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Contributed Sessions E

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Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30

E01: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.02
Chair: Pedro Carneiro
 
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Earnings: Different School Systems
Christoph Weiss
 
The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills
Catherine Weinberger
 
Do Non-Cognitive Skills Explain the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement?
Chris Cornwell, David B. Mustard, Jessica Van Parys
 
 
E02: Teachers
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Anatomy J Z Young LT
Chair: Derek Neal
 
If You Pay Peanuts do You Get Monkeys? A Cross Country Analysis of Teacher Pay and Pupil Performance
Oscar David Marcenaro, Peter Dolton
 
Estimating Principal Effectiveness
Erik Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, Gregory Branch
 
The Headmaster Ritual
Jonas Vlachos, Anders Böhlmark, Erik Grönqvist
 
Pay for Percentile
Derek Neal, Gadi Barlevy
 
 
E03: Health and Development
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Archaeology LT
Chair: Mark Rosenzweig
 
Cancelled
Anticipating the Consequences of HIV Infection: Savings and Human Capital Investment in Namibia
Wendy Janssens, Gijs Van der Vlugt, Judith Lammers
 
The School Reentry Decision of Poor Girls. Structural Estimation and Policy Analysis Using PROGRESA Database
Maria Nieves Valdes
 
Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption
Alfonso Rosolia, Piero Cipollone
 
Access, Sorting and Achievement: the Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya
Isaac Mbiti, Adrienne Lucas
 
 
E04: Higher Education
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Cruciform LT2
Chair: Ian Walker
 
Learning about Employee and Employer Learning: Dynamics of Performance and Wage Measures
Fabian Lange, Lisa Kahn
 
Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility
John F. Kennan
 
Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Persistence and Graduation Rates in American Higher Education?
Douglas A. Webber, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
 
Career and Occupational Implications of Undergraduate Majors: Evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates
Michael R. Ransom
 
 
E05: Measurement and Treatment Effects
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.03
Chair: Michael Lechner
 
Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling
Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui
 
A Framework for the Analysis of Time-varying Treatment Effects: How The Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes
Jane C. Cooley, Salvador Navarro, Yuya Takahashi
 
Distributional Policy Effects of Binary Covariates
Christoph Rothe
 
Identification of Average Treatment Effects in Social Experiments under Different Forms of Attrition
Martin Huber
 
 
E06: Households and Children
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Gustave Tuck
Chair: Shelly Lundberg
 
Identification of Children's Resources in Collective Households
Krishna Pendakur, Arthur Lewbel, Geoffrey Dunbar
 
Risk Sharing Or Bargaining?: The Impact of Spousal Labor Supply on Unemployment Duration
Jing Liu
 
Bargaining Power within the Family in South Korea: Transfers to Parents from Adult Children and Vice-versa
John Ham, Heonjae Song
 
Household Choices and Child Development
Christopher Flinn, Daniela Del Boca, Matt Wiswall
 
 
E07: Performance Pay
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Drayton Ricardo LT
Chair: Craig Olson
 
Performance Pay, Wage Dispersion, and Job Separation
Sebastian Buhai, Miguel Portela
 
Performance Pay and the White-Black Wage Gap
Daniel Parent, John S. Heywood
 
The Importance of Relative Performance Feedback Information: Evidence from a Natural Experiment using High School Students
Ghazala Azmat, Nagore Iriberri
 
The "Long-Run" Impact of CEO Stock Option Grants on Firm Value
Craig A. Olson
 
 
E08: Earnings Inequality
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Christopher Ingold Chemistry LT
Chair: Robert Moffitt
 
The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: the View from Europe
Matt Dickson, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Helene Turon
 
What Can OES Data Tell Us About Increasing Wage Inequality?
James R. Spletzer, Elizabeth Weber Handwerker
 
Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Xin Meng, Kailing Shen, Sen Xue
 
The Contribution of Dispersion across Plants to the Increase in US Earnings Dispersion
Alex Bryson, Erling Barth, James C. Davis, Richard Freeman
 
 
E09: Technology and Skills
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Gordon House 106
Chair: Alan Manning
 
Taking Technology to Task: The Skill Content of Technological Change in Early Twentieth Century US
Rowena Gray
 
Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries Over 25 Years
Guy Michaels, Ashwini Natraj, John Van Reenen
 
Knowledge Production and the Demand for Skills: Quasi-Experimental Evidence by the R&D Engagement of Workers
Elias Einio
 
The Polarization of the U.S. Adult Labor Market and its Effects on the Demand for Teenage Labor
Christopher Smith
 
 
E10: Immigration and Occupations
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Roberts G08
Chair: Deborah Cobb-Clark
 
Maids and School Teachers: Low Skill Migration and High Skill Labor Supply
Miguel de Abreu Freire, Alexandre Tiago
 
Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: a Factor Proportions Approach
Javier Ortega, Gregory Verdugo
 
The Unintended Long-Term Consequences of Dismissal and Exile of High-Skilled Professionals: Evidence from Nazi Germany
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Mutlu Yuksel
 
Immigration and Wages: Evidence from Construction
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg
 
 
E11: Temporary Work
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Chadwick LT
Chair: Lawrence Kahn
 
Work Practices in Two-Tier Labour Markets: The Effect of Temporary Contracts on TFP in Spanish Manufacturing Firms
Rodolfo Stucchi, Juan J. Dolado
 
Stability or Flexibility: The Role of Temporary Employment in Labour Adjustment
Danny Leung, Shutao Cao
 
Temporary Contracts, Incentives and Unemployment
Maia Güell, Jose V. Rodriguez Mora
 
Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe
Lawrence M. Kahn
 
 
E12: Economics of Crime
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
Chair: Steve Machin
 
The Legalization of Cannabis and Crime: Evidence From a Localized Policing Experiment
Imran Rasul, Jerome Adda, Brendon Mcconnell
 
The Effect of Workfare Policy on Crime in Denmark
Torben Tranaes, Peter Fallesen, Lars Pico Geerdsen, Susumu Imai
 
The Effect of Surveillance Cameras on Crime: Evidence from the Stockholm Subway
Mikael Priks
 
Police and Thieves in the Stadium
Olivier Marie
 
 
E13: Retirement
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Drayton Jevons LT
Chair: Rob Euwals
 
Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
Dayanand Manoli, Andrea Weber
 
The Effects of Social Security Policies and Employment Uncertainty on the Labor Supply and Claiming Behavior of Older Workers
José Ignacio Garcia-Perez, Hugo Benitez-Silva, Sergi Jimenez-Martin
 
Private Wealth and Planned Early Retirement: An Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands 1994-2008
Rob Euwals, Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Raun Van Ooijen
 
 
E14: Child Health
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Roberts G06
Chair: Janet Currie
 
Parental Job Loss and Infant Health
Jason Lindo
 
Parental Income and the Dynamics of Health Inequality in Early Childhood – Evidence from the United Kingdom
Eberhard Kruk
 
Marriage and Infant Health
Kasey Buckles, Joseph Price
 
Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
Janet Currie, Reed Walker
 
 
E15: Occupations
Friday 18 June 2010, 13.30 - 15.30
Room: Pearson (North East Entrance) LT
Chair: Paul Oyer
 
Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market? Evidence from Minimum Nurse Staffing Regulations
Jordan Matsudaira
 
The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility
Philipp Kircher, Fane Groes, Iourii Manovskii
 
Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study into Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
François Rycx, Stephan Kampelmann
 
The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School
Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer
 

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
 


 


 


 


 


 

Conference venue:


UCL
Gower Street - London - WC1E 6BT
 

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