Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Spring 1998

February 4

David Lee, Princeton University
"Wage Inequality in the U.S. since 1980: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?"

February 11

Professor Olivier Blanchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The Medium Run."

February 18

Professor Douglas Staiger, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Princeton University
"Measuring Quality of Care in Hospitals"

February 25

 

March 4

Professor Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University
"Why Do Gay Men Live in San Francisco?"
(joint with OPR)
101 Notestein Hall

March 11

Professor Colm Harmon, University College Dublin
"Selective Schooling and the Returns to the Quantity and Quality of Education"

March 18

NO SEMINAR, MIDTERM BREAK

March 25

Professor Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University
"How the Changing Market Structure of American College Education Explains Tuition"

April 1

Professor Guido Imbens, University of California-Los Angeles
"Estimating Income Effects Using a Sample of Lottery Players"

April 8

Professor Steve Pischke, MIT and Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
"The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training"

April 15

Professor Yoram Weiss, Tel Aviv University and University of Chicago
"The Absorption of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Israel 1990-1995"

April 22

Lara Shore-Sheppard, University of Pittsburgh
"Medicaid and Crowding Out of Private Insurance: A Re-Examination Using Firm-Level Data"

April 28*

Professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and the Russell Sage Foundation
"Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940"
(Joint with OPR)
Noon - 1:30 101 Notestein Hall

May 6

Professor Kristin Butcher, Boston College and Princeton University (joint with Luojia Hu, Princeton University)
"Use of Means--Test Transfer Programs by Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children"

May 13

Professor Cordelia Reimers, Hunter College
"Unskilled Immigration and Changes in the Wage Distributions of Black, Mexican American, and Non-Hispanic White Male Dropouts"