MONDAY, JULY 23

 

 

 

8:30 am

EE

LARRY KARP, UC, Berkeley

 

 

JINHUA ZHAO, Iowa State University

 

 

A Proposal to Reform the Kyoto Protocol: the Role of Escape Clauses and Farsight

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

KERWIN CHARLES and ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

NICK ROUSSANOV, University of Chicago

 

 

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

 

 

 

9:30 am

EE

DAVID KELLY, University of Miami

 

 

Subsidies to Industry and the Environment

 

 

 

9:30 am

PRIPE

SHARON BELENZON, Oxford University

 

 

Basic Research and Sequential Innovation

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Bias in Hollywood: An Empirical Analysis of Horror Films

 

 

 

10:30 am

PRIPE

CHIARA CRISCUOLO, RALF MARTIN and HENRY OVERMAN, London School of Economics

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

The Impact of Government Subsidies on Firm Performance

 

 

 

11:00 am

EE

MICHAEL HOEL, University of Oslo

 

 

AART DE ZEEUW, Tilburg University

 

 

International Cooperation to Promote Technologies Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

ROBERT MARGO, Boston University and NBER

 

 

Going Postal: What Black Employment in the Postal Service Reveals About the Increased Cost of Ghettoization, 1940-2000

 

 

 

11:45 am

PRIPE

JONATHAN BAKER, American University

 

 

Beyond Schumpeter vs. Arrow: How Antitrust Fosters Innovation

 

 

 

1:00 pm

AW

Richard Disney, University of Nottingham, UK

 

 

C. Emmerson and M. Wakefield, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

 

 

Tax Reform and Retirement Saving Incentives: Evidence from the Introduction of Stakeholder Pensions in the UK

 

 

 

1:00 pm

HE

NAVA ASHRAF, Harvard University

 

 

JAMES BERRY, MIT

 

 

JESSIE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LS

JOSEPH PRICE, Cornell University

 

 

JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Racial Discrimination among NBA Referees

 

 

 

1:50 pm

AW

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Institute of Social Research

 

 

Evaluating Wage Subsidies for the Disabled – the Danish Flexjob Scheme

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EE

MOLLY LIPSCOMB and MUSHFIQ MOBARAK,

University of Colorado at Boulder

 

 

The Costs of Decentralization: Water Quality Spillovers from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PRIPE

MERCEDES DELGADO and MICHAEL PORTER, Harvard University

 

 

SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

When Do Clusters Matter for Regional Economic Performance?

 

 

 

2:15 pm

HE

CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES and JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

MARCUS GOLDSTEIN, The World Bank

 

 

JAMES HABYARIMANA, Georgetown University

 

 

HARSHA THIRUMURTHY, Center for Global Development

 

 

AIDS Treatment and Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Western Kenya

 

 

 

 2:30 pm

LS

EMMA HALL, UK Department of Health

 

 

CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets and Skills on Hospital Quality and Productivity

 

 

 

3:00 pm

PRIPE

JEFFREY LIN, UC, San Diego

 

 

Innovation, Cities, and New Work

 

 

 

3:10 pm

AW

Hendrik Juerges, University of Mannheim, Germany

 

 

Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demanfor Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EE

GARTH HEUTEL, University of Texas

 

 

Crowding Out of Private Donations and Government Grants: Evidence from Environmental Charities

 

 

 

3:30 pm

HE

JASON FLETCHER, Yale University

 

 

STEVEN LEHRER, Queen’s University and NBER

 

 

Using Gene Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

STEFANO DELLA VIGNA and ENRICO MORETTI, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

 

VIKRAM PANTHANIA, UC, Berkeley

 

 

The Effect of Increases in the Supply of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EE

DAVID DRUKKER,  Stata Corporation

 

 

DANIEL MILLIMET, Southern Methodist University

 

 

Assessing the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in an Interdependent World

 

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 24:

 

 

 

8:30 am

EE

MEREDITH FOWLIE, University of Michigan

 

 

CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

SERGIO FIRPO, PUC-Rio

 

 

NICOLE FORTIN, University of British Columbia

 

 

THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Decomposing Wage Distributions using Recentered Influence Function Regressions

 

 

 

9:00 am`

AW

Helen Levy, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

David Weir, University of Michigan

 

 

Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Survey

 

 

 

9:00 am

CH

AVI EBENSTEIN, Harvard University

 

 

Sex Selection and Fertility Choices: Analysis and Policy

 

 

 

9:00 am

HE

DAMON CLARK, University of Florida

 

 

HEATHER ROYER, Case Western Reserve University

 

 

The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Longevity: Evidence from the United Kingdom

 

 

 

9:00 am

PESI

HILARY HOYNES, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

 

 

(Joint with DIANE SCHANZENBACH)

 

 

 

9:30 am

EE

ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER

 

 

Technology, Globalization, and Pollution from US Manufacturing

 

 

 

9:50 am

AW

Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Why Has Longevity Increased Faster in Some States Than Others?

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

STEVEN KAPLAN and JOSHUA RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in Highest Incomes?

 

 

 

10:15 am

CH

MELISSA KEARNEY, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

PHILLIP LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

Contraceptive Access, Fertility and Sexual Behavior

 

 

 

10:15 am

HE

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

SETH SEABURY, RAND Corporation

 

 

Malpractice Liability and Medical Costs

 

 

 

10:15 am

PESI

BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

 

 

(Joint with WALLACE MOK)

 

 

 

11:00 am

EE

NICHOLAS MUELLER and ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

 

 

Market-Based Regulation of Air Pollution with Spatially-Variant Marginal Damages

 

 

 

11:10 am

AW

Michael Hurd, RAND and NBER

 

 

James Smith and Julie Zisimopoulos, RAND

 

 

Inter-vivos Giving over the Lifecycle

 

 

 

11:10 am

PESI

JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Education, Disability, and the Prevalence of Pain

 

 

(Joint with STEVEN ATLAS)

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

DAVID LEE, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

11:30 am

CH

DAVID WEINER, New York City Department of Education

 

 

BYRON LUTZ, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

JENS LUDWIG, Georgetown University and NBER

 

 

The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime

 

 

 

11:30 am

HE

PIERO CIPOLLONE, Bank of Italy

 

 

DEBORA RADICCHIA, ISFOL

 

 

ALFONSO ROSOLIA, Bank of Italy

 

 

The Effect of Education on Youth Mortality

 

 

 

1:00 pm

AW

Vicki Freeman, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey

 

 

Rucker Johnson, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Jeannette Rogowski, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey

 

 

Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan

 

 

Neighborhoods and the Health of Elderly Americans

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EE

JAMES SALLEE, University of Michigan

 

 

Tax Credits and the Market for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PESI

DAVID CARD, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

The Dynamic Effects of an Earnings Subsidy for Long-Term Welfare Recipients: Evidence from the SSP Applicant Experiment

 

 

(Joint with DEAN HYSLOP)

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

GILLES DURANTON, University of Toronto

 

 

LAURENT GOBILLON, Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques

 

 

HENRY OVERMAN, London School of Economics

 

 

Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

LS

RICHARD HORNBECK, MIT

 

 

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

 

ENRICO MORETTI, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from 'Million Dollar' Plants

 

 

 

1:30 pm

CH

DMYTRO HRYSHKO, University of Alberta

 

 

MARIA JOSE LUENGO-PRADO, Northeastern University

 

 

BENT SORENSEN, University of Houston

 

 

Childhood Determination of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education

 

 

 

1:50 pm

AW

Doug Almond, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Lena Edlund, Columbia University

 

 

Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

 

Long-term Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EE

CHRISTOPHER TIMMINS, Duke University

 

 

THOMAS DELEIRE, Michigan State University

 

 

Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life

 

 

 

2:00

PERE

PATRICK BAYER, Duke University and NBER

 

 

ROBERT MCMILLAN, University of Toronto

 

 

ALVIN MURPHY, Duke University

 

 

CHRISTOPHER TIMMINS, Duke University

 

 

A Dynamic Model of the Housing Market with a New Test for Market Efficiency

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PESI

LUIGI PISTAFERRI, Stanford University

 

 

Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Lifecycle

 

 

(Joint with HAMISH LOW and COSTAS MEGHIR)

 

 

 

 2:30 pm

LS

JEFFREY GROGGER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

Income Maximization and the Sorting of Emigrants across Destinations

 

 

 

2:45 pm

CH

DAN HUNGERMAN, University of Notre Dame and NBER

 

 

Intra-Sibling Effects in Education

 

 

 

3:10 pm

AW

Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

The Impact of Health and Health Care Expenditures on Future Retirement Security

 

 

 

3:10 pm

PESI

DANIEL HUNGERMAN, University of Notre Dame and NBER

 

 

Diversity and Crowd-out:  A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving

 

 

 

3:15

EE

ALEXANDER PFAFF and JUAN ANDRES ROBALINO, Columbia University

 

 

G. ATRURO SANCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, University of Alberta

 

 

Payments for Environmental Services:  Empirical Analysis for Costa Rica

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

MARK ROSENZWEIG, Yale University

 

 

The Determinants of Wages of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PERE

STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, New York University and NBER

 

 

PIERRE-OLIVIER WEILL, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?

 

 

 

4:00 pm

CH

STACEY CHEN, SUNY Albany

 

 

Does College Teach Young Men to Smoke Pot?

 

 

 

4:30 pm

PERE

THOMAS CHANEY, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

DAVID SRAER, CREST-INSEE

 

 

DAVID THESMAR, HEC Paris

 

 

The Corporate Wealth Effect: From Real Estate Shocks to Corporate Investment

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 25:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PERE

LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

ROBERT MARGO, Boston University and NBER

 

 

Going Postal: What Black Employment in the Postal Service Reveals About the Increasing Cost of Racial Segregation, 1940-2000

 

 

 

8:45 am

PESS

JEFFREY R. BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

 

MARCUS CASEY, University of Illinois

 

 

OLIVIA S. MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Who Values the Annuity from Social Security?  New Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

PARAG PATHAK, Harvard University

 

 

Lotteries in Student Assignment

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines in Sri Lanka

 

 

 

10:00 am

PERE

MARIGEE BACOLOD, UC,Irvine

 

 

BERNARDO BLUM and WILLIAM STRANGE, University of Toronto

 

 

Skills in the City

 

 

 

10:00 am

PESS

JOHN AMERIKS, The Vanguard Group

 

 

ANDREW CAPLIN, New York University and NBER

 

 

STEVEN LAUFER, New York University

 

 

STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, New York University and NBER

 

 

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

 

 

 

11:00 am

PERE

EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

GIACOMO PONZETTO, Harvard University

 

 

Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

DOUGLAS HARRIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

 

TIMOTHY SASS, Florida State University

 

 

What Makes a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell?

 

 

 

11:15 am

PESS

JOSEPH T. MARCHAND, University of Alberta

 

 

The Evolution of Private Pensions, Risk-Sharing, and the Variance in Assets

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

KRISTOPHER GERARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

HARVEY ROSEN, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

PAUL WILLEN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

LS

CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

SONALI MURARKA,

 

 

The Effects of New York City's Charter Schools on Student Achievement

 

 

 

1:15 am

PESS

ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment Based Social Security Reform

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PERE

STUART GABRIEL, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

STUART ROSENTHAL, Syracuse University

 

 

Secondary Markets, Risk, and Access to Credit: Evidence from the Mortgage Market

 

 

 

 2:30 pm

LS

LEIGH LINDEN, Columbia University

 

 

MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

FELIPE BARRERA, The World Bank

 

 

FRANCISCO PEREZ, Fedesarrollo

 

 

Designing Incentives for Education in Secondary School: The Bogota Subsidios Program

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PESS

DAVID E. BLOOM, DAVID CANNING, GUNTHER FINK, and

 

 

JOCEYLYN E. FINLAY, Harvard University

 

 

Demographic Change, Institutional Settings, and Labor Supply

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

BRIAN JACOB, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

An Examination of Non-Renewal Policy in the Chicago Public Schools

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PESS

TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

JAE SONG and JOYCE MANCHESTER, Social Security Administration

 

 

Recent Changes in Social Security Disability Rolls and the Employment Effects of Disability Insurance: An Analysis using 25 Years of Longitudinal Administrative Records

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PERE

TOMASZ PISKORSKI, Columbia University

 

 

ALEXEI TCHISTYI, New York University

 

 

Optimal Mortgage Design

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

MARKUS MOBIUS, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

MURIEL NIEDERLE, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

PAUL NIEHAUS, Harvard University

 

 

TANYA ROSENBLATT, Wesleyan University

 

 

Gender Differences in Incorporating Performance Feedback

 

 

 

9:00 am

HC

AMITABH CHANDRA, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:30 am

LE

M. KEITH CHEN, Yale University School of Management

 

 

(Joint with Alan Schwartz, Yale University)

 

 

Intertemporal Choice and Legal Constraints

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University

 

 

Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Field Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

 

 

 

10:05 am

HC

DANA GOLDMAN , RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

JOHN A. ROMLEY, RAND Corporation

 

 

The Cost of Quality in Hospitals:  A Revealed-Preference Approach

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:30 am

LE

OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

 

 

 

10:55 am

HC

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA and NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

 

 

MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance: Preliminary Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program

 

 

 

11:45 am

LE

ANDREW DAUGHETY and JENNIFER REINGANUM, Vanderbilt University

 

 

Products Liability, Signaling, and Disclosure

 

 

 

1:30 pm

LE

PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Scott Schaefer, University of Utah)

 

 

Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms

 

 

 

 1:30 pm

LS

JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

 

STACEY CHEN, SUNY Albany

 

 

Long Term Effects of Vietnam-Era Conscription on Earnings, Disability and Schooling: The Draft Lottery Cohort Turns 50

 

 

 

1:35 pm

PPL

IAN LARKIN, Harvard University

 

 

The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales

 

 

 

2:05 pm

HC

FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

The Effect of Chemotherapy Innovation on Cancer Survival, 1991-2003:  State-level Evidence from the SEER-Medicare Linked Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PPL

RAN ABRAMITZKY, Stanford University

 

 

The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz

 

 

 

2:30 pm

LE

JOSHUA FISCHMAN, Tufts University

 

 

Decision Making Under a Norm of Consensus: An Analysis of Three-Judge Panels

 

 

 

 2:45 pm

LS

JESSE ROTHSTEIN and CECILIA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

 

 

 

3:10 pm

HC

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

 

DAVID RODRIGUEZ, MIT

 

 

How Much Uncompensated Care Do Doctors Provide?

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PPL

MORTEN BENNEDSEN, Copenhagen Business School

 

 

FRANCISCO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, Columbia University

 

 

DANIEL WOLFENZON, New York University and NBER

 

 

Do CEOs Matter?

 

 

 

3:45 pm

LE

BERT HUANG, Harvard University

 

 

Measuring Judicial Discretion

 

 

 

4:30 pm

PPL

"New Ideas; New Data” Group Panel Discussion

 

 

NICK BLOOM and KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University

 

 

ALEXANDRE MAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

JULIE WULF, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

MARIA GUADALUPE, Columbia University

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

 

VALERIE SMEETS, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 

 

FREDERIC WARZYNSKI and NIELS WESTERGARD-NIELSON, Aarhus University

 

 

PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

 4: 00 pm

LS

JAMES HABYARIMANA, Georgetown University

 

 

BEKEZELA MBAKILE, Debswana Diamond Company

 

 

CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

HIV/AIDS, ARV Treatment and Worker Absenteeism: Evidence from a Large African Company

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

 

 

RANDALL CEBUL and MARK VOTRUBA, Case Western Reserve University

 

 

RAY HERSCHMAN, WebMD Health Services

 

 

LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Job Markets, Insurance Markets and Investments in Health

 

 

 

8:45 am

PPL

JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve and NBER

 

 

RANDALL CEBUL and MARK VOTRUBA, Case Western Reserve

 

 

RAY HERSCHMAN, WebMD Health Services

 

 

LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Job Markets, Insurance Markets and Investments in Health

 

 

 

9:00 am

HC

KYNA FONG, Stanford University

 

 

MICHAEL SCHWARZ, Yahoo! Research and NBER

 

 

Toward an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

PENS

DAVID JAEGER, College of William and Mary

 

 

ESTEBAN KLOR, Hebrew University

 

 

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University and NBER

 

 

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds

 

 

 

9:15 am

LE

STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Eminent Domain versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperfect Information about Owners’ Valuations

 

 

 

9:50 am

PENS

ERWANN MICHEL-KERJAN, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

BURKHARD PEDELL, University of Stuttgart

 

 

How Does the Corporate World Cope with Megaterrorism?

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

 

JIALAN WANG, MIT

 

 

JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Superstar Extinction

 

 

 

10:00 am

PPL

PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

 

JIALAN WANG, MIT

 

 

JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Superstar Extinction

 

 

 

10:05 am

HC

LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?  A Test of Direct Price Discrimination

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

LE

RICHARD HOLDEN, MIT

 

 

(Joint with Roland Fryer, Jr., Harvard University and NBER)

 

 

Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans

 

 

 

11:00 am

PENS

ALBERTO ABADIE, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Terrorism and Central Business Districts

 

 

 

11:10 am

HC

RICHARD G. FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

KARINE LAMIRAUD, University of Lausanne

 

 

Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

FEDERICO CIGNANO and ALFONSO ROSOLIA, Bank of Italy

 

 

People I Know: Workplace Networks and Job Search Outcomes

 

 

 

11:15 am

PPL

FEDERICO CINGANO and ALFONSO ROSOLIA, Bank of Italy

 

 

People I Know: Workplace Networks and Job Search Outcomes

 

 

 

11:30 am

LE

ABRAHAM WICKELGREN, Northwestern University

 

 

(Joint with Warren Schwartz, Georgetown University)

 

 

Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Makes Negative  Expected Value Defenses, But Not Negative Expected Value Suits, Credible

 

 

 

11:50 am

PENS

IOANA PETRESCU, Harvard University

 

 

Rethinking the Success of Economic Sanctions

 

 

 

12:00 pm

HC

RICHARD HIRTH, MARC TURENNE, JACK WHEELER, QING PAN, and JOSEPH MESSANA, University of Michigan

 

 

Provider Monitoring and Pay-for-Performance When Multiple Providers Affect Outcomes:  An Application to Renal Dialysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LE

W. BENTLEY MACLEOD, Columbia University

 

 

(Joint with Armin Falk, University of Bonn, and David Huffman, IZA)

 

 

Employment Protection, Bonus Pay, and Labor Market Performance

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

LS

STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

MARK KLEBANOV and MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago

 

 

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PPL

STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

MARK KLEBANOV and MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago

 

 

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PENS

ERIC CHANEY, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Assessing Stabilization Policy in Iraq

 

 

 

2:30

LE

YAIR LISTOKEN, Yale University

 

 

Management Always Wins the Close Ones

 

 

 

2:30 pm

LS

LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

THOMAS HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Hierarchies and Earnings Inequality among U.S. Lawyers, 1977-1992

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PPL

LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

THOMAS HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Hierarchies and Earnings Inequality among U.S. Lawyers, 1977-1992

 

 

 

2:50 pm

PENS

MATTHEW HANSON and MARTIN SCHMIDT, College of William and Mary

 

 

The Impact of Coalition Offensive Operations on the Iraqi Insurgency

 

 

 

3:30 pm

LE

VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School

 

 

(Joint with R. Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Emory University)

 

 

Bankruptcy Codes and Innovation

 

 

 

 3:45 pm

LS

ORIANA BANDIERA, London School of Economics

 

 

IWAN BARANKAY, University of Warwick

 

 

IMRAN RASUL, University College London

 

 

Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks at the Workplace

 

 

 

3:46 pm

PPL

ORIANA BANDIERA, London School of Economics

 

 

IWAN BARANKAY, University of Warwick

 

 

IMRAN RASUL, University College London

 

 

Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks at the Workplace

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PENS

DAN AHN, Harvard University

 

 

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve