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Economics 639b
Labor/Public Economics Workshop
Organized by: Costas Meghir, Melissa Tartari, Lisa Kahn and Ebonya Washington
All graduate students and faculty are invited to attend the weekly
workshop. Graduate students who anticipate undertaking dissertation research in
microeconomics or labor, household consumption and savings, development and demography are
expected to attend the workshop and register at least once for credit. Graduate
students with a thesis prospectus and/or report on dissertation research should discuss it
in advance with her/his faculty advisor and then sign up for a workshop presentation.
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CALENDAR |
| Spring 2012 |
Thursday,
4:10-5:40 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| February 9 |
Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania,
Cowles Visitor, "The Production of Child Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and
Fertility" (with Anna Aizer) |
| February 16 |
Amanda Dawn Pallais, Harvard University, "Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor
Markets" |
| March 1 |
Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto,
"Sectoral Shift, Job Mobility and Wage Inequality" (with Florian Hoffmann) |
| March 8 |
SPRING RECESS |
| March 15 |
SPRING RECESS |
| March 22 |
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University,
"The Career Cost of Family" (joint with Economic History Workshop)
*Click here
for Professor Goldin's published paper on workplace flexibility. The talk is based on
a longer paper (not yet ready for public dissemination). |
| March 29 |
Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank, Cowles
Visitor "The Effect of DI Receipt on Labor Supply" |
| April 5 |
Jeremy Lise, University College London,
Cowles Visitor, "The Macro-dynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms" (with
Jean-Marc Robin) |
| April 12 |
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital
Mobility" |
| April 19 |
Hamish Low, University of Cambridge, Cowles
Visitor, "Saving on a Rainy Day, Borrowing for a Rainy
Day" (with Sule Alan and Tom Crossley) |
| April 26 |
Sue Dynarski, University of Michigan, "Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood
Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion" (with Joshua M.
Hyman, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach) |
| May 3 |
Kelly Bedard, University of California, "Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of
Team Incentives?" |
| May 10 |
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