NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Lawrence Katz and Richard Freeman, Organizers

November 17, 2006

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16:

6:30 PM Dinner

Dante Restaurant

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 AM Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

ANTHONY A. SMITH and IVAN VIDANGOS, Yale University

Modeling Earnings Dynamics

9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER

W. BENTLEY, MACLEOD, Columbia University

DANIEL PARENT, McGill University

Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM SANDRA BLACK, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

ALEXANDRA SPITZ-OENER, Humboldt University Berlin

Explaining Women’s Success: Technological Change

and the Skill Content of Women's Work

12:15 PM Lunch

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

1:00 PM BRYAN GRAHAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

GUIDO IMBENS, Harvard University and NBER

GEERT RIDDER, University of Southern California

Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching:

A Nonparametric Analysis

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM CARMIT SEGAL, Harvard University

Motivation, Test Scores and Economic Success

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM ANNE CASE and CHRISTINA PAXSON, Princeton University and NBER

Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes

4:30 PM Adjourn

9/20/06