NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Cohort Studies Meeting

 

Dora Costa, Organizer

 

April 11, 2008

 

UCLA

Faculty Center

Redwood Room

Los Angeles, California

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 10:

 

6:00 pm           Dinner

Yamato Restaurant, Westwood

1099 Westwood Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 11:

 

8:30 am         Welcome and Introductions

 

8:35 am         Eric Gould, Hebrew University

Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER

Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER

Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

 

9:30 am         Louis Cain, Loyola University

Sok Chul Hong, University of Chicago

Survival in 19th Century Cities: The Larger the City, the Smaller Your Chances

 

10:25 am       Break

 

10:45 am       Robert Pollak, Washington University and NBER

Janice Compton, University of Manitoba

                        Intergenerational Transfers and the Proximity of Adult Children to their Parents

 

11:40 am       Lunch

 

1:00 pm        Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and NBER

Claudia Olivetti, Boston University

                        Gender Roles and Technological Progress

 

1:55 pm        Valerie Ramey, UC, San Diego and NBER

Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data

 

2:50 pm        Break

 

3:10 pm        Raquel Fernandez, New York University and NBER

Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

 

4:05 pm        Ulrike Malmendier, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Stefan Nagel, Stanford University and NBER

                       Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?

 

5:00 pm        Adjourn

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

3/26/08