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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

Labor Studies Workshop

David Card, Organizer

July 23 - 27, 2012

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 23:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston
9:20 am	Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Roland Rathelot, CREST (with Bruno Crepon, Marc Gurgandx and Philippe Zamora) Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER (with Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The Effects of Quasi-experimental Variation in Small Business Lending on Local Economic Activity
11:20 am	Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER (with Paul Beaudry and Mark Doms) Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER (with Greg Duncan, Lisa Gennetian, Lawrence Katz, and Ronald Kessler) Neighborhood Effects on the Long Term Well Being of Low Income Adults: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
2:05pm	David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER (with David Dorn, Jae Song, and Gordon Hansen) Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
2:55pm	Break
3:15pm	Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University (with Surendrakumar Bagde, Indian Ministry of Finance and Dennis Epple, CMU) Dismantling the Legacy of Caste: Affirmative Action in Indian Higher Education
4:05pm	Break
4:15pm	Mini Symposium on Journals and the Publication Process (1) Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER (with Emmanuel Saez and Laszlo Sandor) What Policies Motivate Pro-Social Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics (2) Jonathan Brogaard, University of Washington (with Joseph Engleberg and Christopher Parsons) Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations (3) Stefano DellaVigna, University of California Berkeley How Do Authors Respond to Page Limits? Evidence from the AER Panel Discussion with David Autor (JEP), (Pinelope Goldberg (AER), Hilary Hoynes (AER) and Lawrence Katz (QJE).
5:50 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday July 24: (Morning joint with Public Economics)
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Alexander M. Gelber, University of Pennsylvania Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER Daniel W. Sacks, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Individual Earnings Adjustment to Policy: Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test
9:20 am	Kory Kroft, Yale University Fabian Lange, Yale University Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University The Effect of Patient Cost-sharing on Utilization, Health and Risk Protection: Evidence from Japan
11.20 am	Nicola Lacetera - University of Toronto Mario Macis, Johns Hopkins Universtity Robert Slonim, University of Sydney Short-Term, Long-Term, Social and Spatial Effects of Incentives for Pro-social Behavior: Micro Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
12:10 pm	Lunch
	Labor Studies Workshop continues
1:15 pm	Fatih Guvenen. University of Minnesota and NBER (with Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song) The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
2:05 pm	Christian Dustmann, University College London (with Thomas Cornelissen and Uta Schoenberg)
	Peer Effects in the Workplace
2:55 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Ian Schmutte, University of Georgia Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets
4:05 pm	David Card, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Joerg Heining, Institut fur Abreitsmarkt und Berufsforschung Patrick M. Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of German Wage Inequality
4:55 pm	Panel Discussion: Accessing and Using Administrative Records for Labor Market Research Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER, The Transformative Potential of Administrative Data for Microeconometric Research John Abowd, Cornell University and LEHD Stefan Bender, IAB Germany
5:45 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday July 25 (Morning joint with Economics of Education; Afternoon Joint with Personnel)
9:00 am	Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER Scott E. Carrell, University of California at Davis and NBER Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching in New Hampshire
10:00 am	Scott A. Imberman, University of Houston and NBER Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Iftikhar Hussain, CEP-LSE; University of Sussex Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence From School Inspections
12:15 pm	Lunch
	Joint Session with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm	Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER James Liang, Stanford University John Roberts, Stanford University Zhichun (Jenny) Ying, Stanford University Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
2:15 pm	Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Ghazala Azmat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Rosa Ferrer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
4:30 pm	Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota General Training and Market Thinness: An Empirical Test of the Skill-weights Theory of Human Capital
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thursday, July 26 (joint meeting with Children)
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Junko Onishi, The World Bank Susan Wong, The World Bank Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence From a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
9:20 am	Orazio Attanasio, University College London and NBER Emla Fitzsimons, Institute for Fiscal Studies Sally Grantham-McGregor, Professor, Institute of Child Health Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER Marta Rubio-Codina, Center for the Evaluation of Development Policies - IFS The Effects of Psychosocial Stimulation and Nutritional Supplementation on Child Development: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Colombia
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Marianne Bitler, University of California at Irvine and NBER Thurston Domina, University of California at Irvine Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California at Davis and NBER Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start
11:20 am	Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER Laura R. Wherry, University of Chicago Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Gordon Dahl, University of California at San Diego Katrine Loken, University of Bergen Magne Mogstad, University College London Social Interaction Effects in Program Take-up: Regression Discontinuity Evidence for Parental Leave
2:05 pm	Tom Vogl, Princeton University and NBER Family Size and Investment in Children over the Fertility Transition
2:55 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Manisha Shah, University of California at Irvine and NBER Bryce Millett, Harvard University Could Droughts Improve Human Capital? Evidence from India
4:05 pm	Ester Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 27 (Morning joint with Crime)
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Steven Raphael, University of California at Berkeley Prison and Crime: The Case of California Realignment
9:50 am	Aaron Chalfin, University of California at Berkeley Justin McCrary, University of California at Berkeley and NBER The Effect of Police on Crime: New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia Sonja Starr, University of Michigan Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences
11:50 am	Sara Heller, University of Chicago Harold Pollack, University of Chicago Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago Improving Social-Cognitive Skills Among Youth
12:40 pm	Lunch