National Bureau of Economic Research

Summer Institute 2009

Week 3 Master Agenda July 20 – 24

 

MONDAY, JULY 20

 

 

 

 

8:30 AM

EEE

NICHOLAS MULLER, Middlebury College

 

 

WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

 

 

ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

 

 

Environmental Accounting: Methods with an Application to the United States Economy

 

 

 

 8:45 AM

LS

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Real Wage Inequality

 

 

 

9:00 AM

CH

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

LENA EDLUND, Columbia University

 

 

KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Son Preference and Cultural Assimilation: The Case of Asian Immigrants to Canada

 

 

 

 

IPE

VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School and NBER

 

 

RAMIN BAGHAI, London Business School

 

 

KRISHNAMURTHY SUBRAMANIAN, Emory University

 

 

Labor Laws and innovation

 

 

 

9:30 AM

EEE

GILLES DURANTON and MATTHEW TURNER, University of Toronto

 

 

The Fundamental Law of Highway Congestion: Evidence from the United States

 

 

 

9:50 AM

IPE

NICOLAS SERRANO-VELARDE, Oxford University

 

 

Crowding-Out At The Top: The Heterogeneous Impact of R&D Subsidies on Firm Investment

 

 

 

10:00 AM

LS

ERIK LINDQVIST, IFN, Stockholm

 

 

The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and NonCognitive Skills: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

 

 

(Joint with Roine Vestman)

 

 

 

 

AW

MARK CULLEN, Yale University

 

 

LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University

 

 

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

 

 

 

 

HC

KASEY BUCKLES, University of Notre Dame

 

 

DANIEL HUNGERMAN, University of Notre Dame and NBER

 

 

Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers

 

 

 

11:00 AM

EEE

PAULINA OLIVA, UC, Santa Barbara

 

 

Environmental Regulations and Corruption: Automobile Emissions in Mexico City

 

 

 

 

IPE

ROBERT HUNT and GERALD CARLINO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

What Explains the Quantity and Quality of Local Inventive Activity?

 

 

 

11:10 AM

AW

AMANDA KOWALSKI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care

 

 

 

11:15 AM

LS

TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

The Long Term Earnings Losses After Mass Layoffs and Its Causes: An Analysis Using US Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004

 

 

(Joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester)

 

 

 

11:30 AM

HC

ERIC EDMONDS, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

NORBERT SCHADY, The World Bank

 

 

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

 

 

 

11:50 AM

IPE

CAROLIN HÄUSSLER, Ludwig Maximilians Universität - Munich

 

 

JERRY THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

General and specific information-Sharing Among university bio-scientists

 

 

 

1:00 PM

AW

ANUPAM B. JENA, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

 

TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago

 

 

Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

 

 

 

 

HE

JAMES HECKMAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

GABRIELLA CONTI, University of Chicago

 

 

FLAVIO CUNHA, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Health Formation

 

 

 

 1:15 PM

LS

ALBRECHT GLITZ, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

Job Search Networks and Ethnic Segregation in the Workplace

 

 

(Joint with Christian Dustmann and Uta Schonberg)

 

 

 

1:30 PM

HC

GAREY RAMEY, UC, San Diego

 

 

VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

The Rug Rat Race

 

 

 

1:40 PM

IPE

MEGAN MacGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

 

 

SHULAMIT KAHN, Boston University

 

 

How important is US location for research in science?

 

 

 

1:50 PM

AW

FLORIAN HEISS, University of Munich

 

 

DANIEL MCFADDEN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

JOACHIM WINTER, University of Munich

 

 

The Workings of a Private Health Insurance Market: Enrollment Decisions, Plan Choice, and Adverse Selection In Medicare Part D

 

 

 

2:15 PM

HE

GRANT MILLER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

DIANA PINTO, Pontificia Universidad and Fedesarrollo

 

 

MARCOS VERA-HERNÁNDEZ, University College London

 

 

Supply vs. Demand-Side Rationing in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s “Régimen Subsidiado”

 

 

 

 2:30 PM

LS

BRYAN GRAHAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Measuring the Average Outcome and Spillover Effects of Segregation in the Presence of Social Spillovers

 

 

(Joint with Guido Imbens and Geert Ridder)

 

 

 

 

EEE

LAWRENCE GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

MARK JACOBSEN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

ARTHUR VAN BENTHEM, Stanford University

 

 

Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases per Mile in the Presence of National CAFE Standards

 

 

 

 

HC

EVA MORK, Uppsala University

 

 

ANNA SJÖGREN, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

 

 

Cheaper Child Care, More Children

 

 

 

 

IPE

FABIAN WALDINGER, London School of Economics

 

 

Peer Effects in Science

 

 

 

3:10 PM

AW

JEFFREY R. KLING, Brookings Institution and NBER

 

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

ELDAR SHAFIR, Princeton University

 

 

LEE VERMEULEN, University of Wisconsin

 

 

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Mathematica Policy Research and NBER

 

 

Misperception in Choosing Medicare Drug Plans

 

 

 

 3:30 PM

LS

DAVID NEUMARK, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

 

Neighbors and CoWorkers:  The Importance of Residential Labor Market Outcomes

 

 

(Joint with Judy Hellerstein)

 

 

 

 

HE

BRYAN BOLLINGER, Stanford University

 

 

PHILLIP LESLIE, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

ALAN SORENSEN, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants

 

 

 

3:35 PM

IPE

Panel:  Developing a Science of Science Policy – Research Challenges and Opportunities

 

 

JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

 

ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER

 

 

JULIA LANE, National Science Foundation

 

 

 

3:45 PM

EEE

JOSEPH ALDY, Special Assistant to the President for Energy and the Environment

 

 

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, Council of Economic Advisors

 

 

RICHARD NEWELL, Duke University and NBER

 

 

RICHARD SCHMALENSEE, MIT and NBER

 

 

Panel Discussion:

 

 

The Interface Between Research and Policy on Energy and the Environment

 

 

 

4:00 PM

HC

ALMA COHEN, Tel Aviv University and NBER

 

 

RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Tufts University and NBER

 

 

DMITIR ROMANOV, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel

 

 

Fertility and Incentives

 

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 AM

EEE

CHRIS KNITTEL and DOUGLAS MILLER, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

NICHOLAS SANDERS, UC, Davis

 

 

Caution Drivers! Children Present. Autos, Pollution, and Infant Health

 

 

 

 8:45 AM

LS

STEFANO DELLA VIGNA, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Testing for Altruism and Social Preferences in Charitable Giving

 

 

(Joint with John List and Ulrike Malmendier)

 

 

 

9:00 AM

AW

ALAN GUSTMAN, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

THOMAS STEINMEIER, Texas Tech University

 

 

NAHID TABATABAI, Dartmouth College

 

 

How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined  Contribution Plans and the Vulnerability of the Retirement Age Population to the Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009

 

 

 

 

HE

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

SARAH CATTAN, University of Chicago

 

 

IAIN WARE, 3i Group plc

 

 

Identifying Sibling Influences on Teenage Risky Behavior

 

 

 

 

ENT

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

RON JARMIN and JAVIER MIRANDA, Bureau of the Census

 

 

Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

 

 

 

 

9:30 AM

EEE

SPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State University and NBER

 

 

JOSH SELDON, Science Applications International Corporation

 

 

RANDALL WALSH, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

 

 

Segregation and Tiebout Sorting: Investigating the Link Between Public Goods and Demographic Composition

 

 

 

9:50 AM

AW

JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

GARTH WIENS, Brookings Institute

 

 

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Mathematica Policy Research and NBER(?)

 

 

Framing, Reference Points, and Preferences for Life Annuities

 

 

 

 

ENT

DAVID ROBINSON, Duke University

 

 

Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms (with Alicia Robb)

 

 

 

10:00 AM

LS

RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Adjustment Costs and Earnings Responses to Income Taxation: Evidence from Denmark

 

 

(Joint with Anders Frederiksen, John Friedman, Tore Olsen, Luigi Pistaferri)

 

 

 

10:15 AM

HE

MARIANNE BITLER, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

 

CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

 

Insurance Mandates and Mammography

 

 

 

11:00 AM

EEE

MAXIMILIAN AUFFHAMMER, UC, Berkeley

 

 

RYAN KELLOGG, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality

 

 

 

 

ENT

APRIL FRANCO, University of Toronto

 

 

Who Leaves, to Go Where and Does It Matter? Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship, and the Effects on Parent Firm Performance (with Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell and Martin Ganco)

 

 

 

11:10 AM

AW

ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and  Retirement Readiness

 

 

 

11:15 AM

LS

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

 

 

(Joint with Daron Acemoglu and Matthew Notowidigdo)

 

 

 

11:30AM

HE

EDWARD NORTON, Michigan University and NBER

 

 

LISA POWELL, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

EUNA HAN, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

Direct and Indirect Effects of Teenage Body Weight on Adult Wages

 

 

 

11:50 AM

ENT

MATT MARX, MIT

 

 

Non-Compete Agreements, Technical Expertise, and Staffing Small Firms

 

 

 

1:00 PM

AW

MICHAEL HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND Corporation

 

 

Effects of the Economic Crisis on American Households

 

 

 

 

EEE

MOLLY LIPSCOMB, University of Colorado

 

 

MUSHFIQ MOBARAK, Yale University

 

 

TANIA BARHAM, University of Colorado

 

 

Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Geologic

Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

 

 

 

 

PERE

LEAH BROOKS, University of Toronto

 

 

WILLIAM STRANGE, University of Toronto

 

 

The Micro-Empirics of Providing Collective Goods:  The Case of BIDs

 

 

 

1:15 PM

LS

YONA RUBINSTEIN, Brown University

 

 

Pride and Prejudice Evidence from the Promised Land

 

 

(Dror Brenner)

 

 

 

1:40 PM

ENT

MIRIAM BRUHN and IRENA LOVE, World Bank

 

 

Expanding Access to Finance and Entrepreneurial Activity:  Evidence from Mexico

 

 

 

1:50 PM

AW

COURTNEY COILE and PHILLIP B. LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

Mass Layoffs and the Market Crash: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

 

 

 

2:00 PM

PERE

BENJAMIN OLKEN, MIT and NBER

 

 

MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Informal Taxation

 

 

 

2:15 PM

EEE

SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

To What Price of Electricity Do Customers Respond?

 

 

 

 2:30 PM

LS

GARY SOLON, Michigan State University and NBER

 

 

Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle

 

 

(Joint with Pedro Martins and Jonathan Thomas)

 

 

 

 

ENT

DAVID MCKENZIE, The World Bank

 

 

Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (with Suresh De Mel and Christopher Woodruff)

 

 

 

3:10 PM

AW

HUGO BENÍTEZ-SILVA, SUNY-Stony Brook

 

 

SERGI JIMÉNEZ-MARTÍN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

J. IGNACIO GARCÍA-PÉREZ

 

 

A Cross Country Comparison of the Effects of Social Security Policies and Employment Uncertainty on the Labor Supply and Claiming Behavior of Older Workers

 

 

 

 3:30 PM

LS

MICHAEL ELSBY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

 

 

(Joint with Matthew Shapiro)

 

 

 

 

EEE

RICHARD HORNBECK, MIT

 

 

Quantifying Long-Term Adjustment to Environmental Change: Evidence from the American Dust Bowl

 

 

 

 

PERE

DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

 

 

CHRISTOPHER PALMER, MIT

 

 

PARAG PATHAK, MIT and NBER

 

 

Externalities from Rent Control?  Evidence from Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

3:35 PM

ENT

Panel: Entrepreneurship Education and Research Opportunities

 

 

FELDA HARDYMON, Harvard University

 

 

ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

 

 

ROBERT STROM, Kauffman Foundation

 

 

 

 4:30 PM

LS

Adjourn

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 AM

PERE

LEO FELER, Brown University

 

 

The Effect of the Spatial Allocation of Credit on Employment and Production: Evidence from the Privatization of Brazilian Banks

 

 

 

 

LE

ALBERT CHOI, University of Virginia School of Law

 

 

Shrink Wraps: Who Should Bear the Cost of Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms? (Joint with Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University)

 

 

 

 8:45 AM

AW/PESS

JEFFREY LIEBMAN and ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You’d Think

 

 

 

9:00 AM

IPPI

STUART GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

ROBERT BARR, ROBERT MERGES, PAM SAMUELSON and TED SICHELMAN, UC, Berkeley

 

 

High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

 

 

 

 

LS/ED

ERIC BETTINGER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

LISA SANBONMATSU

 

 

The Role of Information and Simplification in College Decisions: Results from the FAFSA Experiment

 

 

 

9:25 AM

LE

OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Bengt Holmstrom, MIT and NBER)

 

 

A Theory of Firm Scope

 

 

 

10:00 AM

AW/PESS

DAYANAND MANOLI, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

KATHLEEN MULLEN, RAND Corporation

 

 

MATHIS WAGNER, University of Chicago

 

 

Risk Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify & Estimate a Structural Parameter

 

 

 

 

PERE

FRANCOIS ORTALO-MAGNE, University of Wisconsin

 

 

ANDREA PRAT, London School of Economics

 

 

The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice

 

 

 

 

IPPI

ZHEN LEI and BRIAN WRIGHT, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Rational Ignorance or Pro-‘Customer’ Tilt?

 

 

 

 

LS/ED

SIMON BURGESS and ELLEN GREAVES, Bristol University

 

 

Subjective Assessment, Stereotyping and Performance: Ethnic Minorities in England's Schools

 

 

 

10:35 AM

LE

ALAN SCHWARTZ, Yale Law School

 

 

JOEL WATSON, UC - San Diego

 

 

Contextual Asymmetry, Contractual Interpretation, and the Choice of External Enforcer

 

 

 

11:00 AM

PERE

RAJ CHETTY, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

ADAM SZEIDL, UC, Berkeley

 

 

The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice

 

 

 

11:15 AM

AW/PESS

ROOZBEH HOSSEINI, Arizona State University

 

 

Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security

 

 

 

 

IPPI

SHARON BELENZON, Duke University

 

 

MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

 

Localization of University Knowledge Spillovers: State Borders, Private Ownership and Local Development Mandates

 

 

 

 

LS/ED

KIRABO CLEMENT JACKSON, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

ELIAS BRUEGGEMAN, Cornerstone Research

 

 

Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: the Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers

 

 

 

11:45 AM

LE

VIRAL V. ACHARYA, Stern School of Business, New York University

 

 

(Joint with Ramin Baghai-Wadji, London Business School, and Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Goizueta Business School, Emory University)

 

 

Labor Laws and Innovation

 

 

 

1:00 PM

PERE

JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

STEFANO GIGLIO, Harvard University

 

 

PARAK PATHAK, MIT and NBER

 

 

Forced Sales and House Prices

 

 

 

 1:15 PM

AW/PESS

JOHN GEANAKOPLOS, Yale University

 

 

STEPHEN P. ZELDES, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

The Market Value of Social Security

 

 

 

 

IPPI

PETRA MOSER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

ALESSANDRA VOENA, Stanford University

 

 

Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

 

 

 

 

LS/ED

GIACOMO DE GIORGI, Stanford University

 

 

MICHELE PELLIZZARI, IGIER

 

 

WILLIAM GUI WOOLSTON, Stanford University

 

 

Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

 

 

 

1:30 PM

LE

DAVID S. ABRAMS, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

 

Did TRIPS Spur Innovation? An Empirical Analysis of Patent Duration and Incentives to Innovate

 

 

 

2:00 PM

PERE

TOMASZ PISKORSKI, Columbia University

 

 

AMIT SERU, University of Chicago

 

 

VIKRANT VIG, London Business School

Securtization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation:  Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

 

 

 

2:15 PM

LS/ED

JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

MARIESA HERRMANN, Columbia University

 

 

The Impact of Teaching Disruptions on Student Achievement

 

 

 

2:25 PM

LE

ALLEN FERRELL, Harvard Law School

 

 

(Joint with Martijn Cremers, Yale School of Management)

 

 

Thirty Years of Corporate Governance: Determinants & Equity Prices

 

 

 

 2:30 PM

AW/PESS

FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Has Pharmaceutical Innovation Reduced Social Security Disability Growth?

 

 

 

 

IPPI

NISVAN ERKAL, University of Melbourne

 

 

SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use It, Lose It, or Bank It

 

 

 

 3:30 PM

AW/PESS

PIERRE-CARL MICHAUD, RAND Corporation

 

 

DANA GOLDMAN and DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

YUHUI ZHENG and ADAM H. GAILEY, RAND Corporation

 

 

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

 

 

 

 

PERE

PIET EICHHOLTZ, Maastricht University

 

 

NILS KOK, Masstricht University

 

 

JOHN QUIGLEY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Doing Well by Doing Good?  Green Office Buildings

 

 

 

 

IPPI

PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Institutional Ownership and Iinnovation

 

 

 

 

LS/ED

KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

VENKATESH SUNDARARAMAN, The World Bank

 

 

Contract Teachers:  Experimental Evidence from India

 

 

 

3:35 PM

LE

DALIDA KADYRZHANOVA, University of Maryland Smith School of Business

 

 

(Joint with Kose John, New York University Stern School of Business)

 

 

Agency Costs of Idiosyncratic Volatility, Corporate Governance, and Investment

 

 

 

4:30 PM

LE

LI JIN, Harvard Business School

 

 

(Joint with Zhonglan Dai, University of Texas-Dallas School of Management and Weining Zhang, University of Texas-Dallas School of Management)

 

 

Litigation Risk and Executive Compensation

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 

 

 

 8:45 AM

LS

THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Performance Pay Wage Flexibility and Hours of Work

 

 

(Daniel Parent and Bentley Macleod)

 

 

 

 

LE

J.J. PRESCOTT, University of Michigan Law School

 

 

KATHRYN SPIER, Harvard Law School and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Albert Yoon, University of Toronto Faculty of Law)

 

 

Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements

 

 

 

 

PPL

DAVID ABRAMS, University of Chicago

 

 

Learning about Wage Rigidity from A Long- run Experiment in a Virtual World

 

 

 

9:00 AM

AW/HC

SRIKANTH KADIYALA, University of Washington

 

 

ERIN STRUMPF, McGill University

 

 

The Impact of Cancer Screening Guideline Information on Cancer Detection

 

 

 

9:40 AM

LE

NACI MOCAN, Louisiana State University and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Richard T. Boylan, Rice University)

 

 

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform

 

 

 

10:00 AM

LS

LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

Measuring Selectivity and Returns in the Age of Mass Migration

 

 

(Ran Abramitzky and Katherin Eriksson)

 

 

 

 

AW/HC

KENNETH CHAY, Brown University and NBER

 

 

SHAILENDER SWAMINATHAN, University of Alabama

 

 

Medicare, Hospital Care Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from the Origins of the Federal Intervention

 

 

 

 

PPL

JAY HARTZELL, University of Texas

 

 

Is a Higher Calling Enough?  Incentive Compensation in the Church

 

 

 

10:50 AM

LE

CLAIRE LIM, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

 

 

Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges

 

 

 

11:15 AM

LS

DANIELE PASSERMAN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments: Evidence from the Duration in Office of Italian Mayors

 

 

(Joint with Stefano Gagliarduuci)

 

 

 

 

PPL

DOUGLAS FRANK, INSEAD

 

 

Ability and Agency Costs: Evidence from Polish Banking

 

 

 

11:30 AM

AW/HC

ELIZABETH TY WILDE, Columbia University

 

 

Do Response Times Matter?  The Impact of EMS Response Times on Health Outcomes

 

 

 

11:45 AM

LE

PAUL OYER, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and NBER

 

 

(Joint with Scott Schaefer, University of Utah)

 

 

The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School

 

 

 

1:15 PM

LS

PATRICIA CORTES, University of Chicago

 

 

Outsourcing Household Production:

 

 

Effects of Foreign Domestic Helpers on Native Labor Supply in Hong Kong

 

 

(Joint with Jessica Pan)

 

 

 

 

PPL

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

Peer Salary Disclosure and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a field Experiment

 

 

 

1:30 PM

AW/HC

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER

 

 

AMANDA KOWALSKI, MIT and NBER

 

 

HEIDI WILLIAMS, Harvard University

 

 

Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

 

 

 

 

LE

VIKRANT VIG, London Business School

 

 

(Joint with Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia Business School and Amit Seru, University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

 

Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

 

 

 

 

2:25 PM

LE

ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Dartmouth College

 

 

(Joint with Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College)

 

 

Snowed: Deceptive Advertising by Ski Resorts

 

 

 

2:30 PM

LS

JOHANNES SCHMIEDER, Columbia University

 

 

Labor Costs and the Evolution of New Establishments

 

 

 

 

AW/HC

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

 

SAMUEL KLEINER, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

 

Do Strikes Kill?  Evidence from Hospital Strikes in New York State

 

 

 

 

PPL

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

Testing Three-Way Complementarities: Evidence from Incentives, Monitoring and Technology in a Human Capital Management System

 

 

 

3:30 PM

LS

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

 

Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology

 

 

(Joint with Mirko Draca and Nicholas Bloom)

 

 

 

 

PPL

KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

 

 

 

3:35 PM

LE

MARK HOEKSTRA, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

(Joint with Paige Marta Skiba, Vanderbilt University Law School and Scott Hankins, University of Kentucky)

 

 

The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery

 

 

 

4:00 PM

AW/HC

STEPHEN T. PARENTE, ROGER FELDMAN and LEWIS SANDY, University of Minnesota

 

 

Does Access to Transparent Provider Quality and Cost Information Affect Health Care Cost and Utilization of Preventive Services?

 

 

 

4:30 PM

LE

RYAN BUBB, Harvard University

 

 

(Joint with Alex Kaufman, Harvard University)

 

 

Consumer Biases and Firm Ownership

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 

 

 

8:45 AM

PPL

ANDREA ICHINO, University of Bologna

 

 

A Theory of Overwhelm with an Application to the Productivity of  Italian Judges

 

 

 

 

ML

JOHN LIST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Using Field Experiments in Economics: An Introduction

 

 

 

 9:00 AM

HC/AW

ANN BARTEL, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

CIARAN PHIBBS, Stanford University

 

 

NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University

 

 

PATRICIA STONE, Columbia University

 

 

Human Capital and Productivity: The Case of Nursing Teams

 

 

 

 

PENS

WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University

 

 

The Effect of the Security Environment on Military Expenditures

 

 

 

9:50 AM

PENS

PACO MARTORELL, RAND Corporation

 

 

JACOB KLERMAN, Abt Associates

 

 

DAVID LOUGHRAN, RAND Corporation

 

 

New Evidence on the Effects of Voluntary Military Service on Labor Market Outcomes

 

 

 

10:00 AM

HC/AW

JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER

 

 

STEVEN EWER, Meriter Hospital

 

 

TODD WAGNER, Stanford University

 

 

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

 

 

 

 

PPL

FRANCOIS RYCX, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

 

 

Inter-industry Wage Differentials: How much Does Rent Sharing Matter?

 

 

 

10:30 AM

ML

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Conducting Field Research in Developing Countries

 

 

 

11:00 AM

PENS

ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University Jerusalem

 

 

ESTEBAN KLOR, Hebrew University Jerusalem

 

 

Does Terrorism Work?

 

 

 

11:15 AM

PPL

CANICE PRENDERGAST, University of Chicago

 

 

Contracts and Conflict in Organizations

 

 

 

11:30 AM

HC/AW

LEEMORE DAFNEY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

SUBRAMANIAM RAMANARAYANAN, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

Paying a Premium on Your Premium?  Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry

 

 

 

11:50 AM

PENS

GARY BECKER, University of Chicago

 

 

YONA RUBINSTEIN, Brown University

 

 

Fear and the Response to Terrorism

 

 

 

12:15 PM

ML

Luncheon Panel Discussion:  Design of Data Infrastructure

 

 

JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER, Chair

 

 

DAN BLACK, University of Chicago

 

 

RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

ARTHUR KENNICKELL, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

JULIA LANE, National Science Foundation

 

 

 

 1:30 PM

HC/AW

CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol

 

 

MATT SUTTON, Manchester University

 

 

CAROLYN WHITNALL, University of Bristol

 

 

FRANK WINDMEIJER, University of Bristol

 

 

Incentives and Targets in Hospital Care: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

 

 

 

 

PENS

STEVEN CHABINSKY, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

 

 

The Nature of Cyber Threats

 

 

 

1:45 PM

ML

JOHN LIST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Using Field Experiments in Economics: An Introduction (continued)

 

 

 

 2:30 PM

HC/AW

PHIL LEVINE and ROBIN MCKNIGHT, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

SAMANTHA HEEP, Wellesley College

 

 

Public Policy, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood

 

 

 

 

PENS

JACK GOLDSMITH, Harvard University

 

 

Economic Issues in Dealing with Cyber Security

 

 

 

3:30 PM

ML

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Conducting Field Research in Developing Countries (continued)

 

 

 

3:50 PM

PENS

ERWANN O. MICHEL-KERJAN and PAUL A. RASCHKY, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

HOWARD C. KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

 

 

 

 4:00 PM

HC/AW

LAUREN NICHOLAS, University of Michigan

 

 

Do Pay for Performance Incentives Improve Inpatient Quality of Care?

 

 

 

4:40 PM

PENS

ROXANNE BRAS, United States Army

 

 

Is Counterinsurgency the Graduate Level of Warfare? Evidence from Commanders in Operation Iraqi Freedom