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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Card, Organizer

October 28, 2011

NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 27, 2011
7:00 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 28, 2011
7:45 am 8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Michael Greenstone, MIT and NBER Joseph Shapiro, MIT Defending Against Environmental Insults: Drugs, Emergencies, Deaths, and the NOx Emission Markets
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Janice Compton, University of Manitoba Robert Pollak, Washington University in St Louis and NBER Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women’s Labor Force Attachment
10:30 am	Joseph Altonji, Yale University and NBER Richard Mansfield, Cornell University The Contribution of Family, School and Community Characteristics to Inequality in Education and Labor Market Outcomes
11:20 am	Break
11:30 am	Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER Barbara Petrongolo, London School of Economics Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens, Harvard University and NBER Fanyin Zheng, Harvard University Robust Inference for Misspecified Models Conditional on Covariates
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Melissa Schettini Kearney, University of Maryland and NBER Phillip Levine, Wellesley College and NBER Early Non-Marital Childbearing and the “Culture of Despair”
3:30 pm	Adjourn
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