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Structural Models in Labor, Aging, and Health

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Titles of Presentations
(Authors in bold are presenters)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2005
2:00 - 2:30 P.M. Registration - Fuqua classroom G
Fuqua classroom G Retirement
2:30 - 3:30 P.M. Savings Motives After Retirement
Eric French, Mariacristina De Nardi, and John Jones
Discussant: Mike Hurd
Fuqua classroom G Health Insurance
3:30 - 4:30 P.M. A Semiparametric Analysis of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Health Insurance Contracts
Pat Bajari, Han Hong, and Ahmed Khwaja
Discussant: Holger Sieg
4:30 - 4:45 P.M. Break - Fuqua conference rooms 11 & 12
RJR room Key Note Address
4:45 - 5:30 P.M. Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics
Mike Keane
5:30 - 7:00 P.M. Reception - Thomas Center Patio
7:00 P.M. BBQ Dinner - Thomas Center Patio and Dining Room
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2005
6:45 - 8:30 A.M. Continental Breakfast - Thomas Center Dining Room
RJR room Child Production
8:30 - 9:30 A.M. Quasi-Structural Estimation of a Model of Child Care Choices and Child Cognitive Production
Raquel Bernal and Mike Keane
Discussant: Robert Moffit
9:30 - 10:30 A.M. Investment in Child Quality over Marital States
Meta Brown and Chris Flinn
Discussant: David Blau
10:30 - 10:45 A.M. Break - Fuqua conference rooms 11 & 12
RJR room Treatment Effects
10:45 - 11:45 P.M. Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects
Jim Heckman and Salvador Navarro
Discussant: John Rust
12:00 noon - 1:00 P.M. Lunch - Thomas Center Dining Room
RJR room Labor
1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Accounting for Wage and Employmnet Changes in the U.S. from 1968-2000: A Dynamic Model of Labor Market Equilibrium
Donghoon Lee and Ken Wolpin
Discussant: Moshe Buchinsky
2:00 - 3:00 P.M. Joint Production at the Workplace: Evidence from Norwegian Establishment Data
Chris Ferrall , Kjell Salvanes and Erik Sorensen
Discussant: Bob Miller
3:00 - 3:30 P.M. Break - Fuqua conference rooms 11 & 12
RJR room Migration
3:30 - 4:30 P.M. Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development
Haiyong Liu, Tom Mroz, and Wilbert van der Klauuw
Discussant: Petra Todd
4:30 - 5:30 P.M. The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions
John Kennan and Jim Walker
Discussant: Zvi Eckstein
7:00 - 8:00 P.M. Conference Dinner - Thomas Center Dining Room
Thomas Center Dining Room Invited Dinner Speaker
8:00 - 9:00 P.M. Validation
Ken Wolpin
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2005
6:45 - 8:30 A.M. Continental Breakfast - Thomas Center Dining Room
RJR room Discrimination
8:30 - 9:30 A.M. Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining
Luca Flabbi
Discussant: Marjorie McElroy
9:30 - 10:30 A.M. Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in Teenage Labor Force Participation: Results from a General Equilibrium Search Model
Peter Arcidiacono, Alvin Murphy, and Omari Swinton
Discussant: Joe Hotz
10:30 - 10:45 A.M. Break - Fuqua conference rooms 11 & 12
RJR room Health and Learning
10:45 - 11:45 P.M. Learning, Private Information and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments
Tat Chan and Bart Hamilton
Discussant: Pedro Mira
11:45 A.M. - 12:00 noon Concluding remarks
12:00 noon - 12:30 P.M. Box Lunch - Fuqua conference rooms 11 & 12