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Labor Studies.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(National Bureau of Economic Research)

Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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NBER's Labor Studies Program met in Cambridge on April 6. Program Director Richard B. Freeman and NBER Research Associate Lawrence F. Katz organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

Alberto Abadie, Harvard University and NBER; and Alexis Diamond and Jen Hainmueller, Harvard for a...

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...University, "Synthetic Control Methods Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effects of California's Tobacco Control Program" (NBER Working Paper No. 12831)

Timothy G. Conley, University of Chicago, and Christopher R. Taber, Northwestern University and NBER, "Inference with 'Differences in Differences' with Small Number of Policy Changes"

Muriel Niederle, Stanford University and NBER; Carmit Segal, Harvard University; and Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburgh, "How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Competitive Environments"

Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Eliana La Ferrara, Universita Bocconi and IGIER, "Detecting Illegal Arms Trade"

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER, and Wallace K.C. Mok, Northwestern University of Notre Dame, "Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State"(NBER Working Paper No. 12865)

Michael W. Elsby and Gary Solon, University of Michigan and NBER, and Ryan Michaels, University of Michigan, "The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment"

Building on an idea in Abadie and Gardcazabal (2003), Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller investigate the application of synthetic control methods to...

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