SITE 2006 Summer Workshop

 

Theory-Based Micro-Econometric Modeling

 

Organizers: Frank Wolak, Stanford University and Holger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

July 17 – 19, 2006

 

 

 

Monday, July 17

Session 1:

8:30 - 9:00       Breakfast

 

9:00 - 10:00     “An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling” by Todd Elder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (with Joe Altonji, Yale University and Chris Tabor, Northwestern University)

 

10:00 - 10:30   Coffee

 

10:30 - 11:30   “The Returns to Seniority in France and Why are They Lower than in the United States?” by Moshe Buchinsky, University of California, Los Angeles (with Magali Beffy, CREST-INSEE and IZA Bonn; Denis Fougère, CNRS, CREST and IZA Bonn; Thierry Kamionka, CNRS and CREST; and Francis Kramarz, CREST-INSEE, CEPR and IZA Bonn

 

11:30 - 1:00     Lunch

 

1:00 - 2:00       “Using Hit Rates to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement Vehicle Searchers in Wichita” by Nicola Persico, University of Pennsylvania (with Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania)

 

2:00 - 2:30       Coffee

 

2:30 - 3:30       “Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market” by Hanming Fang, Yale University (with Mike Keane, Yale University and Dan Silverman, University of Michigan)

 

3:30 - 4:00       Coffee

 

4:00 – 5:00      “Investment in Child Quality Over Marital States” by Meta Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison (with Chris Flinn, New York University)

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 18

 

Session 2:

 

8:30 - 9:00       Breakfast

 

9:00 - 10:00     “Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices” by Matthew White, University of Pennsylvania (with Peter Reiss, Stanford University)                  

 

10:00 - 10:30   Coffee

 

10:30 - 11:30   “Bid Preference Programs and Participation in Highway Procurement Auctions” by Elena Krasnokutskaya, University of Pennsylvania (with Katja Seim, University of Pennsylvania)

 

11:30 - 1:00     Lunch

 

1:00 - 2:00       “Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Space:  An Application to British Columbia Forestry” by Harry Paarsch, University of Iowa (with John Rust, University of Maryland)

 

2:00 - 2:30       Coffee

 

2:30 - 3:30       “Price Discrimination with Experience Goods: Sorting-Induced Biases and Illusive Surplus” by Ron Goettler, Carnegie Mellon University (with Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University)

 

 

3:30 - 4:00       Coffee

 

4:00 - 5:00       “Bargaining and Learning in Dispute Resolution: Theory and Evidence from Medical Malpractice Litigation” by Yatsutora Watanabe, Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 19

Session 3:

8:30 - 9:00       Breakfast

 

9:00 - 10:00     “Estimating a Dynamic Adverse Selection Model: Labor Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap” by George-Levi Gayle, Carnegie Mellon University (with Limor Golan, Carnegie Mellon University)

 

10:00 - 10:30   Coffee

 

10:30 - 11:30   “The Empirical Content of the Roy Model Revisited: Tastes, Models of Endogenous Sorting, and Competing Risks” by Chris Timmins, Duke University (with Patrick Bayer, Yale University and Shakeeb Khan, University of Rochester)

 

11:30 - 1:00     Lunch

 

1:00 - 2:00       “A Flexible Approach to Estimating Production Functions When Output Prices are Unobserved” by Holger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University (with Dennis Epple, Carnegie Mellon University and Brett Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University)

 

2:00 - 2:30       Coffee

 

2:30 - 3:30       “The Informal Sector” by Aureo de Paula, University of Pennsylvania (with Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University)

 

 

3:30 - 4:00       Coffee

 

4:00 - 5:00       “Estimating Matching Games with Transfers” by Jeremy Fox, University of Chicago