Friday, September 26, 2003
Morning Sessions: 8:45-11:45

Session A:
Chair: Lorne Carmichael, Queen's University

8:45 Jon Gant, Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn Shaw, “Working Smarter by Working Together: Connective Capital in the Workplace”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments: Walter Oi, University of Rochester
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Rachel Hayes, Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer, “Stability of Top Management Teams”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments: Kevin Hallock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 Edward P. Lazear, “Entrepreneurship”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments: Stephen Jones, McMaster University
11:20 General Discussion

Session B:
Chair: Marjorie McElroy, Duke University

8:45 Gordon Dahl and Enrico Moretti, “The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriages in the U.S. and Around the World”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments: David Gray, University of Ottawa
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Jennifer Hunt, “Teen Births Keep American Crime High Despite Good Economy”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments: Mark Stabile, University of Toronto
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 Justin Wolfers, “‘Till Death Do Us Part: Effects of Divorce Laws on Suicide, Domestic Violence and Spousal Murder”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments: Marjorie McElroy, Duke University
11:20 General Discussion

Session C:
Chair: Janet Currie, UCLA

8:45 Christopher Jepsen and Steven Rivkin, “What Is The Tradeoff Between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments: Jim Airola, Naval Postgraduate School
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Sherrilyn M. Billger, “Investigating the Impact of Incentives on the
Compensation and Performance of School Principals”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments: Sarah Turner, University of Virginia
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 Philip Oreopoulos, “Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? Evidence from Changes in School-Leaving Laws”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments: Arthur Sweetman, Queen's University
11:20 General Discussion

Session D:
Chair: Charles Beach, Queen’s University

8:45 John M. Abowd and Martha H. Stinson, “Estimating Measurement Error in SIPP Annual Job Earnings: A Comparison of Census Survey and SSA Administration Data”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments: Jeff Smith, University of Maryland
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Chinhui Juhn and Manuelita Ureta, “Husband’s Income and the Employment of Married Women: Evidence From Latin American Countries”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments -- Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 Craig A. Olson, “Heterogeneity in the Returns to School Quality”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments: Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston
11:20 General Discussion

12:00-1:15 LUNCH
Guest Speaker: Joe Altonji, Yale University

Friday, September 26, 2003
Afternoon Sessions: Poster Sessions, 1:30-4:00

Poster Session A

Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny, “Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at
Occupation-Level Evidence”
Lois Joy, “Occupational Differences Between Recent Male and Female College Graduates”
Jeffrey A. Groen, “Occupation-Specific Human Capital and Local Labor Markets”
Christine Schroeder and Ronald S. Warren, Jr., “The Effect of Home-Based Work on Earnings”
Jungmin Lee, “Children and Household Decisions: An Asian Instrument”
Julia Lane, Fredrik Andersson, Erika Mc Entarfer, “Marginal Firms and Marginal Workers”
Jay Stewart, “What Do Male Nonworkers Do?”
Jinyoung Kim, Gerald Marschke, Sangjoon Lee, “Productivity Over the Life Cycle: Evidence From the Patenting Activity of Research Scientists”
Emiko Usui, “Gender Occupational Segregation in an Equilibrium Search Model”
José E. Galdón-Sánchez and Maia Güell, “Let’s Go to Court! Firing Costs and Dismissal Conflicts”

Poster Session B

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand, “The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S. and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence From SIPP Data”
Joel Elvery, “The Impact of Enterprise Zones on Residents’ Employment”
Danièle Meulders, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow, “Inter-Industry Wage Differentials
and the Gender Wage Gap in Belgium”
Arnaud Chevalier, “Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates”
Maria Guadalupe, “The Impact of Changes in Product Market Competition on the Wage
Distribution: Theory and Evidence”
Simon D. Woodcock, “Agent Heterogeneity and Learning: An Application to Labor Markets”
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel, “Do College-Educated Women Delay
Fertility as a Means of Reducing the Motherhood Wage Penalty?”
Maia Güell and Luojia Hu, “Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using
Uncompleted Spells From Repeated Cross-Section Data”

Poster Session C

Russell D. Murphy, Jr., “Your Money or Your Life? Inequality of Lifetimes and Welfare: 20,000 B.C. to 2,000 A.D.”
Xianghong Li, “Can Matching Mimic the Experimental Evidence From the RAND Health Insurance Experiment?”
Andrew M. Gill and Duane E. Leigh, “Evaluating the Variety of Educational Services Offered by California’s Community Colleges”
Lars Pico Geerdsen, “Does Labour Market Training Motivate Job Search? A Study of Incentive Effects of Compulsory Labour Market Training in the Danish UI System”
Anja Decressin, Julia Lane, Kristin McCue, Martha Stinson, “Employer Pension Plans and Workforce Composition and Turnover: A Preliminary Investigation”
Sewin Chan and Ann Huff Stevens, “What Don’t People Know About Their Pension Plans and How Does This Affect Retirement?”
Jonathan Gardner and Mike Orszag, “How Have Older Workers Responded to Scary Markets?”
Sanae Tashiro, “Impact of Differences in Computer Use on Wages in the U.S.: Evidence from Occupations and Industries” (tables)

Poster Session D

Ximing Wu, “Nonparametric Estimation of Labor Supply Under the Earned Income Tax Credit And Welfare Programs”
Javier Miranda, “Worker Turnover, Selection and the Wage Setting Policies of Firms: Evidence from Linked Employee-Employer Data”
Joshua D. Angrist and Kevin Lang, “How Important Are Classroom Peer Effects?
Evidence from Boston’s Metco Program”
Pablo Ruiz-Verdu, “What Do Unions Do (To Nonunion Workers)?”
Terra McKinnish, “Do Economics Departments Search Optimally in Faculty Recruiting”
Daniel Aaronson, Lisa Barrow, William Sander, “Teachers, Schools, and Achievement in Chicago”
John Treble, “Designer Sick Pay”
Li Gan and Qi Li, “Efficiency of Thin and Thick Markets”
David M. Lang, “College Majors, Job Types, and the Labor Market: Is College Major a Signal?”

4:15 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Introduction:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University (comments will be delivered by John Pencavel)
Presidential Address: Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
"Resolving Disputes: Theory and Evidence"

5:30 COCKTAIL RECEPTION, GRAND FOYER

Saturday, September 27, 2003
Morning Sessions
8:45-11:45

Session E
Chair: Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto

8:45 James P. Ziliak, “The Effect of Income Taxation on Labor Supply and Consumption”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments -- Kevin Reilly, Leeds University
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Kelly Bedard and Olivier Deschenes, “Marital Instability and Female Labor Supply: Evidence From Exogenous Variation in Offspring Gender”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments -- Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 John C. Ham and Kevin T. Reilly, “Using Micro Data to Estimate the Intertemporal Substitution Elasticity for Labor Supply in an Implicit Contract Model”
11: 10 Discussant’s Comments: Dwayne Benjamin, University of Toronto
11:20 General Discussion

Session F
Chair: Michael Abbott, Queen’s University

8:45 Alison L. Booth and Mark L. Bryan, “The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle: Is There A Free Rider Problem?”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments --
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Alan Krueger and Alexandre Mas, “Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments -- Duane Leigh, Washington State University
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 Barry Hirsch and Edward Schumacher, “Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments -- Dan Rees, University of Colorado
11:20 General Discussion

Session G
Chair: Finis Welch, Texas A&M University

8:45 Björn Öckert, “What’s the Value of an Acceptance Letter? Using College Applicants to Estimate the Return to Education”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments -- David M. Lang, California State University, Sacramento
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Paul Devereux, “Is Education Inherited? Understanding Intergenerational
Transmission of Human Capital”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments: Lorne Carmichael, Queen's University
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 Kate Antonovics and Arthur S. Goldberger, “Do Educated Women Make Bad Mothers? Twin Studies of the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments: Catherine Weinberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:20 General Discussion

Session H
Chair: Christine Jolls, Harvard University

8:45 Dana Samuelson and Jed DeVaro, “Why Are Promotions Less Likely at Non-profit Firms?”
9:10 Discussant’s Comments -- Limor Golan, Carnegie Mellon University
9:20 General Discussion

9:35 Christine Jolls and J.J. Prescott, “Disability Discrimination Law, Disables Employment, and the Relative Role of ‘Reasonable Accommodations’ Requirements and Firing Costs”
10:00 Discussant’s Comments -- Paul Oyer, Stanford University
10:10 General Discussion

10:25 Coffee Break

10:45 François Rycx, Anne Plasman, Robert Plasman, Michael Rusinek, “The Evolution of the Gender Wage Gap in the European Union Between 1994 and 1998”
11:10 Discussant’s Comments -- Francine D. Blau, Cornell University
11:20 General Discussion

Saturday Afternoon, September 27, 2003
2:00 - 4:30

Session I
Chair: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin

2:00-2:25: David A. Green and Christopher Worswick, “Earnings of Immigrant Men in Canada: The Roles of Labour Market Entry Effects and Returns to Foreign Experience”
2:25-2:35: Discussant’s Comments: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin
2:45-3:00: General Discussion

3:00-3:25: Heather Antecol, Peter Kuhn, and Stephen J. Trejo, “Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Assimilation: Employment and Wage Adjustment in Australia, Canada, and the United States”
3:25-3:35: Discussant’s Comments: Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia
3:35-3:50: General discussion

3:50-4:10: Coffee Break

4:10-4:35: Amelie Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann, “The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis”
4:35-4:45: Discussant’s Comments: Christopher Worswick, Carleton University
4:45-5:00: General Discussion

Session J
Chair: John Pencavel, Stanford University

2:00-2:25: Thomas Lemieux, “Residual Wage Inequality: A Re-examination”
2:25-2:35: Discussant’s Comments: Harry Krashinsky, University of Toronto
2:45-3:00: General Discussion

3:00-3:25: David Bjerk, “The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across
Employment Sectors”
3:25-3:35: Discussant’s Comments: Arnaud Chevalier, University College Dublin
3:35-3:50: General discussion

3:50-4:10: Coffee Break

4:10-4:35: John Pencavel, “The Impact of Growth in the Relative Employment and Earnings of Wives on Life-Cycle Inequality Among Married Men and Women”
4:35-4:45: Discussant’s Comments: Alice Nakamura, University of Alberta
4:45-5:00: General Discussion:

Session K
Chair: Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University

2:00-2:25: W. Bentley MacLeod and Daniel Parent, “Incidence and Magnitude of Bonus Pay and Labour Market Conditions”
2:25-2:35: Discussant’s Comments: Kevin Lang, Boston University
2:45-3:00: General Discussion

3:00-3:25: Kevin F. Hallock, “A Descriptive Analysis of Layoffs in Large U.S. Firms Using Archival and Interview Data: 1970 - 2000”
3:25-3:35: Discussant’s Comments: John Abowd, Cornell University
3:35-3:50: General discussion

3:50-4:10: Coffee Break

4:10-4:35: Michael Gibbs, Kathryn Ierulli, Eva Meyersson, “Occupational Labor Markets”
4:35-4:45: Discussant’s Comments: Justin Wolfers, Stanford University
4:45-5:00: General Discussion:

Session L
Chair: Dwayne Benjamin, University of Toronto

2:00-2:25: Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti, “Mother’s Education and Infant Health: Evidence from a New Panel of California Data”
2:25-2:35: Discussant’s Comments: Derek A. Neal, University of Chicago
2:45-3:00: General Discussion

3:00-3:25: Stephen A. Woodbury, “Layoffs and Experience Rating of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax: Longitudinal Analysis of Firms in Three States”
3:25-3:35: Discussant’s Comments: José Galdon, University of Navarre
3:35-3:50: General discussion

3:50-4:10: Coffee Break

4:10-4:35: John Higgins, “Using Same-Sex Partners to Measure the Gender Wage Gap"
4:35-4:45: Discussant’s Comments: John Treble, University of Wales
4:45-5:00: General Discussion: