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Young Economists Jamboree

YOUNG EMPIRICAL MICROECONOMISTS' JAMBOREE

Date: September 25-26, 2009
Location: Duke University; Social Sciences Building, Room 113

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September 25, 2009

8:00-8:30         Breakfast

8:30-9:30         Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Princeton University
                         "Heterogeneity in Income Processes" (co-authored with Andriy Norets)

9:45-10:45       Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University
                         "The Option Value of Educational Choices And the Rate of Return to Educational Choices"

11:00-12:00     David Albouy, University of Michigan
                         "The Impact of Climate Change on Household Welfare"

12:00-1:00       Lunch

1:00-2:00         Robin Lee, NYU Stern School of Business
                         "Markov-Perfect Network Formation"

2:15-3:15         Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton University

3:30-4:30         Josh Kinsler, University of Rochester
                         "Testing for Strict Exogeneity in Value-Added Models"

4:45-5:45         Greg Lewis, Harvard University

7:00                 Dinner at Four Square

September 26, 2009

8:00-8:30         Breakfast

8:30-9:30         Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania

9:45-10:45        Raj Arunachalam, University of Michigan
                         "Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk in Ecuador" (co-authored with Manisha Shah, University
                          of California, Irvine)

11:00-12:00    Patrick Kline, University of California - Berkeley, National Bureau of Econonmic Research (NBER)

                       "Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent  Place Based Policy" (co-authored with Matias Busso IDB,IZA and Jesse Gregory University of Michigan)

12:00-1:00       Lunch

1:00-2:00        

Minjung Park, University of Minnesota
                        “Advertising and Market Share Dynamics”

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