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Industrial Relations Section/Labor Economics Seminar - Spring 2005

February 23
March 2 Professor Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Davis
"What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments"
March 9 Professor Ann Bartel, Columbia University and Princeton University
"The Strategic Investment in Information Technologies and New Human Resource Practices and Their Effects on Productivity"
March 16 NO SEMINAR, MIDTERM BREAK
March 23 Professor Peter Kuhn, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2002"
(with Fernando Lozano, University of California, Santa Barbara)
March 30 Professor John de Figueiredo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying"
April 6 Professor William R. Johnson, University of Virginia
"Hours Constraints in Market Equilibrium"
April 13 Professor Diane Whitmore, University of Chicago
Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?"
April 20 Professor Roland Fryer, Harvard University
"On the Measurement of Segregation "
(joint with Center for Health and Wellbeing and Research Program in Development Studies)
April 27 Professor Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University
"The Mid-1990s EITC Expansion: Aggregate Labor Supply Effects and Economic Incidence"
May 4

Professor Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto, NBER and MIT

"The Intergenerational Effects of Worker Displacement"

 

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