| 2011 |
|
| January 26 |
Joseph Hotz, Duke University, "Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of
Expectations and Counterfactuals" (with Peter Arcidiacono and Songman Kang) |
| February 11 |
Aspen Gorry, UC, Santa Cruz, "Experience and Worker Flows" |
| February 18 |
Jonah Gelbach, Yale University, "Testing for Racial Discrimination in Bail Setting Using
Nonparametric Estimation of a Parametric Model" (with Shawn Bushway) |
| February 25 |
Alexandre Mas, Princeton University, "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job
Satisfaction" (with David Card, Enrico Moretti, Emmanuel Saez) |
| March 4 |
Nancy Qian, Yale University, "The General Equilibrium Effects of China's Urban Housing
Reforms on the Wage Structure" |
| March 25 |
Moshe Buchinsky, UCLA, visiting Cowles,
"The Dynamics of Educational Choices in the
United States" |
| April 1 |
Costas Meghir, Yale University,
"Education Policy and Crime" |
| April 8 |
Kory Kroft, Yale Universty, "Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment
Rate? Theory and Evidence" (with Matthew J. Notowidigdo) |
| April 15 |
Victor Lavy, University of London, "How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in
Returns? Evidence from an Unusual Pay Reform in Israel's Kibbutzim" |
| April 22 |
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard Kennedy School, "Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare" |
| April 29 |
Raj Chetty, Harvard University, "Bounds
on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on
Labor Supply" |
| May 6 |
Ronni Pavan, University of Rochester,
"The Specifity of General Human Capital: Evidence from College Major Choice"
(with Josh Kinsler and Jong-Suk Han) |
| September 8 |
David Autor, MIT, " The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of
Import Competition in the United States" (joint with Internation Trade) |
| September 15 |
Juan Pantano, Washington University in St.
Louis, "Using Subjective Expectations Data to
Allow for Unobserved Heterogeneity in Hotz-Miller Estimation Strategies" (with Yu
Zheng) |
| September 22 |
Lance Lochner, The University of Western
Ontario, "Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the
Family" |
| September 29 |
Mario Macis, John Hopkins, "Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment on Blood
Donation" (Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Rober Slonim) |
| October 6 |
Ahu Gemici, New York University, "Marriage and Cohabitation" |
| October 13 |
Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions and
Enrollment in the College Market" |
| October 20 |
Priyanka Anand, Yale University, "The
Effect of Rising Health Insurance Prices on Compensation and Employment" |
| October 21 |
Vincent Pohl, Yale University,
"Medicaid and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers: Implications for Health Care
Reform"
Note: New day and time: Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
| October 27 |
Enrico Moretti, University of California
Berkeley, visiting Cowles, "Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and
the Big Push: One Hundred Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority" |
| November 3 |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Isolating Mechanisms for the Racial Divide in
Education and the Labor Market: Evidence from Interracial Families" |
| November 10 |
Kathryn Shaw, Stanford Graduate School of
Business, "The Value of Bosses" |
| November 17 |
Ted Rosenbaum, Yale Unversity, "Low Cost Location vs. Right Next Door: A
Dilemma of Manufacturing Site Selection" |
| 2010 |
|
| February 5 |
Hank Farber, Princeton University, "Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union
Representation Elections" |
| February 12 |
Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago,
"Speech Patterns and Racial Wage Inequality" |
| February 19 |
Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University,
"Anti-Lemons: Social Reputation and Educational
Quality" |
| February 26 |
Janet Currie, Columbia University, "Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass" |
| March 26 |
Christopher Robinson, University of Western
Ontario, "Occupational Mobility, Occupation
Distance and the Evolution of Basic Skills" |
| April 9 |
Bob Gibbons, MIT Sloan School of
Management, "Relational Contracts and the Origins
of Organizational Capabilities" |
| April 16 |
Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College, "Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health
Care" |
| April 23 |
Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago, "The Declining Quality of Household Survey Data" Tables |
| September 10 |
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA, "Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys
and Girls Treated Differently?" (with Silvia Helena Barcellos and Leandro
Carvalho) |
| September 17 |
Tal Gross, Columbai University, "The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of
Medical Services" appendix (with
Michael Anderson and Carlos Dobkin) |
| September 24 |
Richard Mansfield, Yale University,
"Teacher Quality and Student Inequality" |
| October 1 |
Christian Dustmann, University College
London, "Referral-Based Job Search Networks" (with Albrecht Glitz and Uta
Schoenberg) |
| October 8 |
Janet Currie, Columbia University, "Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass"
(with Reed Walker) |
| October 15 |
Donna Gilleskie, University of North
Carolina, "Untangling the Direct and Indirect
Effects of Body Mass on Earnings" (with Euna Han and Edward Norton) |
| October 22 |
Mark Klee, Yale University, "Aggregate
Welfare under Professional Licensing and Certification with Coarse Signals" |
| October 29 |
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University,
"Disability Risk and the Value of Disability
Insurance" (with Hamish Low) |
| November 5 |
Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania,
"Aligning Learning Incentives: An Experiment in Mexican High Schools to Improve
Mathematics Performance" (with Jere Behrman, Susan Parker, and Petra Todd) |
| November 12 |
Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, "Can Risk Adjustment Reduce Selection in Private Insurance
Markets? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program" (with Jason Brown, Ilyana
Kuziemko, and William Woolston) |
| November 19 |
Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin,
"Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and
Aggregate Employment and Productivity" (with Dale T. Mortensen) |
| December 3 |
Andrew Shephard, Princeton University,
"Equilibrium Search and Tax Credit Reform" |
| December 10 |
Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences Po, Paris, "Marriage with Labor Supply" (with Nicolas
Jacquemet) |
| December 15 |
Melissa Tartari, Yale University, "The
Impacts of the 1992-1996 California Welfare Experiment" |
| 2009 |
|
| February 20 |
Todd Stinebrickner, University of Western
Ontario, "Learning about
Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision" (with Ralph Stinebrickner) |
| February 27 |
Francis Kramarz, Center for Research in
Economics and Statistics, "Labor
Market Outcomes and the Enforcement of the Employment Protection Legislation"
(with Henri Fraisse & Corinne Prost) |
| March 27 |
Arnaud Dupuy, Maastricht University, "Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen
Meets Sattinger" |
| April 3 |
Alan Krueger, Princeton University,
"Validating the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): How Well Do People Remember What
They Were Doing Yesterday?" |
| April 10 |
Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA, "Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with
Heterogeneous Risk Preferences" (with Shiv Saini) |
| April 17 |
David Blau, Ohio State University, "How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth
Accumulation?" |
| April 24 |
Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University,
"The Causal Effects of Education on
Health" (with Jim Heckman & Gabriella Conti) |
| May 1 |
Juanna Joensen, Stockholm School of
Economics, "Academic and
Labor Market Success: The Impact of Student Employment, Abilities, and Preferences" |
| 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) |
| 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?" |
| December 4 |
Paul Oyer, Stanford University, "The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School" |
| December 11 |
Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago, "Voter Turnout and the Labor Market" |
| 2008 |
|
| February 22 |
Alex Mas, UC Berkeley, "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New
Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999" (with David Lee) |
| February 29 |
Joseph Altonji, Yale Univeristy, "Changes in the Characteristics of American
Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes" (with Fabian Lange & Prashant
Bharadwaj) |
| March 7 |
Manuela Angelucci, University of Arizona,
"Indirect Effects of an Aid
Program: How do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption?" (with Giacomo De
Giorgi) |
| March 28 |
Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, "Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers:
Evidence from Million Dollar Plants" (with Michael Greenstone & Richard
Hornbeck) |
| April 4 |
Jeff Liebman, Harvard University "Earnings Responses to Increases in Payroll
Taxes" (with Emmanuel Saez) |
| April 11 |
Till von Wachter, Columbia University,
"Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and
Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data" (with Daniel Sullivan) |
| April 18 |
David Autor, MIT, "Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of
Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States" (with David Dorn) |
| April 25 |
Michael Elsby, University of Michigan
"Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms,
and Unemployment Flows" (with Ryan Michaels) |
| May 2 |
Gary Solon, Michigan State, "Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What
Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?" (with Donggyun Shin) |
| May 9 |
Tat Chan, Washington University at St.
Louis, "Using Subjective Expectations
to Infer Managerial Objectives and Choices" (with Barton H. Hamilton &
Christopher Makler) |
| September 5 |
Betsey Stevenson, Wharton, UPenn, "Economic Growth and Subjective
Well-being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox" (with Justin Wolfers) |
| September 15 |
Martin Browning, Oxford "Spending
Time and Money within the Household" |
| September 19 |
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University,
"Trends in the Transitory Variance
of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004" (with Peter Gottschalk) |
| 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, TBA |
| October 10 |
Fernando Ferreira, Wharton, UPenn, "The Value of School Facilities: Evidence
from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design" (with Stephanie R. Cellini &
Jesse Rothstein) |
| October 17 |
Peter McHenry, "The Geographic Distribution of Human
Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms" |
| October 24 |
Jonah E. Rockoff, Columbia University
Business School, "Short Run
Impacts of Accountability on School Quality" (with Lesley J. Turner) |
| October 31 |
Pedro Carneiro, University College London,
"A Flying Start? Maternity Leave
and Long-term Outcomes for Mother and Child" (with Katrine Løken & Kjell G.
Salvanes) |
| November 7 |
Doug McKee, Yale University, "Do Good Kids Finish First? Characterizing
the Bequest Motive in Mexico" (with Beth Soldo) |
| November 14 |
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University, "Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young
Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors" (with Marianne Bertrand
& Claudia Goldin) |
| 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" (with David Bravo
& SankarMukhopadhyay) |
| December 12 |
Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia
University,"Earnings Mobility and
Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937"
(with Emmanuel Saez) |
| 2007 |
|
| February 23 |
Jérôme Adda, University College London,
visiting UC Berkeley, "Labour Market
Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A Study of the Swedish Active Labour Market
Programmes" (with Mónica Costa Dias & Costas Meghir) |
| March 2 |
Derek Neal, University of Chicago, visiting
Yale, "Current and Future Effects of Test-Based Accountability Systems" |
| March 9 |
Amy Finkelstein, MIT, "EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates" |
| March 30 |
Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, "Peers at Work" |
| April 6 |
Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Input and Technology Choices In Regulated
Industries: Evidence from the Health Care Sector" (with Amy Finkelstein) |
| April 13 |
Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago,
"Prejudice and the Economics of
Discrimination" (with Kerwin Kofi Charles) |
| April 20 |
Donna B. Gilleskie, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Prescription
Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics"
(with Zhou Yang & Edward C. Norton) |
| April 27 |
Steven Stern, University of Virginia,
"Marriage, Divorce and Asymmetric
Information" (with Leora Friedberg) |
| May 4 |
Marcos Rangel, University of Chicago,
"Is Parental Love Colorblind?
Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families" |
| May 11 |
Steve Pischke, London School of Economics,
visiting MIT, "Peer Effects in
European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS" (with Andreas Ammermueller) |
| September 7 |
Raj Chetty, UC Berkeley, "Moral Hazard vs Liquidity in Unemployment
Insurance" |
| September 14 |
H. Wilbert van der Klaauw, New York Federal
Reserve Bank, "The
Impact of Social and Economic Policy on the Family Structure Experience of Children in the
United States" (with David Blau) |
| September 21 |
Christopher Flinn, New York University,
"Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts" |
| September 28 |
Patrick Kline, Yale, "Do Local
Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone
Program" |
| October 5 |
David Card, UC Berkeley, "Does Medicare Save Lives?" (with
Carlos Dobkin & Nicole Maestas) |
| October 12 |
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, "Arbitrage in Housing Markets"
(with Joseph Gyourko) |
| October 19 |
Shannon Seitz, Boston
College, "Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations" |
| October 26 |
Jeffrey Matthew Weinstein, Yale, "The
Relationship Between School Characteristics and Neighborhood Characteristics: Evidence
from School Redistricting" |
| November 2 |
Alan Manning, LSE, visiting MIT, "The Plant Size-place Effect: Agglomeration
and Monopsony in Labour Markets" |
| November 9 |
Daniele Paserman, Boston University/Hebrew
University, "Gender
Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis
Players" |
| November 16 |
Jonah Gelbach, University of Arizona,
"Can Subgroup-Specific Mean
Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform Effects? Evidence from
Connecticut's Jobs First Experiment" |
| November 30 |
Anders Björklund, Stockholm
University, "Family
Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income
for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968" (with Markus Jäntto & Matthew J. Lindquist) |
| December 7 |
Holger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon
University, "The Joy of Giving
and the Greater Joy of Receiving: Estimating Multiple-Discrete Choice Models of
Philanthropic Giving" (with Jipeng Zhang) |
| 2006 |
|
| February 24 |
Dan Silverman, University of Michigan,
"Consumption and Retirement:
Evaluating Social Security Reform with a Life-Cycle Model" (with John Laitner) |
| March 3 |
Melissa Kearney, The Brookings Institution,
"The Impact of Child SSI
Enrollment: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation" (with
Mark Duggan) |
| March 24 |
Frank Vella, Georgetown University)
"Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions via Conditional Second
Moments" Paper 1, Paper 2 |
| March 31 |
Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania,
"Minority-Majority Differences in Female Life Cycle Behavior" Paper 1, Paper 2 |
| April 21 |
Emiko Usui, Wayne State University/Yale
University, "Gender Occupational
Segregation in an Equilibrium Search Model" |
| April 28 |
Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto,
"Lifecycle Marriage Matching: Theory
and Evidence" (with Eugene Choo) |
| September 8 |
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University,
"Did Highways Cause
Suburbanization?" AND "Suburbanization
and Transportation in the Monocentric Model" |
| September 15 |
Meta Brown, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, "Tied Transfers"
(with Maurizio Mazzocco, John K. Scholz & Ananth Seshadri) |
| September 22 |
Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto,
"Marriage Matching, Efficient Risk
Sharing and Spousal Labor Supplies" (with Eugene Choo and Shannon Seitz) |
| September 29 |
Jim Heckman, University of Chicago, "The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in
the U.S. Economy" |
| October 6 |
Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, "Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full
Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls" (with Perry Singleton
& Jae Song) |
| October 13 |
Kenneth Y. Chay, UC Berkeley, "The Long Run and Intergenerational Impact of
Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era" (with
Douglas Almond) |
| October 20 |
Thomas Lemieux, University of British
Columbia, "Unconditional Quantile
Regressions: Theory and Application" |
| October 27 |
Adriana Lleras-Muney, Princeton University,
"The Needs of an Army: Using
Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on
Children's Health" |
| November 10 |
Dora Costa, MIT, "Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of
Social Networks in POW Camps" |
| December 1 |
Jean Marc Robin, University College London,
"An International Comparison of
Lifetime Labor Income Values and Inequality" (with Audra J. Bowlus) |
| December 8 |
Seik Kim, Yale University, "Economic Assimilation of Foreign-Born Workers
in the United States: An Overlapping Rotating Panel Analysis" |
| December 15 |
Jacob Vigdor, Duke University, "The Welfare Effects of Urban Decay and
Revitalization" |
| 2005 |
|
| February 11 |
Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Estimating Demand for School Quality:
Evidence from a School Choice Experiment" |
| February 18 |
Dan Silverman, University of Michigan,
"Estimating Life-Cycle
Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement" |
| February 25 |
John Ham, Ohio State University, "Propensity Score Matching, a Distance-Based
Measure of Migration, and the Wage Growth of Young Men" (with Xianghong Li &
Patricia Regan) |
| March 4 |
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin,
"The Effect of Expected Income on
Individual Migration Decisions" (with James Walker) |
| March 25 |
Robert Topel, University of Chicago, "The Value of Health and Longevity"
(with Kevin M. Murphy) |
| April 1 |
Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto,
"The Intergenerational
Consequences of Unexpected Job Loss" (with Marianne Page & Ann Huff Stevens) |
| April 8 |
Hoyt Bleakley (UC San Diego,
"Long-Term Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Malaria: Evidence from the
Malaria Eradication Campaign in Latin America" |
| April 15 |
Hanming Fang (Yale University, "An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice on
Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence" (with Shamena Anwar) |
| April 22 |
Brian Knight, Brown University), "The Political Economy of School District
Mergers" (with Nora Gordon) |
| April 29 |
Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago,
"Selection, Investment, and
Women's Relative Wage since 1975" (with Yona Rubinstein) |
| May 6 |
Paul Devereux, UCLA, "The More the Merrier? The Effect of
Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education" (with Sandra Black &
Kjell Salvanes) |
| September 9 |
James Levinsohn, University of Michigan,
"Incomes in South Africa since
the Fall of Apartheid" (with Murray Leibbrandt & Justin McCrary) |
| September 16 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social
Insurance, Inequality, and Growth" (with Kaivan Munshi) |
| September 23 |
Joseph Doyle, MIT, "Child Protection and Child Outcomes:
Measuring the Effects of Foster Care" |
| September 30 |
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and Jeff
Kling, Princeton University, Special Session on What We Have Learned from the Move to
Opportunity Program (a HUD initiative that enabled inner-city poor to move to more
affluent areas in a randomized experiment to assess the impact of living in a lower-crime
area with better schools) Joint with LEO Workshop |
| October 7 |
Gianluca Violante, New York University,
"Insurance and Opportunities: The
Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion" (with J. Heathcote and K.
Storesletten) |
| October 21 |
Costas Meghir, University College London,
"Career Progression and Formal
versus on the Job Training" (with J. Adda, C. Dustmann & J.-M. Robin) |
| October 28 |
Xia Li, Yale University, "Women's
Labor Market Outcomes and Childbearing" |
| November 4 |
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, "The Effect of Transfer Programs on
Labor Supply under Preference Heterogeneity and Variable Takeup" |
| November 11 |
Shamena Anwar, Yale University,
"Testing for Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from the Game Show Street
Smarts" |
| November 18 |
Richard Blundell, University College
London, "Earned Income Tax Credit
Policies: Impact and Optimality" (based on work with Mike Brewer & Andrew
Shephard) |
| December 2 |
Steven Ross, University of Connecticut,
Yale University, "Mortgage Lending in
Chicago and Los Angeles: A Paired Testing Study of the Pre-Application Process"
(with Margery Turner, Erin Godfrey & Robin R. Smith) |
| December 9 |
Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and
Melissa Schettini Kearney, Brookings Institution, "The Impact of Child SSI
Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program
Participation" |
| 2004 |
|
| January 30 |
Joel Horowitz, Northwestern University,
"Testing A Parametric Model
Against A Nonparametric Alternative With Identification Through Instrumental Variables" |
| February 20 |
Marina Pavan, Boston College, "Consumer Durables and Risky Borrowing: the Effects of
Bankruptcy Protection" |
| February 27 |
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University,
"The Central Role of Noise in
Evaluating Interventions That Use Test Scores to Rank Schools" (with Kenneth Chay
& Patrick J. McEwan) |
| March 5 |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Minimum Wages and Positive Employment
Effects in General Equilibrium" (with Tom Ahn) |
| April 2 |
Audra J. Bowlus, University of Western
Ontario, "Domestic Violence,
Employment and Divorce" (with Shannan N. Seitz) |
| April 8 |
Jaap Abbring, Vrije Universiteit, Free
University, "Social
Experimentation in Real Time" (with Gerard J. van den Berg) Joint with Applied Micro Workshop |
| April 16 |
Andrew Postlewaite, Visiting Yale, "The Effect of Adolescent Experience on
Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height" (with Nicola Persico & Dan
Silverman) |
| April 30 |
Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market
Outcomes: Evidence from a Random Assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention" (with
Elizabeth Frankenberg, Jed Friedman, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Nathan Jones, Christopher
McKelvey, Gretel Pelto, Bondan Sikoki, James P. Smith, Cecep Sumantri & Wayan
Suriastini) Joint with Trade and Development Workshop |
| May 6 |
Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth, "Do Good Schools or Good Neighbors Raise
Property Values?" (with Thomas J. Kane) |
| May 14 |
Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon-Heinz
School, "Gender Wage Disparities
Among the Highly Educated" (with Dan Black, Amelia Haviland & Seth Sanders) |
| September 17 |
David Autor, MIT, "Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?"
(with David Scarborough) |
| September 24 |
Rasmus Lentz, Boston University, "Productivity Growth and Worker Reallocation:
Theory and Evidence" (with Dale T. Mortensen) |
| October 1 |
David Card, University of
California-Berkeley, "Racial
Segregation and the Black-White Score Gap" (with Jesse Rothstein) |
| October 8 |
Randi Pintoff, Yale University, "The Impact of Incarceration on Juvenile
Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach" |
| October 15 |
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University,
"Wage Risk and Employment Risk
Over the Life Cycle" (with Hamish Low & Costas Meghir) |
| October 22 |
Joseph G. Altonji (Yale University, "Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of
Private School Vouchers on Public School Students" (with Ching-I Huang &
Christopher R. Taber) |
| October 29 |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Estimating Spillovers in the Classroom
with Panel Data" (with Gigi Foster, Natalie Goodpaster & Josh Kinsler) |
| November 5 |
Fabian Lange, Yale University, "The Social Value of Education and Human
Capital" (with Robert Topel) |
| November 12 |
Luigi Guiso, University of Sassari &
University of Chicago, "Learning to
be an Entrepreneur" (with Fabiano Schivardi) |
| November 18 |
Anne Laferrère, CREST, INSEE, "Leaving the Nest: The Interaction of
Parental Income and Family Environment" |
| November 19 |
Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University,
"People People: Social Capital
and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups" (with Lex Borghans
& Bas ter Weel) |
| December 3 |
Kevin Lang, Boston University, "Education and Labor-Market Discrimination"
(with Michael Manove) |
| December 10 |
Kevin Hallock, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, "The Value of
Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees" (with Craig A. Olson) |
| 2003 |
|
| March 6 |
Jim Poterba, MIT, "Adverse Selection in Annuity Markets: Evidence from the
United Kingdom" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| March 28 |
Betsy Caucutt (Rochester), "Education Policies to Revive a Stagnant
Economic. The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa" |
| April 2* |
Guido Imbens, University of California at
Berkeley, "Identification and Inference in
Nonlinear Difference-in-differences Models" Joint with Econometrics Workshop |
| April 4 |
Lance Lochner, Rochester, "Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions" |
| April 18 |
Ed Vytlacil, Stanford, "Estimating The Return to Education When It Varies
Among Individuals" |
| May 16 |
Derek Neal, University of Chicago, "The Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women Is Too
Small" |
| September 12 |
Thomas Mroz, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, "The Long-Term Effects of Youth
Employment" |
| September 19 |
Thomas DeLeire, Kennedy School of
Government, "Worker Sorting and the Risk of Death
on the Job" |
| September 26 |
Robert Hall (Stanford University),
"Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations" Joint with Cowles Seminar |
| October 3 |
Josh Angrist, MIT, "Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice"
Joint with Econometrics Workshop |
| October 10 |
Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania,
"Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic
Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility: Assessing the Impact of a School
Subsidy Program in Mexico." |
| October 17 |
NEUDC 2003, No L&P Workshop. |
| October 24 |
Renzo Comolli, Yale, "LGB Wage Gap and
Endogeneity of Sexual Orientation Disclosure on the Job" |
| October 31 |
Sonia Pereira, Visiting Yale, "Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the UK and Germany" |
| November 7 |
Robert Fairlie, Visiting Yale, "Why are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than
White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human
Capital" |
| November 12 |
Janet Currie, UCLA, "Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From
California's Recent Experience?" Joint with Environmental Economics Workshop |
| December 5 |
Bruce Meyer, Northwestern University,
"Structural Labor Supply Models When Budget
Constraints Are Nonlinear" |
| December 11 |
Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth, "Changing
School Assignments and Housing Values" Joint with Applied Microeconomics |
| 2002 |
|
| February 22 |
Steve Machin, MIT and University College
London, "The Introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Labour
Market" |
| March 1 |
Amy Finkelstein, MIT, "Minimum Standards in Insurance Regulation: Evidence
from the Medigap Market" |
| March 8 |
Mark Rosenzweig, University of
Pennsylvania, "Democratization,
Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy" |
| March 29 |
Martin Ravellion, World Bank, "Assisting the Transition from Workfare to Work: A
Randomized Experiment" and "Do
Workfare Participants Recover Quickly from Retrenchment?" |
| April 4 |
Anjini Kochar, Stanford University,
"Inter-Generational Income Sharing and Schooling Investments" |
| April 5 |
Monica Costa Dias, University College
London, "A General Equilibrium Approach to the Evaluation of Social Programs" |
| April 12 |
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago,
"The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change:
A Theoretical and Empirical Examination" |
| April 19 |
Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Board of New
York, "Wages and Foreign Exchange Markets" |
| May 3 |
Lena Edlund, Columbia University, "Growth: What's Love Got to Do with It?" |
| September 13 |
Jonathan Gruber, MIT,
"Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?" |
| September 26 |
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University, "Making a Name" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| October 4 |
Carolyn Moehling, Yale University, "Mothers' Pensions and Female Headship" |
| October 11 |
Steven Stern, University of Virginia,
"Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in a Model of
Match Quality" (with Michael J. Brien) |
| October 18 |
Patrick Bayer, Yale University, "A Unified Framework for Measuring the Value of School
Quality" |
| October 29 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "Aggregate Worker Reallocation and Occupational Mobility
in the US: 1971-2000" Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
| November 1 |
Valerie Lechene, Oxford University, "Tests of Income
Pooling in Household Decisions" |
| November 8 |
Michael Keane, Yale University, "A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers" |
| November 15 |
Enrico Moretti, UCLA, "Mother's
Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College
Openings and Longitudinal Data" |
| November 22 |
Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University, "Do and Should
Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?" (with Chris Avery) |
| December 6 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Harvard University, "Parental Wealth
and Adult Children's Welfare in Marriage" |
| December 13 |
Christopher Tabor, Northwestern University,
"An Empirical Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Labor Market, 1970-2000" |
| 2001 |
|
| February 9 |
Patricia Anderson, Dartmouth College,
"Where the Boys Aren't: Recent Trends in U.S.
College Enrollment Patterns" |
| February 16 |
David Card, University of California,
Berkeley, "Cohort Relative Supplies of Education and
the Rising Return to Education among Young Workers" (with Thomas Lemieux) |
| February 23 |
Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, "Monopoly Power and Distribution in Fragmented
Markets: The Case of Groundwater" (with Rinku Murgai and Saeed Ur
Rehman) Joint with Workshop in Trade and Development |
| March 2 |
Jeff Smith, University of West Toronto,
"Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators" |
| March 19 |
Costas Meghir, University College London,
"Changes in the Distribution of Wages Accounting for Changes in
Employment" Joint with Workshop in Trade and
Development |
| March 23 |
John Strauss, Michigan State University,
"Targeting of Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia: Chronic
Need or Inertia?" (with T.S. Jayne, Takashi Yamano and Daniel Molla) |
| March 30 |
Rob McMillan, University of Toronot, "Parental Pressure and Private School Competition" |
| April 6 |
Robert Townsend, University of Chicago,
"The Nature of Financial Constraints: Distinguishing the Micro Underpinnings of
Macro Models" Joint with Workshop in Trade and
Development |
| April 13 |
Stephen Cacciola, Yale University, Yale
University, "On-Board Computer Use and Organization in the Trucking Industry" |
| April 20 |
Duncan Thomas, University of California,
Los Angeles, "Education in a Crisis" |
| April 27 |
Pierre Andre Chiappori, University of
Chicago, "Household Labor Supply, Sharing Rule and the Marriage Market" |
| September 21 |
Cristobol Ridao-Cano, University of
Colorado, "Work and Schooling of Children in
Bangladesh" |
| September 28 |
Emmanuel Saez, Harvard University/CEPREMAP,
"Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998"
(with Thomas Piketty) Joint with Economic History
Workshop |
| October 5 |
Michael Boozer and Tavneet Suri, Yale
University, "Child Labor and Schooling
Decisions in Ghana" |
| October 26 |
Thomas Philipson, University of Chicago,
"Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity"
(with Darius Lakdawalla, RAND Corporation) |
| October 29-30 |
KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES: Joel Mokyr,
Northwestern University |
| November 2 |
Ann Huff Stevens, Yale University, "Do Changes in Pension Incentives Affect Retirement? A
Longitudinal Study of Subjective Retirement Expectations" (with Sewin Chan) |
| November 9 |
Stephen Cacciola, Yale University,
"The Impact of a Monitoring Technology on Worker Incentives and the Coordination of
Firm Activity Evidence from the Trucking Industry" |
| November 16 |
Luojia Hu, Northwestern University, "Who Gets Good Jobs? The Hiring Decisions and Compensation
Structures of Large Firms" |
| November 30 |
Max Schanzenbach, Yale University,
"Have Welfare Recipients Responded to Time Limits? Evidence from California
Administrative Data and the PSID" |
| 2000 |
|
| February 11 |
Michael Boozer, Yale University,
"Heterogeneity in the Effects of Using Merit Pay in Schools: Effort Versus Sorting in
Multi-Tasking Principal-Agents Models" |
| February 18 |
Tom Downesi, Tufts University, "What
Are the Effects of School Finance Reforms? Estimates of the Impact of Equalization on
Students and on Affected Communities" |
| February 25 |
Joe Altonji, Northwestern University,
"Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of
Catholic Schools" |
| Macrh 3 |
Raquel Fernandez, New York University,
"Sorting and Long-Run Inequality" |
| March 24 |
Max Schanzenbach, Yale University,
"Welfare Reform and Time Limits" |
| March 31 |
Francine Blau, Cornell University/Russell
Sage Foundation, "Understanding International Differences in the Gender Gap" |
| April 6 |
Michael Baker, University of Toronto,
"Comparable Worth Comes to the Private Sector: The
Case of Ontario" Joint with Applied
Microeconomics Seminar |
| April 14 |
David Zimmerman, Williams College,
"Peer Effects in Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" |
| April 21 |
Paolo Macedo, Yale University,
"Spatial Distribution and Structural Determinants of Local Economic
Efficiency-Evidence from Brazil" |
| April 28 |
Eric Hanushek, University of Rochester,
"Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement" |
| May 19 |
P. Duraisamy, Yale University,
"Changes in the Rate of Return to Education in India" |
| September 15 |
David Jaeger, CUNY, "Local Labor Markets, Admission Categories, and Immigration
Location Choice" |
| September 22 |
Robert Jensen, JFK School of Government,
Harvard University, "The Consequences of Pension
Failure: The Russian Case" (with Kaspar Richter) |
| September 29 |
Michael Boozer and Stephen Cacciola, Yale
University, "Identification of Peer Group Effects from Social Program Using
Randomization" |
| October 6 |
NUDEC Conference at Cornell |
| October 13 |
Anne Case, Princeton University, Education
Attainment in Blended Families |
| October 20 |
Elaina Rose, University of Washington,
Seattle, "The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's
Labor Supply and Wages" (with Shelly Lundberg) |
| October 27 |
Andrew Pearlman, Yale University, "The Rise of Manage Care and the Decline of Physician
Self-Employment" |
| November 3 |
NBER Labor Group |
| November 10 |
Max Schanzenbach, Yale University,
"The Labor Market Effects of Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will" |
| December 1 |
Julie Cullen, University of Michigan,
"The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes:
An Analysis of Chicago Public Schools" (with Brian A. Jacob and Steven D. Levitt) |
| December 8 |
Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College,
"The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes" |
| 1999 |
|
| January 14 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Schooling and
Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual
Policy Experiment" |
| January 15 |
David Lee, Princeton University,
"Estimating Changes in the Demand for Unobservable Skill: A Structural Index
Approach" |
| February 12 |
Hugo Benitez, Yale University, "Micro
Determinants of Labor Force Status among Aging Americans" |
| February 26 |
Dana D. Chen, Duke University,
"Intra-Household Educational Resource Allocation between Boys and Girls: A Structural
Approach" |
| March 5 |
Stephen Cacciola, Yale University,
"Some Thoughts on the Effects of Incentive Pay on Employee Performance" |
| April 2 |
Rocio Ribero, Yale University,
"Earnings Effects of Household Investment in Health -- The Case of Colombia" |
| April 9 |
Sanjay DeSilva, Yale University,
"Allocating Labor and Human Capital through Land Leasing When Labor Markets Are
Imperfect" |
| April 16 |
Dennis Yang, Duke University, "Family
Investments in Education and Economic Development" |
| April 23 |
Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University,
"Benevolent Colluders? The Effects of Antitrust on College Financial Aid and
Tuition" |
| April 30 |
Olivia Mitchell, University of
Pennsylvania, Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials between Men and
Women |
| May 7 |
Sarah Senesky, Yale University,
"Commuting Time as a Measure of Employment Costs" |
| May 12 |
Michael Boozer, Yale University,
"Nonseperabilities, Endogenous Preferences and Measurement Error in the Analysis of
Intertemporal Labor Supply: Tessting and Structural Analysis via Correlated Random
Effects" |
| September 23 |
Ian Keay, McGill University,
"Technology, Efficiency, and Entrepreneurial Failure: Firm Level Evidence
1907-1990" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| September 30 |
Eli Berman, Boston University, Sect,
Subsidy and Sacrifice: An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews |
| October 7 |
Markus Goldstein, University of California,
Berkeley, "Chop Time, No Friends, Examining Options for Individual Insurance in
Southern Ghana" |
| October 14 |
Simon Wegge, Lake Forest College,
"Self Selection of 19th Century German Emigrants " Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| October 21 |
Sanjay DeSilva, Yale University,
"Measuring the Effect of Unobserved Skills in the Land-Leasing Market" |
| October 28 |
Andrew Pearlman, Yale University,
"Comparison of Self-Employed and Employee Physician Labor Supply" |
| November 4 |
Sarah Senesky, Yale University,
"Commuting Time as a Measure of Employment Costs" |
| November 11 |
Hugo Benitez-Silva, Yale University,
"A Joint Model of Labor Supply and Consumption Decisions among Older Americans in a
Changing Policy Environment" |
| November 18 |
Giovanni Federico, University of Pisa/UCLA,
"Market Integration in 19th Century Italy" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| December 2 |
Ann Piehl, Harvard University,
"Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs" |
| December 9 |
Gianni Toniolo, University of Rome/Duke
University, "Is the Kuznets Curve Still Alive? Evidence from Italian Household
Budgets 1880-1960" Joint with Economic History
Workshop |
| 1998 |
|
| January 30 |
Kaivan Munshi, Boston University,
"Social Effects in the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh" |
| February 13 |
John Rust, Yale University, Empirical
Analysis of Social Security Disability: Application, Appeal, and Award |
| February 27 |
Seth Sanders, Carnegie Mellon,
"Smoothing the Fixed-Effects Estimator: Distinguishing Permanent and Transitory
Changes" |
| March 23 |
Ricardo Barros, IPEA Brazil, "Labor
Markets Imperfections and the Level of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America"
Joint with Trade and Development Workshop |
| March 27 |
John Ham, University of Pittsburgh,
"Unemployment and the Social Safety Net During Transitions to a Market Economy:
Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics" |
| April 17 |
Sarah Senesky, Yale University,
"Testing Whether Intertemporal Labor Supply Is Determined between Jobs: Modeling Jobs
as Packages" |
| April 24 |
Robert Moffitt, John Hopkins University,
"Taxation and the Labor Supply Decisions of the Affluent" |
| May 1 |
Andrew Pearlman, Yale University,
"Decomposition of Changes in the Self-Employment Rate, 1950-1990: How Much Is Due to
Shifts in the Composition of the Labor Force?" |
| May 8 |
Sanjay DeSilva, University,
"Separating the Farm from the Household. Why Does It Matter? An Empirical Study of
Sri Lankan Agriculture" |
| September 11 |
Jennifer Hunt, Yale University, "Wage
Growth in East Germany 1990-1996" |
| September 18 |
Robin Lumsdaine, Brown University,
"Caring for Grandchildren and the Retirement Decision" |
| September 25 |
Joseph Hotz, University of California, Los
Angeles, "Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in
School?" |
| October 2 |
Anne Royalty, Stanford University, "A
Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Workers' Marginal Valuation of Fringe
Benefits" |
| October 9 |
Andrew Hildreth, University of Essex/UCLA
Berkeley, "Strikes, Inventories and Union Legislation" |
| October 16-17 |
NEUDC Conference at Yale |
| October 30 |
Ayal Kimhi, Hebrew University/Yale
University, "Capital Accumulation and Off-Farm Work Decisions of Israeli Farmers over
the Life-Cycle" (with Avner Ahituv) |
| November 4-6 |
KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES: Angus Maddison,
"Economic Growth Since 1500 AD: Problems of Measurement, Interpretation and
Explanation" |
| November 13 |
Jill M. Constantine, Williams College/Yale
University, "Returns to Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Analysis by
Gender" |
| November 20 |
Rob Fairlie, University of California,
Santa Cruz, "Drug Dealing and Self-Employment" |
| December 4 |
Christopher Udry, Yale University,
"Learning and Innovation: The Adoption of Pineapple in Ghana" |
| 1997 |
|
| September 12 |
Jeffrey DeSimone, Yale University,
"The Effect of Cocaine Prices on Crime" |
| September 19 |
Mark Smith, Yale University, "State
Welfare Benefits: The Political Economy of Spatial Spillovers" |
| September 26 |
Robert Margo, Vanderbilt University,
"Wages in California after the Goldrush" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| October 3 |
Jessica Holmes, Yale University,
"Measuring the Determinants of School Completion in Pakistan: Analysis of Censoring
and Selection Bias" |
| October 10 |
Jennifer Mellor, Yale University,
"Long Term Care and Nursing Home Coverage: Are Children Substitutes for
Insurance?" |
| October 17 |
Peter Orazem, Iowa State University,
"Capital Deepening, Biased Technical Change and Earnings Inequality: A Reexamination
of the Griliches Hypothesis" |
| October 30-31 |
KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES: Zvi Griliches,
Harvard University |
| November 7 |
Ann Huff Stevens, Yale University,
"Job Loss and Earnings Instability" |
| November 21 |
Todd Idson, Columbia University, "The
Wage Arrears Crisis in Russia" |
| December 5 |
Lisa Lynch, Tufts University, "How to
Compete: Impact of New Technology and Workplace Practices on Productivity" |
