| 2007 |
|
| February 23 |
Jerome Adda, University College
London, visiting UC Berkeley, "Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market
Outcomes: A Study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes" |
| 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" |
| April 20 |
Donna Gilleskie (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Prescription Drugs,
Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics" |
| April 27 |
Steven Stern, University of
Virginia, "Marriage, Divorce and Asymmetric
Information" (joint 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" |
| 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" |
| 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?" |
| October 12 |
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University,
"Arbitrage in Housing Markets" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 2006 |
|
| February 24 |
Dan Silverman, University of
Michigan, "Consumption and Retirement:
Evaluating Social Security Reform with a Life-Cycle Model" |
| March 3 |
Melissa Kearney, The Brookings
Institution, "The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment:
Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation" |
| 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" POSTPONED TO THE FALL SEMESTER |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| October 13 |
Ken Chay, UC Berkeley, "The Long Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor
Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| April 29 |
Casey Mulligan, University of
Chicago, "Selection, Investment, and Women's
Relative Wage since 1975" |
| May 6 |
Paul Devereux, UCLA, "The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and
Birth Order on Children's Education" |
| September 9 |
James Levinsohn, University of
Michigan, "Incomes in South Africa since the
fall of Apartheid" |
| September 16 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University,
"Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social
Insurance, Inequality, and Growth" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| March 5 |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University,
"Minimum Wages and Positive Employment Effects
in General Equilibrium" |
| April 2 |
Audra Bowlus, University of Western
Ontario, "Domestic Violence, Employment and Divorce" |
| April 8 |
Jaap Abbring, Vrije Universiteit
(Free University), "Social Experimentation in Real
Time" Joint with Applied Micro Workshop |
| April 16 |
Andrew Postlewaite, Visiting Yale,
"The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor
Market Outcomes: The Case of Height" |
| April 30 |
Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes:
Evidence from a Random Assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention" Joint
with Trade and Development Workshop |
| May 6 |
Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth, "Do Good Schools or Good Neighbors Raise Property Values?" |
| May 14 |
Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon-Heinz
School, "Gender Wage Disparities Among the Highly
Educated" |
| September 17 |
David Autor, MIT, "Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?" |
| September 24 |
Rasmus Lentz, Boston University,
"Productivity Growth and Worker Reallocation:
Theory and Evidence." |
| October 1 |
David Card, University of
California-Berkeley, "Racial Segregation and the
Black-White Score Gap" |
| 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" |
| October 22 |
Joseph G. Altonji (Yale University)
"Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of Private
School Vouchers on Public School Students" |
| October 29 |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University,
"Estimating Spillovers in the Classroom with
Panel Data" |
| November 5 |
Fabian Lange, Yale University,
"The Social Value of Education and Human Capital" |
| November 12 |
Luigi Guiso (University of Sassari
& University of Chicago) "Learning to be an
Entrepreneur" |
| November 18 |
Anne Laferrere, 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" |
| December 3 |
Kevin Lang, Boston University,
"Education and Labor-Market Discrimination" |
| December 10 |
Kevin Hallock, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Value of
Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees" |
| 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" |
| 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 |
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| 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" |
