2018 Economics Alumni Conference

8:30-9:00AM

CHECK IN AND BREAKFAST (Andrews Conference Room)

9:00-9:30AM

9:30-10:00AM

10:00-10:30AM

LABOR AND I.O.

• Moulton: How does Residential Housing Respond to Monetary Policy Announcements
• Sansani: Do Landlords Exert Less Effort to Obtain Minority Tenants? Experimental Evidence from Israel
• Williams: Returns to Education in Subprime Credit Markets
   

10:30-11:00AM

BREAK (refreshments in Andrews Conference Room)

11:00-11:30AM

11:30-12:00PM

• Anelli: Labor Market Determinants of the Payoffs to University Field of Study
• Blake: Bargaining and Incomplete Information

12:00-1:30PM

LUNCH AND STUDENT POSTER SESSION (Andrews Conference Room)

1:30-2:00PM

2:00-2:30PM

HEALTH (Blue Conference Room)  
 

• Simon: Traffic Pollution and Academic Outcomes
• Huckfeldt: Control of Diabetes and Productivity

TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY (Gold Conference Room)

• Bouvet: International Trade and Economic Literacy
• Wright: Long Run Incidence of a Trade Shock
   

2:30-3:00PM

COFFEE (refreshments in Burgundy Room)

3:00-3:30PM

3:30-4:00PM

• Smith: Male/ Female Sex Ratio Fracking Boom Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  
   
• Cummins: Clinical Depression and Labor Supply

• Beerli: Skill Biased Tech Change and Skill Mix of Immigrants
   
• Luck: Offshoring and Skills Demand

4:00-4:15PM

Transfer to Andrews

4:15-5:15PM

ADVICE ON THE JOB MARKET FOR CURRENT STUDENTS

• Sparber: liberal arts colleges
• Bouvet: Cal State U
• Blake: private sector
• Anelli: European Market Wright
• Gray: joint search

6:00-9:00PM

SPEAKER DINNER at Putah Creek Lodge

8:30-9:30AM

BREAKFAST AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

• Working at different institutions (Moulton, Luck, Barreca)
• First year after Ph.D. and the longer-Run (Lindo, Simon)
• Women in economics (Bouvet, Gray, East)

9:30-9:45AM

Transfer from Andrews

9:45-10:15AM

10:15-10:45AM

10:45-11:15AM

FAMILY (Blue Conference Room)

• Barreca: Weather and Gestational Length
   
• Sanders: Leaded Gasoline and Fetal Health
   
• Pihl: Business Cycles and Breastfeeding

IMMIGRATION (Gold Conference Room)

• Gray: Effect of Immigration on Crime 1880-1930
• Shih: Housing Booms, Trade and Chinese Students in US
• East: Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement

11:15-11:45AM

BREAK (refreshments in Burgundy Room)

11:45-12:15PM 

12:15-12:45PM

• Lindo: Contraception Access and Women's Outcomes
   
• Zhe Yang: Gender Wage Gap and Cohabitation

• Yasenov:

  Labor Demand and Foreign Workers: Evidence from Online Job Ads

• Sparber: Effect of H-1B Visas on Firms

12:45PM

ADJOURN (no lunch provided)