ECONOMICS 251

Labor Economics Seminar
Spring 2006
Professor Ken Chay
E-mail:
608-7 Evans
Thursday, 2-4 p.m.
Professor David S. Lee
E-mail:

* Note Change in Day, Location and Time

January 19 Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University
Morris Kleiner, University of Minnesota
International Differences in Lean Production, Attitudes, and Productivity
January 26+ Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement
February 2 Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley
The Effect of Pri-Primary Education on Primary School Performance
February 9+
Mark Duggan, University of Maryland
Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Drugs
February 16 Marianne Bitler, Public Policy Institute of California
Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project
- Joint with Public Finance -
February 23+
Gordon Dahl, University of Rochester
Professional Sports and Domestic Violence
March 2+ Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois
Late for School: The Consequences of Delayed Kindergarten Enrollment
March 9+ Joseph Altonji, Yale University
Modeling Earnings Dynamics
March 16+ Christopher Taber, Northwestern University
Difference in Differences with a Small Number of Policy Changes
- Joint with Econometrics -
March 23+ Tara Watson, Williams College
Inequality, Metropolitan Growth, and Neighborhood Segregation by Income
March 30 Spring Break - No Meeting
April 6 Adriana Lleras-Muney, Princeton University
Bounds in Competing Risks Models and the War on Cancer
- Joint with Econometrics -
April 13 Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley
Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
April 20+ David Autor, MIT
Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments
- Joint with Public Finance-
April 27 * 4-5:30 p.m. in 608-7 Evans
Guido Kuersteiner, Boston University
Semiparametric Causality Tests Using the Policy Propensity Score
- Joint with Econometrics -
May 4 No Meeting


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

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