Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Fall 2000

September 20

Drs Peter Schochet and John Burghardt, Mathematica Policy Research

"The Implementation and Short-Term Impacts of the National Job Corps Study"

September 27

Professor Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto

"Class, Gender and Marriage"

October 4

Harry Krashinsky

"Do Marital Status and Computer Usage Really Change the Wage Structure? Evidence from a Sample of Twins"

October 11

Olivier Deschenes

"Did the Causal Effect of Education on Earnings Change Over Time? A Cohort-Based Analysis"

October 18

Professor David G. Blanchflower, Dartmouth College

"Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA" (with Andrew J. Oswald)

Joint with Center for Health and Wellbeing

October 25

Professor Alison Booth, University of Essex

"Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?" (with Marco Francesconi and Jeff Frank)

October 26

Professor Anders Bjarklund, Stockholm University

"How Adopted Children Fare As Adults in The Swedish Labor Market" (with Katarina Richardson)

Joint with Center for Health and Wellbeing

Conference Room 333, Wallace Hall

November 1

NO SEMINAR, MIDTERM BREAK

November 8

Professor Lisa Lynch, Tufts University

"What's Driving The New Economy?"

November 15

Professor Joseph Altonji, Northwestern University

"Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools" (with Todd Elder and Christopher Taber)

November 22

NO SEMINAR, THANKSGIVING

November 29

Professor Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University

"Income Risk Dynamics And Heterogeneity" (with Costas Meghir)

December 6

Professor Mark McClellan, Stanford University

"Understanding Disability Trends in U.S. Populations: Disease Management and Disease Prevention" (with Lijang Yan)

Joint with Center for Health and Wellbeing

Conference Room 300, Wallace Hall

December 13

Professor Robert Margo, Vanderbilt University

"Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880"