NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

 Labor Studies Workshop

 

 Richard Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

August 2 - 6, 2004

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY AUGUST 2:

 

 

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

CHANGES IN THE WAGE STRUCTURE AND INEQUALITY

 

 

 

 

 8:45 a.m.

JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

 

VICTOR CHERNOZHUKOV and IVÁN FERNÁDEZ-VAL, MIT

 

 

Quanitle Regression under Misspecification,

 

 

with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure

 

 

 

 

 9:45 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

10:00 a.m.

DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

 

 

LAWRENCE KATZ, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

MELISSA KEARNEY, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

 

 

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 a.m.

NICOLE FORTIN, University of British Columbia

 

 

Decelerating Wage Inequality and Higher Education:

 

 

Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s

 

 

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 1:15 a.m.

BRUCE MEYER, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

JAMES X. SULLIVAN, University of Notre Dame

 

 

Trends in Consumption and Income of Poor Families

 

 

 

 

 2:15 p.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

AIMEE CHIN, University of Houston

 

 

CHINHUI JUHN, University of Houston and NBER

 

 

PETER THOMPSON, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second

 

 

Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine

 

 

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

LEX BORGHANS and BAS TER WEEL, Maastricht University

 

 

BRUCE WEINBERG, Ohio State University

 

 

People People

 

 

 

 

 4:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY AUGUST 3:

 

 

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

RACE, GENDER, AND THE LABOR MARKET

 

 

 

 

 8:45 a.m.

JUDITH HELLERSTEIN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

DAVID NEUMARK, Public Policy Institute of California and NBER

 

 

Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity and Skill

 

 

 

 

 9:45 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

10:00 a.m.

DAVID AUTOR, MIT AND NBER

 

 

DAVID SCARBOROUGH, Unicru, Inc.

 

 

Will Job Testing Harm Minority Applicants?

 

 

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 a.m.

JUSTIN WOLFERS, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Do Financial Markets Discriminate?

 

 

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

 

ECONOMICS OF CRIME AND DRUGS

 

 

 

 

 1:15 p.m.

ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

STEVEN LEVITT and KEVIN M. MURPHY, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

PAUL HEATON, University of Chicago

 

 

Understanding the Prevalence and Impact of Crack Cocaine

 

 

 

 

 2:15 p.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

LARS LEFGREN, Brigham Young University

 

 

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks

 

 

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

DAVID S. LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

JUSTIN McCRARY, University of Michigan

 

 

The Deterrence Effect of Criminal Sanctions

 

 

 

 

 4:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4:

 

 

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

LIFE-CYCLE EARNINGS MODELS

 

 

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

STEVEN HAIDER, Michigan State University

 

 

GARY SOLON, University of Michigan

 

 

Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and

 

 

Lifetime Earnings

 

 

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

10:15 a.m.  

FATIH GUVENEN, University of Rochester

 

 

Learning Your Earning: Are Labor Income Shocks Really Very Persistent?

 

 

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH CHILDREN

 

 

 

 

11:30 a.m.

ELIZABETH OLTMANS ANANAT, MIT

 

 

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

 

PHILIP LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Abortion Legalization and Adult Outcomes: The "Marginal Child" at Age 30

 

 

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

MELISSA KEARNEY, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

The Welfare-to-Disability Shift: Are the Poor Better Off?

 

 

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto and NBER

 

 

KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

How Does Job-Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers’ Employment

 

 

and Infant Health?

 

 

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

KATHLEEN BEEGLE, The World Bank

 

 

RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

ROBERTA GATTI, The World Bank

 

 

The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

 

 

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5:

 

 

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH EDUCATION

 

 

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

What Happens When We Randomly Assign Children to Families?

 

 

A Study of Korean-American Adoptees

 

 

 

 

10:00 a.m.

ERIC HANUSHEK, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

DANIEL O’BRIEN, University of Texas at Dallas

 

 

STEVEN RIVKIN, Amherst College and NBER

 

 

The Market for Teacher Quality

 

 

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

11:30 a.m.

DAVID EVANS, Harvard University

 

 

EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis

 

 

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

DANIEL HAMERMESH, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

 

STEPHEN DONALD, University of Texas at Austin

 

 

The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings: Accounting for

 

 

Non-ignorable Non-response Bias

 

 

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

STEPHEN MACHIN, University College London

 

 

SANDRA MCNALLY, London School of Economics

 

 

The Literacy Hour

 

 

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

CHRISTOPHER TABER, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

The Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students

 

 

through Cream Skimming 

 

 

 

 

 5:00 p.m..

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6:

 

 

 

 

 8:00 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH PERSONNEL ECONOMICS

 

 

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction, EDWARD P. LAZEAR

 

 

 

 

 8:45 a.m.

ANN BARTEL, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

CASEY ICHNIOWSKI, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

The Strategic Investment in Information Technologies and New Human Resource Practices and Their Effects on Productivity: An "Insider" Econometric Analysis

 

 

 

 

 9:30 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

 9:45 a.m.

JED DeVARO, Cornell University

 

 

Why Are Promotions Less Likely in Nonprofit Firms?

 

 

 

 

10:30 a.m.

MICHAEL WALDMAN, Cornell University

 

 

SUMAN GHOSH, Florida Atlantic University

 

 

Standard Promotion Practices Versus Up-or-Out Contracts

 

 

 

 

11:15 a.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

11:45 a.m.

CANICE PENDERGAST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

The Motivation and Bias of Bureaucrats

 

 

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

MORRIS KLEINER, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

Regulating Occupations:

 

The Impact of Licensing on Earnings

 

 

 

 

 2:15 p.m.

ULRIKE MALMENDIER, Stanford University

 

 

CEO Superstars

 

 

 

 

 2:45 p.m.

Break

 

 

 

 

 3:15 p.m.

MICHAEL GIBBS, University of Chicago

 

 

CINDY ZHGHI, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

 

 

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

ILLOONG KWON, University of Michigan

 

 

EVA MEYERSSON MILGROM, Stanford University

 

 

Cohort Effects and Catch-Ups in Wages and Promotions

 

 

 

 

 4:45 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/12/04