Program Agenda

 
LOCATION: 109 Ives Hall - Distance Learning Class

1:15 - 1:30 pm - Welcome
    John M. Abowd, Director, CISER, Cornell University
    David R. Harris, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, Cornell University

1:30 - 2:50pm - Presentations on Business Economics

1. William Kerr, Harvard University, "Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States"
2. Wayne Gray, Clark University, "The Environment Performance of Polluting Plants: A Spatial Analysis"
3. Allan Collard-Wexler, Northwestern University, "Plant Turnover and Demand Fluctuations in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry"
4. Mo Xiao, University of Rochester, "The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Firm Entry, Exit and Quality Choices: The Child Care Market"

2:50 - 3:30 pm - Census Bureau Demand for External Research
   B.K. Atrostic, Center for Economic Studies
   Bob Kominski, Population Division
   Chuck Nelson, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division
   Ron Jarmin, Center for Economic Studies

3:30 - 3:45 pm - Break

3:45 - 5:05 pm - Presentations on Markets and Behavior

1. Shihe Fu, Boston College, "What Has Been Capitalized Into Property Values: Human Capital, Social Capital or Cultural Capital?"
2. Dean Lillard, Cornell University, "To Quit or Not to Quit: An Economic Analysis of Women's Smoking Cessations Decisions"
3. Kevin McKinney, Census Bureau, "Immigrant Arrival Cohorts and their Wage Growth in the U.S. Labor Market: New Evidence from Longitudinal Employer - Employee Data"
4. Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University, "The Link Between Human Capital, Mass Layoffs, and Firm Deaths"

5:05 - 5:35 - Synthetic Data: A 21st Century Approach to Confidentiality Protection
   John M. Abowd, Cornell University

5:35 - 6:55 pm - Presentations on Finance and Investment

1. Lynn Riggs, Chicago Census RDC, "Location of Financial Services"
2. Pinar Geylani, Duquesne University, "Linking Investment Bursts and Productivity: An Empirical Investigation"
3. Debarshi Nandy, York University,"How is Value Created in Spin-Offs? A Look Inside the Black Box"
4. Shan He, Boston College, "The Going Public Decision and the Product Market"