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Economics 638a
Labor and Population Workshop
Organized by: Joseph Altonji and Lisa Kahn
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 2009 |
Friday, 12:15-1:45
pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| September 11 |
Kirabo Jackson, Cornell University, "Peer Quality or Input Quality?: Clean Evidence from
Trinidad and Tobago" |
| September 17* |
Jonathan Gruber, MIT, "Consumer Choice for Medicare Part D Plans"
(joint with Industrial
Organization Seminar) *On Thursday, 2:30-4:00, 28 Hillhouse, Room 106 |
| September 18 |
Dora Gicheva, Yale University, "Working Long Hours and Career Wage Growth" |
| September 25 |
Steven Bednar, Yale University,
"The Effect of Campaign Visits on Election Outcomes" |
| October 2 |
Derek Neal, University of Chicago, "Pay for Percentile" |
| October 9 |
Todd Elder, Michigan State
University, "Donorcycles: Do Motorcycle helmet Laws
Reduce Organ Donations?" |
| October 16 |
Fabian Duarte, Yale University, "Price
Elasticity of Expenditure across Health Care Services" |
| October 23 |
Matthew Johnson, Yale University, "Borrowing Constraints, College Enrollment, and
Delayed Entry" |
| October 30 |
Costas Meghir, University College,
London, "Wages and Informality in Developing
Countries" |
| November 6 |
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Research
Bank of Chicago, "The Impact of Rosenwald Schools
on Black Achievement" |
| November 13 |
John Abowd, Cornell University, "National Estimates of Gross Employment and Job Flows
from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with Demographic and Industry Detail" |
| November 20 |
David Blau, Ohio State University, "How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth
Accumulation?"
Meet with David Blau |
| November 27 |
FALL BREAK |
| December 4 |
Paul Oyer, Stanford University |
| December 11 |
Kerwin Charles, University of
Chicago |
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