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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

LABOR STUDIES PROGRAM MEETING

David Card, Organizer

 

April 2, 2010

 

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Central Conference Room 4th Floor

101 Market Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 2:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

CATHERINE WEINBERGER, UC, Santa Barbara

 

The Increasing Complementarity Between Cognitive and Social Skills

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

MICHAEL LOVENHEIM, Cornell University

 

KEVIN MUMFORD, Pudue University

 

Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market Boom and Bust

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

ALEXANDER GELBER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

JOSHUA MITCHELL, Harvard University

 

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women  

 

 

12:30 am

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

RUCKER JOHNSON, UC, Berkeley

 

Long Run Impact of School Desegregation and School Quality on Adult Health

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

NICHOLAS BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public

Hospitals

 

(Joint with Carol Propper, Stephen Seiler, and John Van Reenen)

 

 

3:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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