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November 6 - 8, 2009

S C H E D U L E

Friday, November 6, 2009

8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:30-9:15am David S. Lee

Program Evaluation Methods
9:15 - 10:00am Christopher Taber & Eric French

Identification of Models of the Labor Market
10:00 - 10:15am Break
10:15 - 11:00am Peter Kuhn & Gary Garness

Lab Labor
Gift-exchange and Reciprocity in Laboratory Experiments
11:00 - 11:45am Tito Boeri

Institutional Reforms in European Labor Markets
Slides
11:45 - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:15pm Enrico Moretti

Local Labor Markets
2:15 - 3:00pm Marianne Bertrand

New Perspectives on Gender
3:00 - 3:15pm Break
3:15 - 4:00pm Ken Wolpin, Petra Todd & Michael Keane

Dynamic Structure Modeling
4:00 - 4:45pm Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer

Personnel Economics: Firm-Level Hiring Strategies
4:45 - 5:00pm Wrap Up


Saturday, November 7, 2009

8:00-9:15am Breakfast
9:15 - 10:00am Sandra Black

Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
(with Paul Devereux)
10:00- 10:15am Break
10:15 - 11:00am Alan Manning

Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market
Slides
11:00 - 11:45am Luigi Pistaferri

Earnings, Consumption and Lifecycle Choices
(with Costas Meghir)
11:45 - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:15pm Derek Neal

Gender and Race in Labor Markets
2:15 - 3:00pm Lowell Taylor & James B. Rebitzer

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavorial Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Slides
3:00 - 3:15pm Break
3:15 - 4:00pm Thomas Lemieux & Nicole Fortin

Decomposition methods in economics
(Co-authored with Sergio Firpo)

4:00 - 4:45pm John Van Reenen

Human Resource Management and Productivity
(Co-authored with Nicholas Bloom)
Slides
4:45- 5:00pm Wrap Up


Sunday, November 8, 2009

8:00-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-10:00am Robert Shimer & Richard Rogerson

Macroeconomics and Search
Part 1
Part 2
10:00 - 10:45am Janet Currie & Douglas Almond

Human Capital Development Before Age Five
Slides
10:45- 11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Henry Farber

Unions and Their Effects: A Comparative Perspective
11:45 - 2:00pm Lunch