Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Spring 1999

March 3

Professor Jeffrey Kling, Princeton University
(joint with Econometric Research Seminar)
"Measuring Inter-Judge Sentencing Disparity Before and After The Federal Sentencing Guidelines"

March 10

Professor David Neumark, Michigan State University
"New Evidence On Sex Segregation And Sex Differences In Wages From Matched Employee-Employer Data"

March 17

NO SEMINAR, MIDTERM BREAK

March 24

Professor Colm Harmon, University College Dublin
"Cognitive Skills, Educational Attainment and Earnings-Evidence from the International Adult Literacy Survey"

March 31

No Seminar Passover

April 7

Professor Craig Olson, University of Wisconsin
"High School Inputs and Labor Market Outcomes for Male Workers in Their Mid-Thirties: New Data and Estimates from Wisconsin"

April 14

Professor Anne Piehl, UC-Berkeley-School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Problem Solving and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of the Boston Gun Project"

April 21

Professor Kevin Hallock, Princeton University and University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
"Managerial Pay In American Nonprofits"

April 28

Professor Marianne Bertrand, Princeton University
"Micro Evidence On The Effects of Corporate Governance"

May 5

Professor Sewin Chan, Princeton University and Rutgers University
"Does Job Loss Alter the Timing of Retirement? Exploring the Role of Earnings, Assets and Pensions" (with Professor Ann Huff Stevens, Yale University)

May 12

 

May 19

James Rebitzer, Case Western Reserve University
"Monitoring and Motivation in an Employment Relationship: An Analysis of a Field Experiment," (with Professors Dan Nagin, Seth Sanders and Lowell Taylor, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon)