Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Spring 2002

February 27

Professor Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College
"Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam"

March 6

Professor Edward Lazear, Stanford University
"The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline"

March 13

Professor Emmanuel Saez, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley
"Income Inequality in the U.S., 1913-1998"
(with Thomas Piketty, EHESS, Paris)

March 20

NO SEMINAR, MIDTERM BREAK

March 26, History Department and Economics Department, Betts Auditorium at 4:30pm

Emma Rothschild, Center for Ethics and Economics, King's College, Cambridge
"18th-Century Globalization: Adam Smith, the East India Company, and the American Revolution"

March 27

Professor Janet Currie, University of California, Los Angeles
"Networks, Neighborhoods, and Use of Public Maternity Care Services in California" (with Anna Aizer, University of California, Los Angeles)

April 3

Professor Christopher Bollinger, University of Kentucky
"Iatrogenic Specification Error: Cleaning Data Can Exacerbate Measurement Error Bias"

April 8 - Woodrow Wilson School Lecture, 4:30pm Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Professor Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
"Low-Wage Labor Market; Outsourceing and Wages at Harvard"

April 10

Professor David Lee, University of California - Berkeley
"Are Politicians Accountable to Voters? Evidence From U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records"

April 17

Jose Pedro Portugal, Banco Portugal and Universidade Nova Lisboa
"Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set"
(with Ana Rute Cardoso, Universidade do Minho)

April 24

Professor Daniel Blanchflower, Dartmouth College CANCELLED

May 1

Professor Coen Teulings, Erasmus University Rotterdam
"Search and the City"
(with P.A. Gautier, Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus University, Rotterdam)

May 8

Professor Henry S. Farber, Princeton University
"The Labor Supply of New York City Taxi Drivers: Going Home Happy"

and

Professor Lorenz Goette, University of California, Berkeley
"Intertemporal Subsitution at Work? Evidence from a Field Experiment"
(with Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich)

May 15 CANCELLED

Professor Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Achievement Awards for High School Matriculation: Research Methods and Preliminary Findings"
(with Victor Lavy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)