NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Dora Costa, Organizer
UCLA
Faculty Center
Redwood Room
Los Angeles, California
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 10:
6:00 pm Dinner
Yamato Restaurant, Westwood
1099 Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
FRIDAY, APRIL 11:
8:30 am Welcome and Introductions
8:35 am Eric Gould, Hebrew University
Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER
9:30 am Louis Cain, Loyola University
Sok Chul Hong, University of Chicago
Survival in
19th Century Cities: The Larger the City, the Smaller Your Chances
10:25 am Break
10:45 am Robert
Pollak, Washington University and NBER
Janice Compton, University of Manitoba
Intergenerational Transfers and the Proximity of Adult Children to their
Parents
11:40 am Lunch
1:00 pm Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and
NBER
Gender Roles and Technological Progress
1:55 pm Valerie Ramey, UC, San Diego and NBER
Time Spent
in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data
2:50 pm Break
3:10 pm Raquel Fernandez, New York University and
NBER
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century
4:05 pm Ulrike Malmendier, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Stefan Nagel, Stanford University and NBER
Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic
Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?
5:00 pm Adjourn
3/26/08