ROTHSTEIN and CECILIA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER

 

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4: 00 pm

JAMES HABYARIMANA, Georgetown University

 

BEKEZELA MBAKILE, Debswana Diamond Company

 

CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES, Columbia University and NBER

 

HIV/AIDS, ARV Treatment and Worker Absenteeism: Evidence from a Large African Company

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH PERSONNEL ECONOMICS

 

 

 8:45 am

JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

 

RANDALL CEBUL and MARK VOTRUBA, Case Western Reserve University

 

RAY HERSCHMAN, WebMD Health Services

 

LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Job Markets, Insurance Markets and Investments in Health

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

JIALAN WANG, MIT

 

JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

Superstar Extinction

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

FEDERICO CIGNANO and ALFONSO ROSOLIA, Bank of Italy

 

People I Know: Workplace Networks and Job Search Outcomes

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

MARK KLEBANOV and MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago

 

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

THOMAS HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

ORIANA BANDIERA, London School of Economics

 

IWAN BARANKAY, University of Warwick

 

IMRAN RASUL, University College London

 

Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks at the Workplace

 

 

 4:45 pm

EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER

 

The Importance of Academic Labor Economics (or Personnel Economics) in Policy

 

 

5:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

7/24/07