Yale Department of Economics

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"