Structural Empirical Microeconomic Models
June 13-14, 2012
Organizers: Joseph Altonji and Costas Meghir
WEDNESDAY | |
8:00 | Continental Breakfast |
9:00 | Rafael Dix-Carneiro (University of Maryland), "Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics" |
10:00 | Break |
10:15 | Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business), "Life-Cycle Fertility and Human Capital Accumulation" (with George-Levi Gayle) [Slides] |
11:15 | Jerome Adda (European University Institute), "The Career Costs of Children" |
12:15 | Lunch |
1:15 | Alessandra Voena (Chicago University), "Yours, Mine and Ours: Do Divorce Laws Affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?" |
2:15 | Break |
2:30 | Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University), "College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation" (with Esteban Aucejo and Arnaud Maurel) |
3:30 | Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "College-Major Choice to College-Then-Major Choice" |
4:30 | Break |
4:45 | John Rust (University of Maryland), "Can the Job Market for Economists be Improved?" |
7:00 | Dinner, Ibiza Restaurant, 39 High Street |
THURSDAY | |
8:00 | Continental Breakfast |
9:00 | Laura Turner (University of Toronto), "Social Security, Endogenous Retirement and Intrahousehold Cooperation" (with Giovanni Gallipoli) |
10:00 | Break |
10:15 | Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), "The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply" |
11:15 | Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting" (with Jesper Bagger) [Abstract] |
12:15 | Lunch |
1:15 | Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto), "Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills" (with Robert McCann, Xianwen Shi & Ronald Wolthoff) [Slides] |
2:15 | Break |
2:30 | Marc Rysman (Boston University), "Measuring Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment" (with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Minsoo Park) |
3:30 | Amit Kumar Gandhi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Estimating Discrete Choice Models of Demand with Market Level Variation" (with Zhentong Lu and Xiaoxia Shi) |
4:30 | Break |
5:00 | Juan Pantano (Washington University in St. Louis), "Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment" (with Sebastian Galiani and Alvin Murphy) |
Adda, Jerome Altonji, Joseph Ching, Andrew Dix-Carneiro, Rafael Fletcher, Jason French, Eric Fu, Chao Dong, Gang (Nathan) Gallipoli, Giovanni Gandhi, Amit Ho, Kate |
Joensen, Juanna Johnson, Terry Kennan, John Klevorick, Alvin K. Lee, Soohyung Lentz, Rasmus Maurel, Arnaud Meghir, Costas Miller, Robert Mosso, Stefano Pantano, Juan Rey, Patrick |
Rust, John Rysman, Marc Shephard, Andrew Shi, Xiaoxia Siow, Aloysius Stern, Steven Taber, Christopher Turner, Laura Voena, Alessandra Wiswall, Matthew Yamaguchi, Shintaro |