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Economics 638a
Labor and Population Workshop
Organized by: Joseph Altonji 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.
You can join the Labor and
Population Mailing List if you want to receive announcements about the Labor and
Population Workshop.
Papers will be available in Room 30, 3rd floor, 27 Hillhouse Ave.
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| Fall 2008 |
Friday, 12:15-1:45
pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| September 5 |
Betsey Stevenson (Wharton,
UPenn), "Economic Growth and Subjective
Well-being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox" |
| September 12 |
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| September 15 |
Martin Browning (Oxford) "Spending
time and money within the household" 12:00 pm room 106 |
| September 19 |
Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins
University), "Trends
in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004" |
| September 26 |
David Albouy (University of
Michigan), "Are Big Cities Really
Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-life Estimates Across Cities" |
| October 3 |
Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin,
Madison)
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| October 10 |
Fernando Ferreira (Wharton, UPenn),
"The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression
Discontinuity Design" |
| October 17 |
Peter McHenry,
"The
Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of
Contributing Mechanisms." |
| October 24 |
Jonah Rockoff (Columbia University Business
School),
"Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality" |
| October 31 |
Pedro Carneiro
(University College London),
"A Flying Start?
Maternity
Leave and Long-term Outcomes for Mother and Child" |
| November 7 |
Doug McKee (Yale
University),
"Do Good Kids Finish First?
Characterizing the Bequest Motive in Mexico." |
| November 14 |
Lawrence Katz (Harvard University),
"Dynamics of the Gender Gap
for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors"
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| November 21 |
Nicole Fortin (University of British
Columbia), "Gender
Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out
and the Persistent Appeal of Housewifery" |
| December 5 |
Petra Todd (UPenn),
"How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and
Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile."
Meet with Prof. Todd |
| December 12 |
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia
University), "Earnings
Mobility and Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Social
Security Data since 1937" |
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