NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003
Labor Studies Workshop
Richard Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
July 28 - August 1, 2003
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY
JULY 28:
ECONOMICS
OF DISCRIMINATION, CULTURE, AND RELIGION
8:00
AM Coffee and Pastries
8:30 AM KEVIN LANG,
Boston University and NBER
Education and
Discrimination in the Labor Market
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER
STEVEN LEVITT,
University of Chicago and NBER
Is Black Culture a
Cause or a Consequence of Racial Inequality:
An Analysis of Names
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM MARKUS MOBIUS, Harvard University and NBER
TANYA ROSENBLAT,
Wesleyan College
Why Beauty Matters
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM AIMEE CHIN,
University of Houston
Long-Run
Labor Market Effects of Japanese-American Internment During World War II on
Working-Age Male Internees
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM JONATHAN
GRUBER, MIT and NBER
Religious Market Structure,
Religious Participation and Outcomes:
Is Religion Good for
You?
3:15 PM ELI BERMAN,
Rice University and NBER
Fertility
and Education in Religious Sects: Evidence from Asia and Africa
4:15 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY
JULY 29:
BEHAVIORAL
LABOR ECONOMICS
8:00 AM Coffee and
Pastries
8:30 AM ERZO
LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER
Do
People Really Care How Much Their Neighbors Earn? The Effect of Relative
Earnings on Well-Being
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM JONATHAN
GURYAN, University of Chicago and NBER
MELISSA
S. KEARNEY, Wellesley College and NBER
State Lotteries,
Decisions under Uncertainty, and Addiction
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER
SARAH TURNER, University
of Virginia and NBER
Cohort Crowding: How
Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment
12:00 N Lunch
UNDERSTANDING
THE WAGE STRUCTURE AND WORKER PRODUCTIVITY
1:00 PM JAMES
HECKMAN, University of Chicago and NBER
LANCE LOCHNER,
University of Rochester and NBER
Distinguishing
Between On-the-Job Training and Learning-by-Doing
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM DAVID
BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER
ALEX BRYSON, Policy
Studies Institute
What
Effect Do Unions Have on Wages Now and Would What Do Unions Do Be Surprised?
3:15 PM THOMAS
LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER
Composition Effects, Wage Measurement,
and the Growth in Within-Group Wage Inequality
4:15 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY
JULY 30:
FACTOR
MOBILITY AND THE LABOR MARKET
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
9:00 AM GEORGE
BORJAS, Harvard University and NBER
The
Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping:
Reexamining
the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM MADELINE ZAVODNY, Occidental College
PIA ORRENIUS, Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas
Does
Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER
ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los
Angeles and NBER
Do Local
Governments Pay Too Much to Attract New Business?
Evidence from Million
Dollar Plants
12:30 PM Lunch
JOINT
SESSION WITH THE CHILDRENS GROUP
1:30 PM PHILIP
OREOPOLOUS, University of Toronto
Do Dropouts Drop Out
Too Soon?
Evidence from Changes in
School-Leaving Laws
2:30 PM JEFFREY
KLING, Princeton University and NBER
JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard
University and NBER
The
Effect of High Poverty Neighborhoods on Child and Youth
Human Capital
Accumulation
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM PATRICK
BAYER, Yale University
Building Criminal
Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections
5:00 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake,
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY,
JULY 31:
JOINT
SESSION WITH ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
8:00 AM Coffee and
Pastries
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM GREG DUNCAN,
Northwestern University
JOHANNE
BOISJOLY, University of Quebec
DAN
LEVY, Mathematica
MICHAEL
KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
JACQUE
ECCLES, University of Michigan
Empathy or Antipathy?
The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and
Behaviors
10:00 AM ERIC GOULD, VICTOR
LAVY, DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University
The
Effect of Early School Environment on Young Adults' Educational Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Using Ethiopian
Immigration to Israel in the Early 1990s
11:00 AM Break
11:30 PM BRIDGET LONG,
Harvard University and NBER
ERIC
BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
The
Effects of Adjunct Professors on Student Outcomes
12:30 N Lunch
1:30 PM THOMAS KANE,
UC, Los Angeles and NBER
STEPHANIE
RIEGG, UC, Los Angeles
DOUGLAS STAIGER,
Dartmouth College and NBER
Changing
School Assignments and Housing Values
2:30 PM JANET
CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
MATTHEW
NEIDELL, University of Chicago
Getting Inside the
Black Box of Head Start Quality:
What Matters and What
Doesn't
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM JOSHUA
ANGRIST, MIT and NBER
JONATHAN GURYAN,
University of Chicago and NBER
Does
Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality?
Evidence from State
Certification Requirements
5:00 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY
AUGUST 1:
JOINT
SESSION WITH EMPIRICAL PERSONNEL ECONOMICS
8:00 AM Coffee and
Pastries
8:30 AM BRUCE FALLICK and CHARLES FLEISCHMAN,
Federal Reserve Board
JAMES REBITZER, Case
Western Reserve University and NBER
Inter-Firm
Mobility, Knowledge Spillovers, and Innovation in High Tech Clusters
9:15 AM Break
9:30 AM EDWARD
LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER
Firm-Specific Human
Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
10:15 AM GEORGE BAKER and
NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University and NBER
Wage
Policies and Investments in Firm-Specific Human Capital
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM SIMON WOODCOCK, Bureau of the Census
Agent
Heterogeneity and Learning: An Application to Labor Markets
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM JOHN ABOWD,
Cornell University and NBER
PAUL
LENGERMANN, Federal Reserve Board
KEVIN
McKINNEY, Bureau of the Census
The
Measurement of Human Capital in the US Economy
2:00 PM JED DEVARO,
Cornell University
Internal
Promotion Competitions in Firms
2:45 PM Break
3:15 PM DAVID AUTOR,
MIT and NBER
Weeding
out the Bad Apples? Screening for
Hourly Wage Jobs
4:00 PM MICHAEL
GIBBS and KATHRYN IERULLI, University of Chicago
EVA
MEYERSSON MILGROM, Stanford University
Title
T.B.D.
4:45 PM Adjourn