NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

Labor Studies Workshop

David Card, Organizer

July 26 - 30, 2010

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 26:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
	Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials
9:20 am	Damon Clark, Princeton University
	Francisco Martorell, RAND
	The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	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
11:20 am	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
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann, and Katrien Stevens, University College London
	The Career Cost of Children
2:05 pm	Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo, London School of Economics
	How local are labor markets? Evidence from Disaggregated Matching Functions
2:55 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Chao Fu, University of Pennsylvania
	Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admission and Enrollment in the College Market
4:05 pm	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
4:55 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 27:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH PUBLIC ECONOMICS
8:30 am	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? Evidence from Project STAR
9:20 am	Day Manoli, UC, Los Angeles
	Andrea Weber, UC, Berkeley
	Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	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
11:20 am	Bryce Millet, University of Chicago
	Emily Oster, University of Chicago and NBER
	Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Nicola Lacetera and Justin Sydnor, Case Western Reserve University
	Devin Pope, University of Chicago
	Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market
2:20 pm	Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University
	Taly Reich, Stanford University
	Ryan Buell and Michael Norton, Harvard University
	"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications
3:10 pm	Break
3:30 pm	John Beshears, Stanford University
	James Choi, Yale University
	David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER
	Why Do Defaults Work?
4:20 pm	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
5:10 pm	Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:
	MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH EDUCATION
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
	Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation
10:00 am	Rashmi Barua, Singapore Management University
	Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
	School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Giacomo de Giorgi, Stanford University and NBER
	Michele Pellizzari, Bocconi University
	Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens, Harvard University
	A General Theory of Matching Estimation
2:20 pm	Sergio Firpo, São Paulo School of Economics
	Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia
	Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
3:10 pm	Break
3:25 pm	Patrick Kline, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Andres Santos, UC, San Diego
	Interval Estimation of Potentially Misspecified Quantile Models
	in the Presence of Missing Data
4:15 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Clambake - Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 29:
	MORNING SESSION JOINT SESSION WITH CHILDREN
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Jesse Rothstein, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Nathan Wozny, Princeton University
	Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap
9:20 am	Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	The Impact of Rosenwald Schools On Black Achievement
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Kristiina Huttunen, Labour Institute for Economic Research
	Jenni Kellokumpu, University of Jyväskylä
	The Effect of Job Displacement on Couple's Fertility Decisions
11:20 am	Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame
	Are Adults in Demand When Children Leave the Land? Evidence from Rural Mexico
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Deepti Goel, University of Delhi
	Kevin Lang, Boston University
	Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
2:20 pm	Tara Watson, Williams College and NBER
	Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
3:10 pm	Break
3.30 pm	Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto
	Paolo Pinotti, Bank of Italy
	Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
4:20 pm	Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, Cornell University
	Kerry Papps, Oxford University
	Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000
5:10 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 30:
	JOINT SESSION WITH PERSONNEL ECONOMICS
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Dirk Jenter, Stanford University and NBER
	Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth College
	Performance Induced CEO Turnover
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Luca Flabbi, Georgetown University
	Mario Macis, University of Michigan
	Fabiano Schivardi, University of Cagliari
	The Impact of Women CEOs on Firm Performance
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Ian Larkin, Harvard University
	Stephen Leider, University of Michigan
	Why do firms use non-linear incentive schemes?
12:00 n	Lunch and Adjourn