Friday, May 9, 2008
7:30 - 8:30 Registration (Uris Lobby) and Breakfast, (Third Floor, Uris Hall)
8:45 - 9:45 Al Rees Lecture, 301 Uris Hall
“Understanding the GED”
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago
Eileen Barroso/Columbia University
10:00-12:00 -- MORNING SESSIONS
Invited Session -- 332 Uris Hall
Chair: Julia Lane
Topic: Data
Presentations:
10:00-10:15 Overview, aims and goals of session (Julia Lane)
10:15-10:25 Bob Willis: Health and Retirement Surveys
10:25-10:45 Frank Stafford and Gert Wagner: Life Course Genealogical Panels
10:45-11:05 Dan Hamermesh: Time Use Surveys
11:05-11:25 Julia Lane: Linked Employer-Employee Datasets
11:25-11:45 Peter Elias: New International Data Initiatives
11:45-12:00 Floor Discussion
Session 1: Household (Room 329)
Chair: Robert Pollak
Papers:
Elena G. F. Stancanelli, “Modeling employment and wage outcomes of spouses: is she outearning him?” (with Hans G. Bloemen)
Jennifer Roff, “A Model of Child Support and the Underground Economy” (with Julieta Lugo-Gil)
Isaac M. Mbiti, “Moving Women: Household Composition, Labor Demand and Crop Choice”
Stephen H. Shore, “Commitment, Risk, and Consumption: Do Birds of a Feather Have Bigger Nests?” (with Todd Sinai)
Session 2: Migration I (Room 331)
Chair: James Smith
Papers:
Christina A. Houseworth, “Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating” (with Barry R. Chiswick)
Sheila Murthy, “Foreign Born Nurses: An Analysis of Effects On The US Nursing Labor Market”
Christopher L. Smith, “ ‘Dude, Where’s My Job?’ The Impact of Immigration on the Youth Labor Market”
Amy M. Gass Kandilov, “The Value of a Green Card: Immigrant Wage Increases Following Adjustment to U.S. Permanent Residence”
Session 3: Incentives (Room 333)
Chair: Mike Waldman
Papers:
Colin Green, “Employment Protection, Threat and Incentive Effects on Worker Effort” (with Steve Bradley and Gareth Leeves)
David Huffman, “Incentives and the Allocation of Effort Over Time: The Joint Role of Affective and Cognitive Decision Making” (with Lorenz Goette)
Anat Bracha, “Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially” (with Dan Ariely and Stephan Meier)
Kerry L. Papps, “The dynamics of productivity spillovers in Major League Baseball”
Session 4: Female Schooling and Labor Supply (Room 327)
Chair: Thomas MaCurdy
Papers:
Hans Grönqvist, “Subsidized Birth Control and Women’s Outcomes: Evidence from Regional Policy Changes”
Lara Shore-Sheppard, “Correcting for Seam Bias when Estimating Discrete Variable Models, with an Application to Analyzing the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women in the SIPP” (with Xianghong Li and John C. Ham)
Ye Zhang, “Teenage Childbearing and Maternal Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Matching” (with Seth Sanders and Jeff Smith)
Michael Svarer, “Marriage and Crime”
Session 5: Matching, Sorting, and Occupational Choice (Room 326)
Chair: Derek Neal
Papers:
Lisa B. Kahn, “Asymmetric Information between Employers”
Shintaro Yamaguchi, “The Effect of Match Quality and Specific Experience on Career Decisions and Wage Growth”
Ignez M. Tristao, “Portfolio of Employment Choices: How Important Is Diversification for Unemployment Duration and Wage Loss?”
Madeline Zavodny, “Do Immigrants Work in Riskier Jobs?” (with Pia M. Orrenius)
Session 6: Higher Education (Room 330)
Chair: Ronald Ehrenberg
Papers:
Christopher Taber, “Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform” (with Helena Skyt Nielsen and Torben Sørensen)
Alex Whalley, “The Power of Information: How Do U.S. News Rankings Affect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?” (with Ginger Zhe Jin)
Joshua Goodman, “Who Merits Financial Aid? Massachusetts’ Adams Scholarship”
Michael J. Hilmer, “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Job Mobility, Property Values and the Negative Returns to Seniority for Academic Economists” (with Christiana E. Hilmer)
Session 7: Trade and Technology (Room 303)
Chair: Dale Mortensen
Papers:
Rosario Crinò, “Service Offshoring and White-Collar Employment”
Maria Guadalupe, “The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Costs and Liberalization” (with Julie Wulf)
Ivan Kandilov, “Trade and Wages Revisited: The Effect of the China’s MFN Status on the Skill Premium in U.S. Manufacturing”
Alan Manning, “The Plant Size-Place Effect: Agglomeration and Monopsony in Labour Markets”
Session 8: Early Education (Room 307)
Chair: Robert Michael
Papers:
Rita Ginja, “Preventing Behavior Problems in Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from Head Start” (with Pedro Carneiro)
Dmytro Hryshko, “Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education” (with María José Luengo-Prado and Bent E. Sørensen)
Peter Nilsson, “Does a Pint a Day Affect Your Child’s Pay? The Effect of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Outcomes
Randall Reback, “The Financing, Provision, and Consequences of School-site Counseling Services for Young Children in the United States”
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch -- Low Library
1:30 - 3:30 AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Invited Session -- 332 Uris Hall
Chair: W. Bentley MacLeod
Topic: Advances in Experimental Labor Economics
Presentations:
Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth: “Making Markets Thick: Designing Rules for Offers and Acceptances”
Edward Lazear, Ulrike Malmendier, and Roberto Weber: “Sorting in Experiments with Applications to Social Preferences”
Armin Falk, David Huffman, and W. Bentley MacLeod: “Institutions and Contract Enforcement”
Ernst Fehr, “Competition and Relational Contracts”
Session 1: Marriage Markets (Room 331)
Chair: Robert Willis
Papers:
Jeanne Lafortune, “Making Yourself Attractive: Pre-Marital Investments and the Returns to Education on the Marriage Market”
Elizabeth Brainerd, “Uncounted Costs of World War II: The Effect of Changing Sex Ratios on Marriage and Fertility of Russian Women”
Steffen Reinhold, “Reassessing the Link between Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability”
Scott Hankins, “Lucky in Life, Unlucky in Love? The Effect of Random Income Shocks on Divorce” (with Mark Hoekstra)
Session 2: Migration II (Room 330)
Chair: Madeline Zavodny
Papers:
Jeffrey Grogger, “Income Maximization and the Sorting of Emigrants across Destinations” (with Gordon Hanson)
Peter Jensen, “Immigrant Children.s Cognitive Outcomes and the Effect of Ethnic Concentration in Danish Schools” (with Astrid Würtz)
Carsten Pohl, “On the location choice of newly arrived immigrants in Germany”
Holger Stichnoth, “Do Better Educated Immigrants Choose a Higher Reference Income? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel”
Session 3: Contracts (Room 327)
Chair: Bernard Salanié
Papers:
François Rycx, “Rent-sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data” (with Michael Rusinek)
Gabrielle Fack, “Are Fiscal Incentives Towards Charitable Giving Efficient? Evidence from France” (with Camille Landais)
Tara Watson, “Local Fiscal Policies and Urban Wage Structure” (with Patricia Beeson and Lara Shore-Sheppard)
Dominique Demougin, “Technology Adoption under Organizational Diseconomies of Scale” (with Anja Schöttner)
Session 4: Gender (Room 303)
Chair: Francine Blau
Papers:
Daiji Kawaguchi, “Male-Female Wage and Productivity Differentials: A Structural Approach Using Japanese Firm-level Panel Data” (with Hirokatsu Asano)
Helena Svaleryd, “Competition, Takeovers, and Gender Discrimination” (with Fredrik Heyman and Jonas Vlachos)
Sami Napari, “Is There A Motherhood Wage Penalty in the Finnish Private Sector?”
Kristin J. Kleinjans, “Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations?”
Session 5: Education (Room 326)
Chair: Joshua Angrist
Papers:
Elizabeth Cascio, “First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function” (with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach)
Hendrick Jürges, “What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong: Birthday Effects and Early Tracking in the German School System” (with Kerstin Schneider)
Patrick Puhani, “Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking” (with Andrea M. Weber)
Natalia Zinovyeva, “The Endogeneity of University Grading Standards: Evidence from Italy” (with Manuel Bagues and Mauro Sylos Labini)
Session 6: School Quality (Room 333)
Chair: Alan Krueger
Papers:
Lars Lefgren, “The Persistence of Teacher Value Added” (with Brian A. Jacob and David Sims)
Cory Koedel, “Teacher Quality and Dropout Outcomes in a Large, Urban School District”
Weili Ding, “Estimating Treatment Effects from Contaminated Multi-Period Education Experiments: The Dynamic Impacts of Class Size Reductions” (with Steven F. Lehrer)
Jesse Rothstein, “Unobserved Heterogeneity, Fixed Effects, and Causal Inference: Do Value-Added Models Add Value?”
Session 7: Regulation (Room 329)
Chair: Alan Manning
Papers:
John Van Reenen, “Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance” (with Emma Hall and Carol Propper)
Michael Neugart, “Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany” (with Helge Berger)
Conny Wunsch, “Optimal Use of Labour Market Policies”
Pedro S. Martins, “Dismissals for cause: The difference that just eight paragraphs can make”
Session 8: Health (Room 307)
Chair: Janet Currie
Papers:
Alan Barreca, “The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria”
Chinhui Juhn, “HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys” (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Belgi Turan)
Steven F. Lehrer, “Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement” (with Jason M. Fletcher)
Pinka Chatterjee, “Maternal Employment and the Health of New Mothers” (with Sara Markowitz)
4:00-5:00 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, 301 Uris Hall
Introduction: Robert Willis
Presentation: “Work and Leisure: A History of Ideas”
Yoram Weiss, Tel-Aviv University
Eileen Barroso/Columbia University
5:30 - 7:00
Reception
Hepburn Lounge
Hepburn Terrace
Saturday, May 10, 2008
7:30-8:15 BREAKFAST
8:15 - 10:15 MORNING SESSIONS -1
Invited Session -- 332 Uris Hall
Chair: Pierre-Andre Chiappori
Topic: The Family
Presentations:
8:15-8:30 Overview, aims and goals of session (Pierre-Andre Chiappori)
8:35-9:00 Orazio Attanasio, Renata Bottazzi, Emla Fitzsimons and Costas Meghir, “Schooling Choice and the Family: Evidence from Colombia”
9:05-9:30: Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur, “Estimation of Collective Household Models with Engel Curves”
9:30-9:50 Pierre-Andrew Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss, “An Assignment Model with Divorce”
9:50-10:15 Group discussion
Session 1: Search (Room 327)
Chair: Henry Farber
Papers:
Duncan McVicar, “Job Search Monitoring Intensity, Unemployment Exit and Job Entry: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the UK”
Ann-Sofie Kolm, “In-Work Benefits in Search Equilibrium” (with Mirco Tonin)
Stefan Eriksson, “Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an Internet-based search channel” (with Jonas Lagerström)
Mauro Sylos Labini, “Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The impact of AlmaLaurea on University-to-Work Transition” (with Manuel F. Bagues)
Session 2: Human Capital (Room 331)
Chair: Christopher Taber
Papers:
Paul Sullivan, “The Return to Schooling and Occupation Specific Skills”
Heski Bar-Isaac, “Information and Human Capital Management” (with Ian Jewitt and Clare Leaver)
Xueda Song, “The Effects of Technological Change on Life-Cycle Human Capital Investment” (with John Bailey Jones)
Xiaoyan Li, “Burnout and the Retirement Decision” (with Nicole Maestas)
Session 3: Crime (Room 329)
Chair: Dan Black
Papers:
Jillian Berk, “Does Work Release Work?”
Steven Stillman, “Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Victimisation on Labour Market Outcomes and General Well-Being” (with Malathi Velamur)
Gordon Dahl, “Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?” (with Stefano Della Vigna)
Matthew J. Lindquist, “Like Godfather, Like Son: Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime” (with Randi Hjalmarsson)
Session 4: Internal Migration (Room 333)
Chair: Derek Neal
Papers:
James P. Ziliak, “Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia” (with Christopher Bollinger and Kenneth R. Troske)
Bruce A. Weinberg, “Scientific Leadership ”
Matti Sarvimäki, “Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration” (with Roope Uusitalo and Markus Jäntti)
Viviane M. Bastos, “Selection Bias, Returns to Schooling and Migration in Brazil” (with Eduardo P Ribeiro)
Session 5: Peer Effects in Education (Room 330)
Chair: Dan Hamermesh
Papers:
M. Daniele Paserman, “Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in High and Low Achievers in the Classroom” (with Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser)
Jane Friesen, “Disabled peers and academic achievement” (with Ross Hickey and Brian Krauth)
Shqiponja Telhaj, “Peer Effects and Pupil Attainment: Evidence from Secondary School Transition” (with Stephen Gibbons)
Jason M. Fletcher, “High School Peer Networks and College Success: Lessons from Texas” (with Marta Tienda)
Session 6: Wages (Room 307)
Chair: John Abowd
Papers:
Fabian Lange, “Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes” (with Joseph G. Altonji and Prashant Bharadwaj)
Laura Hospido, “Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages”
Josh Angrist, “Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings” (with Stacey H. Chen)
Paolo Buonnano, “Costs of Conscription: Lessons from the UK”
Session 7: Labor Markets (Room 326)
Chair: Kenneth Troske
Papers:
Alex Bryson, “The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors” (with David G. Blanchflower)
René Böheim, “Temporary help services employment in Portugal, 1995 2000” (with Ana Rute Cardoso)
Samuel Muehlemann, “The Costs of Hiring Skilled Workers” (with Marc Blatter and Samuel Schenker)
Jeffrey Smith, “The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt” (with Peter Dolton and João Pedro Azevedo)
Session 8: Developing Countries (Room 303)
Chair: Chinhui Juhn
Papers:
Federico Weinschelbaum, “Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms” (with Sebastian Galiani)
Rita Almeida, “Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy: Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil” (with Pedro Carneiro)
Carlos Gradín, “Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap”
Nithin Umapathi, “Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia” (with Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshi, and Cristobal Ridao-Cano)
10:30 - 12:30 MORNING SESSIONS-2
Invited Session -- 332 Uris Hall
Chair: Dale Mortensen
Topic: Search
Presentations:
Jeremy Lise, Costas Meghir, and Jean-Marc Robin, “Matching, Sorting and Wages”
Rasmus Lentz and Jesper Bagger, “An Empirical Equilibrium Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting”
Espen Moen and Pietro Garabaldi, “Industry Dynamics and Labor Market Search”
Dale Mortensen and Rasmus Lentz, “Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Employment and Productivity”
Session 1: Organization (Room 333)
Chair: Kathryn Shaw
Papers:
Nick Bloom, “Measuring and Explaining Organizational Practices across Firms and Countries” (with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen)
Sebastian Buhai, “The impact of workplace conditions on firm performance” (with Elena Cottini and Niels Westergård-Nielsen)
Stéphanie Lluis, “Uncertainty and Organization Design” (with Avner Ben-Ner and Fanmin Kong)
Fidan Ana Kurtulus, “The Effect of Heterogeneity on the Performance of Employees and Organizational Divisions of the Firm”
Session 2: Training (Room 327)
Chair: Nachum Sicherman
Papers:
Miana Plescu, “Returns to Government Sponsored Training” (with Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Manovskii)
Raymond Montizaan, “The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: Evidence of a natural experiment” (with Frank Cörvers and Andries de Grip)
Blaise Melly, “Earnings Effects of Training Programs” (with Michael Lechner)
Adriana Kugler, “Effects of Youth Training in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Training Program in Colombia” (with Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir)
Session 3: Fertility (Room 330)
Chair: Martin Browning
Papers:
Quy-Toan Do, “Superstition, Fertility Timing, and Human Development” (with Tung Duc Phung)
Andrea Weber, “Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement” (with Emilia Del Bonoy and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer)
Nancy Qian, “Missing Women More and More: Sex-Selective Abortion Increases Boys Born but Decreases Girls Dying in Taiwan” (with Ming-Jen Lin and Jin-Tan Liu)
I. Serkan Ozbeklik, “The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in Future Cohorts”
Session 4: Income Distribution (Room 331)
Chair: Finis Welch
Papers:
David Dorn, “Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low‐Skill Service Jobs in the United States” (with David J. Autor)
Stephen H. Shore, “Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility” (with Shane T. Jensen)
Natalya Y. Shelkova, “Low-Wage Labor Markets and the Power of Suggestion”
Orgul Demet Ozturk, “Employment Effects of Minimum Wages in Inflexible Labor Markets”
Session 5: Testing (Room 329)
Chair: Joseph Altonji
Papers:
Carmit Segal, “Motivation, Test Scores, and Economic Success”
Amine Ouazad, “What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education” (with Francis Kramarz and Stephen Machin)
Alaka Holla, “Caste Discrimination in School Admissions: Evidence from Test Scores”
Jeff DeSimone, “The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance”
Session 6: Schooling and the Labor Market (Room 326)
Chair: David Card
Papers:
Juanna Schrøter Joensen, “Academic and Labor Market Success: The Impact of Student Employment, Abilities and Preferences”
Cyril Pasche, “What is it about schooling that the labor market rewards? The components of the return to schooling”
Pedro Carneiro, “Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000” (with Sokbae Lee)
Claire Crawford, “The impact of early cognitive and non-cognitive skills on later outcomes” (with Pedro Carneiro and Alissa Goodman)
Session 7: Welfare and Labor Market Programs (Room 303)
Chair: Costas Meghir
Papers:
Magne Mogstad, “Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education and Poverty” (with Chiara Pronzato)
Hilary W. Hoynes, “The Impact of the Food Stamp Program on Infant Outcomes” (with Douglas Almond and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach)
Eva Mörk, “The Effects of Work Requirements on Welfare Participation” (with Matz Dahlberga and Kajsa Johansson)
Christian Göbel, “The effect of participation in subsidised employment on labour market transitions”
Session 8: Social Interactions (Room 307)
Chair: Bruce Weinberg
Papers:
Leah Platt Boustan, “Spatial Mismatch and the Formation of Bad Ghettos: New Evidence from the US Postal Service” (with Robert A. Margo)
Justin Wolfers, “Economic Growth and Subjective Wellbeing: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox” (with Betsey Stevenson)
Caitlin Knowles Myers, “Why Volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and Incentives” (with Jeffrey Carpenter)
Paola Giuliano, “Growing Up in bad times: macroeconomic volatility and the formation of beliefs” (with Antonio Spilimbergo)
1:00-2:30 BUFFET LUNCH -- Uris Cafeteria
2:30 3:30 - POSTER SESSIONS
Confirmed Poster Presentations:
Note: If you originally submitted your paper for consideration as a poster and it was accepted, we assume you are coming to present it and your paper is listed below. Please contact the SOLE office immediately if this is not true. If you originally submitted your paper for consideration in the regular program, and you were invited to present it in a poster session, it is listed below only if you have confirmed that you plan to attend and present it. Please contact the office to confirm if you are planning to present your paper but do not see it listed here. The first author listed is assumed to be the presenter.
Alicia Adsera, “Are those cohabiting more like married or more like single individuals? An Analysis across Europe”
Catalina Amuedo-Durantes, “The Impact of Remittance Income Volatility on Asset Accumulation: Evidence from Mexico” (with Susan Pozo)
Abdurrahman Aydemir, “The Impact of Ethnic Enclaves on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Canada”
Ronald Bachmann, “The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics” (with Peggy David)
Juan D. Baron, “Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes as a Potential Explanation for the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt” (with Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nisvan Erkal)
Anna Batyra, “Labour Force Participation in an Overlapping Generations Model with Labour Market Frictions” (with David de la Croix, Olivier Pierrard, Henri Sneessens)
Jessica Bean, “Women’s Work and the Household Economy in Inter-War Britain”
Donata Bessey, “Risky Behavior, Educational Decisions, and Labor Market Outcomes”
Ochsen Carsten, “Unhappiness Effects of Risk and Duration of Unemployment” (with Heinz Welsch)
Sewin Chan, “Retirement Reversals” (with Ann Huff Stevens)
Arnaud Chevalier, “Health and Knowledge: The UK Measles, Mumps and Rubella Controversy” (with Dan Anderberg and Jonathan Wadsworth)
Juan M. Contreras, “Does Experience Make Better Doctors? Evidence from LASIK Eye Surgeries” (with Beomsoo Kim and Ignez M. Tristao)
Christopher Cornwell, “Sex Ratios and Risky Sexual Behavior” (with Scott Cunningham)
Enrica Croda, “Retirement Patterns in Europe: the Role of Health” (Agar Brugiavini and Franco Peracchi)
Márton Csillag, “Changes in wage differentials during transition: testing alternative explanations based on matched employee-employer data”
Meltem Daysal, “Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey” (with Gordon Betcherman and Carmen Pagés)
Elizabeth Dhuey, “Who Benefits from Kindergarten? Evidence from the Introduction of State Subsidization”
Philip Du Caju, Thomas Mathae, Daphne Momferatou, and Melanie Ward-Warmedinger, “Institutional features of wage bargaining in the EU, the US and Japan” (with Erwan Gautier)
Arnaud Dupuy, “How large is the compensating wage differential for R&D workers?” (with Wendy Smits)
Berta Esteve-Volart, “Nepotism and State Nobility: Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment” (with Manuel F. Bagues)
Delia Furtado, “Interethnic Marriage: The Relationships between Education, Race, and Immigrant Generation” (with Nikolaos Theodoropoulos)
Johannes Gernandt, “Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection” (with Alisher Aldashev and Stephan L. Thomsen)
Deniz Gevrek, “Nepotism, Incentives and the Academic Success of College Students” (with Z. Eylem Gevrek)
Anne C. Gielen, “Multiple job quit behavior explained”
Bart Golsteyn, “The Development of Personality Over the Life Cycle” (with Lex Borghans)
Mette Gørtz, “What is the role of preferences and productivity in retirement well-being?”
Amanda L. Griffith, “The Effects of Peer Group Size on Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes of Low-Income and Minority Students”
Andrew Grodner, “Estimating Treatment Effects with Multiple Proxies of Academic Aptitude” (with Wayne A. Grove)
Getinet Astatike Haile, “Workplace diversity and employee wellbeing in Britain: a WERS2004 based analysis”
Mats Hammarstedt, “Intergenerational transmissions in immigrant self-employment: Evidence from three generations” (with Lina Andersson)
Benjamin Hansen, “School Year Length and Student Performance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence”
Barry Hirsch, “Wage Analyses Using Job versus Worker Attributes: An Application to Nursing” (with Edward Schumacher)
Heinrich Hock, “Sexual Abuse and Educational Achievement: Evidence from Sibling Fixed Effects”
Scott Imberman, “Katrina’s Children: An Analysis of Peer Effects in a Large Urban District” (with Adriana Kugler, Josh Angrist)
Elke J. Jahn, “Migration and the Wage Curve: A Novel Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration” (with Herbert Brücker)
Melanie Khamis, “Comparative Advantage, Segmentation And Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach” (with Omar Arias)
Natalia Kolesnikova, “The Labor Supply of Married Women: Why Does It Differ Across U.S. Cities?”
Illoong Kwon, “Working for Female Boss: Gender Hierarchy in the Workplace” (with Eva Meyersson M. Milgrom)
Tomi Kyyrä, “Partial Unemployment Insurance Benefits and the Transition Rate to Regular Work”
Jungmin Lee, “Respondent Measurement Error and Trend of the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the PSID” (with Sokbae Simon Lee)
Jean Lim, “The Male Marriage Wage Premium and the Flexibility of Home Time”
Fernando Antonio Lozano, “The FIFA World Cup and the Hours of Work of American Males”
Marc Luppino, “Specialization-biased Technical Change: Evidence from Professional Football”
Agata Maida, “Wage inequality by income sources: an assessment using Italian Microdata” (with Francesco Devicienti)
Hani Mansour, “The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”
Kristin McCue, “Employer Adjustments to Rising Health Insurance Costs”
Angelo Mele, “Poisson Indices of Segregation”
Martin Nordin, “Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability? A Comparison Between US and Sweden” (with Dan-Olof Rooth)
Luca Nunziata, “The Determinants of Self-Employment: Social Capital, Education and Institutions” (with Lorenzo Rocco)
Pia Orrenius, “Migration away from Crime: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Luis Rubacalva, and Graciela Teruel)
Yuri Ostrovsky, “Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability of Immigrants in Canada”
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia , “The Effect of Child Gender on Parents’ Labor Supply: An Examination of Natives, Immigrants, and their Children” (with Jennifer Ward-Batts)
Juan Pantano, “Parenting, Birth Order and School Achievement” (with V. Joseph Hotz)
Vincent Pohl, “Medical Guidelines, Quality of Care, and Physician Density: Evidence from German SHARE Data” (with Hendrik Jürges)
Solomon W. Polachek, “The Husband-Wife Age Gap at First Marriage: A Cross-Country Analysis” (with Xu Zhang)
Joseph Price, “The Impact of High School Sports on Teenage Pregnancy, Sexual Activity, and Criminal Behavior” Daniel H. Simon, and Betsey Stevenson
Joshua Price, “Racial and Gender Differences in the Publishing Success of Graduate Students and Young Academics” (with Joseph Price)
Mariola Pytlikova, “Labor Market Dynamics in the Czech Republic: New Evidence Using Linked Employer-Employee Dataset” (with Frederic Warzynski and Tor Eriksson)
Tracy L. Regan, “Exits from Entrepreneurship and the Role of Health Insurance” (with Gulcun Gumus)
Lorien Rice, “The Effect of Welfare Asset Rules on Auto Ownership, Employment and Welfare Rolls: A Longitudinal Analysis Using the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)” (with Cynthia Bansak)
Giuseppe Rose, “Instructional Quality and Overeducation. A Theoretical Model and Some Facts” (with Patrizia Ordine)
Raffaella Sadun, “The Effects of Entry Regulation on Mom and Pop Stores”
Anja Schöttner, “Promotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay” (with Veikko Thiele)
Gonul Sengul, “Understanding Unemployment Experiences of Different Skill Groups”
Michael D. Steinberger, “Educational Sorting and the Return to College: 1979-1999”
Sabrina Teyssier, “Inequity Aversion at the Workplace: Experimental Evidence on Self-Selection between Incentive Structures”
Ilan Tojerow, “A European Wage Structure, Myth or Reality? A Comparative Analysis of East European Countries” (with François Rycx and Daphné Valsamis)
Mircea Trandafir, “Can marriage destroy marriage? Lessons from the Netherlands”
Belgi Turan, “Intergenerational Mobility of Education and Health Status in the Presence of HIV” (with Mevlude Akbulut Yuksel)
Jarkko Turunen, “Labour Force Participation in Euro Area Countries: A Cohort Based Analysis” (with Almut Balleer and Ramon Gomez-Salvador)
Pietro Vertova, “The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati)
Daniela Vuri, “Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy” (with Emilia Del Bono)
Ronald S. Warren, “The Effect of Wage-payment Reform on Workers’ Labor Supply and Welfare” (with Esther Redmount and Arthur Snow)
Astrid Würtz, “The Long-Term Effect on Children of Increasing the Length of Parents' Birth-Related Leave”
Mónica Yáñez-Pagans, “Ethnicity, Gender and Human Capital Investments in Bolivia: Evaluation of an Old-Age Cash Transfer Program”
Mutlu Yuksel, “Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?”
Carolina Rodriguez Zamora, “An Unintended Consequence of Border Enforcement”
Sisi Zhang, “How Do Married Couples Share Income Risk through Labor Supply? Evidence from a Collective Model”
3:30-5:00 AWARDS
331 Uris Hall
Introduction of New Fellows
Robert Willis , President
Presentation of Rosen Award
Alan Krueger
Presentation of H. Gregg Lewis Prize
Christopher Taber , Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Labor Economics
Presentation of Mincer Award
Orley Ashenfelter, Robert Willis
Introduction of New Second Vice-President
Yoram Weiss, President