Workshops

Public Policy & Economics Workshop Paper Archive

Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University (5/24/11)
"Informal Insurance, Social Networks, and Savings Access: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field"
Alex Gelber, University of Pennsylvania (5/10/11)
"Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men"
Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago (5/3/11)
"Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence"
Joe Altonji, Yale University (4/26/11)
"The Contribution of Family, School and Community Characteristics to Inequality in Education and Labor Market Outcomes"
Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University (4/19/11)
"The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions"
Valerie Ramey, UC San Diego (4/12/11)
"Is there a 'Tiger Mother' Effect? Time Use Across Ethnic Groups"
"The Rug Rat Race: Comments and Discussion"
Imran Rasul, University College London (3/15/11)
"The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration"
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Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics (3/9/11)
"No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives and Productivity in a Non-Profit Organization"
Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia (3/1/11)"Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure"
Anup Malani, University of Chicago (12/7/10)
"Accounting for anticipation effects: an application to medical malpractice tort reform"
James Rauch, University of California, San Diego (11/30/10)
"Mobilizing Social Capital Through Employee Spinoffs: Evidence from Brazil"
Magne Mogstad, Statistics Norway & University of Oslo (11/23/10)
"Internet Pornography: Catharsis or Catalyst for Sexual Crime?"
Naomi Feldman, Ben-Gurion University (11/16/10)
"Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball"
Oliver Falck, University of Munich (10/26/10)
"Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange"
Sendhil Mullanaithan, Harvard University (10/12/10)
"Self Control at Work"
Daniel Bennett, University of Chicago (10/5/10)
"Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan"
Joe Hotz, Duke University (9/28/10)
"Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance"
Dan Hamermesh, University of Texas (6/1/10)
"How to Assimilate? The Time Use of Immigrants"
Ofer Malamud, University of Chicago (5/11/10)
"Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital"
Pat Bayer, Duke University (5/4/10)
"Race in the Courthouse"
Marco Caliendo, Institute for the Study of Labor (4/20/10)
"Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies"
Peter Arcidiancono, Duke University (4/6/10)
"Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals"
Michael Kremer, Harvard University (3/30/10)
"When Are Drugs More Lucrative Than Vaccines?"
Peter Dolton, University of London (3/16/10)
"What Lies Beneath? The Intertemporal Labour Supply Elasticity for Daily Workers"
James Sallee, University of Chicago (12/1/09)
"Car Notches"
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University (11/24/09)
"Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data"
Chris Woodruff, University of California, San Diego (11/17/09)
"What is the Cost of Formality? Experimentally estimating the demand for formalization"
Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University (11/10/09)
"Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Volatility"
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University (11/3/09)
"Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality"
Hank Farber, Princeton University (10/27/09)
"Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections"
Liz Ananat, Duke University (10/20/09)
"The Effects of Local Employment Losses on Children's Educational Achievement"
Ben Jones, Northwestern University (10/6/09)
"The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered"
Meghan Busse, Northwestern University (9/29/09)
"Pain at the Pump: How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Purchasing in New and Used Markets"

Spring 2009 Workshops

March 31	James Heckman, Univeristy of Chicago "The Rate of Return to the Perry Preschool Program" (with Seong Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Saveleyev, and Adamy Yavitz)
April 7	Nathan Anderson, University of Illinois at Chicago "Things My Mortgage Broker Never Told Me: Escrow, Property Taxes, and Mortgage Delinquency"
April 14	John Kennan, University of Wisconsin Madison
April 21	Roger Gordon, University of California, San Diego "Income Redistribution in a Federal System of Governments"
April 28	Dan Black, University of Chicago "The Role of Location in the Measuring Black-White Wage Disparity"
May 5	Jane Herr, University of Chicago "'Opt-Out' Rates at Motherhood across High-Education Career Paths: Selection Versus Work Environment"
May 12	Ken Chay, University of California, Berkeley "Mortality and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation of Status and Life Expectancy"
May 19	Adriana Kugler, University of Houston "Katrina's Children: A Natural Experiment in Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees"
May 26	Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago "Inequality in the United States Since 1960"
June 2	Carola Frydman, MIT "Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms"

Winter 2009 Workshops

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

Fall 2008 Workshops

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"

Spring 2008 Workshops

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"

Fall 2007 Workshops

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"

Spring 2007 Workshops

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

Fall 2006 Workshops

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"

Spring 2006 Workshops

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"

Fall 2005 Workshops

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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