ECONOMICS 251

Labor Seminar
Fall 2003
Instructor: Clair Brown
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Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans Hall
Schedule: Thursday, 2:00-4:00 PM
                   
August 28 Organizational Meeting
September 4 Erling Larsen, Post-doctoral Fellow, Statistics Norway
  Escaping the Resource Curse and Dutch Disease: The Case of the Norwegian Economy
Discussants: Ben Campbell, Andres Aradillas-Lopez
September 12* Hank Farber, Princeton University
  Joint with Department Seminar
September 18 Ben Campbell, Sloan Post-doc, UC Berkeley and UW-Madison
  Local Labor Market Conditions and Stock Options Incidence: A Study of the Information Technology Sector
Discussants: Ethan Kaplan
Written Comments: Luiz Cruz, Florence Neymotin
September 25 Laura Giuliano, UC Berkeley
  Race, Gender and Hiring Patterns: Evidence from a Large Service-Sector Employer
Discussants: Elizabeth Weber, Stacy Sneeringer
Written Comments: Justin Falk
October 2 Andres Aradillas-Lopez, UC Berkeley
  Empirical Likelihood Estimation of Asymmetric Information Models with an R&D Application
Discussants: Sung Man Cho, Francisco Martorell
October 9 Doug Almond, NBER
  Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-term Effects of In-utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population
Discussants: Jane Herr, Erica Greulich
October 16 Heather Royer , UC Berkeley
  The Impact of Maternal Age on Birth Outcomes
Discussants: David Becker, Vivian Hwa
Written Comments: Matt Butler
October 22* George Lowenstein, Carnegie Mellon
  Joint with Departmental Seminar
October 30 Fernando V. Ferreira , UC Berkeley
  The Effects of Proposition 13 On Residential Sorting: Do Transaction Costs matter?
Discussants: Jeff Holman, Gustavo Bobonis
Written Comments: Barrett Graf
November 6 Eric Verhoogen, UC Berkeley
  Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Discussants: Sebastian Martinez, Pablo Ibarraran
Written Comments: Jennifer Kaiser
November 13 Erich Battistin, University of College London
  Errors in Survey Reports of Consumption Expenditures
What really happened to consumption inequality in the US? (Related Paper)
November 20 Imran Rasul, University of Chicago
  Worker Productivity Under Absolute and Relative Incentives: New Empirical Evidence
November 27 Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4 John DiNardo, University of Michigan
  Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001
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