Yale Department of Economics

Labor-Public Finance Lunch, 2004–2007

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2007
February 26 Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "The Determinants of the Wages of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US" (with Mark Rosenzweig)
March 5 Brian Knight, Brown University, "Momentum in Presidential Primaries"
April 2 Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships"
April 9 Dora Gicheva, Yale University, "Working Hours and the Slope of the Wage Profile"
April 16 Jeffrey Weinstein, Yale University, "Do School Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?"
April 23 Matthew Johnson, Yale University, "Uncertainty, Choices in College, and Precautionary Saving"
April 30 Steve Bednar, Yale University, "Media Projection Bias"
May 7 Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College, "An IV-based Analysis of Optimal Healthcare Expenditure Using Medicare Data" (with Amitabh Chandra and Xiaohong Chen)
May 14 Peter McHenry, Yale University, "The Relationship between School Quality Inputs and Local Wage Structures"
September 10 Maggie McConnell, Caltech University, "Volunteers and Reputation Signaling"
September 24 Analia Schlosser, Princeton University, "Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School"
October 1 Rafael Lopes de Melo, Yale University, TBA
October 8 Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, "Reinterpreting Returns to Experience"
October 22 Kenneth Couch, UCONN, visiting Yale, "Earnings, Losses and Mass Layoffs"
November 5 Una Okonkwo Osili, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Immigrants' Access to Financial Services and Asset Accumulation"
November 26 Richard Mansfield, Yale University, TBA
December 3 Stephen Ross, UCONN, visiting Yale, "The Effects of Public School Choice on Those Left Behind: Evidence from Durham, NC"
2006
February 20 Joshua Lustig, "Peer Effects and Welfare Use"
March 20 Lori Beaman, "Ethnic Networks and the Labor Market: Evidence from Refugees Resettled in the U.S."
March 27 Seik Kim, "Estimating an Earnings Equation Using Rotating Panel Data"
April 3 Peter McHenry, "Family Migration and Labor Market Outcomes"
April 10 Shing-yi Wang, "The Role of Marital Ties and Selection in the Labor Market"
May 1 Kaj Thomsson, "Interest Groups and the Political Economy of Labor Market Institutions"
June 12 Justine Hastings, "No Child Left Behind"
June 19 Seik Kim
July 10 Emiko Usui
July 17 Lauren Lax
July 24 Ian Vidangos
July 31 Kaj Thomsson and Alessandro Bonatti, "Political Bargaining and the Distribution of New Deal Funds"
August 7 Jeffrey Weinstein, "Do School Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?"
August 14 Lori Beaman
September 18 Seik Kim, Yale University, "Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States"
September 25 Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Insurance under Multiple Sources of Risk"
October 2 Kyle Hood, Yale University, "Spatial Regional Evolutions"
October 9 Bruno Falcao, Yale University, "The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor"
October 16 Peter McHenry, Yale University, "Migration and Local Wage Structures"
October 23 Fabian Lange, Yale University, "Public Sector Employment and Black Economic Progress"
October 30 Rafael Lopes de Melo, Yale University, "Theories of Wage Determination and Wage Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment"
November 6 Prashant Bharadwaj, YaleUniversity, "The Impacts of Changes in Marriage Laws"
November 13 Björn Brügemann, Yale University, "Involuntary Dismissal"
November 27 Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Global Wage Differences and International Student Flows"
December 4 Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Social Insurance under Multiple Sources of Risk"
December 11 Jeremy Magruder, Yale University, "Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa"
2005
January 10 Organizational Lunch
April 18 Lauren Lax, "Retirement and the Extended Family"
April 25 Shamena Anwar, "Testing for Cultural Affinity Using Data from the Game Show 'Street Smarts'"
June 6 Ebonya Washington, "Sticking With Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting"
July 11 Kaj Thomsson "Unions and Voter Turnout"
August 15 Jeffrey Weinstein, "Voting and Disappointment: Do Voters Respond Asymmetrically to Losses and Gains?"
August 29 Santosh Anagol "Race and Gender Differences in Small Business Production"
September 12 Stephen Ross, Yale University, "Neighborhood Information Externalities and the Provision of Mortgage Credit"
October 3 Xia Li, Yale University, "Home Responsibility, Employers Perception and Endogenous Gender Gap"
October 17 Seik Kim, Yale University, "Human Capital and Wage Dynamics"
October 24 Jaymin Lee (Yale University, Yonsei University), "Union and Profitability of Korean Firms before the Crisis"
October 31 Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University, "Marital Networks and Labor Market Outcomes"
November 7 Peter McHenry, Yale University, "Marital Status and the Effects of Migration"
November 28 Kaj Thomsson, Yale University, "Modeling the Internal Political Process of Labor Unions"
December 12 Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Information provision and decision making: A Field Experiment in School Choice"
2004
June 7 Informal Discussion — Summer Series Planning
June 14 Farooq Naseer
June 21 Shareen Joshi
July 19 Patrick Bayer
August 2 Hanming Fang
August 9 Tatiane DeMenezes
August 16 Xia Li
September 13 Joseph Altonji, "Statistical Discrimination and Occupational Attainment"
September 20 Patrick Bayer, "Inequality and Segregation"
October 4 Hanming Fang, "Estimating Returns to Non-Cognitive Skill Investment"
October 11 Ebonya Washington, "Female Socialization: How the Gender of a Congressman's Children Affects His Voting on Women's Issues"
October 25 Peter Arcidiacono, "Do Race Conscious Admissions Foster Inter-racial Contact?"
November 8 Xia Li, "Estimating the Impact of Childbearing on Women's Labor Market Outcomes: New Method and Evidence"
November 15 Renzo Comolli, "Wage Differentials and Endogenous Disclosure of Gays, Lesbians, and  Bisexuals"
November 22 Justine Hastings, "Public School Choice and Academic Achievement: Random Assignment from a School Choice Lottery"
November 29 Lauren Lax, "A Structural Model of Full, Partial, and Reverse Retirement" and "Retirement in an Extended Family Context"
December 13 Jeffrey Weinstein, "A General Equilibrium Model of Commute Times"