National Bureau of Economic Reasearch

Summer Institute 2008

Week 3 Master Agenda July 21 -- 25

 

 

 

 

MONDAY JULY 21:

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

EEE

ERICH J. MUEHLEGGER and HUNT ALLCOTT, Harvard University

 

 

 

Demand for Fuel Efficiency and the Effects of Tighter Automotive Fuel Economy Standards

 

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

DAVID DORN, MIT

 

 

 

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

CH

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

BHASKAR MAZUMDER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

 

The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan on Adult Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

AW

JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

STEVEN VENTI, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 

DAVID A. WISE, The Kennedy School of Government and NBER

 

 

 

Demographic Trends, Housing Equity, and the Financial Security of Future Retirees

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

IPE

AMALIA MILLER, University of Virginia

 

 

 

CATHERINE TUCKER, MIT

 

 

 

Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records

 

 

 

 

 

9:30 am

EEE

THOMAS KLIER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

 

JOSHUA LINN, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

 

CAFE Regulation, New Vehicle Technology and Consumer Welfare

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 am

AW

THOMAS DAVIDOFF, University of California Berkeley

 

 

 

Illiquid Housing as Self-Assurance: The Case of Long Term Care

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

CH

DANIELA VURI, University of Rome

 

 

 

The Impact of Change in Child Custody Laws on Mothers and Children: Who Gains, Who Loses

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

IPE

YI DENG, University of South Florida

 

 

 

Trade Balance of Patent Rights: Who Gains what from International Patent Harmonization and Why?

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

RAJ CHETTY, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

ADAM LOONEY, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

KORY KROFT, UC Berkeley

 

 

 

Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

EEE

ALAN FUCHS, UC Berkeley

 

 

 

PAUL GERTLER and CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

Household Energy Use in Developing Countries: Anti-Poverty Programs and Appliance Acquisition

 

 

 

 

 

11:10 am

AW

LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University

 

 

 

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

PAUL SCHRIMPF, MIT

 

 

 

The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the UK Annuity Market

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

IPE

BEN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development, Reconsidered

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

MAIA GUELL, Universitat Pompeu Fabua

 

 

 

JOSE V. RODRIGUEZ MORA, University of Southampton

 

 

 

CHRIS TELMER, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

 

Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

CH

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

MARTEN PALME and PER PETTERSON LIDBOM,

 

 

 

Stockholm School of Economics

 

 

 

The Long Run Impacts of Public Child Care on Child Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

AW

FRANCO PERACCHI, University of Rome II

 

 

 

CLAUDIO ROSSETTI, University of Rome II

 

 

 

Gender and regional differences in self-rated health in Europe

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

HE

JASON FLETCHER, Yale University

 

 

 

DAVID FRISVOLD, University of Michigan

 

 

 

Higher Education and Health Investment: Does More Schooling Affect Preventive Health Care Use?

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PET

GERALD AUTEN, Department of the Treasury

 

 

 

ROBERT CARROLL, American University

 

 

 

Taxes and Dividends: Evidence from the Lower Dividend Taxes Enacted in 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

LS

DANIEL BENJAMIN, Cornell University

 

 

 

JAMES J. CHOI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

A. JOSHUA STRICKLAND, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

 

 

 

Social Identity and Preferences

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

CH

JENS LUDWIG, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

KAREN NORBERG, Washington University and NBER

 

 

 

DAVE MARCOTTE, University of Maryland

 

 

 

Anti-Depressants and Suicide

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

IPE

MARGARET KYLE, London Business School and NBER

 

 

 

ANITA McGAHAN, University of Toronto

 

 

 

Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

AW

DORA COSTA, UCLA and NBER

 

 

 

MATTHEW KAHN, UCLA

 

 

 

Health, Stress and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PET

MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

LI JIN, Harvard University

 

 

 

Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy

 

 

 

 

 

2:15 pm

HE

PINAR KARACA-MANDIC, University of Minnesota

 

 

 

GREG RIDGEWAY, RAND Corporation

 

 

 

Behavioral Impact of Graduated Driver Licensing on Teenage Driving Risk and Exposure

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

EEE

MARTIN J. OSBORNE and MATTHEW TURNER, University of Toronto

 

 

 

Cost Benefit Analysis vs. Referenda

 

 

 

 

 

 2:30 am

LS

NICOLE FORTIN, University of British Columbia

 

 

 

Gender Role Attitudes and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out and the Persistent Appeal of Housewifery

 

 

 

 

 

2:45 pm

IPE

WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

 

 

 

WILLIAM LINCOLN, University of Michigan

 

 

 

The Supply Side of Innovation:  H1-B Visas and US Ethnic Innovation

 

 

 

 

 

3:10 pm

AW

KATHERINE BAICKER, Harvard School of Public Health and NBER

 

 

 

JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 

How Much Should the US Spend on Health Care?

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EEE

NIKHIL AGARWAL, CHANONT BANTERNGHANSA, AND LINDA T.M. BUI, Brandeis University

 

 

 

Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

HE

EMILIA SIMEONOVA, Columbia University

 

 

 

Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Gap: What Are the Causes?

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 am

LS

DEVIN POPE, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

JUSTIN SYDNOR, Case Western University

 

 

 

What’s in a Picture: Evidence from Prosper.com

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PET

KEVIN MUMFORD, Purdue University

 

 

 

Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

CH

ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University

 

 

 

VICTOR LAVY and M. DANIELLE PASERMAN,

 

 

 

Hebrew University and NBER

 

 

 

Sixty YearsaAfter the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

4:30 pm

PET

JUSTIN MARION, UC-Santa Cruz

 

 

 

ERICH MUEHLEGGER, Harvard University

 

 

 

Tax Evasion and Commodity Tax Incidence: Theory and Evidence from Diesel Fuel Sales

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 22:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

EEE

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

CLAIR NULL, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

ALIX PETERSON ZWANE, google.org 

 

 

 

Trickle Down: Diffusion of Chlorine for Drinking Water Treatment in Kenya

 

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

MATTHEW NOTOWIDIGDO, MIT

 

 

 

What Good is Wealth without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

AW

JAMES CHOI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

BRIGITTE C. MADRIAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

HE

JESSICA COHEN, Brookings Institution

 

 

 

PASCALINE DUPAS, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

IPPI

ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

 

 

LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

 

 

KAMAL SAGGI, Southern Methodist University

 

 

 

Strong Medicine: Patent Reform and the Emergence of a Research-Driven Pharmaceutical Industry in India

 

 

 

 

 

9:30 am

EEE

ANDREW LEACH, University of Alberta

 

 

 

CHARLES F. MASON, and KLAAS van’t VELD, University of Wyoming

 

 

 

Economic Co-optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 am

AW

Robert J. Willis, University of Michigan

 

 

 

Gabor Kezdi, Central European University

 

 

 

Stock Market Expectations and Portfolio Choice of American Households

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

IPPI

SCOTT BAKER, University of North Carolina

 

 

 

JOHN CONLEY, University of North Carolina

 

 

 

ARVIND MALHOTRA, University of North Carolina

 

 

 

Does the Market Care about Changes in Patent Law?

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

ANDREAS MUELLER, Princeton University

 

 

 

Job Search and Unemployment Benefits: New Evidence from Time Use Data

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

PERE

LU HAN, University of Toronto

 

 

 

SEUNG HYUN HONG, University of Illinois

 

 

 

Entry and Inefficiency in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

HE

DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 

ANDREW OSWALD, University of Warwick

 

 

 

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

EEE

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

LENA EDLUND, Columbia University

 

 

 

MARTEN PALME, Stockholm University

 

 

 

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

PERE

DeFOREST McDUFF, Princeton University

 

 

 

Home Price Risk, Local Market Shocks, and Index Hedging

 

 

 

 

 

11:10

AW

JAMES CHOI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

DANIEL J. BENJAMIN, Cornell University

 

 

 

A. JOSHUA STRICKLAND, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

 

 

 

Social Identity and Preferences

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

IPPI

KRISHNAMURTHY SUBRAMANIAN, Emory University

 

 

 

Firm Boundaries in the New Economy: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

BARBARA PETRONGOLO, London School of Economics

 

 

 

What are the Long-Term Effects of UI? Evidence from the UK JSA Reform

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

HE

MICHAEL ANDERSON, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

DAVID MATSA, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

AW

ALAN GUSTMAN, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 

THOMAS STEINMEIER, Texas Tech University

 

 

 

How Does Modeling of Retirement Decisions at the Family Level Affect Estimates of the Impact of Social Security Policies on Retirement

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EEE

MARTIN WEITZMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

PATRICK KLINE, Yale University

 

 

 

MATIAS BUSSO, University of Michigan

 

 

 

Do Local Economic Development Programs Work?  Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program

 

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

IPPI

MARK LEMLEY, Stanford University

 

 

 

BHAVEN SAMPAT, Columbia University

 

 

 

Examiner Characteristics and the Patent Grant Rate

 

 

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

LS

ILYANA KUZIEMKO, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

Avoiding the Vietnam Draft: Divergent Behavior of the Rich and Poor and the Effect on Human Capital Accumulation

 

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PESI

LI GAN, Texas A&M Univeristy

 

 

 

LIXIN COLIN XU, The World Bank

 

 

 

YANG YAO, Peking University

 

 

 

Elections and Consumption Insurance: Evidence from Chinese Villages

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

AW

ERIN STRUMPF, McGill University

 

 

 

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Early Retirees: Impacts on Retirement, Health & Health Care

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PERE

TODD SINAI, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

NICHOLAS SOULELES, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?

 

 

 

 

 

2:15 pm

EEE

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

JOHN LIST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

The Interaction of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Firms’ Expansions and Contractions

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

IPPI

ALBERTO GALASSO, University of Toronto

 

 

 

MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

 

 

Patent Thickets and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from the Settlement of Patent Disputes

 

 

 

 

 

 2:30 pm

LS

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

PRASHANT BHARADWAJ and FABIAN LANGE, Yale University

 

 

 

Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PESI

MANOJ MOHANAN, Harvard University

 

 

 

Consumption Smoothing and Household Responses: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Health Shocks

 

 

 

 

 

3:10 pm

AW

MICHAEL HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

 

 

SUSAN ROHWEDDER, RAND Corporation

 

 

 

Alternative Measures of Replacement Rates

 

 

 

 

 

3:15 pm

EEE

KEVIN K. TSUI, Clemson University

 

 

 

Resource Curse? A Theory of Contestable Political Markets with Endogenous Entry Barriers

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

IPPI

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

MORTON SORENSEN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

PER STROMBERG, Stockholm Institute for Financial Research and NBER

 

 

 

Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation

 

 

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

KENNETH CHAY, Brown University and NBER

 

 

 

JONATHAN GURYAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

BHASKAR MAZUMDER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

 

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Role of Health Soon after Birth

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PERE

ALBERT SAIZ, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

On Local Housing Supply Elasticity

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PESI

JEFF KLING, Brookings Institution and NBER

 

 

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

ELDAR SHAFIR, Princeton University

 

 

 

LEE VERMEULEN, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

 

 

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Harvard University

 

 

 

Misperceived Prices: Medicare Drug Plan Choice

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 23

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

PERE

SUMIT AGARWAL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

 

BRENT AMBROSE, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

 

Does It Pay to Read Junk Mail? Evidence of the Effect of Advertising on Home Equity Credit Choices

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

PESS

ENRICO PEROTTI, University of Amsterdam

 

 

 

The Political Origin of Pension Funding and State Ownership

 

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth and NBER

 

 

 

When the Saints Come Marching in:  The Effects of Katrina Evacuees on Student Achievement, Substance Use and Crime

 

 

 

 

 

9:30 am

PESS

JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

LYDIA TEJEDA-ASHTON, Yale University

 

 

 

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

MIGUEL URQUIOLA, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

Estimating the Effects of Attending a Selective School

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

PERE

THOMAS DAVIDOFF, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

Illiquid Housing as Self-Insurance: The Case of Long-Term Care

 

 

 

 

 

10:45 pm

PESS

ALAN AUERBACH and RONALD LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

PERE

DAVID RIDLEY, Duke University

 

 

 

FRANK SLOAN, Duke University and NBER

 

 

 

Retail Zoning and Competition

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

SCOTT E. CARRELL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

 

MARK L. HOEKSTRA, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

Externalities in the Classroom: How Domestic Violence Harms Everyone's Kids

 

 

 

 

 

12:45 pm

PESS

GIOVANNI MASTROBUONI, Collegio Carlo Alberto

 

 

 

Labor Supply Effects of the Recent Social Security Benefit Cuts:Empirical Estimates Using Cohort Discontinuities

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PERE

CHRISTOPHER MAYER, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

TOMASZ PISKORSKI, Columbia University

 

 

 

ALEXEI TCHISTYI, New York University

 

 

 

The Inefficiency of Refinancing: Why Prepayment Penalties Are Good for Risky Borrowers

 

 

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

LS

LEIGH LINDEN, FANG HE and MARGARET MACLEOD, Columbia University

 

 

 

How to Teach English in India:  Testing the Relative Productivity of Instruction Methods within the Pratham English Language Education Program

 

 

 

 

 

1:45 pm

PESS

ERZO LUTTMER and JEFFREY LIEBMAN,

 

 

 

Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

DAVID SEIF, Harvard University

 

 

 

Labor Supply Response to the Social Security Tax-Benefit Linkage

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 pm

PERE

AMIT SERU, University of Chicago

 

 

 

BENJAMIN KEYS, University of Michigan

 

 

 

TANMOY MUKHERJEE, Sorin Capital Management

 

 

 

VIKRANT VIG, London Business School

 

 

 

Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence From Subprime Loans 2001-2006

 

 

 

 

 

 2:30 pm

LS

SANDRA BLACK, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

 

PAUL J. DEVEREUX, University College Dublin

 

 

 

KJELL G. SALVANES, Norwegian School of Economics

 

 

 

Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm

PESS

ADELINE DELAVANDE and SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND

 

 

 

Individuals’ Responses to Social Security Reform

 

 

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

THOMAS KANE, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 

Are Teacher-Level Value-Added Estimates Biased? An Experimental Validation of Non-Experimental Estimates

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PERE

PAUL WILLEN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

 

 

 

KRISTOPHER GERARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

 

ADAM HALE SHAPIRO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

 

Subprime Outcomes: Risky Mortgages, Homeownership Experiences, and Foreclosures

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PESS

GAOBO PANG and MARK WARSHAWSKY, Watson Wyatt Worldwide

 

 

 

Optimizing the Equity-Bond-Annuity Portfolio in Retirement: The Impact of Uncertain Health Expenses.

 

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 

 

 

8:40 am

LE

VICTOR STANGO, UC, Davis

 

 

 

(Joint with Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College)

 

 

 

Fuzzy Math, Disclosure Regulation and Credit Market Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

8:45 am

CRI

IAN AYRES, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

ISRA BATTY, Yale University

 

 

 

Using Dollar Severity Weights to Provide a Better Aggregate Assessment of Crime Trends

 

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

REMA HANNA, New York University

 

 

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

HC

ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

 

GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, University of Arizona and NBER

 

 

 

CLAUDIO LUCARELLI, Cornell University

 

 

 

PHILIPP SCHMIDT-DENGLER, London School of Economics

 

 

 

Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals

 

 

 

 

 

9:40 am

LE

ANDREW DAUGHETY and JENNIFER REINGANUM, Vanderbilt University

 

 

 

Privacy, Publicity, and Choice

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

CRI

CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

 

 

CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

 

 

 

The Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, and Crime

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

ERIC GOULD and OMER MOAV, Hebrew University

 

 

 

When is Too Much Inequality Not Enough? The Selection of Israeli Emigrants

 

 

 

 

 

10:05 am

HC

KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

NEALE MAHONEY, Stanford University

 

 

 

Pricing, Matching and Efficiency in Health Plan Choice

 

 

 

 

 

10:35 am

LE

MARTHA BAILEY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

 

Momma's Got the Pill: Griswold v. Connecticut and U.S. Childbearing

 

 

 

 

 

10:55 am

HC

ELLEN MEARA and RICHARD G. FRANK, Harvard Medical School and NBER

 

 

 

The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Children’s Cognitive, Behavioral, and Educational Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

CRI

ETHAN COHEN-COLE, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

 

STEVEN DURLAUF, University Of Wisconsin and NBER

 

 

 

JEFFREY FAGAN, Columbia University

 

 

 

DANIEL NAGIN, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

 

Model Uncertainty and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

DONGGYUN SHIN, Hanyang University

 

 

 

GARY SOLON, Michigan State University and NBER

 

 

 

Trends in Men’s Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?

 

 

 

 

 

11:25 am

LE

PINAR KARACA-MANDIC, University of Minnesota

 

 

 

Behavioral Impact of Graduated Driver Licensing on Teenage Driving Risk and Exposure

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

HC

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

ERZO F.P. LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

MATT NOTOWIDIGDO, MIT

 

 

 

What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 am

LS

BRIAN JACOB, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

 

JENS LUDWIG, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

Neighborhood Effects on Crime

 

 

 

 

 

1:05 pm

PPL

MARIA GUADALUPE, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

JULIE WULF, Harvard University

 

 

 

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

PPL

LISA KAHN, Harvard University

 

 

 

Asymmetric Information between Employers

 

 

 

 

 

2:05 pm

HC

KARINE LAMIRAUD, University of Lausanne

 

 

 

STEPHANE LHUILLERY, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

 

 

 

Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Medical Technologies: Evidence from CT and PET Scanners

 

 

 

 

 

 2:15 pm

LS

ANNA AIZER, Brown University and NBER

 

 

 

PEDRO DAL BO, Brown University

 

 

 

Love, Hate, and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

 

 

 

 

 

3:05 pm

PPL

PAUL OYER and PHILLIP LESLIE, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Managerial Incentives and Strategic Change: Evidence from Private Equity

 

 

 

 

 

3:10 pm

HC

DAN KESSLER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

JOHN COGAN, Stanford University

 

 

 

GLENN HUBBARD, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

RADHA IYENGAR, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

JONATHAN MONTEN, Harvard University

 

 

 

Is there an Emboldenment Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq

 

 

 

 

 

4:05 pm

PPL

RACHEL GRIFFITH, University College London

 

 

 

ANDREW NEELY, Cranfield University

 

 

 

Incentives and Managerial Experience in Multi-Task Teams: Evidence from within a Firm

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

LS

VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University and NBER

 

 

 

Gender Differences in Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-Based Pay Tournaments among Teachers

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

HC

JONATHAN ZINMAN, Innovations for Poverty Action

 

 

 

XAVIER GINÉ, The World Bank

 

 

 

DEAN KARLAN, Innovations for Poverty Action

 

 

 

Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Savings Account for Smoking Cessation

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

PENS

BROCK BLOMBERG, Claremont McKenna College

 

 

 

ROZLYN ENGEL, U.S. Military Academy 

 

 

 

Lines in the Sand: Price Dispersion, Border Effects, and Economic Integration in Post-War Iraq

 

 

 

 

 

9:15

LE

ROHAN PITCHFORD, University of Sydney

 

 

 

(Joint with Mark Wright)

 

 

 

Holdout Creditors in Sovereign Debt Restructuring:  A Theoretical Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 am

PENS

NATHAN CONVERSE, London School of Economics

 

 

 

ETHAN KAPSTEIN, INSEAD

 

 

 

The Fate of Young Democracies

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

LS

NICK BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

LUIS GARICANO and RAFAELLA SADUN, London School of Economics

 

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

 

The Impact of IT on the Organization of Firms

 

 

 

 

 

10:05 am

LE

MARK ROE, Harvard University

 

 

 

(Joint with Howell Jackson)

 

 

 

Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws:  Resource-Based Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

10:05 am

HC

DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 

ANDREW J. OSWALD, University of Warwick

 

 

 

Comparisons and Imitative Obesity

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

PENS

RADHA IYENGAR, Harvard University

 

 

 

JONATHAN MARTEN, Harvard University

 

 

 

Is there an "emboldenment" effect?  Evidence from the Iraq insurgency?

 

 

 

 

 

11:10 am

LE

M. KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

(Joint with Natalie Chun, Stanford University; Gopi Shah Goda; Harvard University;and Daniel Kessler, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and NBER)

 

 

 

Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics

 

 

 

 

 

11:10 am

HC

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Harvard University

 

 

 

JEFFREY R. KING, The Brookings Institute and NBER

 

 

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

ELDAR SHAFIR, Princeton University

 

 

 

LEE VERMEULEN, University of Wisconsin

 

 

 

Misperceived Prices: Medicare Drug Plan Choice

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

LS

BO COWGILL, Google

 

 

 

JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google

 

 

 

 

 

11:50 am

PENS

REUVEN GLICK, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

 

ALAN TAYLOR, UC, Davis

 

 

 

Collateral Damage:  Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 n

HC

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT Department of Economics

 

 

 

How Do Elders Do in Choosing a Part D Plan?

 

 

 

 

 

12:40 pm

LE

OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

(Joint with Ernst Fehr, Univeristy of Zurich and Christain Zehnder Harvard Business School)

 

 

 

Contracts As Reference Points – Experimental Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

LS

TOR ERIKSSON, Aarhus School of Business

 

 

 

ANDERS POULSEN, University of East Anglia

 

 

 

MARIE-CLAIRE VILLEVAL, University of Lyon

 

 

 

Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

LE

KATHRYN SPIER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

(Joint with Claudia Landeo, University of Alberta)

 

 

 

Naked Exclusion:  An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

 

 

 

 

 

 2:15 pm

LS

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

 

 

 

 

 

2:35 pm

LE

ENRICHETTA RAVINA, Columbia University

 

 

 

Love & Loans:  The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets

 

 

 

 

 

2:50 pm

PENS

ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

 

JOSEPH FELTER, U.S. Military Academy

 

 

 

JACOB SHAPIRO, Princeton University

 

 

 

Can Hearts and Minds be Bought?

 

 

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

LS

ALEXANDRE MAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

DAVID LEE, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999

 

 

 

 

 

3:40 pm

LE

JUSTIN WOLFERS, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

(Joint with Alok Kumar, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas)

 

 

 

Do Male Analysts, Mutual Fund Managers, and Individual Investors Discriminate Against Female CEOs?

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PENS

SEBASTIAN NEGRUSA, RAND

 

 

 

CURTIS SIMON and JOHN WARNER, Clemson University 

 

 

 

Education Benefits and Military Service:  Enlistment, Reenlistment and Veterans’ Benefits Usage

 

 

 

 

 

4:30 pm

LE

CHRISTINE JOLLS, Yale Law School and NBER

 

 

 

(Joint with Ian Ayres, Yale Law School and NBER and Mahzarin Banaji Harvard University)

 

 

 

Race Effects on eBay