Labor and Development Seminar Series - Fall 2014

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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09/09/2014
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Damon Jones  (The Harris School, U of Chicago)
The Social Security Earnings Test and Retirement: Evidence and Implications
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Tuesday.
09/11/2014
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Jere Behrman  (University of Pennsylvania)
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Parental Resources and Schooling Attainment and Children’s Human Capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam*
Joint with Duke University Population Research Institute.
Note: Seminar will be in Gross Hall - 103 at 3:30pm on Thursday.
09/17/2014
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Miguel Urquiola  (Columbia University)
"The Big Sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes"
09/24/2014
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Xiaoxue Zhao  (Duke University)
To Reallocate or Not? Optimal Land Institutions in Rural Economies: Evidence from China
10/01/2014
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Esteban Aucejo  (London School of Economics)
College Attrition and the Dynamic of Information Revelation
Joint with ERID Seminars and Workshops.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Wednesday.
10/03/2014
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Empirical micro jamboree  
Joint with Departmental, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 8:30am on Friday.
Speakers: Esteban Aucejo, Arun Chandrasekhar, Jeff Clemens, Rafael Dix Carneiro, Thomas Fujiwara, Dan Keniston, Edward Kung, Hugh Macartney, Neale Mahoney, Arnaud Maurel, Mandy Pallais, Mar Reguant, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato.
10/04/2014
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Empirical micro jamboree  
Joint with Departmental, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 8:30am on Saturday.
10/07/2014
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Rebecca Diamond  (Stanford GSB)
The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Tuesday.
10/08/2014
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Chang-Tai Hsieh  (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Crony Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (joint with Chong-En Bai and Zheng (Michael) Song)
10/15/2014
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Seth Zimmerman  (University of Chicago-Booth)
Making Top Managers: The Role of Elite Colleges and Elite Peers
Joint with ERID.
10/22/2014
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Jeanne Lafortune  (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
10/29/2014
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Salvador Navarro  (Western Ontario)
Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime
Joint with Public and IO.
11/05/2014
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Pascaline Dupas  (Stanford University)
Decentralization and Efficient Targeting of Subsidies (with Pia Basurto and Jonathan Robinson)
11/11/2014
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Henrik Jacobsen Kleven  (LSE)
“Parenthood and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Denmark” (joint work with Camille Landais and Jakob Søgaard).
Joint with Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 3:30pm on Tuesday.
11/12/2014
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Chris Woodruff  (University of Warwick)
Managerial Capital and Productivity: Evidence from a Training Program in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
Joint with Public and IO.
11/19/2014
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Kevin Lang  (Boston University)
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore
12/03/2014
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Melissa Dell  (Harvard University/Society of Fellows)
The Historical State and Long-Run Development in Vietnam


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