SOCIETY OF LABOR ECONOMISTS
ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETINGS
ROYAL SONESTA HOTEL
CAMBRIDGE, MA
COMPLETE
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SOLE 2006
Friday, May 5th
7:00-8:00 -- Registration and breakfast -- Parkview
8:00 - 10:00
Session 1A: Measuring the Effects of Education
Chair: Sandra Black
Somerset
Philippe Aghion, Leah Boustan, Caroline Hoxby, and Jerome Vandenbussche
Exploiting States’ Mistakes to Identify the Causal Impact of Education on Growth
Harry Krashinsky
How Would One Extra Year of High School Impact Academic Performance in University? Evidence from a Unique Policy Change in Ontario, Canada
Discussant: Ronald G. Ehrenberg (comments will be read by session chair)
Stacey Chen
Does College Teach Young Men to Smoke Pot?
Ofer Malamud and Abigail Waggoner Wozniak
The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation
Discussant: Joe Altonji
Session 1B: Incentives and Method of Pay at the Firm Level
Chair: Laura Giuliano
University A
Kevin F. Hallock
Employees’ Choice of Method to Pay: What Happens with a Firm Sets Each Employee’s Total Pay but Offers All Employees Total Choice over the Mix of Base, Bonus, and Stock Options?
Tomeka M. Hill
An Empirical Analysis of Pensions for the Labor Market
Discussant: Claudia Olivetti
Jed De Varo and Fidan Ana Kurtulus
An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives, and the Delegation of Worker Authority
Tuomas Pekkarinen and Chris Riddell
Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
Discussant: Paul Oyer
Session 1C: Gender I
Chair: Solomon Polachek
Charles A
Marigee Bacolod, V. Joseph Hotz, and Douglas McKee
Cross-Cohort Changes in the Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences: Consequences for the Gender Wage Differential
Discussant: Chris Taber
Betsey Stevenson
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Examine the Return to Participating in High School Sports
Catherine J. Weinberger
Is the Science and Engineering Workforce Drawn from the Far Upper Tail of the Math Ability Distribution?
Discussant: Chinhui Juhn
Session 1D: The Impact of Government Policies
Chair: Kenneth Troske
Charles B
David Fairris and León Fernández Bujanda
The Dissipation of Minimum Wage Gains for Workers Through Labor-Labor Substitution
Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, and John Van Reenen
Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Discussant: Charlie Brown
Dan Black Jose Galdo, and Jeffrey Smith
Evaluating the Regression Discontinuity Design Using Experimental Data
John Donohue and Justin Wolfers
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Discussant: Joshua Angrist
Session 1E: Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Chair: Julie Hotchkiss
University B
Elke J. Jahn and Thomas Wagner
Base Period, Qualifying Period and the Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment
Mario Macis
Wage Dynamics and Insurance
Discussant: Robert Hall
Mark Sanders and Riccardo Welters
Recruitment in Recovery
Santanu Pal and Michael Sattinger
The Costs of Unemployment
Discussants: Per Engström and Bertil Holmlund
Session 1F: Reference Groups, Health, and Mortality
Chair: Lex Borghans
University C
Mary C. Daly and Daniel Wilson
Who Do We Look To? Relative Income, Reference Groups, and Utility
Olivier Deschênes
The Effect of Education on Mortality: Evidence from Mortality Records
Discussant: Dora Costa
Arnaud Chevalier and Leon Feinstein
Sheepskin or Prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health
Weili Ding, Steven F. Lehrer, and J. Niels Rosenquist
The Impact of Health on Academic Performance: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers
Discussant: Kosali Simon
10:00 - 10:30 -- BREAK (Parkview)
10:30 - 12:00
Session 2A: The Impact of Employment Protection
Chair: Niels Westergård-Nielsen
Charles A
Lawrence M. Kahn
The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence
Discussant: Barry Hirsch
William Kerr, David Autor, and Adriana Kugler
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Ioana Marinescu
Shortening the Tenure Clock: The Impact of Strengthened U.K. Job Security Legislation
Discussant: Henry Farber
Session 2B: Search and Matching in the Labor Market
Chair: Michael Sattinger
Charles B
Fredrik Andersson, Simon Burgess, and Julia Lane
Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration
Discussant: Till von Wachter
Per Engström and Bertil Holmlund
Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Discussant: Kevin Lang
Ronald Bachmann
Accessions, Separations, and Job-to-Job Transitions over the Business Cycle
Discussant: Joe Tracy
Session 2C: Managerial Compensation
Chair: Chris Riddell
University A
George-Levi Gayle and Robert A. Miller
Has Moral Hazard Become a More Important Factor in Managerial Compensation?
Discussant: Jed De Varo
Maria Guadalupe and Vicente Cuñat
Globalization and the Provision of Incentives inside the Firm
Discussant: John Van Reenen
Gianluca Papa and Biagio Speciale
An Inverted-U Relationship between Debt and Executive Compensation
Discussant: Kevin Hallock
Session 2D: Wage and Income Inequality I
Chair: Parama Chaudhury
Somerset
Arnaud Dupuy
Educational self-selection, tasks assignment, and rising wage inequality
Donna K. Ginther and Dylan G. Rassier
Work Activities as Unmeasured Skills: Do Work Activities Explain Earnings Inequality?
Discussant: Frank Levy
Diego Comin, Erica L. Groshen, and Bess Rabin
Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?
Discussant: Robert Moffitt
Session 2E:
Social Security, Pensions, and the Labor Market
Chair: Jonathan Pingle
University B
Sewin Chan and Ann Huff Stevens
The Role of Pension Knowledge in Retirement and Post-Retirement Labor Supply Decisions
Discussant: Marjorie Honig
William E. Even and David Macpherson
Participant Direction on Defined Contribution Plans
Discussant: Michael Ransom
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
Do better-informed workers make better retirement choices? A test based on the Social Security Statement
Discussant: Debra Dwyer
Session 2F: Fertility and Marriage I
Chair: Reuben Gronau
University C
Eli Berman, Laurence R. Iannaccone and Giuseppe Ragusa
From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles:: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller
Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-To-Work? Evidence from a “True Natural Experiment”
Discussant: Alicia Adsera
Lucie Schmidt
Risk Preferences and the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing
Discussant: Elaina Rose
12:15 - 1:45 -- LUNCH -- Grand Ballroom
The Al Rees Lecture
Chair: Francine D. Blau
Guest Speaker: Lawrence Katz
Topic: “Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing:
The Evolution of the U.S. Wage Structure”
1:45-3:30
Session 3A: Issues in Higher Education
Chair: Rajashri Chakrabarti
University A
Jennjou Chen and Tsui-Fang Lin
Class Attendance and Exam Performance: A Randomized Experiment
Philip Oreopoulos and Florian Hoffmann
Do Better Professors Produce Better Students? The Effects of Teacher Quality on Academic Achievement, Persistence, and Degree
Discussant: Thomas Kane
E. Han Kim, Adair Morse, and Luigi Zingales
Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Pablo A. Peña
Tuition, Endowment, and the Returns on College Education
Discussant: Susan Dynarski
Session 3B: Race, Ethnicity, and Language
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann
Somerset
Josh Angrist, Aimee Chin, and Ricardo Godoy
Is Spanish-only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?
Joni Hersch
Skin Color and Wages Among New U.S. Immigrants
Discussant: Eli Berman
Sherrie Kossoudji
Nationality, Ethnicity, Citizenship and Earned Wages
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos and Christian Dustmann
Ethnic Minority Immigrants and their Children in Britain
Discussant: George Borjas
Session 3C: Trade and Technology
Chair: John Kennan
University B
Ivan T. Kandilov
How Import Competition Affects Displaced U.S. Workers
J. Bradford Jensen and Lori G. Kletzer
Measuring the potential scope and impact of Services Offshoring
Discussant: Richard Freeman
Mark Doms and Ethan Lewis
Personal Computer Adoption and Labor Supply
Guy Michaels
Technology, Complexity and Information: The Evolution of Demand for Office Workers
Discussant: David Autor
Session 3D: Determinants and Consequences of Infant Health
Chair: Joseph Doyle
Charles B
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G. Salvanes
From the Cradle to the Grave? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes of Children
Rucker C. Johnson and Robert F. Schoeni
Early-Life Events and Health and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood
Discussant: Steve Rivkin
Wanchuan Lin
Accounting for the change in the gradient: Health Inequality among Infants
Aparna Lhila and Kosali I. Simon
Prenatal Health Investments: What's the Child Gender Got To Do With It?
Discussant: Erica Field
Session 3E: Job Loss and Displacement
Chair: Lars Vilhuber
Charles A
Kenneth A. Couch
The Earnings Impact of Job Displacement Measured with Longitudinally Matched Individual and Firm Data
Luojia Hu and Chris Taber
Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender
Discussant: Ann Huff Stevens
Emily Y. Lin
Job Loss and Retirement Fund Distributions among Older Workers
Daniel Sullivan and Till von Wachter
Evidence from UI Records Matched to Mortality Records: Permanent Income, Mass Layoffs, and Mortality of Older Workers
Discussant: Marianne Bertrand
Session 3F: Student Behavior and Outcomes
Chair: Mireille Jacobson
University C
Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb
What Makes a Leader? Relative Age and High School Leadership
Adalbert Mayer and Steven Puller
The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: A Model of Social Network Formation on University Campuses
Discussant: Julian Betts
Philip Babcock
The Rational Adolescent: Privilege, Policy, and Myoptic Human Capital Acquisition
Melissa Clark, Jesse Rothstein, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Selection Bias in Admissions Test Scores
Discussant: Jeff Smith
3:45-5:00 -- Coffee break will be available during the poster sessions
Poster Session 1: Topics in Labor Supply, Unemployment and Retirement
Charles A
Debra Sabatini Dwyer and Mir M. Ali
Health & Retirement Revisited: An Analysis of Reporting Bias & Measurement Error by Gender
Delia Furtado and Myeong-Su Yun
From Opt-In to Opt-Out?: The Labor Supply of Young Women in the U.S., 1960-2000
Lonnie Golden and Tesfayi Gebreselassie
Overemployment in the US: Which Workers Would Prefer to Exchange Income for Reduced Work Hours?
Lynn Gottschalk
The Impact of Divorce on Retirement Decisions
Andrew Grodner and Thomas J. Kniesner
An Empirical Model of Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Issues and Tax Policy Implications
Julie L. Hotchkiss and John C. Robertson
Asymmetric Labor Force Participation Decisions over the Business Cycle
Lucy P. Eldridge and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures
David Card and Michael R. Ransom
Retirement Savings and Pension Plan Characteristics
Joseph A. Ritter and Lowell J. Taylor
Racial Disparity in Unemployment
Margaret McConnell and Joseph Tracy
Structural and Cyclical Adjustments in U.S. Labor Markets
Poster Session 2: The Impact of Government Policies
University A
Brendan Cushing-Daniels and Nikolay Doskov
Altogether On Their Own: The Consequences for Children of Long-Term Non-Receipt of Welfare
Sara Lemos
Minimum Wage Effects on Wages, Employment and Prices:Implications for Poverty Alleviation in Brazil
Amalia R. Miller and Carmit Segal
Do Temporary Affirmative Action Programs Produce Permanent Effects? A Study of Minority and Female Employment in Law Enforcement Agencies
John C. Ham, Xianghong Li, and Lara Shore-Sheppard
Analyzing Movements over Time in Employment Status and Welfare Participation while Controlling for Seam Bias using SIPP
Bing-ru Teh
Liquor Stores and Crime in California
Poster Session 3: Topics in the Economics of the Family, Parental Investments and Socio-Economic Background
Somerset
Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, and Andea Ichino
Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children
Jason M. Fletcher
Adolescent Depression: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Educational Attainment
Yu-Chen Kuo
Non-Married Motherhood and Labor Market Prospects in the United States, 1960-2000
Feng Liu and Kosali Simon
How Do Parental Risk Preferences Influence the Take-up of Public Health Insurance? The Case of Smokers
Joseph Price
Quality Time: The Effect of Birth Order
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, and Leslie S. Stratton
Wages and Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
Melissa Tartari
Divorce and the Cognitive Achievement of Children
Sam Allgood, David Mustard, and Ronald S. Warren, Jr.
The Effect of Youth Criminal Behavior on Adult Earnings
Poster Session 4: Topics in Human Capital and Immigration
Charles B
Hideo Akabayashi
Effects of School Choice on Average Educational Attainment: Evidence from Japanese High School Data
Carmen E. Carrión-Flores
What Makes You Go Back Home? Determinants of the Duration of Migration of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Abdurrahman Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen, and Miles Corak
Intergenerational earnings mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants
Alison F. Del Rossi and Joni Hersch
Double Your Major, Double Your Return?
Julio J. Elias
The Effects of Ability and Family Background on Non-Monetary Returns to Education
Fernando Antonio Lozano
Coming to Work? The Working Hours of Immigrants in America
Robert J. Gary-Bobo and Mohamed Badrane Mahjoub
The Estimation of Class Size Effects Using the Angrist-Lavy Instrument: The Case of French Junior High Schools
Kevin McKinney
Why Do Mexican Immigrants Earn Low Wages? The Role of the Firm
Bruce Weinberg
Which Labor Economists Invested in Human Capital? Geography, Vintage, and Participation in Scientific Revolutions
Cindy Zoghi and Alec Levenson
The Strength of Occupation Indicators as a Proxy for Skill
Poster Session 5: Topics in Wage Determination and Personnel Economics I
University B
David J. Balan and Dan Hanner
Does the Market Mistreat Workers Efficiently?
Assad L. A. Baunto
Stereotypic Wage and Accentuation Effect
Lex Borghans and Ben Kriechel
Incentive Pay: Its Influence on the Wage Structure of Firms
Steven Bronars and Gerald Oettinger
The Law of One Price on the PGA Tour
Natalya Dygalo
Estimating Age-Productivity Profiles for Cohorts of Workers Using Production Functions
Matthew L. Freedman
Labor Mobility, Knowledge Spillovers, and Industrial Agglomeration
Poster Session 6: Topics in Wage Determination and Personnel Economics II
University C
Helen C. Connolly
Analyzing the Mommy Penalty: Why Do Mothers Earn Less?
Wolf Dieter Heinbach
Bargained wages in decentralized wage-setting regimes
Erika McEntarfer
Earnings Instability within the Firm: An Analysis using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Quinn Moore and Heidi Shierholz
A Cohort Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap
Chau Do and Irina Paley
Market Work and Childbirth: Do Flexible Schedules Help Women Have It All?
Elda Pema and Stephen Mehay
Long-Term Labor Market Effects of ‘Tied Movers’: Evidence from Veterans’ Spouses
5:00-6:00 -- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS -- Riverfront
Chair: John Pencavel
Speaker: Francine D. Blau
Topic: “Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000”
(paper joint with Lawrence M. Kahn)
6:00 -- RECEPTION
Saturday, May 6th
7:00-8:00 -- Breakfast -- Parkview
8:00-9:30
Session 4A: The Impact of Antidiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policies
Chair: Gerald Marschke
Charles B
Joanna N. Lahey
State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Discussant: Joni Hersch
Justin Marion
How Costly Is Affirmative Action? Government Contracting and California's Proposition 209
Discussant: Finis Welch
Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon
Mismatch in Law School
Discussant: Bridget Terry Long
Session 4B: Programs for the Disadvantaged
Chair: Lara Shore-Sheppard
Somerset
Sarah Hamersma
Why Don’t Eligible Firms Claim Hiring Subsidies? The Role of Job Duration
Discussant: Stephen Machin
Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
The Introduction of the Food Stamp Program: Impacts on Food Consumption and Family Well-Being
Stephanie Aaronson and Jonathan Pingle
The Employment Dynamics of Single Mothers Following TANF
Discussant: James P. Ziliak
Session 4C: The Workplace I
Chair: Julia Lane
Charles A
Paul Oyer
Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
Discussant: Walter Oi
Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw
The Effects of Tenure on Output
Benoit Dostie
Aging, Productivity, and Wages
Discussant: John Abowd
Session 4D: Wage and Income Inequality II
Chair: Katherine Terrell
University A
Lisa Dragoset and Gary Fields
U.S. Earnings Mobility: Comparing Survey-Based and Administrative-Based Estimates
Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh
Are inequality and mobility overstated: the role of measurement error
Discussant: Erica Groshen
Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan
Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty
Discussant: Joe Hotz
Session 4E: Youth Behavior and Outcomes
Chair: Kalena Cortes
University B
Jane Friesen and Brian Krauth
Language enclaves, peer effects and student learning outcomes
Discussant: Sherrie Kossoudji
Nuno Martins and Ernesto Villanueva
Does Limited Access to Mortgage Debt Explain Why Young Adults Live With Their Parents?
Discussant: Andrea Ichino
Shirley L. Porterfield and Anne E. Winkler
Differential and Shifting Patterns in Teen Employment, By Parent’s Educational Attainment
Discussant: Mary Daly
Session 4F: Ability, Turnover, and Wages
Chair: Derek Neal
University C
Tricia Gladden and Christopher Taber
Turnover and Wage Growth in the Transition from School to Work
Sebastian Buhai, Miguel Portela, Coen Teulings, and Aico van Vuuren
Returns to Seniority: Time or Rank?
Discussant: Robert H. Topel
Torberg Falch and Sofia Sandgren
The Effect of Early Cognitive Ability over the Life-cycle: Wages and Employer Learning
Discussant: Limor Golan
9:30-10:00 -- BREAK -- Parkview
10:00-12:00
Session 5A: Women, College Going, and Marriage
Chair: Charlie Brown
Charles A
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, Ilyana Kuziemko
The Homecoming of College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
Henrich Hock
The Pill and the College Attainment of American Women and Men
Discussant: Sarah Turner
Elaina Rose
Education, Hypergamy and the “Success Gap”
Yoram Weiss
Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
Discussant: Robert J. Willis
Session 5B: Environmental and Neighborhood Effects
Chair: Shulamit Kahn
Charles B
Claire Dujardin and Florence Goffette-Nagot
Neighborhood effects, public housing and unemployment in France
Patrick Bayer amd Stephen L. Ross
Neighborhood Effects on Labor Market Outcomes: Untangling the Effect of Individual and Location Specific Unobservables
Discussant: Bruce Weinberg
Janet Currie, Eric Hanushek, Matthew Neidell, and Steven Rivkin
Does Pollution Affect School Absenteeism?
Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime
Discussant: Matthew E. Kahn
Session 5C: Schools and Education
Chair: Sascha O. Becker
Somerset
Marigee P. Bacolod and Mireille Jacobson
Does the “No Child” Law Leave Health Behind? The Impact of School Accountability on Physical Education and Child Health
Cory Koedel and Julian Betts
Re-Examining the Role of Teacher Quality In the Educational Production Function
Discussant: Eric Hanushek
Rajashri Chakrabarti
Do Public Schools Facing Vouchers Behave Strategically? Evidence from Florida
Stephen Machin and Kjell G. Salvanes
House Prices and Schools: Valuation Through an Admissions Policy Reform
Discussant: Caroline Minter Hoxby
Session 5D: Immigration
Chair: Rachel Friedberg
University A
Abdurrahman Aydemir and George J. Borjas
A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration in Sending and Receiving Countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik F. Van den Berg, and Joshua Lewer
Are estimates of immigration’s effects on native workers biased? A reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Discussant: Steve Bronars
Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, and Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnosizing Immigrants
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Traci Mach
Realizing the “American Dream”: Immigrant and Native Self-Employment Responsiveness to State Taxes
Discussant: Cordelia Reimers
Session 5E: Program Evaluation
Chair: David Balan
University B
Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment
Jeffrey Smith, Alexander Whalley, and Nathaniel Wilcox
Are Participants Good Evaluators?
Discussant: Hilary Hoynes
Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, and Conny Wunsch
The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany after Unification (Appendix)
Carolyn Heinrich, Peter Mueser, and Kenneth R. Troske
The Impact of a Temporary Help Job: An Analysis of Outcomes for Participants in Three Missouri Programs
Discussant: Gerald Oettinger
Session 5F: The Workplace II
Chair: Alison Booth
University C
Kris Boschmans
Promotions, job assignments and incentives to perform
Laura Giuliano, David I. Levine, and Jonathan Leonard
Do Race, Gender, and Age Differences Affect Manager-Employee Relations? An Analysis of Quits, Dismissals, and Promotions at a Large Retail Firm
Discussant: Gary Fields
Pernilla Andersson and Eskil Wadensjö
Employees that Become Self-Employed: The Impact of Earnings and Wages
Joshua C. Pinkston
How Much Do Employers Learn from Referrals?
Discussant: Kathryn Shaw
12:15-1:45 -- LUNCH -- Grand Ballroom
Award Banquet
Chair: John Pencavel
The Lewis Prize Presented by Committee Chair David Autor
The Mincer Award
Announcement of New Fellows
2:00-4:00
Session 6A: Parental Investments in Children’s Outcomes
Chair: Olivier Deschênes
Charles A
Joseph J. Doyle, Jr.
Child Welfare and Adult Crime: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care
Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy, and Analia Schlosser
New Evidence on the Causal Link between Quantity and Quality of Children
Discussant: Philip Oreopoulos
Shelly Lundberg, Sabrina Pabilonia and Jennifer Ward-Batts
Time Allocation of Parents and Investments in Sons and Daughters
Lawrence Berger, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Christina Paxson, and Jane Waldfogel
First-Year Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Fragile Families Study of Child Well-Being
Discussant: Lucie Schmidt
Session 6B: Gender II
Chair: Amalia R. Miller
Charles B
Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti
Absenteeism, Earnings, and Biological Gender Differences
Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti
Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives
Discussant: Claudia Goldin
Sara Connolly and Mary Gregory
Moving Down? Women’s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001
Solomon W. Polachek and Jun (Jeff) Xiang
The Gender Pay Gap: A Cross-Country Time-Series Analysis
Discussant: Lawrence Kahn
Session 6C: Fertility and Marriage II
Chair: Anne Winkler
Somerset
Jean Kimmel and Rachel Connelly
The Impact of Nonstandard Work on Caregiving
Silvio Rendon
Job Search and Marital Dynamics
Discussant: Robert Pollak
Yoo-Mi Chin
Economic Shocks, Women’s Financial Independence, and Physical Spousal Violence in Developing Countries
Donna Ginther and M. Melinda Pitts
Family Labor Supply and Economic Downturns: Does Consumption Smoothing Explain The Lessened Severity of Recessions?
Discussant: Richard Blundell
Session 6D: The Determinants of Obtaining Higher Education and Time to Degree
Chair: Leslie Stratton
University A
John Bound, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner
Understanding the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree
Susan Dynarski
Finishing College: The Role of State Policy in Degree Attainment
Discussant: Harry Holzer
Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn
Are Courses Chosen to Reduce Skill Deficiencies? An Experimental Approach
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Jeffrey Groen, Eric So and Joseph Price
Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education
Discussant: Yoram Weiss
Session 6E: Institutions and Labor Market Outcomes
Chair: Eskil Wadensjö
University B
Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro
Labor Informality: A Trade-Off of Higher Efficiency for Lower Social Protection?
Florian Englmaier and Carmit Segal
The Role of Institutions in Overcoming Perfect Monitoring in Relational Contracting
Discussant: Daron Acemoglu
John Earle and Almos Telegdy
Privatization, Foreign Investment, and Wages: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Panel Data in Hungary
Ina Ganguli and Katherine Terrell
Institutions, Markets, and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine
Discussant: John Pencavel
Session 6F: Understanding Behavior and Satisfaction
Chair: Ronald Warren
University C
Sang-Hyop Lee
Skills, Belief, and Winning: Evidence from Sumo Wrestling
Discussant: Muhamet Yildiz
Alison L. Booth and Jan C. van Ours
Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?
Andrew E. Clark, Nicolai Kristensen, and Niels Westergård-Nielsen
Satisfaction and the Firm Wage Distribution
Discussant: Philip Babcock
Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin
Ugly Criminals
Discussant: Lisa Lynch
The conference ends at 4:00. There are no closing ceremonies.
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