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Aug 26
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Organizational Meeting
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Sep 2
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No meeting (organization by email)
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Sep 9
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David Levine,
UC Berkeley
"Does Industrialization = 'Development'? The Effects of Industrialization on School Enrollment and Youth Employment in Indonesia" (with Maya Federman)
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Sep 16
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Alex Mas,
UC Berkeley
"Do Disappointing Pay Raises Lower Productivity? Final-Offer Arbitration and the Performance of New Jersey Police Officers"
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Sep 23
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Kathy Shaw,
Stanford University
"The Strategic Investment in Information Technologies and New Human Resource Practices and Their Effects on Productivity: An Insider Econometric Analysis"
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Oct 6, 4-5:30
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Eddie Lazear,
Standford University
"Speeding, Tax Fraud, and Teaching to the Test" (Joint With Department Seminar)
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Oct 7
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Richard Freeman,
Harvard University
"Marketization of Household Production and the EU-US Gap in Work"
"British Unions:
Dissolution or Resurgence Revisited" (By David Metcalf)
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Oct 14
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David Becker,
UC Berkeley
"Do Hospitals Provide Lower Quality Care on Weekends?"
Discussants: Andrea Cann, Sarah Frank
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Oct 21
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Stacy Sneeringer,
UC Berkeley
"Examining the links between concentrated livestock farming, pollution, and infant health"
Discussants: Kristine Brown, Melissa Gonzalez-Brenes
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Oct 28
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Francisco Martorell,
UC Berkeley
"Do High School Graduation Exams Matter? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Graduation Rates, GED Acquisition, Post-Secondary Schooling, and Earnings"
Discussants: Sally Kwak, Kok-Hoe Chan
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Nov 4
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Damon Clark,
IZA and CLE
"Choice, Competition and School Performance: Evidence from the UK"
Discussants: Kory Kroft, Gregorio Caetano
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Nov 11
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Gustavo Bobonis,
UC Berkeley
"Income Transfers, Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Marriage Markets: Evidence from Rural Mexico"
Discussants: Tanguy Brachet, Elizabeth Weber |
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Nov 18
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Arturo Gonzalez,
Public Policy Institute of California
"Learning But Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanics"
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Nov 22, 12-1
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David Lee
UC Berkeley
"Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers, 1984-2001"
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Nov 25
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Thanksgiving Holiday,
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Dec 2
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Clair Brown and Yooki Park,
UC Berkeley
"The Relationship between Industry Clockspeed and HRM Practices"
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Dec 9
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Sebastian Martinez,
UC Berkeley
"Cash Transfers and Investments: The Bolivian BONOSOL"
Discussants: Devin Pope, David Albouy
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