Labor Economics Seminar
General Information
This seminar series is jointly sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. Unless otherwise noted, all seminars meet on Fridays from 12:00am to 1:30pm in the Wagner Education Center, rooms 35 and 43 on the lower level of the LER Building (formerly LIR), 504 East Armory Avenue in Champaign. Seminars are open to the public.
Upcoming Lectures
| Date | Location | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2009 Seminars | ||||
| Fri., Dec. 11, 2009 - 10:30 -12 | IGPA | James Ziliak | University of Kentucy | |
| Spring 2010 | ||||
| Tues., Nov. 3, 2009 joint with CBPP - Note Date/time/location | 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. 3007 BIF |
Courtney Coile | Wellesley College | "Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being" |
| Fri., Feb. 5, 2010 joint w/ IGPA - 10:30 - 12 | IGPA | Susan Dynarski | University of Michigan | |
| Fri., Feb., 26, 2010 | 35/42 LER | Jane Leber Herr | University of Chicago | |
| Fri., March 19, 2010 | 35/43 LER | Kevin J. Mumford | Purdue University | |
| Fri., April 2, 2010 | 35/43 | Colleen Flaherty Manchester | University of Minnesota |
Past Lectures
| Date | Location | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fri., Oct. 30, 2009 - CANCELLED |
35/43 LER | Jason Dunick | UIUC | |
| Fri., May 1, 2009 -2:30 - 4:00 p.m. --- NOTE TIME | 119 David Kinley Hall | Josh Angrist | MIT | "New Evidence on Autonomy and Decentralization in Public Schools" |
| Fri, April 24, 2009 | 35/42 LER | Kristine Brown and Ron Laschever |
UIUC |
"When They're Sixty-Four: Peer Effects and the Timing of Retirement" |
| Fri., April 17, 2009 -joint Departmental - 3:30 p.m. |
123 David Kinley Hall |
Dale Mortensen | Northwestern University | "Wage Dispersion in the Search and Matching Model with Intra-Firm Bargaining" |
| Fri., April 10, 2009 | Chichun Fang and John Dencker | Labor & Emp. Relations at UIUC | "Corporate Restructuring, Wage Patterns , and Inequality within a Firm" | |
| Fri., April 3, 2009 | 35/43 LER | Marcus Casey | UIUC & Duke University | "Race in Housing Markets: Evidence from Transactions Data" |
| Tues., March 17 - joint w/Development/CBPP 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | 243 Wohlers Hall | Giovanni Peri | University of California-Davis | "The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005" |
| Fri., March 13 | 34/43 LER | Ethan Cohen-Cole | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | "Understanding Bankruptcy" |
| Fri., March 6, 2009 | Eric Neuman | School of Business at UIUC | "Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry" | |
| Fri. February 27, 2009 joint w/College of Business CANCELLED | Timothy Vogus | Vanderbilt University | CANCELLED | |
| Fri., February 13, 2009 | Ruby Mendenhall | Dept. of Sociology, UIUC | TBA | |
| Fri., January 30, 2009 | Elizabeth Gorman | University of Virginia | ||
| Fri., January 23, 2009 | Kim Wade-Benzoni | Duke University | "Legacies, Immortality, and the Future: The Psychology and Intergenerational Decisions" | |
Fri., November 21, 2008 (Joint with Applied Micro) |
Wagner Educatin Center LER | Soohyung Lee | University of Maryland | "Preferences and Choice Constraints in Martial Sorting: Evidence from Korea" |
| Fri, November 7, 2008 | Wagner Education Center (LER) | Jason Shaw | University of Minnesota | "Employee-organziation Exchange relationships, HRM Practices, and Quit Rates of Good and Poor Performers" |
| Fri., Oct. 31, 2008 | Marianne Bitler | University of California-Irvine | "Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates" | |
| Fri., October 17, 2008 | Rich Trumka | AFL-CIO | TBA | |
| Fri., October 10, 2008 | Adam Stevenson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "Admissions Policy and the Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality" | |
| Fri., October 3, 2008 | Ki-wook Kwon | Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: Focusing on High Performer Turnover" | |
*Tu. September 30, 2008 (Joint with CBPP) |
3007 BIF | Mel Stephens | Carbegie Mellon University | "Can Governments Help Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits" |
| Fri., September 19, 2008 | 35/43 LER | Sergey Popov | University of Illinois | "Fraternities and Labor Market Outcomes" |
*Tu. September 16, 2008 (Joint w/ Development) |
223 David Kinley Hall |
Andy Foster | Brown University | "Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs Help Reduce Pollution Levels? Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program" |
| *Tu. September 9, 2008 (Time change: 11 - 12:30 - 133A LER) formerly LIR | Rebecca Givan | Cornell University | "The Public and Private Politics of Healthcare Employment: Rethinking the UK-US Comparison" | |
| Fri., August 29, 2008 | David Goldberg | University of Illinois | Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm | |
| April 25, 2008 | Chris Taber | Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin | "Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capital" Joint with the Department of Economics, 3:30 to 5:00PM, 123 David Kinley Hall | |
| April 23, 2008 | Debopam Bhattacharya | Department of Economics, Dartmouth University | "Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data" Joint with the Econometrics Seminar, 2:00 to 3:30PM, ILIR room 133A | |
| April 18, 2008 | Joel Slemrod | School of Business and Department of Economics, University of Michigan | "Tax Policy Issues" 3:30 to 5:00PM, Room 241 Wohlers Hall | |
| April 15, 2008 | Marianne Bertrand | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | "Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India" Joint with the Development Economics Seminar, 4:00 to 5:30PM, 219 David Kinley Hall | |
| April 2, 2008 | John Budd | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | "Unionism Over the Life Cycle: First-Timers and the Never-Unionized in a Cohort of the U.S. Labor Force" 3:30 to 5:00PM, ILIR room 133A | |
| March 14, 2008 | Paul Oyer | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | "Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms" | |
| March 28, 2008 | Bing Bai | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "The Impact of National Culture on High Performance Work Practices in U.S. Multinational Corporations Affiliates Using House's Cultural Scales" | |
| March 7, 2008 | Michael Lovenheim | Stanford University | "The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States" | |
| February 8, 2008 | Kevin Hallock | ILR School, Cornell University | "The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities" 10:00 to 11:30AM | |
| February 1, 2008 | Monica Bielski Boris | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Community Labor United: Social Movement Unionism In Boston" | |
| January 25, 2008 | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Rethinking Labor and Employment Relations in the 21st Century: Presentation and Dialogue" | |
| November 30, 2007 | Ofer Malamud | University of Chicago | "The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation" | |
| November 27, 2007 | Ji-Young Ahn | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Does Stock-Based Pay Attenuate Destructive Competition among Top Executives?" 9:30AM to 10:30AM, LIR room 43. | |
| November 9, 2007 | Helena Worthen | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "The AFSCME Family Scholarships: Children look at their parents' lives in the union" | |
| October 26, 2007 | Niti Pandey | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Who Prefers What Benefits? Examining the Impact of Demographic Characteristics on Employees' Benefits Preferences: The Study of a U.S. Manufacturing Corporation" | |
| October 12, 2007 | Angus Deaton | Princeton University | "Child Mortality, Income, and Adult Height" | |
| October 11, 2007 | Angus Deaton | Princeton University | "Health and Wellbeing around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll" 4:30 to 6:00PM, 134 Temple Buell Hall | |
| October 5, 2007 | Greg Northcraft | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and College of Business, UIUC | "How to Write a CHRM Proposal" | |
| September 28, 2007 | Elizabeth Powers | Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, UIUC | "The Long-Term Care Workforce Retention Crisis: Causes and Consequences of Frontline Worker Turnover" | |
| August 31, 2007 | John Dencker | Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC | "Corporate Restructuring and Sex Differences in Managerial Promotion" |