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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2013 Labor Studies

David Card, Caroline M. Hoxby, and Amy Finkelstein, Organizers

July 22-26, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 22:


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
Title to be announced


9:20 am


Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
David Cesarini, New York University
Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Robert Östling, Stockholm University
The Effect of Wealth on Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries

10:10 am

Break


10:30 am


David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation
Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation
Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration
Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants


11:20 am


Gordon Dahl, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Andreas Kostol, University of Bergen
Magne Mogstad, University College London
Family Welfare Cultures

12:10 pm

Lunch


1:20 pm


Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathan Hendren, Harvard University and NBER

Patrick Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

The Economic Impacts of Tax Expenditures: Evidence from Spatial Variation Across the U.S.

2:10 pm

Mikael Lindahl, Uppsala University
Mårten Palme, Stockholm School of Economics
Sofia Sandgren, Uppsala University
Anna Sjögren, Uppsala University
Long-term Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: an Empirical Analysis of Four Generations

3:00 pm

Break


3:20 pm


Lisa Kahn, Yale University
Erika McEntarfer, U.S. Census Bureau
Worker Flows over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality


4:10 pm


Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER

Emily Sands, Harvard University
Why the Referential Treatment? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Referrals

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 23:

Morning joint with Public Economics

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Petra Persson, Columbia University
Social Insurance and the Marriage Market


9:20 am


Nate Hilger, Harvard University

How Does Family Income Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Timing of Parental Layoffs


10:10 am

Break


10:30 am


Dayanand Manoli, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Nick Turner, Department of the Treasury
The EITC Goes to College: Evidence Based on Income Tax Data and Policy Nonlinearities

11:20 am

Alex Solis, Uppsala University
Credit Access And College Enrollment


12:10 pm

Lunch

1:20 pm

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

2:10 pm

Nicole Fortin, University of British Columbia
Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto and NBER
Shelley Phipps, Dalhousie University

Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement


3:00 pm

Break

3:20 pm

Tomas Rau, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
David Bravo, Universdad de Chile
Effects of Large-scale Youth Employment Subsidies: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

4:10 pm

Bruno Crepon, Paris School of Economics
Luc. Behaghel, Paris School of Economics

M. Gurgland, Paris School of Economics
Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 24:

Joint morning session with Education


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University
School Choice and Educational Mobility: Lessons from Secondary School Applications in Ghana


10:00 am


David Card, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami
Do Gifted Education Programs Raise (or Lower) Standardized Test Scores?


11:00 am


Break


11:15 am


Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Rochester
Hugh Macartney, Duke University and NBER
Quasi-Experimental Evidence of School Choice through Residential Sorting


12:15 pm


Lunch

 

Afternoon joint with Personnel


1:15 pm


Ross Levine, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Yona Rubinstein, Brown University
Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, The Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Entrepreneurship


2:00 pm


Hyejin Ku, University College London
Fair Trade in the Fields of Florida: The Impact of the Penny-Per-Pound on Tomato Pickers


2:45 pm


John McCormack, University of Bristol
Carol Propper, Imperial College London
Sarah Smith, University of Bristol
Herding Cats? Management and Performance in Universities


3:30 pm


Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
Bradley Larsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Devin Pope, University of Chicago and NBER
Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin
Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes

4:15 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 25:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

Joint Labor and Children’s Session


8:30 am


Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago and NBER
Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Health Capital


9:20 am


Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Yona Rubinstein, Brown University
Andrew Zuppann, University of Houston
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

10:10 am

Break


10:30 am


Adam Isen, University of Pennsylvania
Maya Rossin-Slater, Columbia University
Reed Walker, University of California at Berkeley
Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970  

11:20 am

Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Marten Palme, Stockholm University
Emilia Simeonova, Princeton University and NBER
Health, Education, and Cognition: Evidence from a Social Experiment

12:10 pm

Lunch

Joint Labor-Children’s-Development Session


1:15 pm


Orazio Attanasio, University College London and NBER
Sarah Cattan, University of Chicago
Emla Fitzsimons, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Marta Rubio-Codina, Center for the Evaluation of Development Policies
A Production Function for Child Development

2:15 pm

Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College and NBER
Can Spatial Mobility Insure Families against Long-Term Impacts of Economic Shocks? Evidence from Drought and Disability in South Africa

3:15 pm

Break

3:45 pm

Erlend Berg, University of Oxford
Rajasekhar Durgam, Institute for Social and Economic Change
Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Manjula Ramachandra, Institute for Social and Economic Change
Sanchari Roy, University of Warwick
Motivating
Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?

4:45 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 26:

Morning joint with Crime

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Elizabeth Beasley, Mrs, Sciences Po
The Long-Term Impact of Social Skills Training at School Entry: A Randomized Control Trial

Discussant:
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER


9:30 am


Keith Finlay, Tulane University
Stigma in the Labor Market

Discussant:
Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Andrea Chandrasekher, University of California at Davis
Police Labor Unrest and Lengthy Contract Negotiations: Does Police Misconduct Increase with Time Spent Out of Contract?

Discussant:
Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan and NBER

12:00 n

Lunch and Adjourn