THURSDAY, APRIL 5:

6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Food

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, APRIL 6:

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

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM ALBERTO ABADIE, Harvard University and NBER

ALEXIS DIAMOND and JEN HAINMUELLER, Harvard University

Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effects of California's Tobacco Control Program

9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM TIMOTHY G. CONLEY, University of Chicago

CHRISTOPHER TABER, Northwestern University and NBER

Inference with 'Differences in Differences' with a Small Number of Policy Changes

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM MURIEL NIEDERLE, Stanford University and NBER

CARMIT SEGAL, Harvard University

LISE VESTERLUND, University of Pittsburgh

How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Competitive Environments

12:15 PM Lunch

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

1:00 PM STEFANO DELLAVIGNA, UC, Berkeley and NBER

ELIANA LA FERRARA, Universita Bocconi and IGIER

Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM BRUCE D. MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

WALLACE K.C. MOK, Northwestern University of Notre Dame

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance

from New York State

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM MICHAEL W. ELSBY and GARY SOLON, University of Michigan and NBER

RYAN MICHAELS, University of Michigan

The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

4:30 PM Adjourn

4/4/07