ECONOMICS 251

Labor Economics Seminar
Fall 2007
Professor Clair Brown
E-mail: 		608-7 Evans
Thursday, 2-4 p.m.

* Note Change in Day, Location and Time

August 30 No Meeting
September 6+ Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto
Marriage Matching, Risk Sharing and Spousal Labor Supplies
(with Eugene Choo and Shannon Seitz)
September 13 No Meeting
September 20+
Cancelled - No Meeting
September 27 Kevin Stange, University of California, Berkeley
An Empirical Examination of the Option Value of College Enrollment
October 4
Hank Hyatt, University of California, Berkeley
Temporary Total Disability Benefits and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Linked Administrative Databases
October 11 Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University (visiting Berkeley)
Chapter 7 or 13: Are Client or Lawyer Interests Paramount?
(with Frank McIntyre)
October 18 Bing-ru Teh, University of California, Berkeley
Do Liquor Stores Increase Crime and Urban Decay? Evidence from Los Angeles
October 25 Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, University of California, Berkeley
Public Safety for Sale? The Effect of Police Wages on Police Misconduct
November 1 No Meeting
November 8 Cancelled - No Meeting
November 15 Postponed - No Meeting
November 22 Thanksgiving Holiday - No Meeting
November 29+ Pietro Garibaldi, University of Torino (Italy)
Industry Dynamics and Search in the Labor Market (with Espen Moen)
December 6 Jane Leber Herr, University of California, Berkeley
Does it Pay to Delay? Understanding the Effect of First Birth Timing on Women's Wage Growth



+ Denotes a lunch with the speaker is planned for Economics graduate students to attend via sign-up

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