Labor studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Labor Studies, directed by David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, met in Cambridge on November 7, 2014. These papers were discussed:

* Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER; Avraham Ebenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Sefi Roth, Royal Holloway, University of London, "The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations"

* John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER, and Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer, Bureau of the Census, "Cyclical Reallocation of Workers across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage"

* Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University, "What Do Model Minorities Teach Us About Overcoming Disadvantage? The Case of Asian-Americans"

* Christian Dustmann, University College London, and Rasmus Landerso, Aarhus University, "The Boys are Back in Town: The Effects of Child's Gender on Youth Crime"

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