NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz, Organizers

October 31, 2008

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30:

6:30 pm Dinner

Dante Restaurant

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31:

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 JESSE ROTHSTEIN, Princeton University and NBER

STEPHANIE CELLINI, George Washington University

FERNANDO FERREIRA, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

9:45 am Break

10:00 am AMALIA MILLER, University of Virginia

CARMIT SEGAL, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black and Female Employment in Law Enforcement

11:00 am Break

11:15 am WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

WILLIAM LINCOLN, University of Michigan

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

12:15 pm Lunch

1:00 pm MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER

ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER

The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

2:00 pm Break

2::15 pm DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER

AMANDA KOWALSKI, MIT

HEIDI WILLIAMS, Harvard University

Estimating the Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER

MARK STABILE, University of Toronto

PHONGSACK MANIVONG and LESLIE L. ROOS, University of Manitoba

Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

4:30 pm Adjourn

10/30/08