Event Date
ACLEC brings together economists working in labor and related fields from across California. The 10th Annual Conference will be held at UC Davis on September 19 to September 20, 2016.
Prior conferences have been hosted by UC San Diego, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, RAND, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Similar to previous conferences, there will be 8-10 papers presented at the conference, starting Monday afternoon and ending early afternoon on Tuesday. There will also be a graduate student poster session, reception and dinner on Monday evening.
Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements.
Agenda
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
11:30 – 12:30PM REGISTRATION
12:30 – 12:45PM WELCOMING REMARKS
12:45 – 1:45PM Eric Bettinger, Stanford University
The Long Run Impacts of Merit Aid: Evidence
from California’s Cal Grant
1:45 – 2:45PM Maya Rossin-Slater, UC Santa Barbara
What is the Added Value of Childcare?
Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with
a Health Intervention (Download)
2:45 – 3:00PM BREAK
3:00 – 4:00PM Yongxiang Wang, University of Southern California
Access to Migration for Rural Households
4:00 – 5:00PM Michela Giorcelli, UCLA
The Long-Term Effects of Management and
Technology Transfer: Evidencefrom the US
Productivity Program
5:15 – 6:45PM POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
7:00 – 9:00PM CONFERENCE DINNER
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
8:15 – 9:00AM REGISTRATION
9:00 – 10:00AM Melanie Wasserman, UCLA
Hours Constraints, Occupational Choice and
Fertility: Evidence from Medical Residents
10:00 – 11:00AM George Bulman, UC Santa Cruz
Parental Income and College Outcomes:
Evidence from Lottery Wins
11:00 – 11:15AM BREAK
11:15 – 12:15PM Jonathan James, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
The Path to College Education: Are Verbal
Skills More Important than Math Skills (Download)
12:15 – 1:30PM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 2:30PM Chris Walters, UC Berkeley
School Vouchers and Student Achievement:
Evidence from the Louisiana Scholarship
Program (Download)
2:30 – 3:30PM Kelly Bedard, UC Santa Barbara
Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from
Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies?
3:30 – 3:45PM CLOSING REMARKS / CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
Sponsors
Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California
Center for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College
RAND Corporation
UC Davis Department of Economics
UC Davis Migration Research Cluster
UC Davis School of Education
UC Irvine Department of Economics
UC Los Angeles Department of Economics
UC Merced Department of Economics
UC Riverside Department of Economics
UC San Diego Department of Economics
UC Santa Cruz Department of Economics