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
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
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
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
3:30 PM JULIE CULLEN, University of Michigan and NBER
BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University
STEVEN LEVITT, University of Chicago and NBER
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
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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