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Public Policy & Economics Workshop Archive
Fall 2007 |
Spring 2007 |
Fall 2006 |
Spring 2006 |
Fall 2005
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"
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October 9
Jens Ludwig, University
of Chicago
"The Effects of Housing Vouchers on Children's Outcomes"
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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"
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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"
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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" |
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