Public Policy & Economics Workshop Archive

James Heckman, Univeristy of Chicago
"The Rate of Return to the Perry Preschool Program" (with Seong Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Saveleyev, and Adamy Yavitz)

Nathan Anderson, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Things My Mortgage Broker Never Told Me: Escrow, Property Taxes, and Mortgage Delinquency"

Roger Gordon, University of California, San Diego
"Income Redistribution in a Federal System of Governments"

Dan Black, University of Chicago
"The Role of Location in the Measuring Black-White Wage Disparity"

Jane Herr, University of Chicago
"'Opt-Out' Rates at Motherhood across High-Education Career Paths: Selection Versus Work Environment"

Ken Chay, University of California, Berkeley
"Mortality and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation of Status and Life Expectancy"

Adriana Kugler, University of Houston
"Katrina's Children: A Natural Experiment in Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees"

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
"Inequality in the United States Since 1960"

Carola Frydman, MIT
"Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms"

March 3
Room 224

Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley
"Real Wage Inequality"

March 10
Room 224

Kjetil Telle, Senior Researcher, Statistics Norway
"Job Loss and Crime: Using Individual Register Data for Norway to Estimate the Effect of Plant Closure on Crime"
Co-sponsored with Workshop on Human Potential

September 30

Dora Costa, UCLA
"The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Evidence from Union Army Records"

October 7

Kirk Doran, Notre Dame
"Are Adults in Demand When Children Leave the Land? Evidence from Rural Mexico"

October 14

Pedro Dal Bo, Brown University
"Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy"

October 21

Jim Sallee, University of Chicago
"Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel- Economy Standards"

October 28

Kevin Lang, Boston University
"School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE"

November 4

Rohini Pande, Harvard University
"Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?"

November 11

Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
"The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime"

November 18

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
"The Under- Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences"

November 25

Erzo Luttmer, Harvard University
"What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption"

December 2

Doug Almond, Columbia University
"Chernobyl's subclinical legacy: Prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout and school outcomes in Sweden"

April 1

Lucas Davis, University of Michigan
"The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Markets"

April 8

Fabian Lange, Yale University
"Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes"

April 15

Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University
"School Spending, Income, and Inequality: The Efficient Redistribution Hypothesis"

April 22

Sandy Black, UCLA
"To Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age" (joint w/Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes)

April 29

Dan Black, Harris School
"Why Do So Few Women Work in New York (and So Many in Minneapolis)? Labor Supply of Married Women Across U.S. Cities"

May 6

Alicia Menendez, Harris School
"Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa"

May 13

Jeff Liebman, Harvard KSG
"An Expanded Model of Health and Retirement"

May 20

Joe Kaboski, Ohio State University
"Testing a Structural Model of Credit Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative"

May 27

Matt Gentzkow, University of Chicago GSB
"Comprise and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers"

June 3

Phil Oreopolous, University of Toronto
"The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates"

September 25

Stacey Chen, SUNY-Albany
"We Prefer Sons But Does It Matter? Evidence From Matched Taiwanese Administrative Data"

October 2

Don Fullerton, U. Illinois / U. Texas
"The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates"

October 9

Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
"The Effects of Housing Vouchers on Children's Outcomes"

October 16

John Ham, USC
"Correcting for Seam Bias when Estimating Discrete Variable Models, with an Application to Analyzing the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women in the SIPP"

October 23

Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College
"Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform"

October 30

Emmanuel Saez, UC - Berkeley
"Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937" (joint with Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia and Jae Song, SSA)

November 6

Mel Stephens, Carnegie Mellon
"Consumption Smoothing and Periodic Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pensions"

November 13

Alan Krueger, Princeton University
"National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life"
Joint Session with Demography Workshop
Session will be held in Room 140C

November 20

Bhashkar Mazumder, Chicago Fed
"Prenatal Nutrition and Adult Outcomes: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan"

November 27

Tom Kane, Harvard University
"National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment"

December 4

Hilary Hoynes, UC - Davis
"Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform Effects? Evidence from Connecticut's Jobs First Experiment"

March 27

Steven Raphael, UC Berkeley
"How Much Crime Reduction Does the Marginal Prisoner Buy?"

April 3

Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois at U-C
"Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers"

April 10

David Neumark, UC Irvine
"Space vs. Race: Spatial Mismatch and the Racial Composition of Jobs"

April 17

Derek Neal, University of Chicago

April 24

Jim Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

May 1

Susan Dynarski, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

May 8

Janet Currie, Columbia University

May 15

Lance Lochner, Brigham Young University
"The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement"

May 22

Uta Schoenburg, University of Rochester

May 29

Jim Poterba, MIT

September 26

Jon Gruber, MIT
"Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply and Family Well-Being"

October 3

William Evans, University of Maryland
"Postpartum Hospital Stay and the Outcomes of Mothers and their Newborns"

October 10

Sarah E. Turner, University of Virginia
"Understanding Increased Time To Degree"

October 17

Robert Moffit, Johns Hopkins University
"Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences"

October 24

Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley
"Peers at Work"

October 31

Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago
"Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia"

November 7

Eli Berman, UCSD
"From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics"

November 14

Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago
"Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities"

November 21

Marcos A. Rangel, University of Chicago

November 28

Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago
"Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks"

December 5

Daniel Sullivan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data"

March 28

Joe Altonji, Yale University
"Modeling Earnings Dynamics"

April 4

David Lee, UC Berkeley
"Crime and Punishment and Myopia"

April 11

Emily Oster, University of Chicago
"Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats Evenly? Health Investments and Gender Inequality in India"

April 18

Bob Kaestner, University of Illinois
"Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight"

April 25

Doug Staiger, Dartmouth College
"Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery"

May 2

Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College
"Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers"

May 9

Daniel Hammermesh, University of Texas
"Time to Eat: Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality"

May 16

Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University
"Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heat Attacks"

May 23

Jeff Smith, University of Michigan

May 30

Julie Berry Cullen, UCSD
"Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming Under a Performance Accountability System" (joint with Randy Reback, Barnard College)

June 6

John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin
"Children and Household Wealth"

September 27

James Heckman, University of Chicago
"The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior"

October 4

Dan Black, Syracuse University & NORC
"Understanding Returns to Education When Wages and Prices Vary by Location" (with Lowell Taylor and Natalia Kolesnikova)

October 11

CANCELLED
Jon Gruber, MIT
"Universal Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply and Child Well-Being"

October 18

Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania
"The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School and Racial Test Score Gaps"

October 25

Bob LaLonde, University of Chicago
"The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women"

November 1

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago, GSB
"Lifecycle Prices and Production"

November 8

David Autor, MIT
"Do Temporary Help Jobs Benefit Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments"

November 15

Gordon Dahl, University of Rochester
"The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement" (with Lance Lochner)

November 22

Chris Taber, Northwestern University
"Inference with 'Difference in Differences' with a Small Number of Policy Changes"

November 29

Ed Vytlacil, Columbia University
"Treatment Effect Bounds: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catherization"