NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Labor Studies Workshop

Richard Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

July 29 - August 2, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



MONDAY, JULY 29:



ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, SOCIAL CONVENTIONS, AND GENDER



8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries



9:00 AM ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM DARON ACEMOGLU and DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

DAVID LYLE, MIT

Women, War and Wages: The Effects of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM CLAUDIA GOLDIN, Harvard University and NBER

MARIA SHIM, Harvard University

Making a Name



12:30 PM Lunch



LABOR MARKETS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE



1:30 PM JEREMY ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER

FRED BATEMAN, University of Georgia

ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER

Skill Intensity in Late Nineteeth Century Maufacturing: Evidence from the 1880 Census of Manufactures



2:30 PM Break



2:45 PM BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth College and NBER

Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital



3:45 PM Adjourn



6:00 PM Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA



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TUESDAY, JULY 30:



CRIME, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, AND LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS



9:15 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:45 AM JENNIFER HUNT, University of Montreal and NBER

Teen Births Keep American Crime High Despite the Good Economy



10:45 AM Break



11:00 AM JOHN DONOHUE, Stanford University and NBER

JEFFREY GROGGER, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

STEVEN LEVITT, University of Chicago and NBER

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing



12:00 PM Lunch



1:00 PM ADRIANA KUGLER, Universitat Pompeau Fabra

JUAN JIMENO, Universidad de Alcalá

Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts:

Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms



2:00 PM Break



LABOR ECONOMETRICS



2:15 PM DAVID S. LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Trimming for Bounds on Treatment Effects with Missing Outcomes



3:15 PM SUSAN ATHEY, Stanford University and NBER

GUIDO IMBENS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-In-Difference Models



4:15 PM Adjourn



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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31:



INSTITUTIONS, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICAL ECONOMY



8:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



8:30 AM ELI BERMAN, Boston University and NBER

Hamas and Taliban: An Economist's View of Radical Islam



9:30 AM Break



9:45 AM ROBIN BURGESS and TIMOTHY BESLEY, London School of Economics

Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance: Evidence from India



10:45 AM Break



11:00 AM DAVID S. LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles

MATTHEW J. BUTLER, UC, Berkeley

Policy Convergence or Divergence? Evidence from U.S. House Roll

Call Voting Records?



12:00 N Lunch



JOINT SESSION WITH CHILDREN'S GROUP



1:00 PM DOUGLAS ALMOND, UC, Berkeley

KENNETH CHAY and DAVID LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Does Low Birth Weight Matter?

Evidence from the U.S. Population of Twins Births



2:00 PM JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles

Mother's Education, Family Formation, and Infant Health:

Evidence from College Openings



3:00 PM Break



3:30 PM PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of Toronto

The Long Run Consequences from Living in a Poor Neighborhood



4:30 PM Adjourn



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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1:



JOINT SESSION WITH EDUCATION GROUP



8:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



8:30 AM JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

KEVIN LANG, Boston University and NBER

How Important are Classroom Peer Effects: Evidence from Boston's METCO Program



9:20 AM THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

A Quasi-Experimental Estimate of the Impact of Financial Aid on College-Going



10:10 AM Break



10:25 AM SUSANNA LOEB, Stanford University

The Joint Decisions of Teachers and Schools: How Teachers Sort on Initial Job Matches

11:15 AM NORA GORDON, UC, San Diego

CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

Achievement Effects of Bilingual Education vs. English Immersion:

Evidence from California's Proposition 227

12:05 PM Lunch



12:45 PM ERIC BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University

The Effects of Educational Vouchers on Academic and Non-academic Outcomes: Experiments within a Natural Experiment

1:35 PM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

The Political Economy of School Finance in Kenya



2:25 PM Break



2:40 PM VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University

Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes

3:30 PM JULIE CULLEN, University of Michigan and NBER

BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University

STEVEN LEVITT, University of Chicago and NBER

Does School Choice Attract Students to Urban Public Schools? Evidence from over 1,000 Randomized Lotteries



4:20 PM Adjourn

Note: There will also be a parallel afternoon meeting on Personnel Economics and a luncheon meeting with Personnel Economics to discuss data sets taking place on Thursday, August 1



7:00 PM Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop Group Dinner

Location to Be Announced



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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2:



JOINT SESSION ON PERSONNEL ECONOMICS



8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries



9:00 AM PAUL OYER, Stanford University

Salary Structures



9:30 AM MIKE GIBBS and KATHY IERULLI, University of Chicago

EVA MEYERSSON MILGROM, MIT

Internal Labor Markets: Cross-Firm Evidence from Sweden



10:00 AM MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER

Changing Incentives for Production Employees: Impacts on Productivity and Worker Satisfaction



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM PAUL LENGERMANN and LARS VILHUBER, Bureau of the Census

The Employment Dynamics Estimates System



11:30 AM ILLOONG KWON, University of Michigan

Dismissal Due to Performance: Incentive or Sorting?



12:00 PM Lunch



1:00 PM PAUL BINGLEY and NIELS WESTERGAARD-NIELSEN,

Aarhus School of Business

Tenure and Firm-Specific Human Capital



1:30 PM KEVIN MCKINNEY and KRISTIN SANDUSKY, Bureau of the Census

LEHD Program



2:00 PM ANDREW WARNER, Harvard University

International Wage Determination and Globalization



2:30 PM Break



3:00 PM ROBERT GIBBONS, MIT and NBER

Title To Be Announced



3:30 PM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

Title To Be Announced



4:00 PM Adjourn

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