Econ 251, Labor Economics Seminar

Note: Time changed to 4-6 p.m.
Alexander Gelber, Harvard University

"Taxation and Family Labor Supply"
Joint with Recruitment Seminar

Note: Time changed to 4-6 p.m.
Patrick Kline, Yale University

"Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program"

(with Matias Busso)
Joint with Recruitment Seminar

Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley

"Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement"

(with Michael Kremer, Jessica Leino, and Alix Peterson Zwane)

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley

"With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends:

Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship"

(with Josh Lerner)

Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Desegregation and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?"

Carlos Dobkin,University of California, Santa Cruz

"The Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, Mortality and Crime"

(with Christopher Carpenter)

Monday, 2-4 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Chris Mayer, Columbia University

"The Inefficiency of Refinancing: Why Prepayment Penalties Are Good for Risky Borrowers"

Joint with Public Finance Seminar

Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley

"Empowering Women: How Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer Program Raised Prenatal Care Quality and Birth Weight"

(with Sarah L. Barber)

Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley

"Health Dynamics and the Evolution of Health Inequality Over the Life Course: The Importance of Neighborhood and Family Background"

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University

"Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime"

Raquel Fernandez, New York University

 "Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century"

Nick Bloom, Stanford University

The Organization of Firms Across Countries

(with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenan)