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Contributed Sessions I

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Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30

I01: Curriculum
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Christopher Ingold Chemistry LT
Chair: Victor Lavy
 
More Successful because of Math: Combining a Natural Experiment and a Structural Dynamic Model to Explore the Underlying Channels
Juanna Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen
 
Sex and Science: How Peers, Professors and Perceptions Affect the Gender Gap in Math and Science
Marianne Page, Scott Carrell, James West
 
The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Coursework
Joshua Goodman
 
The Effect of Instructional Time on Achievements in Math, Science and Reading: Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Victor Lavy
 
 
I02: Non-Cognitive Skills
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Drayton Jevons LT
Chair: Deborah Cobb-Clark
 
Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Labor Market Outcomes
Remi Piatek, Pia Pinger
 
Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
Michelle Tan, Deborah Cobb-Clark
 
Ability, Parental Valuation of Education and the High-School Drop Out Decision
Giovanni Gallipoli, David Green
 
 
I03: Returns to Schooling
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Anatomy J Z Young LT
Chair: Kjell Salvanes
 
Using Unobserved Supply Shocks to Estimate the Returns to Education
Vincent Hogan, Roberto Rigobon
 
Nonparametric Bounds on Returns to Schooling: Overcoming Ability and Selection Bias
Juergen Meinecke, Martine Mariotti
 
The Human Capital Risk-Return Menu
Daniel Barth, Stephen Shore,  Shane Jensen
 
How Large Are Returns to Schooling? Hint: Money Isn't Everything
Philip Oreopoulos, Kjell Salvanes
 
 
I04: Child Care
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Cruciform LT2
Chair: Nabanita Datta Gupta
 
Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences
Magne Mogstad, Tarjei Havnes
 
The Perils of Pre-School? The Effect of Child Care on Academic Performance
Katrine V. Løken, Sandra E. Black,  Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
 
Back in the Kitchen? Persisting Effects of a Cash-for-care Subsidy on Mothers’ Labor Supply
Nina Drange
 
Effects of Universal Child Care Participation on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behaviors
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen
 
 
I05: Marriage Markets
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Roberts G06
Chair: Robert Pollak
 
Impacts of Changes in Marriage Law: Implications for Fertility and School Enrollment
Prashant Bharadwaj
 
Marriage and Cohabitation
Ahu Gemici, Steve Laufer
 
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market
Sonia Oreffice, Pierre-André Chiappori, Climent Quintana-Domeque
 
 
I06: Well Being and Happiness
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Harrie Massey
Chair: Andrew Oswald
 
You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife:Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Holger Stichnoth, Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik
 
Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Raymond Montizaan, Maarten Vendrik
 
Relative Performance Feedback Information and Happiness
Nagore Iriberri, Ghazala Azmat
 
Happiness and Productivity
Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi
 
 
I07: Earning and Learning
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Archaeology LT
Chair: Ken Troske
 
The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma
Damon Clark, Paco Martorell
 
Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Steffen Habermalz
 
The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
Ken Troske, Christopher Jepsen, Paul Coomer
 
 
I08: Schools
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Cruciform LT1
Chair: Susan Dynarski
 
The Demand for Private Schooling in the England: the impact of price and quality
Lorraine Dearden, Richard Blundell, Luke Sibieta
 
The Effect of Accountability Policies in Primary Education in Amsterdam
Dinand Webbink, Victoria Chorny
 
Who Benefits from KIPP?
Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, Parag Pathak, Christopher Walters
 
Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
Susan Dynarski, Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Thomas Kane, Parag Pathak
 
 
I09: The Economic Effects of Immigration
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Roberts G08
Chair: David Jaeger
 
Immigration and Prices in the UK
Tommaso Frattini
 
Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
Libertad Gonzalez
 
The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Markets with Different Degrees of Firm Entry regulation
Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Susanne Prantl
 
The Effect of Immigration on U.S. Natives’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship
David Jaeger, Harriet Duleep
 
 
I10: Intergenerational Mobility in Education
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Chadwick LT
Chair: Derek Neal
 
Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees
Lars Kirkebøen, Torbjørn Hægeland, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes
 
The Black-White Income Mobility Gap and Investment in Children's Human Capital
Julia Schwenkenberg
 
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities
Bjorn Ockert, Erik Gronqvist, Jonas Vlachos
 
Intergenerational Social Mobility in European OECD Countries
Orsetta Causa, Sophie Dantan, Asa Johansson
 
 
I11: Contracts
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
Chair: John Kennan
 
Why Do Firms Use Fixed-term Contracts?
Pedro Portugal, José Varejão
 
Contracts for Motivated Agents
Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld
 
Respect as an Incentive
Marie Claire Villeval, Tor Eriksson
 
Multi-Dimensional Heterogeneity and the Economic Importance of Risk and Matching: Evidence from Contractual Data and Field Experiments
Bruce Shearer, Charles Bellemare
 
 
I12: College Enrollment
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Drayton Ricardo LT
Chair: Eric Bettinger
 
Housing Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and College Enrollment
Michael Lovenheim
 
Risk Preferences in College Applications
Jonathan Smith
 
How do College Students Form Expectations?
Basit Zafar
 
The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results From the H&R Block Fafsa Experiment
Eric Bettinger, Philip Oreopoulos,  Bridget Long, Lisa Sanbonmatsu
 
 
I13: Development
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Gordon House 106
Chair: Imran Rasul
 
Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from Shining Path in Peru
Jose Galdo
 
Mistargetting of Cash Transfers, Social Capital Destruction and Crime in Indonesia
Lisa Cameron, Manisha Shah
 
Migration and Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Rural Mexico
Esteban Jaimovich, Gabriel Montes Rojas, Vera Chiodi
 
 
I14: Performance Schemes
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Pearson (North East Entrance) LT
Chair: Jeffrey Smith
 
High-Performance Management Practices and Employees' Outcomes in Denmark
Dario Pozzoli, Tor Eriksson, Cristini Annalisa
 
Cream-skimming, Parking and other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
Pierre Koning, Carolyn J. Heinrich
 
Evaluating Experience-rated Incentive Schemes
John Treble
 
The Role of Information in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Uwe Sunde, Florian Englmaier, Andreas Roider
 
 
I15: On the Job Search
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.02
Chair: Henning Bunzel
 
Discrimination in the Equilibrium Search Model with Wage-Tenure Contracts
Zheng Fang, Chris Sakellariou
 
On-the-Job Search, Work Effort and Hyperbolic Discounting
Thomas Van Huizen
 
On-the-Job Search and the Cyclical Dynamics of the Labor Market
Michael Krause, Thomas Lubik
 
Reality of On-the-Job Search
Shigeru Fujita
 
Worker Matching and Firm Value
Eran Yashiv, Espen Moen
 
 
I16: Wages and Skills
Saturday 19 June 2010, 15.30 - 17.30
Room: Malet Place Engineering 1.03
Chair: Giacomo De Giorgi
 
Measuring Skill Intensity of Occupations with Imperfect Substitutability Across Skill Types
Barbara Gebicka
 
The Impact on Schooling Attainment of a Sustained Increase in Low-Skill Wages: Evidence from Spain 1987-2009
Ernesto Villanueva, Aitor Lacuesta, Sergio Puente,
 
Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000
Susan Vroman, James Albrecht, Anders Björklund
 
Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Nicole Fortin, Sergio Firpo, Thomas Lemieux
 
Ethnic Networks in Finance: Evidence from the NYSE
Giacomo De Giorgi, Petra Moser, Frederic Panier
 

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)


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