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Friday, April 20th

8:45-11:45  1.  Incentives and Productivity:
        Session chair: David Kaplan

8:45-9:30  LUIS GARICANO, Ignacio Palacios and Canice Prendergast: “Favoritism under Social Pressure” (Gary Fields)

9:45-10:30  MICHAEL GIBBS, Kenneth Merchant, Wim van der Stede, Mark Vargus: “Incentive Contracts and Performance in Automobile Dealerships” (James Rebitzer)

11:00-11:45  WALTER OI: “Effort, Productivity, and Pay” (Derek Neal)

8:45-11:45  2.  Search and Technology:
        Session chair: Manuelita Ureta

9:45-9:30  JOHN HAISKEN-DENEW and Christoph Schmidt: “Brothers in RAMS: Diffusion of the PC and the New Economy” (Madeline Zavodny)

9:45-10:30  PETER KUHN and Mikal Skuterud: “Is Internet Job Search Really More Effective?” (Paul Carlin)

11:00-11:45  STEPHEN WOODBURY, Louis Jacobson and Rod Anderson: “Job Search, Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Earnings: Evidence from Randomized Trials” (Jeff Smith)

8:45-11:45  3.  Hours Determination:
        Session chair: Gerard Pfann

8:45-9:30  MICHAEL BURDA and Phillipe Weil: “Blue Laws” (Finis Welch)

9:45-10:30  Jay Bhattacharya, THOMAS DELEIRE and Thomas MaCurdy:“The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work” (Thomas Bauer)

11:00-11:45  JANE FRIESEN: “Overtime Pay Regulation and Weekly Hours of Work in Canada” (Bob Hart)

8:45-11:45  4.  Health and Mortality
        Session Chair: Kelly Bedard

8:45-9:30 MICHAEL BAKER, Mark Stabile and Catherine Deri: “What Do Self-Reported, Objective Measures of Health Measure?” (John Ham)

9:45-10:30  HARRIET DULEEP and Daniel Dowhan: “The Mortality-Income Differential: Response to Health Problems vs. Variations in the Incidence of Health Problems” (Bruce Fallick)

11:00-11:45  Robert Reville and ROBERT SCHOENI: “The Effects of Permanent Partial Disability on Earnings and Employment” (Brigitte Madrian)

Afternoon Sessions (All Poster Sessions) 1:00 - 4:00

1.  Labor Economics

DEBORAH ANDERSON, Melissa Binder and Kate Krause: “The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited”

HEATHER ANTECOL, Kelly Bedard and Eric Helland: “Does Single Parenthood Increase the Probability of High School Drop-Out, Teenage Promiscuity, Drug Use and Crime?”

HUGO BENITEZ-SILVA: “Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice”

Jim Airola and Chinhui Juhn: “Income and Consumption Inequality in Postreform Mexico”

STEVEN DAVIS and Paul Willen: “Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implicatons for Portfolio Choice”

DANIEL HAMERMESH: “12 Million Salaried Workers Are Missing”

KATHRYN IERULLI, Edward Lazear and Eva Meyersson-Milgrom: “Movement in Wage Quartiles and Firm Growth in Sweden”

DAVID MARGOLIS and Kjell Salvanes: “Do Firms Really Share Rents with their Employees?”

H. NACI MOCAN: “Can Consumers Detect the Lemons? Information Asymmetry in the Market for Child Care”

JORGE VALERO GIL and Jose Tijerina Guajardo: “Effects of Education on the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Income in Mexico”

2.  Transfers and Other Programs

MARIANNE BITLER, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes: “The Effects of Welfare Reform on Labor Market Outcomes and Family Structure”

MICHAEL LECHNER and Jeff Smith: “What Is the Value Added by Case Workers?”

BRUCE MEYER and James Sullivan: “The Effects of Welfare Reform: The Living Conditions of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s”

Frank Neuhauser and STEVE RAPHAEL: “The Effect of an Increase in Workers’ Compensation Benefits on the Duration of Benefit Receipt”

JULIE WHITTAKER: “Can the Federal Government and the States Get Something for Nothing? The Estimated Effects of the WIA Unemployment Insurance Records in Training Program Assessments”

3.  Pay and Incentives

RONALD EHRENBERG, John Cheslock and Julia Epifantseva: “Paying Our Presidents: What Do Trustees Value?”

LI GAN: “The Uncertain Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Wage Secrecy”

Ernst Fehr and LORENZ GOETTE: “Performance Incentives and Narrow Bracketing”

Stephen Bronars and GERALD OETTINGER: “Performance, Participation and Risk-Taking in Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Golf”

Kevin J. Murphy and PAUL OYER: “Discretion in Executive Contracts”

MARTIN SCHNEIDER: “Judicial Tournaments? A Test with German Labor Court Data”

4.  Race, Age, and Gender Issues

SCOTT ADAMS: “The Effects of Age Discimination Legislation”

Arjun Bedi and VERA ADAMCHIK: “Persistence of Gender Pay Differentials in a Transition Economy”

AMITABH CHANDRA: “Is the Convergence in the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?”

DEREK NEAL: “Is the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women Too Small?”

Linda Barrington and KENNETH TROSKE:“Workforce Diversity and Productivity: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data”

LINDA WONG: “Income Convergence and Assimilation in a Two-Sided Matching Model”

4:15 - 5:00 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Daniel Hamermesh -- Lone Star

Saturday, April 21

Morning Sessions

8:45-11:45 -- 1.  What Goes on in Classrooms?
            Session Chair: John Kain

8:45-9:30  DONALD DEERE and Wayne Strayer: “Putting Schools to the Test: Achievement Tests, Incentives and School Behavior” (Eric Hanushek)

9:45-10:30 CAROLINE M. HOXBY: “Peer Effects in the Classroom” (Catherine Weinberger)

11:00-11:45  Andrew Gill and DUANE LEIGH: “Do the Labor Market Payoffs to Community Colleges Differ between Transfer and Vocational Training Programs?” (Cynthia Zoghi)

8:45-11:45 -- 2.  Immigration
            Session Chair: Steven Rivkin

8:45-9:30 Joshua Angrist and ADRIANA KUGLER: “Has Immigration Been Good for Western Europe?” (Klaus Zimmermann)

9:45-10:30  XIN MENG and R. G. Gregory: “Economic Integration of Immigrants and Intermarriage” (Michael Baker)

11:00-11:45  STEPHEN TREJO: “Selectivity and Immigrant Employment” (Melissa Binder)

8:45-11:45 -- 3.  Compensation Policy
            Session Chair: Marianne Bertrand

8:45-9:30 LUOJIA HU: “Who Gets Good Jobs? The Hiring Decisions and Compensation Structures of Large Firms” (Mike Gibbs)

9:45-10:30  JULIA LANE, Laurie Salmon and James Spletzer: “Earnings Determination: Contributions from the Individual and the Establishment” (Karsten Albæk)

11:00-11:45  Kristin McCue and BROOKS PIERCE: “How Finely Can Employers Tailor Benefits to an Employee’s Preferences?” (Marianne Bertrand)

8:45-11:45 -- 4.  The Family
            Session Chair: Paul Carlin

8:45-9:30  Alison Aughinbaugh, CHARLES PIERRET and Donna Rothstein: “The Impact of Family Structure and School Quality on Youth Achievement in Mathematics” (Marianne Page)

9:45-10:30  DONNA GINTHER and Robert Pollak: “Does Family Structure Affect Children’s Educational Outcomes?” (Jill Constantine)

11:00-11:45  Kai Konrad, Harald Kunemund, KJELL-ERIK LOMMERUD, and Julio Robledo: “Geography of the Family” (Russell Murphy)

Afternoon Sessions

1:30 - 4:30 --   1.  Technology and Wage
            Session Chair: James Galbraith

1:30-2:15  ELI BERMAN: “Does Factor-Biased Technological Change Stifle International Convergence?” (Wolfgang Keller)

2:30-3:15  BRUCE WEINBERG: “Experience and Technological Adoption” (James Spletzer)

1:30 - 4:30 --  2.  Financing Education
            Session Chair: Linda Edwards

1:30-2:15 CHRISTOPHER CORNWELL, David Mustard and Deepa Sridhar: “The Enrollment Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid: Evidence from Georgia’s Hope Scholarship Program” (Sarah Turner)

2:30-3:15  DAVID M. LANG: “Financial Aid and Student Bargaining Power” (Daniel Rees)

3:45-4:30  ROBERT SAUER: “Educational Financing and Lifetime Earnings; The Case of Elite Law School Graduates” (Christian Belzil)

1:30 - 4:30 -- 3.  Retirement
            Session Chair: David Trybula

1:30-2:15  STEVEN ALLEN, Robert Clark and Linda Ghent: “Phasing into Retirement” (Patricia Anderson)

2:30-3:15 Leora FRIEDBERG and Anthony Webb: “The Impact of 401K Plans on Retirement” (Thomas Steinmeier)

3:45-4:30  SHELLY LUNDBERG, Steven Stillman, and Richard Startz, : “The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach” (Alexandra Minicozzi)

1:30 - 4:30  4.  Hiring and Firing
            Session Chair: Barry Hirsch

1:30-2:15  Christopher Bollinger and JULIE HOTCHKISS, “The Upside Potential of Hiring Risky Workers: Evidence from the Baseball Industry” (Larry Singell)

2:30-3:15  THOMAS DOHMEN and Gerard Pfann, “Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment” (James Brown)

3:45-4:30  Paul Bingley, Stephen Bronars and NIELS WESTERGAARD-NIELSEN, “Firm Wage Growth and Worker Retention” (Barry Hirsch)

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