Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Fall 2001

September 19

Professor Patricia Anderson, Dartmouth College
"Maternal Employment and Overweight Children"
(with Phillip Levine, Wellesley College and Kristin Butcher, MacArthur Foundation)

September 26

Mark Votruba, Princeton University
"Efficiency-Equity Tradeoffs in the Allocation of Cadaveric Kidneys"

October 3

Professor Steven Levitt, University of Chicago
"Teacher Cheating"

October 10

Professor Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College
"Improving School Accountability Measures"
(with Thomas Kane, University of California, Los Angeles)

October 17

Diane Whitmore, Princeton University
"The True Value of Food Stamps"

October 24

Professor Derek Neal, University of Wisconsin
"Is the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women Too Small?"

October 31

No Seminar, Midterm Break

November 7

Professor Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia
"Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the UK and US"
(with Amanda Gosling, University of Essex and IFS)

November 14

Professor Esther Duflo, Princeton University and MIT
"How Much Should We Trust Difference-in-Differences Estimates?"
(with Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT)
(Joint with Econometrics)

November 21

No Seminar, Thanksgiving

November 28

Professor David Autor, Princeton University and MIT
"The Rise in Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment"
(with Mark G. Duggan, University of Chicago and NBER)

December 12

Professor Gerald Oettinger, University of Texas at Austin
"Effort, Risk-Taking, and Participation in Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Golf"
(with Stephen G. Bronars, University of Texas)