SPONSORS
Sponsoring an event at the SOLE/EALE meetings will provide you with two days
of highly visible exposure to 500+ teachers and researchers in economics
from universities and research organizations all over the world.
Please contact Margo
Romans at eale-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
SPONSORSHIP PACKS
A. Diamond Sponsor - Conference Dinner
Price: GBP 1000
The conference dinner provides sponsors with a large audience and
recognition as a supporter of the event. Sponsorship includes a promotional
banner displaying the firm of organization's name and logo, and the
distribution of one piece of literature placed at each place setting.
B. Platinum Sponsor - Conference Lunch
Price: GBP 800
The conference lunch provides sponsors with a large audience and recognition
as a supporter of the event. Sponsorship includes a promotional banner
displaying the firm of organization's name and logo.
C. Gold Sponsor - Plenary Lectures*
Price: GBP 500
The plenary lectures provides sponsors with a large audience and recognition
as a supporter of the event, while at the same time being associated with a
prestigious academic lecture. Sponsorship includes a promotional banner
displaying the firm of organization's name and logo, and formal
acknowledgement of support by the chair of each session. Speakers at plenary
lectures are some of the most distinguished economists in the profession.
They are listed below.
D. Silver Sponsor - Invited Sessions**
Price: GBP 250
The invited sessions provide sponsors with a moderately sized audience and
recognition as a supporter of the event, while at the same time being
associated with the presentation of the highest quality papers in the
conference. Sponsorship includes a promotional banner displaying the firm of
organization's name and logo, and formal acknowledgement of support by the
chair of each session. Speakers at invited sessions are world class experts
in their fields. Invited sessions and speakers are listed below.
E. Silver Sponsor - Computer Cluster
Price: GBP 250
The computer cluster will be visited by conference participants wishing to
access the internet and email without carrying their own laptops.
Sponsorship includes a promotional banner displaying the firm of
organization's name and logo.
*Speakers at Plenary Lectures
There will be four plenary
lectures during the conference, delivered by the four following
distinguished speakers:
Richard Blundell is the Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at
University College London and is also Research Director of the Institute for
Fiscal Studies. He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and London
School of Economics. Since 1986 he has been Research Director of the IFS,
where he is also Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis
of Public Policy. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University of
St.Gallen, Switzerland in 2003. He has held visiting professor positions at
UBC, MIT and Berkeley. In 1995 he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize for
his work in microeconometrics, labour supply and consumer behaviour, and the
Econometric Society Frisch Medal in 2000, for his paper Estimating Labour
Supply Responses using Tax Reforms, published in Econometrica, July 1998. He
was President of the European Economics Association in 2004 and President of
the Econometric Society in 2006. He is currently President of the Society of
Labor Economists). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow
of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic
Association (2001), Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Science
(2002), Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003) and Fellow of
the Society of Labor Economists (2005). He was co-editor of Econometrica
from 1997-2001 and co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics from 1992 to
1997.
Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics at
University College London, Director of the Centre for the Economics of
Education and a Programme Director (of the Skills and Education research
programme) at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of
Economics. He is currently one of the Editors of the Economic Journal.
Previously he has been visiting Professor at Harvard University (1993/4) and
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001/2). He is a member of the
Low Pay Commission in the UK. He is President of the European Association of
Labor Economists.
Robert Shimer is the Alvin H. Baum
Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. He
received his B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1990, his M. Phil. in
economics from Oxford University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in economics from
MIT in 1996. Shimer began his academic career at Princeton University and
joined the economics faculty at the University of Chicago in 2003. Shimer
was a visiting professor at MIT. He is also a consultant to the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago, and is currently editor of the Journal of Political
Economy. Shimer's research looks at the topics of labor markets and
macroeconomics. He has mainly focused on search frictions, but more recently
become interested in the mismatch between workers' human capital and
geographic location and the skill requirements and location of available
jobs.
John Van Reenen has established an
international reputation as a scholar of the economics of consequences and
causes of innovation. He works on the applied econometrics of industrial
organization and labor economics, especially areas relating to productivity
growth, management and organizational practices, R&D, anti-trust,
intellectual property, policy evaluation and investment decisions. John Van
Reenen has been a full Professor of Economics at the London School of
Economics, and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance since 2003.
He graduated with a First from Cambridge University (Queens� College) with
the highest mark in a decade before completing a Masters degree (with
distinction) from the LSE, and doing his PhD at University College London in
1993. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California,
Berkeley, and a Professor at University College London. He has also been an
editor of many journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature,
Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies. He has
served as a senior advisor to the UK Prime Minister, Secretary of State for
Health, and the European Commission. Formerly, he was a partner in an
economic consultancy company, Lexecon, and Chief Technology Officer in a
software start-up. He frequently appears in newspapers, radio, and TV.
**InVITED Sessions
| B01:
Earnings and Wealth Inequality in the Long-Run
(CEP) |
| Thursday 17 June 2010, 16.00 - 17.30 |
| Chair: John
Van Reenen (LSE) |
| |
| Inequality in the Long Run and Inherited Wealth |
| Thomas
Piketty (PSE) |
| |
| Trends in Polarisation |
| Allan
Manning (LSE) |
| |
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| B02:
Adolescent Behaviour |
| Thursday 17 June 2010, 16.00 - 17.30 |
| Chair:
Imran Rasul (UCL) |
| |
| Identifying Sibling Influences on Teenage Risky Behavior
|
| Joseph
Altonji (Yale), (joint with Sarah Cattan and Ian Ware) |
| |
| Long After
They're Gone? The Effects of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults |
| Kjell G. Salvanes
(NHH, Bergen), (joint with Sandra E. Black and Paul J. Devereux) |
| |
| |
| B03: Migration (CREAM) |
| Thursday 17 June 2010, 16.00 - 17.30 |
| Chair:
Christian Dustmann (UCL) |
| |
| Title: t.b.a. |
| George
Borjas (Harvard) |
| |
| When Is "Too
Much" Inequality Not Enough? The Selection of Israeli Emigrants |
| Eric Gould (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem),
(Joint with Omer Moav) |
| |
| |
| D01:
Wages and Sorting |
|
Friday 18 June 2010, 11.00 - 12.30 |
| Chair:
Jean-Marc Robin (UCL and Science-Po) |
|
|
|
Contracts and Human Capital; Experience and Tenure Effect |
| Ken Burdett,
(Essex) (joint with Melvyn Coles (Essex)) |
| |
| An Estimable Model of
Schooling Choice with Holdup |
| Chris Flinn, (NYU)
(joint with James Mabli (Mathematica)) |
| |
| Discussant:
Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol) |
| |
| D02:
Economics of Crime |
|
Friday 18 June 2010, 11.00 - 12.30 |
|
|
Chair: Gary Becker (Chicago) |
|
|
|
Education Policy and Crime |
| Lance
Lochner, (Western Ontario) |
| |
| The Effects
of School Desegregation on Crime (joint with Byron Lutz and Dave Weiner) |
| Jens Ludwig,
(Chicago) (joint with Byron Lutz and Dave Weiner) |
| |
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| D03:
Networks (IFS) |
|
Friday 18 June 2010, 11.00 - 12.30 |
|
|
Chair:
Costas Meghir (UCL) |
|
|
|
Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment |
| Lori Beaman,
(Northwestern) |
| |
| Endogenous
Job Contact Networks |
| Andrea
Galeotti, (Essex) (joint with Luca Paolo Merlino (Ecares, ULB)) |
|
|
Discussant: Joseph Altonji (Yale) |
| |
| H01:
Dynamics of Earnings Distributions (IFS) |
|
Saturday 19 June 2010, 11.00 - 12.30 |
| Chair:
t.b.c. |
|
|
|
Issues in the Estimation of Models of Earnings Dynamics |
| Robert
Moffitt, (John Hopkins) (joint with Peter Gottschalk) |
| |
| Wage and Earnings
Dynmaics |
| Jean-Marc
Robin, (UCL and Science-Po) |
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| Discussant: Luigi
Pistaferri (Stanford) |
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| H02: Development and Human Capital (IGC) |
|
Saturday 19 June 2010, 11.00 - 12.30 |
| Chair:
Orazio Attanasio (UCL) |
|
|
|
Health and Schooling in a Developing Economy |
| Mark
Rosenzweig, (Yale) |
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| Human Capital in a
Disaster |
| Duncan
Thomas, (Duke) |
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| H03:
Rent Sharing |
|
Saturday 19 June 2010, 11.00 - 12.30 |
| Chair: John
Abowd |
|
|
|
Wages Rent-Sharing and Hold-Up |
| David Card, (Berkely)
(joint with Agada
Maida (Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli) and Francesco Devicienti (University
of Torino) |
| |
| Bonus Pay,
Holdup and Employment |
| Bentley
MacLeod, (Columbia) (joint with Thomas Lemieux (UBC), Daniel Parent
(McGill) |
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