Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Spring 2000

February 9

Professor Costas Meghir, University College London
"Assessing the Returns to Schooling Using A Social Experiment"

February 23

Professor John Ham, Ohio State University
"The Effect of Medicaid Expansions For Low-Income Children On Medicaid Participation And Insurance Coverage: Evidence For The SIPP"
(joint with Lara Shore-Sheppard)

March 1

Professor George Borjas, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
"Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market?"

March 8

Professor Henry Farber, Princeton University
"Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Role of Labor Law in the Decline of Unions, 1973-1998"

March 15

NO SEMINAR, MIDTERM BREAK

March 22

Professor Edward Lazear, Stanford University
"Educational Production"

March 29

Professor Bruno Contini, University of Turin
"Wage Dynamics and Labour Mobility in Italy"

April 5

Professor Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
"Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life"
(with Michael Greenstone)

April 12

Professor Nada Eissa, UC-Berkeley
"Good News for Low-Income Families? Tax-Transfer Schemes and Marriage"
(joint with Microeconomic Policy Workshop)

April 19

Professor John Johnson, University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana
"The Impact of Parent's Divorce on Children's Future Earnings"

April 26

Professor Victor Fuchs, Stanford University
"Mortality and Medical Care Utilization of Older Americans: A Cross-Area Analysis"
(with Mark McCellan)
(joint with Microeconomic Policy Workshop)

May 3

Professor Stepan Jurajda, Princeton University and Charles University, Czech Republic
"Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition: Czech and Solvak Republics"

May 10

NO SEMINAR

May 17

Professor Maia Guell, Princeton University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
"The Effects of Fixed-Term Contracts on the Duration Distribution of Unemployment: The Spanish Case"