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Contributed Sessions C

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Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30

C01: Class Size
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Cruciform LT2
Chair: Peter Fredriksson
 
Peer Effects and Class Size in College
Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Matilde Pinto-Machado
 
Disruption, Skill and Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes
Steven G. Rivkin, Graham McKee, Katharine Sims
 
The Long-Run Effects of Class Size
Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Hessel Oosterbeek
 
 
C02: Racial Discrimination
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Roberts G06
Chair: George Borjas
 
Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation
Zahra Siddique, Wallace Mok
 
Price and Prejudice: The Interaction between Preferences and Incentives in the Dynamics of Racial Segregation
David Dorn
 
On The Observational Implications of Taste-Based Discrimination in Racial Profiling
Salvador Navarro, William A. Brock, Jane Cooley, Steven N. Durlauf
 
 
C03: Wage Rigidities and Business Cycles
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Archaeology LT
Chair: Michael Burda
 
Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages--the Role of Measurement Error
Peter Gottschalk, Alessandro Barattieri, Susanto Basu
 
Wage Rigidities in an Estimated DSGE Model of the UK Labour Market
Francesco Zanetti, Renato Faccini, Stephen Millard
 
Wage Adjustment and Productivity: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Julian Messina, Mikael Carlsson, Oskar-Nordström Skans
 
Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Michael Burda, Mark Weder
 
 
C04: Marriage and Divorce
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Harrie Massey (25 Gordon St)
Chair: Yoram Weiss
 
A Bad Peace or a Good War: A Structural Estimation Model of Spousal Conflict and Divorce
Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy
 
Culture and Divorce: Evidence from European Immigrants to the US
Miriam Marcen, Delia Furtado, Almudena Sevilla-Sanz
 
Large Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market for Famine Born Cohorts in China
Aloysius Siow, Loren Brandt, Carl Vogel
 
 
C05: Gender, Risk and Competition
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Gustave Tuck
Chair: Peter Kuhn
 
Gender and Competition: From the Lab into the Classroom
Louis-Philippe Morin
 
Gender Differences in Risk Taking and Test Score Performance
Tuomas Pekkarinen
 
Employers’ Preferences for Gender, Age, Beauty and Height: Evidence from Job Advertisements
Peter Kuhn, Kailing Shen
 
 
C06: Labour Demand
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Gordon House 106
Chair: David Green
 
What Was Actually Cut in Barbers' VAT Cut?
Tuomas Kosonen
 
Offshored Job Tasks and Displaced Workers
Kristiina Huttunen,  Hakkala Katariina Nilsson
 
How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation
David Green,  Paul Beaudry, Ben Sand
 
 
C07: Immigration and Education
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
Chair: Chris Robinson
 
Immigration, Wages, and Education: A General Equilibrium Dynamic Discrete Choice Structural Model
Joan Llull
 
Does Immigration Induce ‘Native Flight’ from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Christer Gerdes
 
Community Determinants of Immigrant Self-Employment: Human Capital Spillovers and Ethnic Enclaves
Liliana Sousa
 
 
C08: Recessions
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Anatomy J Z Young LT
Chair: Thomas Garrett
 
The Impact of the 2008 Recession on Intra-Monthly Consumption: Clean Evidence of Time Inconsistency
Francesco Manaresi
 
Recessions and the Rate of Personal Bankruptcy
Thomas Garrett,  Howard J. Wall
 
 
C09: Demand for Higher Education
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Roberts G08
Chair: Lorraine Dearden
 
Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on the Demand for Higher Education
Alfredo Paloyo, Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Christoph Schmidt
 
The Credit Constraint and Higher Education in South Africa
Adrien Lorenceau, Marc Gurgand, Thomas Mélonio
 
Influence of Family Background on College Attendance: Evidence from Tuition Policy Changes
Natalia Kyui
 
 
C10: Rent Sharing
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Chadwick LT
Chair: Jesper Bagger
 
Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing
Natália Monteiro,  Miguel Portela,  Odd Rune Straume
 
Changing Institutions in the European Market: the Impact on Mark-ups and Rents Allocation
Roberto Torrini, Antonio Bassanetti, Francesco Zollino
 
Union Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
Andrea Salvatori
 
Wage and Productivity Dispersion: Labor Quality or Rent Sharing?
Jesper Bagger, Bent Jesper Christensen, Dale T. Mortensen
 
 
C11: Unemployment Benefits
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Drayton Ricardo LT
Chair: Bertil Holmlund
Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Andrey Launov, Klaus Waelde
 
Optimal Monitoring and Sanctioning Systems
Conny Wunsch
 
How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit
Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive,  Jan C. Van Ours
 
 
C12: Consumption and Income Inequality
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.02
Chair: Bruce Meyer
 
On the Persistence of Income Shocks over the Life Cycle: Evidence and Implications
Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan
 
Earnings and Income Volatility in America: Evidence from Matched CPS
James P. Ziliak,  Bradley Hardy, Christopher Bollinger
 
Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S.: 1960-2008
Bruce Meyer, James X. Sullivan
 
 
C13: Exports and FDI
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.03
Chair: John S. Earle
 
Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Jakob Munch, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jan Rose Skaksen
 
FDI and Wages: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2005
John S. Earle, Gabor Antal,  Almos Telegdy
 
 
C14: High School Achievement and Returns
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Drayton Jevons LT
Chair: Colin Green
 
The Effects of Financial Aid in High School on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Maria Knoth Humlum, Rune Majlund Vejlin
 
Science of Success: The Causal Effects of High School Math and Science on Labor Market Outcomes
Karin Edmark, Oskar Nordström Skans
 
How Important are Omitted Variables, Censoring and Self-selection in Analyzing High-school Academic Achievement?
Sholeh Maani, Guyonne  Kalb
 
 
C15: Labour Market Dynamics
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Pearson (North East Entrance) LT
Chair: Jeremy Lise
 
Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics
Rafael Dix Carneiro
 
Deep Habits and the Cyclical Behaviour of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies
Renato Faccini, Federico Di Pace
 
The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market
Silke Anger
 
 
C16: Personality and Aspirations
Friday 18 June 2010, 09.00 - 10.30
Room: Christopher Ingold Chemistry LT
Chair: Andrew Oswald
 
IQ, Achievement and Personality
Bart Golsteyn, Lex Borghans, James Heckman
 
Education, Aspirations and Life Satisfaction
Francesco Ferrante
 
An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice: Antagonistic Managers, Careless Labourers and Extraverted Salespeople
Raja Junankar, Robert Wells, Roger Ham

 

EALE/SOLE 2010
UCL London 17 - 19 June

Artwork by Eddie Farrell, Michael Wedgewood, Corinna Till and Emma Hart (The Slade School of Fine Art)


The EALE/SOLE 3rd International conference is sponsored by:
 



Economics Department
 


 


 


 


 


 

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UCL
Gower Street - London - WC1E 6BT
 

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