MONDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 

8:30 am

LS

Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Are High Quality Schools enough to Close the Achievement Gap?

Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

 

 

 

9:00 am

AGING

John Beshears, Harvard University

 

 

James Choi, Yale University

 

 

David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Why Do Defaults Work?

 

 

 

9:00 am

PENS

Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Eyal Dvir, Boston College

 

 

The Three Epochs of Oil

 

 

 

9:00 am

IPE

David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Where are the Health Care Entrepreneurs?

The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care

 

 

 

9:00 am

ENT

Thomas Hellmann, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Noam Wasserman, Harvard University

 

 

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures  

 

 

 

9:20 am

LS

Damon Clark, Princeton University

 

 

Francisco Martorell, RAND

 

 

The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma

 

 

 

9:40 am

PENS

Jacob Shapiro, Princeton University

 

 

The Roots of Militancy

 

 

 

9:45 am

ENT

Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie, Duke University

 

 

The Worker Age-Firm Age Relation

 

 

 

9:50 am

AGING

Daniel Benjamin, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

Ori Heffetz and Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University

 

 

Miles Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys

 

 

 

9:50 am

IPE

Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University

 

 

Institutional Innovation or Institutional Imitation?

The Impacts of TRIPs on India’s Patent Law and Practice

 

 

 

10:30 am

LS

David Card, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

David Lee, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

Zhuan Pei, Princeton University

 

 

Quasi-Experimental Identification and Estimation in the Regression Kink Design

 

 

 

10:45 am

PENS

Ioana Petrescu, American Enterprise Institute

 

 

The Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions

 

 

 

10:45 am

ENT

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Benjamin Pugsley, University of Chicago

 

 

Nonpecuniary Benefits of Small Business Ownership

 

 

 

11:00 am

IPE

Prithwiraj Choudhury, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Tarun Khanna, Harvard University

 

 

Privatization of Innovation: Evidence from India’s State Owned Laboratories

11:10 am

AGING

Emma Aguila, RAND

 

 

Arie Kapteyn, RAND and NBER

 

 

Experimental Analysis of the Health and Well-Being Effects of a Non-Contributory Social Security Program

 

 

 

11:20 am

LS

Scott Carrell, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

James West, USAFA

 

 

Beware of Economists Bearing Reduced Forms? An Experiment in How Not to Improve Student Outcomes

 

 

 

11:25 am

PENS

Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Claude Berrebi, RAND

 

 

Estaban Klor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Count Suicide Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions

 

 

 

11:30 am

ENT

Christian Fons-Rosen, London School of Economics

 

 

Knowledge Flows Through FDI: the Case of Privatizations in Central and Eastern Europe

 

 

 

11:50 am

IPE

Joshua Gans, Melbourne Business School

 

 

Fiona Murray and Scott Stern, MIT and NBER

 

 

Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication

 

 

 

12:05 pm

PENS

Philipp Bleek, Harvard University

 

 

Economic Integration and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

 

 

 

1:00 pm

AGING

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER

 

 

Iuliana Pascu, MIT

 

Mark Cullen, Stanford University

 

 

How General Are Risk Preferences? Choices under uncertainty in different domains

 

 

 

1:00 pm

HE

Robert Jensen, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

Adriana Lleras-Muney, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

Does Staying in School (and Not Working) Prevent Teen Smoking and Drinking?

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LS

Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann, and Katrien Stevens, University College London

 

 

The Career Cost of Children

 

 

 

1:15 pm

ENT

Brian Broughman and Jesse Fried, Harvard University

 

 

VC Inside Rounds as Rescue Financing: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

1:40 pm

IPE

Patrick Gaule, MIT

 

 

Mario Piacentini, University of Geneva

 

 

Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity

 

 

 

1:50 pm

AGING

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University

 

 

John Shoven, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Sita Slavov, Occidental College

 

 

How Do Long-Run Financial Planning Expectations and Decisions Respond to Short-Run Fluctuations in Financial Markets?

 

 

 

2:05 pm

LS

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo, London School of Economics

 

 

Job Search and Geographic Spillovers: A Very Disaggregate Approach

 

 

 

2:15 pm

HE

Damien de Walque, World Bank

 

 

William Dow, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Rose Nathan, Ifakara Health Institute-Tanzania

 

 

Carol Medlin, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 

 

Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers to Prevent HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STDs) in Tanzania

 

 

 

2:15 pm

ENT

William Kerr and Joshua Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

 

 

The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

 

 

 

2:25 pm

PENS

Eli Berman, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

The Economic Research Program in Afghanistan

 

 

 

2:30 pm

IPE

Ryan Lampe, DePaul University

 

 

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Patent Pools and the Direction of Technical Change: Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

 

 

 

3:00 pm

AGING

Michael Hurd, RAND and NBER

 

 

Susann Rohwedder, RAND

 

 

Consumption Smoothing During the Financial Crisis

 

3:00 pm

ENT

Aaron Chatterji, Duke University

 

Robert Seamans, New York University

 

Credit Cards, Race and Entrepreneurship

 

 

 

3:15 pm

LS

Chao Fu, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admission and Enrollment in the College Market

 

 

 

3:30 pm

HE

Philip DeCicca, McMaster University and NBER

 

 

Donald Kenkel, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

Feng Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

 

 

Excise Tax Avoidance: The Case of State Cigarette Taxes

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PENS

Eli Berman, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

Do Working Men Rebel?

 

 

 

3:35 pm

IPE

Panel: Broadband Competition Policy and Innovation

 

 

Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER (moderator)

 

 

Jonathan Baker, American University

 

 

Scott Wallsten, Stanford University

 

 

Larry White, New York University

 

 

 

3:50 pm

AGING

Courtney Coile and Phillip Levine, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being

 

 

 

4:05 pm

LS

Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

David Green and Benjamin Sand, University of British Columbia

 

 

How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation

 

 

 

4:10 pm

PENS

Radha Iyengar, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

Patrick Buckley, U.S. Military Academy

 

 

Economic Conditions in Afghanistan


 

TUESDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 

8:30 am

LS/PETSI

Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Nate Hilger, Harvard University

 

 

Emmanuel Saez, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Danny Yagan, Harvard University

 

 

How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings at Age 30?  Long-Term Impacts of Schooling Interventions

 

 

 

9:00 am

AGING

Lee Lockwood, University of Chicago

 

 

The Importance of Bequest Motives: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and the Pattern of Saving

 

 

 

9:00 am

HE

Rui Huang, University of Connecticut

 

 

Muzhe Yang, Lehigh University

 

 

Buy What is Advertised on Television?  Evidence from Bans on Child-Directed Food Advertising

 

 

 

9:20 am

LS/PETSI

Day Manoli, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

Andrea Weber, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities

 

 

 

9:50 am

AGING

Emily Oster, University of Chicago

 

 

Genetic Adverse Selection in Long Term Care and Life Insurance: Evidence from Huntington Disease

 

 

 

10:15 am

HE

Jason Fletcher, Yale University

 

 

Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut

 

 

Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents

 

10:30 am

LS/PETSI

Johannes Schmieder and Till von Wachter, Columbia University

 

 

The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Estimates from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over 20 Years from Germany

 

 

 

11:10 am

AGING

Heidi Williams, Harvard University

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

 

 

 

11:20 am

LS/PETSI

Bryce Millet, University of Chicago

 

 

Emily Oster, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India

 

 

 

11:30 am

HE

Seth Richards, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Social Norms and Partner Supply

 

 

 

1:00 pm

AGING

David Cutler and Ellen Meara, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Seth Richards, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Healthy Life Expectancy: Estimates and Implications for Retirement Age Policy

 

 

 

1:30 pm

LS

Nicola Lacetera and Justin Sydnor, Case Western Reserve University

 

 

Devin Pope, University of Chicago

 

 

Inattention in the Used Car Market

 

 

 

1:30 pm

PETSI

Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics

 

 

Camille Landais, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Emmanuel Saez, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Taxation And International Mobility Of Superstars: Evidence from the  European Football Market

1:50 pm

AGING

Thomas Davidoff, University of British Columbia

 

 

Financing Retirement with Stochastic Mortality and Endogenous Sale of a Home

 

 

 

2:20 pm

LS

Ilyana Kuziemko and Taly Reich, Princeton University

 

 

Ryan Buell and Michael Norton, Harvard University

 

 

Last-Place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications

 

 

 

2:45 pm

PETSI

Matthew Harding, Stanford University

 

 

Ephraim Leibtag, U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

 

Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University

 

 

The Heterogeneous Geographic and Socioeconomic Incidence of Cigarette Taxes: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan Data

 

 

 

3:00 pm

AGING

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

 

 

Consumption and Income of the Poor Elderly Since 1960

 

 

 

3:30 pm

LS

John Beshears, Stanford University

 

 

James Choi, Yale University

 

 

David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Why Do Defaults Work?

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PETSI

Marika Cabral, Stanford University

 

 

Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

The Hated Property Tax: Tax Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts

 

 

 

3:50 pm

AGING

Paul Bingley, Danish National Centre for Social Research

 

 

Peder Pedersen, IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor

 

 

Pension Reform, Early Retirement and Health and Mortality after 30 Years

 

 

 

4:20 pm

LS

Dean Karlan, Yale University

 

 

Margaret McConnell, Harvard University

 

 

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

 

 

Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PERE

Andrew Haughwout and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

Second Chances: Subprime Mortgage Modification and Re-Default

 

8:30 am

LE

Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER

 

(Joint with Daniel Carvell, Columbia University, and Janet Currie, Columbia

 

University and NBER)

 

Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability

 

9:00 am

LS/ED

Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College

 

 

Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation

 

 

 

9:00 am

AGING

John Campbell and Luis Viceira, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Adi Sunderam, Harvard University

 

 

Inflation Bets of Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

 

 

 


 

9:00 am

IPPI

Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig Maximilians University

 

 

Georg Von Graevenitz, Ludwig Maximilians University

 

 

Stefan Wagner, Ludwig Maximilians University

 

 

Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

 

 

 

9:25 am

LE

Marianne Bertrand, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago,

 

 

and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Adair Morse, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)

 

 

Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing

 

 

 

9:50 am

AGING

Till von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Jae Song, Social Security Administration

 

 

The Effects of Layoffs and Local Unemployment on the Incidence of Disability Applications and Labor Force Participation

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS/ED

Rashmi Barua, Singapore Management University

 

 

Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

 

 

School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

 

 

10:00 am

PERE

David Albouy, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Nathan Seegert, University of Michigan

 

 

Optimal City Size and the Private-Social Wedge

 

 

10:00 am

IPPI

John Allison, University of Texas

 

 

Mark Lemley, Stanford University

 

 

Joshua Walker, LexMachina Inc.

 

 

Patent Quality and Risk Aversion among Repeat Patent Litigants

 

 

10:35 am

LE

Marco Ottaviani, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern

 

 

University

 

 

(Joint with Roman Inderst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and Imperial College London)

 

 

How (Not) to Pay for Advice

 

 

10:55 am

AGING

Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics

 

 

David Blau, Ohio State University

 

 

Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age

 

11:00 am

PERE

Kristian Behrens, University of Quebec

 

Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto

 

Frederic Robert-Nicoud, Université de Genève

 

Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection and Agglomeration

 

11:15 am

LS/ED

Giacomo de Giorgi, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Michele Pellizzari, Bocconi University

 

 

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

 

 

 

11:30 am

LE

Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

 

 

(Joint with Victor Stango, UC-Davis and NBER)

 

 

Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Penalty Fees

 

 

 


 

11:30 am

IPPI

Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne

 

 

Negotiating for the Market

 

 

 

12:40 pm

AGING

Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Nathaniel Hilger and Danny Yagan, Harvard University

 

 

Emmanuel Saez, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

The Effect of Income on Mortality

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

 

 

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics

 

1:15 pm

ED

Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

Stephen Dimmoc, Michigan State University

 

Jun-Koo Kang, Nanyang Technological University

 

Scott Weisbenner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations

 

1:15 pm

LE

Asaf Zussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

(Joint with Moses Shayo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism

 

1:30 pm

LS

Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens, Harvard University

 

 

A General Theory of Matching Estimation

 

 

 

1:30 pm

AGING

Nicole Maestas, RAND

 

 

Na Yin, CUNY Baruch College

 

 

The Labor Supply Effects of Disability Insurance Work Disincentives: Evidence from the Automatic Conversion to Retirement Benefits at Full Retirement Age

 

 

 

1:30 pm

IPPI

Matt Marx, MIT

 

 

Jasjit Singh, INSEAD

 

 

Lee Fleming, Harvard University

 

 

Regional Disadvantage?  Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PERE

Jack Favilukis, London School of Economics

 

 

Sydney Ludvigson and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University and NBER

 

 

Macroeconomic Implications of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium

 

 

 

2:10 pm

LE

Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School and NBER

 

 

On the Optimal Burden of Proof

 

 

 

2:15 pm

ED

Thomas Kane, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Eric Taylor, Harvard University

 

 

Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

 

 

 

2:20 pm

LS

Sergio Firpo, São Paulo School of Economics

 

 

Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia

 

 

Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure

 

 

 


 

2:35 pm

AGING

Stuart Adam, Antoine Bozio, and Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

 

Reforming Incapacity Benefits in the UK: The Evaluation of the Pathways to Work Programme

 

 

 

3:00 pm

IPPE

Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER

 

 

Sharon Belenzon, Duke University

 

 

Luis Rios, Duke University

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights, Organization, and Firm Performance

 

 

 

3:15 pm

PERE

Shing-Yi Wang, New York University

 

 

State Misallocation and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from China

 

3:15 pm

ED

Christopher Avery, Harvard University and NBER

 

Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Missing “One-Offs”. The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students

 

3:20 pm

LE

Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University

 

A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement

 

 

 

3:25 pm

LS

Patrick Kline, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Andres Santos, UC, San Diego

 

 

Interval Estimation of Potentially Misspecified Quantile Models in the Presence of Missing Data

 

 

 

3:25 pm

AGING

Perry Singleton II, Syracuse University

 

The Effective Target of the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984

 

 

 

4:30 pm

MFL

Second Annual Martin Feldstein Lecture

 

 

Roger Ferguson, TIAA-CREF

 

 

The Challenges of Delivering Retirement Income Security in the 21st Century

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

 

8:30 am

EEE

Corbett Grainger, UC, Santa Barbara

 

 

Christopher Costello, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER

 

 

The Value of Secure Property Rights: Global Evidence from Fisheries

 

 

 

8:30 am

LS/CH

Jesse Rothstein, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Nathan Wozny, Princeton University

 

 

Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

 

 

 

8:30 am

LE

Irma Clots-Figueras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 

 

(Joint with Paolo Masella, University of Mannheim)

 

 

The Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Parental Integration Outcomes

 

 

 

9:00 am

AGING/HC

Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER

 

 

Qian Gu, University of Southern California

 

 

Pharmaceutical Advertising and Medicare Part D

 

 

 

9:20 am

LS/CH

Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

The Impact of Rosenwald Schools On Black Achievement

 

 

 

9:25 am

LE

Edward Morrison, Columbia Law School

 

 

(Joint with Christopher Mayer, Columbia Business School and NBER; Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia Business School; and Arpit Gupta, Columbia Law School)

 

 

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

 

 

 

9:30 am

EEE

Lee J. Alston, University of Colorado and NBER

 

 

Bernardo Mueller, Universidade de Brasília

 

 

Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil

 

 

 

10:00 am

AGING/HC

Susan Busch, Yale University

 

 

Ezra Golberstein, Harvard University

 

 

Ellen Meara, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Academic Achievement

 

 

 

10:30 am

LS/CH

Kristiina Huttunen, Labour Institute for Economic Research

 

 

Jenni Kellokumpu, University of Jyväskylä

 

 

The Effect of Job Displacement on Couple's Fertility Decisions

 

 

 

10:35 am

LE

Michelle J. White, UC-San Diego and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Wenli Li, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Ning Zhu, UC-Davis)

 

 

Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Defaults to Rise?

 

 

 

11:00 am

EEE

Hunt Allcott, MIT

 

 

Nathan Wozny, Princeton University

 

 

Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox

 

 

 

11:20 am

LS/CH

Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame

 

 

Are Adults in Demand When Children Leave the Land? Evidence from Rural Mexico

 

 

 

11:30 am

AGING/HC

Laurence Baker, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Physician Acquisition of MRI, Use of MRI, and an Estimate of the Effects of MRI Procedures on Spending

 

 

 

11:30 am

LE

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto

 

 

Everybody Stay Cool, This Is a Robbery

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EEE

Research Sketches

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PPL

Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Tournaments in Education

 

 

 

1:10 pm

CH

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER

 

 

Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Child Endowments, Parental Investments and the Development of Human Capital

 

 

 

1:15 pm

LE

Camelia Kuhnen, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

 

 

(Joint with Alexandra Niessen, University of Mannheim)

 

 

Is Executive Compensation Shaped by Public Attitudes?

 

 

 

1:30 pm

LS

Deepti Goel, University of Delhi

 

 

Kevin Lang, Boston University

 

 

Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

 

 

 

1:30 pm

AGING/HC

Erin Johnson, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Ability, Learning and the Career Path of Cardiac Specialists

 

 

 

2:00 pm

CH

Adriana Lleras-Muney, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

Silvia Barcellos and Leandro Carvalho, RAND

 

 

Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?


 

2:10 pm

LE

Alex Edmans, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

(Joint with Xavier Gabaix, Stern School, New York University, and NBER)

 

 

The Effect of Risk on the CEO Market

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PPL

Lisa Kahn, Harvard University

 

 

Fabian Lange, Yale University

 

 

Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution

 

 

 

2:20 pm

LS

Tara Watson, Williams College and NBER

 

 

Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation

 

 

 

2:30 pm

AGING/HC

Stephen T. Parent, University of Minnesota

 

 

Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

The Impact of Retail Clinics on cost, Utilization and Welfare

 

 

 

2:30 pm

EEE

Martin Weitzman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages

 

 

 

3:10 pm

CH

Yuyu Chen, Peking University

 

 

Avi Ebenstein, Hebrew University

 

 

Lena Edlund, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University

 

 

The Mistreated Girls of China

 

 

 

3:20 pm

LE

Samuel Lee, Stern School, New York University

 

 

(Joint with Petra Persson, Columbia University)

 

 

Authority Versus Loyalty: Social Incentives and Modes of Governance

 

 

 

3.30 pm

LS

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto

 

 

Paolo Pinotti, Bank of Italy

 

 

Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PPL

Kristina Steffenson Mcelheran, Harvard University

 

 

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EEE

Charles Mason, University of Wyoming

 

 

Andrew Plantinga, University of Oregon

 

 

The Additionality Problem with Offsets

 

 

 

4:00 pm

CH

Mario Fiorini, University of Technology Sydney

 

 

Michael Keane, Yale University

 

 

How the Allocation of Children's Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development

 

 

 

4:00 pm

AGING/HC

Jason Brown, Department of the Treasury

 

 

Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

William Woolston, Stanford University

 

 

Cost and Selection in Private Medicare Advantage Plans: Evidence from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

 

 

 

4:15 pm

LE

Yuhai Xuan, Harvard Business School

 

 

(Joint with Chen Lin, City University of Hong Kong; Yue Ma, Lingnan

 

 

University, Hong Kong; and Paul Malatesta, University of Washington)

 

 

Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing

 

 

 


 

4:20 pm

LS

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, Cornell University

 

 

Kerry Papps, Oxford University

 

 

Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 30:

 

 

8:30 am

EEE

Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Seyed Ali Madanizadeh, University of Chicago

 

Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER

 

The Distributional Effects of Retail Competition: Evidence from the Texas Retail Electricity Market

 

8:30 am

CRI

William Brock, Jane Cooley, Steven Durlauf, and Salvador Navarro, University of Wisconsin

 

On the Observational Implications of Taste-Based Discrimination in Racial Profiling

 

8:30 am

LS/PPL

Dirk Jenter, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth College

 

 

Performance Induced CEO Turnover

 

 

 

9:00 am

AGING/HC

Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

 

Carol Propper, University of Bristol

 

 

Rodrigo Moreno. Imperial College

 

 

Death by Market Power Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

 

 

 

9:30 am

EEE

Meghan Busse and Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Christopher R. Knittel, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

Pain at the Pump: The Differential Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets

 

9:45 am

CRI

David Deming, Harvard University

 

Better Schools, Less Crime?

 

9:45 am

LS/PPL

Luca Flabbi, Georgetown University

 

 

Mario Macis, University of Michigan

 

 

Fabiano Schivardi, University of Cagliari

 

 

The Impact of Women CEOs on Firm Performance

 

 

 

10:00 am

AGING/HC

Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

 

 

The Impact of an Individual Health Insurance Mandate on Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts

 

 

 

11:00 am

EEE

Koichiro Ito, UC, Berkeley

 

 

How Do Consumers Respond to Nonlinear Pricing? Evidence from Household Electricity Demand

 

 

 

11:00 am

CRI

Stephen Machin, University College London

 

 

Olivier Marie, Maastricht University

 

 

Suncic Vijic, London School of Economics

 

 

The Crime Reducing Effects of Education

 

 

 

11:00 am

LS/PPL

Ian Larkin, Harvard University

 

 

Stephen Leider, University of Michigan

 

 

Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes?


 

11:30 am

AGING/HC

Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona and NBER

 

 

Claudio Lucarelli, Cornell University

 

 

Philip Schmidt-Dengler, London School of Economics

 

 

Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EEE (A)

James S. Holladay, New York University

 

 

Environmental Regulation and Plant Location Decisions

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EEE (B)

Meredith Fowlie, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Allocating Emissions Permits in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

1:00 pm

CRI

James Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Lena Malofeeva, University of Arizona

 

 

Rodrigo Pinto, University of Chicago

 

 

Peter Savelyev, University of Chicago

 

 

Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PPL

Erling Barth, University of Oslo

 

 

Alex Bryson, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

 

 

James Davis, Census Bureau

 

 

Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

The Dynamics of Workplace Wage Inequality in the US

 

 

 

1:30 pm

AGING/HC

Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?

 

 

Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PPL

Catherine Thomas, Columbia University

 

 

Information and Labor Market Intermediaries: An Application to Online Search and Hiring

 

 

 

2:00 pm

CRI

Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Ralf Loeber, University of Chicago

 

 

Magda Loeber, University of Chicago

 

 

Donald Lynam, University of Kentucky

 

 

Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University

 

 

Avshalom Caspi, Duke University

 

 

Terri Moffit, Duke University

 

 

Nice Guys Finish First: The Roles of Intelligence and Personality in Determining Success in Early Adulthood

 

 

 

2:15 pm

EEE (A)

David Herberich, University of Chicago

 

 

John List, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Michael Price, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

 

How Many Economists does it take to Change a Light Bulb: A Natural Field Experiment on Technology Adoption

 

 

 

2:15 pm

EEE (B)

Ralf Martin, London School of Economics

 

 

Ulrich Wagner, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 

 

The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business: Evidence from Microdata

 

 

 

2:30 pm

AGING/HC

Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER

 

 

Matthew Notowidigdo, MIT

 

 

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

 

 

 

3:15 pm

PPL

Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Casey Ichniowski, Columbia University and NBER

 

Panel on Handbook Chapters

 

3:30 pm

EEE (A)

Emanuele Massetti, FEEM

 

Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University

 

Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

 

3:30 pm

EEE (B)

Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois

 

Yazhen Gong and Shun Wang, University of British Columbia

 

Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Governance of Common Pool Resources

 

3:30 pm

CRI

Charles Loeffler, Harvard University

 

The Effects of Imprisonment on Labor Market Participation

 

3:45 pm

PPL

James Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

 

Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

 

4:15 pm

PPL

Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER

 

Scott Schaeffer, University of Utah

 

Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives

 

4:30 pm

CRI

David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania

 

Building Criminal Capital versus Specific Deterrence: The Effect of Incarceration Length on Recidivism

 

SATURDAY, JULY 31:

 

8:30 am

CRI

Jerome Adda, European University Institute

 

Brendon McConnell, University College London

 

Imran Rasul, University College London

 

Crime and the Decriminalization of Cannabis: Evidence from a Localized Policing Experiment

 

9:45 am

CRI

Thomas Loughran, University of South Florida

 

Greg Pogarsky, SUNY Albany

 

Alex Piguero, Florida State University

 

Raymond Paternoster, University of Maryland

 

Re-assessing the Certainty Effect in Deterrence Theory Using Insights form Prospect Theory

 

 

11:00 am

CRI

Shamena Anwar, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER

 

Randi Hjalmarsson, Queen Mary, University of London

 

Discrimination in Jury Trials