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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Card, Organizer

October 29, 2010

NBER
3^rd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 28, 2010
6:30 pm	Legal Sea Foods 5 Cambridge Center (Kendall Square) Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 29, 2010
7:45 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
8:00 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER Hilary Hoynes, UC, Davis and NBER The Insurance Value of State Tax and Transfer Programs
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Joshua Kinsler, University of Rochester College Quality, Educational Attainment and Family Income
10:20 am	Break
10:45 am	Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER The Contribution of Dispersion across Plants to the Increase in US Earning Dispersion
11:45 am	David Autor and Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER Skills Tasks and Technology: Implication for Employment and Earnings
12:35 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Brigham Frandsen, MIT Union Wage Setting and the Distribution of EmployeeEarnings: Evidence from Certification Elections
2:30 pm	Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER Does Increasing Mother’s Schooling Reduce Fertility and Increase Children’s Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Arabs in Israel
3:30 pm	Adjourn
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