Labor Economics
Program Organizer: Francine Blau and Larry Kahn
The workshop meets on Mondays from 4:15 pm until 5:45 pm in Room 115 Ives Hall unless otherwise noted. There may be other meetings and/or other times, particularly when speakers are co-sponsored by more than our group. For information on paper availability and the workshop distribution list, please contact Shelly Hall at 255-2744 or srh25@cornell.edu.
August 31 - Katrin Olafsdottir (Reykjavik University)
Efficiency of Collective Bargaining:
Analyzing Changes in the Wage Structure in the Public Sector in Iceland
September 7 - Labor Day, No Seminar
September 14 - Anna Aizer (Brown University & NBER) (joint
w/PAM)
Peer Effects, Institutions and Human Capital
Accumulation: The Externalities of ADD
September 21 - Thomas Lemieux (The University of British Columbia)
(joint w/PAM)
Occupational Tasks and Changes in the
Wage Structure (joint w/Sergio Firpo & Nicole Fortin)
September 28 - Jessica Bean (Cornell University)
Poverty and Female Labor Supply in Interwar
London
October 5 - (423 ILR Conference Center)- Census RDC Conference, This conference is hosted by CISER
October 12 - Fall Break, No Seminar
October 19 - Jesse Rothstein (UC Berkeley & Council of Economic
Advisors) (Sr. Recruitment) (Joint w/Economics)
The Value of School Facility Investments:
Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design (joint w/Stephanie
Riegg Cellini & Fernando Ferreira)
October 26 - Sol Polachek (Binghamton University)
A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage
Gap: Fecundity and Wife Age and Educational Hypogamy (joint w/Xu Zhang
& Xing Zhou)
November 2 - Jeff Larrimore (Cornell University)
The Impact of Changing Earnings Distributions
and Household Characteristics on US Income Inequality Trends since 1967
November 3 - (Tues., 3:00 p.m., 114 MVR) - Eric Bettinger
(Stanford University) (joint w/PAM)
The Role of Simplification and
Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA
Experiment (joint w/Bridget Long, Philip Oreopoulos & Lisa Sanbonmatsu)
November 13 - (Fri., 12 - 1:00 p.m., 153 MVR) - Martha Bailey
(University of Michigan) (joint w/PAM and CPP)
The
Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs: Evidence from the War on Poverty
and Title X
November 16 - Ian Schmutte (Cornell University)
Job Referral Networks and the Dispersion of
Earnings in Local Labor Markets
November 23 - Maria Guadalupe (Columbia University) (joint w/HRS)
The Vote is Cast: The Effect of Corporate
Governance on Shareholder Value (joint w/Vicente Cunat & Mireia
Gine)
November 30 - Joshua Price (Cornell University)
Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering
, and Math Fields: Do Instructors Matter?
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