Economics 955: Labor Economics Workshop, Fall 2000

Coordinators: John Kennan and Derek Neal

Syllabus

The workshop generally meets on Mondays in the Morton Room (7324 Social Science), starting at 3:45 and ending at 5:15. Exceptions are noted below.

Sep 11 Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto "Why Dowries?" (with Maristella Botticini)
Tuesday, Sep 19
(joint with Public)
Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago "A Century of Labor-Leisure Distortions"
Sep 25
Tuesday,Oct 3
(joint with Public)
Jim Ziliak, University of Oregon and Poverty Institute Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization
Oct 9
Oct 16 Larry Katz, Harvard University "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions" (with Claudia Goldin).
Oct 23    
Oct 30 Joe Hotz, UCLA
(joint with Public)
"The Long-term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts of the California GAIN Program,"
Nov 6 Derek Neal, UW "Is the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women Too Small?"
Nov 13 Andrew Foster, Brown "Missing Women, the Marriage Market and Economic Growth" (joint work with Mark Rosenzweig)
Nov 20 Limor Golan, UW "Intra-Firm Bargaining and Wage Growth: A Model of Private and Public Learning"
Nov 27 Dan Bernhardt, University of Illinois "Can Relative Performance Compensation Explain Analysts' Forecasts of Earnings?" (joint work with Edward Kutsoati)
Dec 4 Steve Jones, McMaster University "The Dynamics of U.S. Labor Force Attachment" (joint work with Craig Riddell)
Dec 11 Paul Willen, Chicago GSB "Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implications for Portfolio Choice" (joint work with Steve Davis)


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Economics Department Weekly Workshop Schedule