Meeting of the MacArthur Social Interactions and Economic Inequality Network

Holiday Inn Brentwood/Bel-Air (170 North Church Lane, Los Angeles)

March 31-April 1, 2000

Friday March 31

9:00am: V. Joseph Hotz, UCLA, "Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working in School?"

10:00am: Coffee Break

10:15am: Edward Leamer, UCLA, "Trade and Technology and Determinants of Inequality"

11:15am: Bruce A. Weinberg (Ohio State), "Do Neighborhoods Affect Work Behavior? Evidence from the NLSY79 (with Patricia Reagan and Jeffrey Yankow

12:15pm: Lunch; Daniel Nagin will discuss an ongoing research project

1:15pm: Daniel Nagin, Carnegie-Mellon, "Linking Trajectories of Childhood and Adolescent Physical Aggression:  The Search for Late Onset Delinquency"

2:15pm: David Harris, Michigan, "Estimating the Extent of Intimate Contact between the Races:  The Role of Metropolitan Area Factors and Union Type between the Races:  The Role of Metropolitan Area Factors and Union Type in Mate Selection"

3:15pm: Coffee Break

3:30pm: Kenneth Arrow and Ron Borzekowski, Stanford. "Limited Network Connections and the Distribution of Wages"

4:30pm: Mustafa Emirbayer, Wisconsin, "A Sociologist Considers Network Analysis"

5:30pm: Adjourn

7:00pm: Dinner Meeting:Restaurant 2117, 2117 Sawtelle, Los Angeles, 310-477-1617

April 1

8:45am: Elizabeth Newlon (Carnegie Mellon), Evidence for Over-Expenditure on Municipal Enforcement: The Effects of Decentralized Enforcement and Spillover Crime in Metropolitan Areas"

9:45am: Coffee Break

10:00am: Michael Kremer and Alexei Onatski, Harvard, "Hypothesis Tests on the Steady State Distribution of World Income"

11:00am: Troy L. Tassier, Iowa, "Can Know-Who Substitute for Know-How? Referral Networks in Labor Markets"

12:00am: Justin Wolfers, Harvard, "'Til Death Do Us Part: Effects of Divorce Laws on Suicide and Intimate Homicide"

1:00pm: Lunch; Yannis Ioannides will give a report on the network fellows program

2:00pm: Adjourn